The Great Nothing

"Very good. This new space is your reality. Whatsoever you have known up to now was not really you. It was the identity given by others -- the parents, the society, the world. Now you are coming to encounter yourself.

Sometimes it will be very scary -- so remember it. Sometimes you will feel that you are losing your identity... getting lost. So remember, that is how it has to be -- and go into it. Lose all track of yourself, and then for the first time you will be back home. You have to dissolve into this new space.

There is going to be a great struggle between the old and the new. Ahead there is going to be almost a war within you, because the new will try to spread all over you, and the old will try to resist, to fight it back, not to allow it to happen. There is going to be a conflict, a wrestling, between you and you, your past and your future, that which you have been up to now and that which you are going to be from now on."

notes

Eleventh in the Rajneesh Foundation's darshan diary series.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Sep 19, 1976 to Oct 11, 1976 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

23

editions

The Great Nothing A Darshan Diary Year of publication : 1978 Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation ISBN 0-88050-073-5 (Some books have no ISBN) (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 477 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First edition 1978. Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi Editing and Commentary: Ma Prem Maneesha Flap text: Ma Yoga Prem Production: Ma Yoga Prem, Ma Prem Mangla, Ma Deva Smrati, Ma Yoga Virag, Ma Prem Tushita Photography: Ma Prem Champa, Sw Krishna Bharti, Sw Shivamurti Coordination: Ma Yoga Pratima Design: Ma Prem Sarva, Ma Deva Adheera