"This Is It" is a profound series of discourses where Osho explores the essence of immediacy and presence, delving into the spiritual truth that life is neither past nor future but a continuous now. Through his penetrating insights, Osho challenges conventional perceptions of time, urging individuals to transcend mental constructs and reside fully in the present moment. He artfully dismantles the illusions of seeking fulfillment elsewhere, suggesting that enlightenment is not a distant goal but a realization attainable in the here and now. Osho's teachings in this series emphasize an authentic engagement with life, advocating for a surrender to the flow of existence as it unfolds. By addressing the traps of the mind and ego that distract from this direct experience, he fosters a radical acceptance of reality as it is. His approach is both compassionate and uncompromising, encouraging seekers to embrace life's inherent uncertainties and to find liberation through awareness, spontaneity, and total presence. Through humorous anecdotes and thought-provoking dialogues, "This Is It" invites a shift from a time-bound existence to one of timeless being, offering a pathway to true freedom and inner peace.
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Chapter #1
Divinity is nearest - look within, become a shadow of God: stop striving, accept existence, relax into 'this is it' and allow rather than will. What about will?
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Chapter #2
Existence is divine heat-energy: stay warm, flowing and courageous; melt indifference into love, persist through plateaus to rediscover creativity.
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Chapter #3
Remain available to the unexpected; balance inner meditation with outer action, share your growth, and transform energy into creativity and compassionate work.
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Chapter #4
Enter the heart, drop doubt and anger; transform relationship pain into compassion and gratitude — practical counsel for a woman who no longer loves her husband.
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Chapter #5
Rooted in past, life must flower: sannyas trains continual growth; ultimate awakening is sudden - the thousand-petalled lotus blooms all at once, not gradually.
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Chapter #6
Loveless society breeds hunger, ambition and loneliness; love must be sought without romantic ideals, take initiative despite fear of rejection, seek connection.
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Chapter #7
Give parents a heartfelt guarantee of presence and compassion rather than duty; be alert, transform obligation into love through awareness and share your growth.
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Chapter #8
Abide in the hara to root life, shed the past and cleanse repressions before true meditation; drugs are cheap shortcuts, authenticity frees fear.
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Chapter #9
Draw the withdrawn out with no argument: praise, listen and pose as a disciple; complete practical studies like sociology; conserve and share inner energy.
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Chapter #10
Uncover sensitivity to discover the divine; shed desires, own responsibility for inner growth, reject political violence and dogma, and accept yourself fully without guilt.
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Chapter #11
Become rooted in the body to dissolve fear, jealousy and possessiveness; enjoy bodily joy and relationships now as nourishment for growth until independence.
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Chapter #12
Love must remain moving; God is the ongoing flow. Emptiness can be transformed into light through meditation; running and silence become direct paths.
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Chapter #13
See yourself as conscious divine energy rather than a material body; cultivate silence and solitude to create, avoid dead tradition, and prefer living paths.
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Chapter #14
Will and positive addiction transform discipline into meditation; truth, embodied sexuality and non-dual living free energy for genuine spiritual birth.
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Chapter #15
Ego dissolves through watchful awareness and embodied practices like running, chanting and play; anger transforms fear and meditation yields compassion.
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Chapter #16
Honor the body as a sacred temple; don't sell it. Marriage and prostitution both commodify love—preserve reverence, avoid settling, and keep love alive and free.
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Chapter #17
Drop boundaries, become one with existence; dissolve into divinity through awareness and Vipassana, create meaning in life and join commune energy.
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Chapter #18
Let go of doing, center inward through relaxed surrender and passive meditation; being "fed up" becomes the doorway to true inner growth and bliss.
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Chapter #19
Keep disciplined meditation to dissolve conditioning so true, spontaneous meditation arises; includes practices for flying, love's recovery, and dying.
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Chapter #20
Go home and sit silently with your dying father; acceptance and meditative presence can transform fear into a celebratory, peaceful death — you should go.
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Chapter #21
Be a higher-flowing, loving presence: leaders must rise in energy and impersonal love so others can open; use inner expansion meditation to help and heal
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Chapter #22
True joy is inner— not outer entertainment. Cultivate courage to embrace the unknown, live fully and consciously so death loses its terror; drop ego-bound fears.
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Chapter #23
Choose work that feeds life, not just a living; surrender to inner rebirth, heal emptiness not by birthing more children, learn to say yes to joy.
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Chapter #24
Sannyas is a welcome to the divine: abandon dogma, trust not doubt; embrace and transform bodily energy—especially sexuality—into love and aliveness.
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Chapter #25
Deva patra — divine potential: participate fully; watch from within by total absorption, not by cultivating outer witnessing; accept being stuck without guilt.
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Chapter #26
Let joy be your discipline: live present without planning, listen to sound to find silence, trust the whole—sannyasin has no future, only the present.
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Chapter #27
Practice a nightly letting-go to rebalance lopsided energy, use hot/cold baths or heat-and-cold rubs for joint ease, and trust your first feeling of openness.
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Chapter #28
Prem nishavda: wordless love and silence become prayer; life is play and divine humour heals; never handle or possess another—respect freedom for true love.
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Chapter #29
Dhyana is contentless, non-thinking awareness; watch thoughts without judgment and move with the breath rather than mantras to become the witnessing silence.
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Chapter #30
Heart's gentle persistence can outlast the mind's defenses: love, patience and simple presence open the closed heart and heal alienation and vulnerability.
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Chapter #31
Effort to be open closes you; trust and follow the unconscious, drop judgement, accept each moment as right - how can you learn to let the unconscious lead?