Just Around the Corner - Discourses Series by Osho

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"Just Around the Corner" is a seminal discourse series by Osho, offering an insightful exploration of the ever-present potential for profound transformation in everyday life. Through his unique blend of humor, profound wisdom, and sharp clarity, Osho guides listeners to recognize the immediacy of spiritual awakening that is accessible in each moment. He challenges traditional notions of enlightenment as a distant, arduous journey, instead presenting it as a state of awareness that is always within reach. By dismantling illusions of separation and societal conditioning, Osho emphasizes the fluidity of existence and the perpetual dance between the known and the unknown. This series invites individuals to embrace spontaneity and authenticity, shedding fears and insecurities that keep them bound to past and future anxieties. By doing so, Osho encourages a deeper, more harmonious connection with the present reality, highlighting the miracles concealed in the mundane. His teachings inspire a journey inward, urging a leap into the timeless space just around the corner, where true freedom and love reside. Osho's discourse powerfully affirms that spiritual enlightenment is not a distant star, but a subtle shift in perception, ever-available and waiting to be unveiled in the here and now.

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Just Around the Corner #1 1 May 1979
Sannyas is an inner awakening: freely choose surrender and integration, transform restlessness into creative energy, sow seeds of bliss and trust existence.
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Just Around the Corner #2 2 May 1979
Love opens the heart to divine wisdom: risking the ego through sannyas frees your being from inner noise so God and bliss enter within. Can you risk all?
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Just Around the Corner #3 3 May 1979
Love is victory and deathlessness achieved by surrender; inner union of masculine and feminine, silence and communion reveal bliss and divine grace.
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Just Around the Corner #4 4 May 1979
Transcend imitation: love masters but don't follow; become your own Christ/Buddha through silence and inner light, keep practicing Vipassana to dissolve fear.
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Just Around the Corner #5 5 May 1979
Turn toward your innate light: rebellion against conformity births the true self; love dissolves the ego so God acts through you, and truth is being.
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Just Around the Corner #6 6 May 1979
Wisdom comes through love; sannyas is a rebirth into the inner India and the heart opens gently—nurture it with music, nature and the Master's close presence.
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Just Around the Corner #7 7 May 1979
Love is rebellion and grace: love individuates, leading from form to formless bliss; nature reveals God, and losing oneself begins the quest.
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Just Around the Corner #8 8 May 1979
Surrender to love; paradoxically surrender makes you master. Witness thoughts and feelings, not control them—watch psychic wanderings and they dissolve.
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Just Around the Corner #9 9 May 1979
Head and heart must be bridged: drop motives, meditate and stop watching energies; let the heart open naturally so feelings become living, not mere thought.
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Just Around the Corner #10 10 May 1979
Embracing the mysterious dark within, awakening from sleep through love, music and meditation, sannyas vows to wake up and become a divine king not a beggar.
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Just Around the Corner #11 11 May 1979
Ego creates discord; sannyas is radical surrender that reconnects you to inner bliss — eternal light and music — your unique song, awakened by the Master.
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Just Around the Corner #12 12 May 1979
Love is prayer and freedom: true love frees, enlightens and dissolves ignorance; serve the whole, and confusion is the first sign of awakening.
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Just Around the Corner #13 13 May 1979
Love is a stranger that leads to God; surrender, ego-diminishing and blissful acceptance of limitations open the heart, for grace comes unexpectedly like sleep.
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Just Around the Corner #14 14 May 1979
Pure bliss is independent, eternal and self-generated; dependent happiness is a fleeting reflection tied to others—can bliss arise without dependence?
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Just Around the Corner #15 15 May 1979
Bliss must manifest; silence and mastery of mind reveal God. Cultivate compassionate, unconditional giving, lose yourself to find yourself, trust as the gateway.
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Just Around the Corner #16 16 May 1979
Transcend the rock-heart: let the hidden lotus bloom through conscious, blissful surrender to the divine—can possessions make you truly rich?
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Just Around the Corner #17 17 May 1979
Bliss is the inner kingdom that makes one a true king; sannyas is red, youthful aliveness—living, not escaping—an inner dawn of innocence and love.
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Just Around the Corner #18 18 May 1979
Love is oceanic, born of inner light not attachment; becoming conscious makes love divine and God known. Sannyas, meditation nurture it—don't fear losing it.
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Just Around the Corner #19 19 May 1979
Rebel inwardly against the crowd and revolution; meditate to make potential actual; let love rise beyond sex into prayer; accept yourself - end the inner war.
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Just Around the Corner #20 20 May 1979
Truth is beyond words and scriptures; love is the primary path—sannyas is a radical rebirth and communal shock that awakens one to the deathless now.
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Just Around the Corner #21 21 May 1979
Name-change and total surrender dissolve the ego; shifting energy from the left to the right hemisphere through closed‑eye, full participation opens the faceless self.
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Just Around the Corner #22 22 May 1979
Life is mostly incomprehensible until the ego dissolves and you let all life in; peak moments of total energy make existence comprehensible and sacred.
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Just Around the Corner #23 23 May 1979
Let love rule and awaken bliss beyond happiness; only love, poetry and art can save humanity from being diminished by machines - can love still save us?
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Just Around the Corner #24 24 May 1979
Truth and God are beyond words and scriptures; maps and theories merely distract. Unlearning through meditation and love reveals our oneness with existence.
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Just Around the Corner #25 25 May 1979
Prayer is wordless, non-intellectual silence and bliss; spiritual experiences must be forgotten, remain innocent and quietly expectant to deepen oneness.
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Just Around the Corner #26 26 May 1979
Humanity must take a quantum leap from war to love; become a blissful Socrates, descend from head to heart, birth Christ within, and embrace polarities.
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Just Around the Corner #27 27 May 1979
Man is a bridge between the animal and God; love is the alchemy that transforms us. Sannyas is the risky, illogical leap into bliss and awakening.
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Just Around the Corner #28 28 May 1979
Sannyas is invisible farming of bliss: truth is a gift arrived by surrender, not by grasping; sincere effort clears the way to effortless realization.
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Just Around the Corner #29 29 May 1979
Celebrate life as worship: drop the ego, embrace bliss, dance and love; true religion affirms life and finds God in ordinary joy rather than denial.
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Just Around the Corner #30 30 May 1979
Bliss births true grace; purity, wisdom and faith are one. Prayer is inward silence; love is heartborn decision. How to reclaim innocence and unite with existence?
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Just Around the Corner #31 31 May 1979
True love requires surrender of the ego; bliss springs from inner wisdom, not doctrines or relationships—be courageous, unlearn conditioning, and find the divine within.

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