..., say goodbye, relax and understand it. This moment of sadness can become one of great understanding, because something has been touched deep down in your heart. Now don't waste time! Meditate over it, look at it from every corner, from every angle. Don't just be angry, don't just be sad; let it become a great moment of meditation too. Yes, sadness is there, anger is there, as if he had cheated you...

... said, 'I have seen half of it.' The author said, 'But half is still to come.' Bernard Shaw said, 'But it is written by the same man, so I have finished with it!' (laughter) One has seen half of life, then one sees that it is written by the same man, so what is the point in staying? You go home and rest! Meditate over it - it is a beautiful moment. You are sad, angry, yes; but meditate on it. And you...

...] death, why your trust is shaken, what you were hoping for. There must have been some deep motive behind it, and that motive is disturbed. If you can meditate, you will come out of it very fresh and new, and you will be thankful to [him]. And don't be worried about him: he is already born, he has found a mother. There are so many foolish women around the world (laughter); you cannot avoid being born...

... the work when you feel like it. I have heard of no problem. Now I have received a letter just last night - somebody wants just to meditate in the hills the whole day long. You can meditate, but then don't ask for food, don't ask for clothes, don't ask for shelter - because the people who prepare food also would like to meditate in the hills. Why should they prepare food for you? Why should they...

... American embassies, or do any violent activity. All that is needed is, in front of every American embassy, go there and sit down and meditate. Let the whole world see that these people are simply meditators. Even in protest they are only meditating, not doing any harm to anybody, but just being silent; if you have some heart, it will respond. All the sannyasins and the sympathizers meditating before...

... are making him more angry. You are creating more criminals. Your whole legal system is a criminal system. Q: I AM A LAWYER. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO MEDITATE, AND WHEN, WHEN I AM OCCUPIED ALL OF THE TIME. SO PLEASE SUGGEST.(*) A: It is important to understand because all the teachers of meditation in the world have been telling you that you have to keep a separate time for meditation. Mohammedans have to...

... meditate five times in the day. Five times they have to close their shops, their businesses if they are real Mohammedans. But this is absolutely impractical. If the man is driving a railway train, or flying an aeroplane, and he has to stop five times, this is not going to be meditation, this is going to be a massacre! My approach about meditation is totally different. I do not say to you that you have to...

... sleep is always the first thought in the morning when you wake up. Because it continues as an undercurrent in your sleep. You cannot find time, nobody has time. The day is so full. But six or eight hours in the night can be transformed into meditation. Even a Buddha will feel jealous of you. Even he cannot meditate eight hours. It is simply an intelligent effort to transform your sleep. You are taking...

... people who meditate ten minutes in the morning, are not going to gain much. Because ten minutes of meditation, and twenty four hours against it, how you are going to win? You have to put twenty four hours of meditation against twenty four hours of ordinary life. Then there is absolute guarantee that success is going to be yours. Q: BHAGWAN, WHY ONE NEEDS A MASTER? A: Nobody needs a master. But then...

... butterfly, and now you are so certain that you are Chuang Tzu. There is no difference in certainty. In fact when you are awake the possibility of suspicion is there, you can doubt; but when you are dreaming, there is even no doubt at all, no suspicion, no question mark - you are simply a butterfly. He said, "Sit down and meditate and find out the answer - who am I?" They looked at each other...

... - how to meditate upon it, how to think about it? It is unthinkable, it is beyond the mind. His closest disciple, Lieh Tzu, had gone out to the nearest village. He returned; he saw the whole scene: Chuang Tzu in tears sitting on his bed, all the disciples with closed eyes, their minds completely stuck. What can the mind say about it? The question is absurd. He asked one of the disciples who was near...

... the door, "What is the matter? It seems to be really serious! I have never seen such seriousness here. And why is our master crying? Has somebody died or something?" The disciple said, "He has created a new absurdity. Nobody has died and nothing has happened; he is torturing us and nothing else! Now we have to meditate upon it." And he told him the problem. Lieh Tzu said, "...

...;Don't be worried. You meditate; I am coming." He went out, brought a bucket full of ice-cold water and poured it on Chuang Tzu. And Chuang Tzu said laughingly, "If you had been here before you would have saved all these idiots! They are looking so serious, as if they are really thinking. And you would have saved my tears and my misery. Just wait; don't pour the water, it is too cold."...

... was gone. So play deeply, meditate daily. Devote your whole life to music... devote it completely. Surrender to it. And don't think of it as a hobby. Hobby is a profane word. Think of it as prayer, and go to your drums with deep respect. First bow down to them... they are the doors... and be respectful to them. If you are not feeling good, if you are feeling angry, don't play. If you are feeling...

... keep it just for me. Don't do anything else in there. You can listen to my talks and hang my picture there, and I am going to give you a box, so keep that there. Whenever you want to be with me there, listen, read, meditate, but let that small place be just for me. Soon you will feel that it has become tremendously charged. Whenever you need me, move into that room and I will be there. And the third...

... - significant, but not existent. God is only a symbol representing an experience, not an object. Third: Meditation is not mentation, it is not of the mind. On the contrary, to drop the mind is to meditate. And so on and so forth. I wanted to mention THE GRANTHA because it is nowhere mentioned and it has never been translated. Seventh... am I still correct in my numbers? "Yes, Osho." I am against...

... is again not a so-called religious book. It is religious only if you meditate over it... if you don't read it, but meditate over it. It is as yet untranslated being still in the original Hindi, THE SONGS OF DAYABAI. I was feeling a little guilty because I had mentioned Rabiya, Meera, Lalla, Sahajo, and I have left only one more woman worth mentioning: Daya. Now I feel relieved. THE SONGS OF DAYA...

... what?" And meditation also reminds you: "On what?" You tell somebody to meditate, and the immediate question will be, "On what?" Just to meditate seems to be madness. How can you meditate without an object? How can you love without an object? And the same is the situation about opening up. So devices which are false have been used: "Open to the master," "Open...

... work without orgasm. Orgasm was not something necessary for reproduction, it was something to open a window for the higher evolution of consciousness. But the idiots who have been religious leaders and priests prevented that window. They have been teaching continuously: "Meditate!" And when people fail, when they cannot attain to meditation, then the priests say, "You are sinners - how...

... absolutely scientific. There must be something in man's nature that opens a window towards higher evolution; otherwise how can you convince the man that there are things like higher experiences? And how did the first man come to know? Why did he meditate in the first place, and how did he find the way to meditate? Somebody, somewhere in the past, must have found some similarity with his nature, and must...

... worried about. Go and surrender to the doctors and tell them that whatsoever they want to do, you will let them, and enjoy this whole trip. Meditate in the hospital: Lying down in your bed, relax, accept and enjoy whatsoever is available. You will come out of it more whole, more healthy, more yourself. And I am with you! (Osho gives him a box) Keep this with you, and whenever you need me just put it on...

... simply sit and meditate there and let the conference continue! If you have a few hours free in the day, then make it a point to move somewhere or to just close your eyes and sit in the staff room and meditate. Soon people will start feeling that this man is a little eccentric, so allow him... and with this dress (indicating the orange robe) it will be easier, mm? When you go back just pretend that you...

... Christ was born to a carpenter. It would have been difficult for him to have been born to a moneylender or something like that - it would have been impossible. That would have been really a miracle! It is easier to be born of a virgin, not such a great miracle, than to be born of a moneylender or to be born of a politician - that would have been a greater miracle. So just go, meditate, sit by the river...

..., mm? and help your brother. [The sannyasin then says: One day I felt very foolish doing meditations - they all seemed.... Well, I just felt foolish... and foolish to be sitting here in front of you asking questions.] Mm, it is a good experience. Sometimes it comes - because in fact it is foolish. To be seeking is foolish, because that which we are seeking we already have. To meditate is foolish...

... lover here - if he really listens to me and goes deep.... This is the depth you are asking for when you say that you want the love to go deep - this is the depth! The passionate love is a periphery, the compassionate love is at the centre - that is the depth. Just enjoy it: feel blissful, meditate together, dance together. If sex disappears, let it, don't force it. If sometimes it happens, let it...