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Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters

Jan 1980 Chuang Tzu Auditorium 31 talks

About this series · summary by Osho Live

"Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters" is a profound exploration of life, consciousness, and the dance of existence, as unfolded by the mystic Osho. This discourse series invites individuals to transcend the mundane and enter into a dance of life that is both a celebration and a meditation. Osho weaves a tapestry of insights on the interplay between freedom and responsibility, urging listeners to embrace the totality of life as a sacred dance. The series emphasizes the importance of living with intensity and awareness, where each moment is an opportunity for spiritual awakening. Through his unique blend of wisdom, humor, and storytelling, Osho challenges conventional paradigms and encourages the viewer to dissolve the boundaries between the self and the cosmos. The metaphor of the dance serves not only as an allegory for life's rhythm and movement but also as a call to awaken to the natural, spontaneous flow of being. Osho's teachings inspire a deep, inner transformation, leading towards an authentic, joyous existence where every act is a dance offering to the divine tapestry of the universe, inviting stars to descend and become one with the human experience.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #1 1 January 1980

    Dance to God: renounce renunciation, choose rejoicing; drop the mind’s golden cage with courage, cultivate creativity, awareness, inner grace and wisdom.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #2 2 January 1980

    Embrace receptive surrender - becoming a womb for God through music, dance and renaming - sannyas is an inward rebirth and freedom found by losing the ego.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #3 3 January 1980

    Transform the inner war: sannyas is total commitment to turn unconsciousness into consciousness through meditation, love and bliss to befriend life.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #4 4 January 1980

    Sannyas is the dawn between old mind and new heart; courage, silence and dropping the ego let the formless divine arise—how to move beyond the mind.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #5 5 January 1980

    Wake to the divine within: surrender ego and personal will, unlearn trivia, drop the past and be natural so your inner kingdom and wisdom arise.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #6 6 January 1980

    True peace is a positive by-product of meditation, not mere absence of conflict; decondition, embrace inner darkness, find silence, bliss and true knowing.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #7 7 January 1980

    Bliss is our true nature-virtue arises when ego dissolves through silence, love and inner listening; learn to be open to receive this gift now.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #8 8 January 1980

    We are rays of a greater Light; ego is illusion—sannyas is dropping separateness to become available to God's will, transforming mud into lotus.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #9 9 January 1980

    Names map inner qualities—bliss, love, silence, consciousness, wisdom; drop hope and borrowed knowledge, become disciple and witness to awaken your true being.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #10 10 January 1980

    Loyal heart, love and surrender lead from being to becoming: bliss, faith, dharma and creativity dissolve the ego—how to realize God? Inward surrender.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #11 11 January 1980

    Love needs awareness; desire muddies it. Meditation is learning to stop the mind through deep relaxation and aware solitude, an inner revolution toward bliss.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #12 12 January 1980

    Love demands losing the ego and boldness; wonder, not knowledge, reveals God; solitude as blissful witnessing; ask 'Who am I?' to awaken. Embrace love+awareness.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #13 13 January 1980

    Rejoice: God is love and judge; sannyas means life-affirming friendship, creativity and marriage to God, not renunciation—what is true sannyas?

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #14 14 January 1980

    Purify the inner mirror: transform passion into compassion, drop ego and head-centered thinking, shift energy to the heart to discover 'Who am I?'.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #15 15 January 1980

    Surrender to love, befriend God, and dissolve the ego through meditation to reach inner fullness, timeless bliss, and the source—how to be full? Drop the self.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #16 16 January 1980

    Sannyas is a turn inward: drop ego and past conditioning, live spontaneous, grateful presence as a witnessing lamp—love, bliss and wisdom transform conflict.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #17 17 January 1980

    Each person is a messenger; surrender the ego, let love and prayer open God within; how can you drop the ego and become one with the whole now?

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #18 18 January 1980

    Ego's fall prevents divine glory; egolessness—humble, waterlike surrender—invites bliss, love and dissolution into God; how to die to self? now.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #19 19 January 1980

    Sannyas is a joyful plunge inward: unite earth and heaven, dissolve into love and silence to discover truth, bliss, and perfect contentment within.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #20 20 January 1980

    Discover bliss by turning inward: watch the breath, become the watcher, dissolve into light and nature; ask 'Who is the witness?' to begin awakening.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #21 21 January 1980

    Worship from fear makes projections; love and rejoicing reveal God. Sannyas affirms life, frees love, and keeps individual's inner potential safe from mass hate.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #22 22 January 1980

    Belonging to God is our true fact: awaken via inward silence or loving surrender; dissolve the ego and live divine cheerfulness—how will you wake to this?

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #23 23 January 1980

    Still the mind to hear the inner voice: dissolve the ego, conserve energy, embrace solitude and love; you hear it by watching the mind until silence.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #24 24 January 1980

    Truth descends as a gift beyond mind; meditation, contentment and prayer transform desire into inner victory, teaching vipassana breath awareness as the path.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #25 25 January 1980

    God is both light and darkness; drop fear, become a receptive home; cultivate bliss, humble innocence and love; can sex be a ladder to the divine?

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #26 26 January 1980

    Become free from ego, past and the habit of war; cultivate inner sovereignty, living in present consciousness as a messenger of truth and praise.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #27 27 January 1980

    Sannyas: ascend toward God by dropping ego and desire, embrace silence, gratitude and celebration so peace and the divine can descend into you.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #28 28 January 1980

    Sannyas is homesickness - a one-hundred-degree turn inward: meditation reunites you with the inner kingdom of light, love and unique selfhood; ask, Who am I?

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #29 29 January 1980

    Move from the head's doubt to the heart's truth: taste meditation's still point, let doubt become trust, let love's fire purify and bliss prove possible.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #30 30 January 1980

    Life is a divine gift to be celebrated; sannyas means trusting, dissolving the ego, risking everything to turn inward, find the witness and awaken to the whole.

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    Dance Til the Stars Come Down From the Rafters #31 31 January 1980

    Embrace inner light and emptiness; let the mind become servant, love without attachment, be with nature and meditate—sannyas is the leap into the immeasurable.

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