The Buddha Disease

"When you love a Jesus or a Buddha you want to imitate - but if you imitate you will miss. Zen people have the right name for this temptation; they call it the buddha disease."

notes

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Later published as part of Osho Books on CD-ROM.

Contains an interview with Sw Yoga Chinmaya, see page-scans 152 - 162.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Jan 1, 1977 to Jan 31, 1977 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

31   (see table of contents)

editions

The Buddha Disease A Darshan Diary Year of publication : 1979 Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation ISBN 0-88050-032-8 (no printed ISBN in the book) (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 619 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First edition, 5,000 copies, March 1979. © Copyright 1979 Rajneesh Foundation. Size : 221 x 145 x 50 mm Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi Editing and commentary: Ma Prem Maneesha Design: Sw Anand Subhadra Production: Ma Yoga Prem, Ma Deva Weechee, Ma Deva Parampara, Sw Krishna Bharti, Ma Prem Champa, Sw Deva Shraddhan Coordination: Ma Yoga Pratima, Ma Deva Ritambhara Processed by Commercial Art Lithographers, Bombay Phototypeset by Ravi & Ashok Enterprises, Poona Printed by Electrographic Industries, Worli, Bombay Introduction: Sw Anand Veetmoha Cover back & spine & front. Without cover, back & spine & front. Endpaper-front. Pages VI - VII. Pages VIII - IX. Pages X - XI. Pages XII - XIII. Pages XIV - XV. Pages XVI - 1. Pages 2 - 3. Pages 152 - 153. Pages 154 - 155. Pages 156 - 157. Pages 158 - 159. Pages 160 - 161. Pages 162 - 163. Pages 164 - 165. Pages 166 - 167. Pages 170 - 171. Pages 264 - 265. Pages 496 - 497: Sheela holding a newspaper over her husband Prem Chinmaya's face. Pages 506 - 507: Krishna, the guarding co-ordinator, sitting at his grass hut office, Hotei. Pages 532 - 533. Pages 534 - 535. Endpaper-back.

table of contents

edition 1979.03 chapter titles		darshans
		event	location	duration	media
1	If you meet the Buddha on the Way...	1 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
2	I declare you a god, a goddess	2 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
3	This feeling of belonging -- that you are together with these trees and the stars and the moon and the sun -- is what I call trust	3 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
4	In life, surrender is the key	4 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
5	Take life in the spirit of a picnic	5 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
6	Everything is within the reach of an empty hand	6 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
7	Meditation is the art of creating inner beauty	7 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
8	Meditation is learning to wait	8 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
9	Only dare-devils reach that which is called god	9 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
10	Man is made of the stuff called love	10 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
11	Love is the essential religion	11 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
12	My whole work is to help you to die	12 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
13	Meditation is the door to timelessness	13 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
14	Go to God through laughter, through dancing	14 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
15	Our home is beyond the stars	15 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
16	Dance is the basic language of religion	16 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
17	Become an offering, an opening, a prayer	17 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
18	In the hands of love even a rock starts throbbing	18 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
19	The master is to shock you out of your sleep	19 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
20	Just get more and more drunk with me	20 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
21	Celebrate as if you are already a buddha	21 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
22	When the dance is total, the ego is nullified	22 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
23	You are just part of a big orange ocean	23 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
24	To become aware is to become desireless	24 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
25	Life is a risk, that's why it is so beautiful	25 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
26	OUr destiny is to have wings, to fly	26 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
27	To be blissful is the greatest courage	27 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
28	My whole work is to push you into emptiness	28 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
29	Thorns are as significant as roses	29 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
30	If you know one secret -- to be happy right now -- you have learned it all	30 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none
31	Theology becomes alive only when a person is alive who knows God by existential experience	31 Jan 1977 pm	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	unknown	none