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."
- 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
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The Inward Revolution
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