The Invitation ~ 17

event type	discourse
date & time	29 Aug 1987 pm
location	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Pune
language	English
audio	Available, duration 2h 0min. Quality: good. Live music after the discourse.
online audio	free download from OshoWorld purchase from Osho.com
video	Available, duration 2h 0min. Quality: good. Incomplete: missing 8,5 sentences at the end, and Osho leaving (under revision).
online video	Edited excerpt: The Art of Listening (3min 21sec, a part of question 2) **
see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1987 first edition : The Invitation (1988.10) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	INVITA17

notes

synopsis: Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.

Question 1 from Vijen

Beloved Osho, does psychological therapy help to go beyond the mind?

Question 2 from Prem Rajya

Edited excerpt: 3min 21sec, a part of question 2 **

Beloved Osho, I feel I can relax more and more deeply into myself. Yet, at the periphery, there is an unassertiveness, a trembling that can cloud the blissfulness of life.

Beloved master, does my ego need nourishment?

Question 3 from Sarjano

Beloved Osho, you don't exist as a person and yet you are the being that I love most. You know nothing and yet I put all my questions at your feet. You are just silence and yet I can only sing your song. You have no name and yet I'm helpless in crying your name. You tell us every day the inexpressible cannot be said, and yet I can't help but try again and again.

You know my gratitude and yet I cannot resist to touch your feet and whisper thank you, Osho. Even more today, because you free me from saying no to you.

But now I have a question:

Seeing how painful it is to say no to you, how can I ever dare to ask you anything?

(source:CD-ROM)