Osho - Ma Tzu The Empty Mirror

Ripe plum

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

ONE DAY, WHEN MA TZU WAS ON HIS WAY HOME FROM CHIANG-SI, HE
STOPPED TO VISIT HIS OLD MASTER, NANGAKU. WHEN MA TZU HAD
BURNED INCENSE AND MADE BOWS TO NANGAKU, NANGAKU GAVE HIM
THIS VERSE:

Osho - Ma Tzu The Empty Mirror

Sowing seed

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

AFTER HIS FIRST INSTRUCTIONS FROM HIS MASTER, NANGAKU, ON THE
MEANING OF THE DHARMA, MA TZU FELT AS IF HE WERE DRINKING THE
MOST EXQUISITE NECTAR. AFTER BOWING TO THE MASTER, MA TZU
ASKED HIM, "HOW MUST ONE BE ATTUNED TO THE FORMLESS SAMADHI?"

Osho - Ma Tzu The Empty Mirror

The mirror

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

WHEN NANGAKU FIRST SAW MA TZU, HE RECOGNIZED HIM BY INTUITION
AS A VESSEL OF THE DHARMA.

HE VISITED MA TZU IN HIS CELL WHERE HE WAS MEDITATING, AND
ASKED HIM:

"IN PRACTICING SITTING MEDITATION, WHAT DOES YOUR
REVERENCE ASPIRE TO ATTAIN?"

Osho Ma Tzu The Empty Mirror

we are starting a new series of talks: MA TZU -- THE EMPTY MIRROR. Ma Tzu is also known as Baso. I am not using the name Baso, because our second series is going to be on the Japanese Basho -- the great mystic poet of Zen. And the name Ma Tzu is itself more meaningful than his popular name, Baso.

Osho - LSD A Shortcut to False Samadhi

LSD: A Shortcut to False Samadhi

Ma Ananda Prem: Acharayaji, before asking a
question I would like to tell you my experience in
meditation with special reference to controlled
LSD-experimentation I underwent.

In New York I used to study psycho-analysis.

Osho LSD A Shortcut to False Samadhi

Ma A. P.: Acharyaji, I am trying yogic meditation since a long time, but I am not getting any clear and basic result. What is wrong with me?

Acharya Rajneesh : There can be so many reasons. The method used is somewhere wrong; or the way in which it is used is wrong; or neither method, nor the way is wrong, but

Osho - Live Zen

Just fall like a bag of rice

MY BELOVED ONES,

I am introducing you to a new meditation. It is divided in three parts.

The first part is gibberish. The word 'gibberish' comes from a Sufi mystic, Jabbar. Jabbar never spoke any language, he just uttered nonsense. Still he had thousands of disciples because what he was

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Have you had your dinner?

BELOVED OSHO,

TANKA ASKED A MONK, "WHERE ARE YOU FROM?"

THE MONK REPLIED, "FROM THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN."

TANKA SAID, "HAVE YOU HAD YOUR DINNER?"

THE MONK SAID, "I HAVE HAD IT."

TANKA SAID, "IS HE OPEN-EYED WHO BRINGS FOOD TO A FELLOW LIKE YOU AND LETS
YOU EAT IT?"

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Dragons do not lie in puddles

BELOVED OSHO,

CHOKEI ONE DAY SAID, "EVEN IF YOU SAY THAT THE ARHATS STILL HAVE THREE POISONS,
YOU SHOULD NOT SAY THAT THE TATHAGATA HAS TWO LANGUAGES. I DO NOT SAY THAT
THE TATHAGATA HAS NO LANGUAGE BUT THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE TWO LANGUAGES."

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Beat the drum

BELOVED OSHO,

KASAN SAID,

"LEARNING BY STUDY IS CALLED HEARING;

LEARNING NO MORE IS CALLED
NEARNESS;

TRANSCENDING THESE TWO IS TRUE PASSING."

A MONK ASKED,

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The great death

BELOVED OSHO,

JOSHU ASKED TOSU,

"WHAT IF A MAN OF THE GREAT DEATH COMES BACK TO LIFE AGAIN?"

TOSU SAID,

"YOU SHOULD NOT GO BY NIGHT; WAIT FOR THE LIGHT OF DAY AND COME."

SETCHO COMMENTS:

OPEN-EYED, HE WAS ALL THE MORE AS IF DEAD;

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Let no dust settle

BELOVED OSHO,

SEPPO ADDRESSED THE ASSEMBLY AND SAID, "ALL THE GREAT WORLD, IF I PICK IT UP
WITH MY FINGERTIPS, IS FOUND TO BE LIKE A GRAIN OF RICE. I THROW IT IN FRONT OF
YOUR FACE, BUT YOU DO NOT SEE IT. BEAT THE DRUM, TELLING THE MONKS TO COME
OUT TO WORK AND SEARCH FOR IT."

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What's in a name?

BELOVED OSHO,

KYOZAN ASKED SANSHO,

"WHAT IS YOUR NAME?"

SANSHO SAID,

"EJAKU."

KYOZAN SAID,

"EJAKU IS MY NAME!"

SANSHO SAID,

"MY NAME IS ENEN!"

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Nothing is better than anything

BELOVED OSHO,

UMMON SPOKE TO HIS ASSEMBLY AND SAID,

"EVERYBODY HAS HIS OWN LIGHT.

IF HE >TRIES TO SEE IT, EVERYTHING IS DARKNESS.

WHAT IS EVERYBODY'S LIGHT?"

LATER, IN PLACE OF THE DISCIPLES, HE SAID, "THE HALL AND THE GATE."

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Three pounds of flax

BELOVED OSHO,

A MONK ASKED TOZAN, "WHAT IS BUDDHA?"

TOZAN SAID, "THREE POUNDS OF FLAX."

SETCHO SAYS:

THE GOLDEN CROW SWOOPS, THE SILVER HARE BOUNDS;

THE ECHO COMES BACK, DIRECT AND FREE.



WHO JUDGES TOZAN BY HIS WORD OR PHRASE

IS A BLIND TORTOISE, LOST IN A LONELY VALE.

THE ABUNDANT BLOSSOMS, THE LUXURIANT FLOWERS,

THE SOUTHERN BAMBOO, THE NORTHERN TREES.

ONE RECALLS RIKU TAIFU AND CHOKEI:

"YOU SHOULD NOT CRY, BUT LAUGH!" EH!

OSHO,

YAA-HOO!

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The voice of the raindrops

BELOVED OSHO,

KYOSEI ASKED A MONK,

"WHAT IS THE NOISE OUTSIDE?"

THE MONK SAID,

"THAT IS THE VOICE OF THE RAINDROPS."

KYOSEI SAID,

"MEN'S THINKING IS TOPSY-TURVY. DELUDED BY THEIR OWN SELVES, THEY
PURSUE THINGS."

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Just be

BELOVED OSHO,

A MONK ASKED CHIMON,

"WHAT WILL THE LOTUS FLOWER BE WHEN IT HAS NOT YET
COME OUT OF THE WATER?"

CHIMON SAID,

"THE LOTUS FLOWER."

THE MONK ASKED CHIMON,

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Perfect the circle, pure the ground

BELOVED OSHO,

CHINSO CAME TO SEE SHIFUKU. SHIFUKU DREW A CIRCLE IN THE AIR.

CHINSO SAID, "I HAVE NO OBJECT IN COMING HERE. WHY DO YOU BOTHER TO DRAW A CIRCLE?"

SHIFUKU CLOSED THE DOOR OF HIS ROOM.

SETCHO SAYS:

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Signatures on water

BELOVED OSHO,

OBAKU ADDRESSED THE ASSEMBLY AND SAID, "YOU ARE ALL PARTAKERS OF BREWER'S
GRAIN. IF YOU GO ON STUDYING ZEN LIKE THAT, YOU WILL NEVER FINISH IT. DO YOU KNOW
THAT IN ALL THE LAND OF T'ANG THERE IS NO ZEN TEACHER?"

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Always now and here

BELOVED OSHO,

WHEN BASHO WAS OUT WALKING WITH HYAKUJO HE SAW A WILD DUCK FLY PAST.

BASHO SAID,

"WHAT IS IT?"

HYAKUJO SAID,

"IT IS A WILD DUCK."

BASHO SAID,

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Pecking and tapping

BELOVED OSHO,

A MONK SAID TO KYOSEI,

"I WANT TO PECK FROM THE INSIDE. WOULD YOU PLEASE TAP
FROM THE OUTSIDE?"

KYOSEI SAID,

"COULD YOU ATTAIN LIFE OR NOT?"

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From here to here - no space for the way

BELOVED OSHO,

JOSHU SPOKE TO THE ASSEMBLY AND SAID,

"THE REAL WAY IS NOT DIFFICULT.

IT ONLY ABHORS CHOICE AND ATTACHMENT.

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Emptiness no holiness

BELOVED OSHO,

EMPEROR WU OF LIANG ASKED BODHIDHARMA, "WHAT IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF THE
HOLY TEACHINGS?"

BODHIDHARMA SAID, "EMPTINESS, NO HOLINESS."

"WHO IS THIS STANDING BEFORE ME?"

"NO KNOWING."

Osho Live Zen 

I call Zen the only living religion because it is not a religion, but only a religiousness. It has no dogma, it does not depend on any founder. It has no past; in fact it has nothing to teach you. It is the strangest thing that has happened in the whole history of mankind - strangest because it enjoys in emptiness, it blossoms in nothingness. It is fulfilled in innocence, in not

Osho - Light on the Path

Music will remind you of me

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHY DO I ALLOW HABIT TO DOMINATE CONSCIOUSNESS?

Almost everybody does it, unless one becomes enlightened.

The habit is the easier way to do a thing. The whole mechanism of a habit is that you need not be conscious about it. It has become a mechanical part of you, a part of

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I don't have any disciples, i have only friends

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BELOVED OSHO,

FRITJOF CAPRA, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH SWAMI DEVA OJAS ABOUT THE NATURE OF
SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS, SAID, "THE COSMOS DOES NOT KNOW ANY HIERARCHY,"

THAT "THE BEST WAY TO ORGANIZE THEM IS AS A NETWORK, IN A LOOSE INTERACTION,"

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Enlightenment: the by-product of being in the present

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BELOVED OSHO,

I AM A SOCIOLOGIST. THAT MEANS I DEAL SCIENTIFICALLY WITH THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES, AND THE INDIVIDUAL. THOUGH I THINK
THERE ARE SOCIOLOGICAL LAWS, AND THAT SOCIOLOGY

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Beyond the mind is your reality

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

DO WE NEED SPECIAL MEDITATIONS FOR WOMEN?

No. Meditation is concerned with your consciousness - and consciousness is neither man nor woman. This is one of the fundamentals I want the world to be aware of.

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To relate with non-sannyasins is bound to be difficult

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHY IT IS SO DIFFICULT FOR SANNYASINS TO HAVE DEEP RELATIONSHIPS WITH NON-SANNYASINS?

It is natural.

To be a sannyasin means you are deprogrammed.

To relate with non-sannyasins is bound to be difficult because they are programmed people. Theirprogrammed minds and your deprogrammed minds cannot have anything in common. You will think them stupid; they will think you licentious, rebellious.

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Truth is a dance in the heart

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

PUTTING TOGETHER ALL YOUR STATEMENTS ABOUT ONE SUBJECT OR QUESTION, THERE
ARE NOT JUST CONTRADICTIONS, BUT SUCH A RICHNESS OF DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS
AND ANGLES FROM WHICH YOU LOOK AT THE QUESTION... SO MANY COLORS. WHEN YOU
TALK ABOUT A CERTAIN SUBJECT, SOMETHING IN ME STARTS

Osho - Light on the Path

Only your original face can become enlightend

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU DESCRIBE WITNESSING AS A KNACK. OFTEN, LATE AT NIGHT, WHEN I AM IN A VERY
RELAXED STATE, WITNESSING HAPPENS. AT OTHER TIMES, THOUGH, IT JUST SEEMS TO
BE MIND WATCHING MIND WATCHING MIND.

Osho - Light on the Path

The divine is the depth of diving into this moment

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU ARE THE ETERNAL, AWESOME SILENCE AND GRANDEUR OF THE HIMALAYAS. AND
YET YOU LIVE IN A FRAGILE, HUMAN BODY, WHICH IS SUCH A JOY FOR US TO BE
TOGETHER WITH. IN CONNECTION WITH YOU, AND EVEN MORE IN RELATION TO CLOSE

Osho - Light on the Path

Utopia is possible

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

SINCE MY CHILDHOOD, MY MOST INTENSE YEARNING WAS TO HAVE A FRIEND. I HAD TO
WAIT FOR THIRTY YEARS TO HAVE THIS YEARNING FULFILLED; AND THEN EVERYTHING I
WANTED, HAPPENED. NOW, SINCE YOU HAVE OFFERED US THE GIFT OF BEING A FRIEND,
I OFTEN ALLOW MYSELF TO FEEL AND LOVE YOU IN A SIMILAR WAY AS I FEEL AND LOVE
THIS FRIEND. IS IT REALLY OKAY?

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Nietzsche: a great freedom or a great danger

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

THERE IS A REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN NIETZSCHE ALL OVER EUROPE, FROM BOTH THE
PRE-AND POST-WAR GENERATIONS. NIETZSCHE'S APPEAL SEEMS TO LIE IN HIS VIEWS
STILL BEING CONTEMPORARY.

COULD YOU PLEASE COMMENT?

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Act according to your insight

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WE FIND THAT MANY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, LIKE SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, AND EVEN
POLITICIANS, EXPRESS GREAT ADMIRATION AND RESPECT FOR US INDIVIDUALLY AND
FOR THE WAY WE LIVE TOGETHER - BUT THEY REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE POINT
TO YOU AS THE SOURCE OF THIS. WHERE IS THE BLOCK?

Osho - Light on the Path

Dissolving into the universal: a silent song of am-ness

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I REMEMBER YOU SAYING ONCE THAT THE GROWTH OF MAN IS DIALECTICAL; AND
YOU HAVE ALSO EXPLAINED ABOUT THESIS, ANTITHESIS AND SYNTHESIS. WOULD
YOU PLEASE GIVE MORE CLARITY IN THIS REFERENCE ON THE GROWTH TOWARDS
ENLIGHTENMENT?

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The moment you find the truth, everything stops

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE HEARD YOU SAY THAT SEEKING THE TRUTH IS AS ECSTATIC AS FINDING IT. DOES
THAT NOT ELIMINATE THE SEARCH?

It does not eliminate the search. On the contrary, it enhances the search because it makes seeking as important as finding.

It is a very fundamental question. Finding the truth is naturally thought to be ecstatic, even intellectually. But no one has paid attention to the search, the seeking. I am saying that seeking the truth is even far more ecstatic. All the failures, all the small successes, little glimpses, small open spaces, the few moments of ecstasy coming and coming....

Osho - Light on the Path

The master creates a lovesphere

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

HOW CAN I FIND OUT WHICH OF THE MANY VOICES INSIDE ME IS THE ONE WHICH COMES
FROM THE REAL SELF TO GUIDE ME? HOW CAN I BE SURE IT DOESN'T COME FROM THE UNCONSCIOUS?

It is very simple: none of the voices come from the inner self. All voices come from the mind. When all

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Sex and death: two poles of one energy

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE HAD A STRONG FEELING OF SEX AND DEATH OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS.

IS IT NECESSARY THAT I UNDERSTAND WHY?

It is always necessary to understand how your mind is functioning, how your heart is doing, what is
happening to your interior world. Trying to understand it will give you a certain distance from those things, and an awareness that they may be there but you are not identified with them. That is the great alchemy of understanding.

Try to understand everything within yourself.

In the very fact that you are trying to understand, you become separate from it; it becomes an object.

Osho - Light on the Path

Cities have made the human being inhuman

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

AS MOST PEOPLE IN MODERN EUROPE LOOK AT THEIR LANDSCAPE, THEY FIND THAT
THE CITIES THEY LIVE IN VARY FROM INHOSPITABLE TO FRANKLY DANGEROUS; THAT THE
JOBS THEY DO (IF THEY ARE "LUCKY" ENOUGH TO HAVE ONE) ARE DULL, BORING, AND

Osho - Light on the Path

The real remains silent

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

IN YOUR EXPERIENCE, IS THERE ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE QUALITIES OF THE
INVENTED SELF, AND THOSE OF THE REAL SELF? IS THE EGO LIKE A SHADOW OR A
DISTORTION OF THE AUTHENTIC BEING; OR IS THERE A TOTAL DISCONTINUITY? LOOKING
BACK, DO YOU SEE ANY TRACES IN THE ONE YOU ARE NOW OF THE MAN YOU ONCE WERE?

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Nature is not anguish, it is blissfulness

  Question    1:

   BELOVED             OSHO,

   SOMETIMES I     REALIZE        HOW MUCH I AM AFRAID  OF THE UNKNOWN. I HAVE EXPERIENCED

MOMENTS OF TOTAL TRUST AND MOMENTS OF BLISS.

WHAT ARE THE TRICKS OF THE MIND TO AVOID THESE BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCES AGAIN
AND AGAIN?

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Nobody can expect consistency from me

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

THESE QUESTIONS ARE FROM THE DUTCH RAJNEESH TIMES. THE FIRST QUESTION IS:

NOW YOU ARE MAKING A WORLD TOUR, FOR THE FIRST TIME THE WELL IS GOING TO THE
THIRSTY. IS THE WORLD READY TO RECEIVE THE WELL?

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The path of truth is only for gamblers

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS THAT ARE CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER. THE FIRST IS:

YESTERDAY YOU SPOKE ON THE FUNCTION OF THE MASTER. I WOULD LIKE TODAY IF
YOU COULD SPEAK ON THE FUNCTION OF THE DISCIPLE AND, IF THE DISCIPLE NEEDS

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The mind is a deceiver

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I LOVED THE INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGICAL UNIVERSE THAT YOU GAVE ME
YESTERDAY. AND YET I WOULD LIKE TO REPEAT THE QUESTION.

YOU SAY THAT YOU WERE STUDYING US IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHICH ARE THE
DIFFICULTIES THAT THE SEEKER FINDS ON THE PATH TOWARDS REALIZATION OF THE
SELF, TOWARDS HIS OWN AWAKENING. NOW YOU HAVE BEEN STUDYING US FOR FIFTEEN
YEARS, AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GIVE US SOME HINTS ON WHAT YOU FIND IN YOUR

Osho - Light on the Path

No-mind is emptiness and fullness together

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

ONCE YOU DESCRIBED YOUR WORK AS A SEARCH FOR THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE
BUDDHAS. YOU EXPLAINED THAT FREUD ESTABLISHED ONLY A PSYCHOLOGY OF
PATHOLOGY. THEN CAME MASLOV, JANOV, ASSAGIOLI, PERLS AND THE PEOPLE WHO
ELABORATED ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH.

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I want a meeting of east and west

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

YOU HAVE BEEN USING THE KEY WORD "DEPROGRAMMING" TO DESCRIBE YOUR WORK.

THE TECHNIQUES THAT YOU HAVE SUGGESTED DURING THESE YEARS, GO FROM
CHAOTIC AND DYNAMIC MEDITATION TO THE MODERN THERAPEUTIC SCHOOL.

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With a master the long journey can be cut short

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

A ZEN MASTER SAID, "SITTING SILENTLY, DOING NOTHING, AND THE GRASS GROWS BY
ITSELF." BUDDHA SAID, "BE A LIGHT UNTO YOURSELF." I AGREE IN TOTO. SO WHAT IS THE
NEED FOR A MASTER? CANNOT AN INTELLIGENT AND COURAGEOUS MAN WALK ALONE?

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Say it with your totality

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SAY WHAT AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER IS. I TRY FROM EACH
ANGLE, AND EVERY MORNING, WHEN I SIT AT MY PIANO, I TRY TO SING THE SONG FROM
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE, WITH ANOTHER TUNE, ANOTHER MELODY.

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Whenever there is a sannyasin of mine, I am there

Question 1:

BELOVED OSHO,

WHAT IS A BUDDHAFIELD? JUST LIVING TOGETHER, RUNNING BUSINESSES, DOESN'T
SEEM TO BE ENOUGH, IT IS NOT SATISFYING. IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHING DEEPER -
SOMETHING MORE CHALLENGING FOR THE COLLECTIVE AND THE INDIVIDUAL, IN WHICH
BOTH GROW - IS NEEDED.