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OSHO,
TONIGHT I AM FLYING TO PARIS, TAKING WITH ME THIS BEAUTIFUL NAME THAT YOU GAVE ME FOR THE NEW CENTRE, PRADEEP, A LAMP.
COULD YOU GIVE ME SOME HELP TO SCREW THIS LAMP INTO THE FRENCH MIND? AND ALSO TELL US A JOKE WITH A FEW WORDS IN FRENCH TO MAKE PARIS LAUGH!
THANK YOU, OSHO.
Anand Toshen,
As far as screwing this lamp into the French mind is concerned, there will be no difficulty at all. French minds are just like sockets: you can screw in any kind of bulb. There will be no problem at all. It is difficult to screw a bulb into an Indian mind, but into a French mind any way you do it, it will turn out right.
And take this joke with you:
A French father caught his ten-year-old son smoking. Trying to be an open-minded parent, he said carefully, 'Mon fils, I am educating you with great liberte. I let you have whatever you want so that it does not create any complexes in you. Alors, s'il te plait, take heed of my advice. I think you are too young to start smoking.'
'Je ne...! Mon oeil!' replied the son indignantly, 'why just the other day I fucked three girls! Oh, la la! And you think I am not big enough to smoke?'
'Oh, Mon Dieu! Tu as fait ca?' And with what type of girls?'
'Je ne sais pas,' replied the boy. 'I was too drunk to take notice.'
Zen: Zest, Zip, Zap and Zing
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Innocence: Lost and Found Again
28 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 8012280
ShortTitle: ZZZZZ02
Audio: Yes
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The first question
Question 1
OSHO,
DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WILL GO TO HEAVEN WHEN YOU DIE?
Prem Pramod,
There is no heaven anywhere, it is here. It is always here, it is never there. It is always now, it is never then. The very idea of heaven somewhere else -- there, then -- is a strategy of the mind to deceive you, to keep you ignorant of the heaven that surrounds you every moment.
Existence knows no past, no future. The only time existence knows is now, and the meditator has to enter this 'nowness' of things. this is heaven. This very moment we are in
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