The Inward Revolution
- Questioner: "But what is the difference between the conviction and the experience? And how can one transform this conviction into an experience?"
- Bhagwan: "I say there is no 'how', because 'how' implies some method. There is an awakening; There is no 'how'. If you are listening to me and some feeling comes to you, then this might be the experience of Truth. (...)
- Why should this happen to you? There are two reasons: either you are convinced by my argument or you see it as a fact in yourself. (...)
- If what I am saying is experienced by you, that knowledge is something apart from me. I am not the knowledge. This is happening as an experience while I am talking. (...)
- When the intellect is convinced, it asks 'how'. What is the method? It wants to know. But I am not giving you any argument. I am just telling you my experience.
- notes
- "A series of twelve discourses by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in which he is interviewed by various sannyasins and visitors from Norway, the U.S.A., France and Japan."
- The chapters are not in chronological order, see the Osho Timeline 1970, 1971 and 1972 for the dates of each chapter. Also see the discussion with The Psychology of the Esoteric.
- Later published as The Psychology of the Esoteric.
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- Jul 24, 1970 to Mar 12, 1972 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 12 (see table of contents)
editions
The Inward Revolution
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table of contents
edition 1973.05 chapter titles |
interviews | |||||||
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event | location | duration | media | |||||
1 | The Pathless Path | 24 Jul 1970 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
2 | What is Meditation? | 4 Feb 1971 pm | Bombay | 0h 20min | audio | |||
3 | Sex, Love, Prayer and Beyond: Through Meditation | 14 Feb 1971 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
4 | Mysteries of Dream in the Seven Bodies - 1 | 25 Jul 1970 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
5 | Mysteries of Dream in the Seven Bodies - 2 | 26 Jul 1970 pm | Bombay | 0h 27min | audio | |||
6 | Tensions and Relaxation in the Seven Bodies | 16 Sep 1970 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
7 | The Courage to be Alone | 25 Feb 1971 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
8 | The Windows of Religion and the Sky of Truth | 9 Jan 1971 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
9 | Mind-Created Fallacies of Language and Logic | Dec 1971 pm | Bombay | unknown | none | |||
10 | Consciousness is Freedom and Love is Divine | 21 Oct 1971 pm | Bombay | 0h 24min | audio | |||
11 | The Crisis of Western Rationality and Eastern Irrationality |
12 Mar 1972 pm | Bombay | 0h 25min | audio | |||
12 | The Inward Revolution | 10 Feb 1971 pm | Bombay | 0h 27min | audio |