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OLD, HAS BEEN AWAY FOR EIGHTEEN MONTHS.
OSHO: You have grown up a lot!
Just remember one thing: don't be a great fighter with the kids! Right?
You are a warrior... but don't!
Even Bein' Gawd Ain't A Bed of Roses
Chapter #7
Chapter title: None
7 October 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7910075
ShortTitle: GAWD07
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JIGYASA, WHO WAS RECENTLY VERY ILL, WILL BE LEAVING TOMORROW, SHE TELLS OSHO.
OSHO: Everything will go well. When will you be back.
JIGYASA: AS SOON AS I CAN.
You will be back within three months... you will be perfectly okay. You have come back from the other world, so it is good. I was afraid sometimes whether you would survive or not, but you managed to. Just go and rest and come back!
A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GERMAN FOR SANNYAS
OSHO: Come here, Andreas!
Sit, close your eyes... REALLY hard!
VEET AMO, HIS FATHER, INTERPRETS.
Mm, he is doing perfectly well.... (TO ANDREAS) It was a great ordeal but you passed through it!
PREM ANDREAS: LOVE IS THE MOST COURAGEOUS PHENOMENON IN LIFE.
It really needs guts to be in love, because to be in love is to disappear as an ego. To be in love is to disappear as an ego. To be in love is to be nothing, nobody. Unless one is ready to be nothing love is not possible. Love grows out of your inner nothingness, it is the flowering of nothingness. It is not an ego trip -- hence whatsoever goes on happening in the world in the name of love is not love. It is just the opposite of it because the basic requirement is not yet fulfilled. The basic requirement is to experience yourself as nothing. That's what meditation is all about: the method of destroying the ego. Once the ego collapses you come face to face with yourself and that experience blooms into love. You start overflowing with grace, with compassion.
Help him from the very beginning to be more and more loving, and the only way to help him is to be loving. Become nothing. Children almost always fall into the trap of the parents. If the parents were wrong somewhere, the children
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