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1、Far Beyond the StarsTalks given from 1/7/77 to 31/7/77Darshan Diary28 ChaptersYear published: 1980Far Beyond the StarsChapter #1Chapter title: The moment you become part of the community, you dissapear2 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu AuditoriumArchive code: 7707025ShortTitle: STARS01Audio: NoVideo: NoRa
2、ma prem. It means love for god, and create that love more. It is there, it is just like a small drop; it can become an ocean, it can become bigger than you. And when it is bigger than you and when you are drowned in it, you have arrived.It is there just like a small drop trickling but it can grow: a
3、ll great rivers arise out of a small drop trickling. The ocean is nothing but drops and drops and drops. Right now it is a small drop like a small seed but it can become a big tree. One just has to be a little more careful about it, more conscious of it, more protective of it. It can be destroyed by
4、 carelessness; many peoples love for god is destroyed by carelessness.A sannyasin tells Osho he is scared of him.Mm! Thats very good! Thats a good indication. When you become scared of me that means you are coming close to me! Then only does one start feeling as if one will be burned. A master is a
5、fire. You come close - first it is warm, then it becomes fiery, but you cannot go back because that fire has a great magnetic attraction too.In fact where can you find a place to die which will be better? So be consumed! Let this fire consume you. and out of that is the resurrection. Out of that you
6、 become totally new. Out of that you become impregnable, invulnerable.This is the paradox: you have to be absolutely vulnerable to become invulnerable. You have to die to attain deathlessness. You have to go through fire to become real gold.You need not be afraid: only that which is not true will bu
7、m - that which is true will remain. Truth cannot be burned, only the false, but we are too attached to the false, hence the fear. The ego will be in danger. You will not be in danger but because you think you are the ego, the fear arises. Just a little detachment from the ego is needed.I am going to
8、 destroy the ego. and it is good that it is destroyed - the sooner the better - because only when it is destroyed will you be able to see who you are.The ego is very very ordinary and the being is tremendously extraordinary. The ego is just a shadow, it is not really you: it is a reflection in the m
9、irror. I am going to destroy the mirror and the reflection will be destroyed but you are not going to he destroyed at all.But it is natural, mm? - when somebody hits the mirror and the mirror is falling into pieces, you will see that you are falling into pieces because your image will be falling int
10、o pieces. But only later on when the mirror has fallen down on the ground into pieces - your image has disappeared - suddenly you find that you are still there; you are not your image!But that happens, in primitive societies it happens. People are afraid, if their photograph is taken they are afraid
11、, they are afraid that if somebody burns the photograph, then? Or if somebody insults the photograph, then? Still in primitive communities in india, if you go to an aboriginal society, they dont want to be photographed because they feel that you are imprisoning them. Then the photograph will be with
12、 you and whatsoever you want to do with the photograph you can do. And sometimes death had happen ed with the idea of it.In the primitive society this goes on: somebody makes an image of someone, does some mantra and things, and kills the image with a sword. the man comes to know and he falls dead,
13、with the belief that he has been killed!Still in civilised countries effigies are being burned. That is just a primitive idea, as if by burning the effigy you are going to destroy the man.I will destroy your effigy but not you. mm? Good.Far Beyond the StarsChapter #2Chapter title: One needs the cour
14、age to be oneself3 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu AuditoriumArchive code: 7707035ShortTitle: STARS02Audio: NoVideo: NoOsho explains the meaning of prem veeresh. Prem means love and veeresh means courage, and you have to imbibe the spirit of love and courage. Love is the basic quality of the religious ma
15、n, and out of love, courage grows.When I was a small child at school there was a wrestling competition for the whole district; I have never been able to forget that incident.There was a wrestler, the most famous wrestler in those parts, who was defeated. He was going to be the champion, the district
16、 champion or something, and he was defeated by a totally unknown man! The whole crowd laughed in ridicule, people enjoyed it like anything! And I was surprised, everybody was surprised; in a second everybody fell silent, because he also clapped and laughed. the man who had been defeated! He laughed
17、so uproariously that the whole crowd fell silent in embarrassment; what was the matter with this man? And when they fell silent he laughed even more!Later on I went to him; he was staying just in front of my house in a temple. And I said, This is strange - and I loved it! It was very unexpected!He s
18、aid, It was so unexpected, thats why I also laughed! It was really unexpected. I had never expected that I would be defeated by an ordinary man of whom nobody has ever heard! The whole thing was ridiculous, thats why I laughed!But I have never been able to forget his face, the way he laughed and the
19、 way he clapped and the way the whole crowd fell silent. This man defeated the whole crowd and their ridicule. he participated! But great courage is needed!To me he was the winner, and I told him, I am a small child and I cannot say much, but to me you are the winner and I will remember you. After t
20、wenty years I visited his town and he came to see me. He was a very old man now, and he said Do you remember me? I have not been able to forget your face either - a small child coming to me and saying You are the real winner; the other is defeated. You have defeated the whole crowd. I have not been
21、able, he said, to forget your face either.A great courage is needed in life to be yourself, in failure, in success, in appreciation, in condemnation, when you are going very high and when you are going very low. and all climates come.A sannyasin has recently separated from her lover, and said she st
22、ill feels very sad. She has tried to make new friends, but feels lonely and sad.Osho checks her energy.A few things, mm? The energy is in a perfectly good space. I can understand why you are feeling lonely but my suggestion is, dont stuff it with anything too fast; let it have its time. You need it
23、- this is a very necessary gap, otherwise what happens is that one relationship is there and it ends. You start feeling lonely; you jump into another relationship. All the rubbish of the first goes on being carried into the second. There has never been a space to clean: one guest has left, another h
24、as come in the house, and you had no time to clean. And that is very bad - it will destroy the other relationship Thats how it goes on happening with people.When you say good-bye to one relationship it takes a little time. It is not so easy to really say good-bye, mm? It goes slowly, slowly, slowly,
25、 slowly; slowly, slowly, again you become an individual.When you are in a relationship you lose your individuality, you become part of a dyad. Then you and your lover are really one individual; thats the meaning of the couple. They suffer together, they are happy together; they are involved in every
26、 way with each other. They penetrate each other, they become members of each other. A few parts of his life will get into your parts, a few parts of your life will get into his parts. Mm? it is just as if you have one suitcase his clothes and your clothes are all in it together: everything is mixed
27、up and in a mess.When you get out of one relationship it is wiser to come out of it completely - slowly, slowly, you again emerge as an individual, because all relationship is against individuality. Hence, for thousands of years, people have left the world of relationship and gone into loneliness, b
28、ecause all relationship is basically against the individual. The relationship encroaches on you, the other starts overlapping you, and then you dont know who you are. Everything becomes coloured with the other. even small things start becoming coloured with the other.If you are sitting in a room and
29、 there is a chair and your lover used to sit on the chair, suddenly, he is there. He is no more there, just the chair, but he has got involved with the chair. You have always seen him sitting on the chair; that chair was special and he loved it very much. Now that chair is no ordinary chair; for you
30、 at least, it has a psychological vibe. So to get out of these vibes it takes time. and you are coming out perfectly well.When you start becoming an individual you start feeling lonely, you feel lonely. This is not tripping; this is therapeutic. it is not bad.First, really become lonely! That means
31、that the appetite has arisen again. There are two types of people: one person eats exactly at the time he always eats, he does not wait for the appetite. His lunchtime is there so he eats; he has forgotten what appetite is. All rich people forget what appetite is - before the appetite arises, they e
32、at. A better way of eating is to wait for the appetite. It may not come at twelve - it may come at two or three or it may not come for one day. Next day it will come; it cannot remain not-coming forever.When the appetite comes food is joy. When the appetite comes, when you have become individual and
33、 you start feeling really lonely, you are virgin again. Thats what I mean by being individual. Again all that was your past has disappeared - those dead leaves have fallen. It is no more part of you: you are out of it as a snake moves out of the dead skin, the old skin.Then it will be easier to find
34、 a person You will have better eyes and a better perspective and a better flow. And it will be easier for somebody else to find you: your very appetite will attract somebody. Right now you will be searching out of misery, not out of appetite - and these are different things.Right now you will be sim
35、ply searching for a substitute for your lover. He is missing; you want another lover. Let him go completely, be clean of him, and then you will be looking for somebody new. Somebody new is better because you have lived with your lover, and if you get him again that will be miserable. Mm? again the s
36、ame thing, the same trip will come in.Wait. My feeling is that the energy is perfectly good. You are just coming out of the relationship; you are emerging: the flood is going, receding. Soon you will become an individual again, as you were before you ever fell in love with anybody.A person becomes a
37、 virgin many times in his life if he can simply wait. Virginity has nothing to do with your body; that is a foolish attitude about virginity: virginity is the purity of the soul. One again becomes virgin in the sense that one is completely finished with the past. You are as fresh as you were when yo
38、u fell in love for the first time.Each love is for the first time - remember! And if the love is not for the first time then you are seeking a substitute. You are just missing somebody and you want to put somebody else in his place so that the chair is not empty. but that will not happen. lust wait.
39、And become happy with your loneliness - because this is good. I was waiting for it. The best thing in life is to attain to your individuality again and again and again; then by and by one becomes capable of a great art. One can fall in love, one can be in love, and remain intact in ones individualit
40、y - that is the lesson! Mm? then love is just joy, it is never pain; then it never brings any hell.You are always in it and yet out of it; you never get too overwhelmed. You go into it, you go dancing into it. You enjoy it as much as possible but you remain capable of getting out of it any moment if
41、 the climate changes. If something goes wrong you can get out of it with no scar.So wait a few weeks. Go on meeting people, be friendly, but dont be hankering - hankering is wrong.Far Beyond the StarsChapter #3Chapter title: Love is the natural meditation4 July 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu AuditoriumArchiv
42、e code: 7707045ShortTitle: STARS03Audio: NoVideo: NoA sannyasin says: If I run a group and the group goes well I feel good, and if not, I feel bad. I wanted to ask you how to avoid this. how can I avoid this dependence?Rather than avoiding it. Because it can be avoided but then you will miss somethi
43、ng; then the quality of the work will suffer. You can do it in a very detached way; then you will not feel good or glad about it: you simply do your duty, indifferent. You have no involvement in it, you dont really become a participant. You remain an outsider, a spectator: whatsoever happens is not
44、your business.This can be done, many people have done this in their life, but then joy disappears. Sadness will disappear, when you fail with somebody there will be no sadness, but together with sadness will go the joy too. and that is not my choiceRather than avoiding it. We have done that in the e
45、ast too much; the whole of the east for at least five thousand years has been doing it. It is a very simple trick to avoid pain, but once you avoid pain, unwittingly you have closed the door to pleasure too. So the east is not miserable and is not happy either. This is a very deadly state of affairs
46、.It is better to be sometimes in pain and sometimes to be in tremendous joy than to become so indifferent and dull and dead. That creates a kind of crust around you and you become indifferent to everything; whatsoever happens is okay. You withdraw into yourself.That is very disrespectful to people,
47、disrespectful to the work, very destructive to the creative possibilities. It immediately closes all potential for growth and you will become a zombie! Nothing will affect you: if something goes well, it is okay; if something goes bad, that too is okay.I am not for it - my whole approach is to make
48、you great participants! So the first thing to be understood is: dont try to avoid it, rather get more involved. When pain comes feel it, when pleasure comes feel it. You will become more sensitive through that. Pain too is good! That has to be evolved, that is what real religion should be or is.Joy is good. so is the state of sadness: both are aspects of the same energy and both go together like two wheels of a bullock cart. You take one wheel off - the bullock cart stops, falls down; they go together, they help each other. When something goes really deep
