This Is It

This Is It #1 1 May 1977

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?

This Is It #2 2 May 1977

Existence is divine heat-energy: stay warm, flowing and courageous; melt indifference into love, persist through plateaus to rediscover creativity.

This Is It #3 3 May 1977

Remain available to the unexpected; balance inner meditation with outer action, share your growth, and transform energy into creativity and compassionate work.

This Is It #4 4 May 1977

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.

This Is It #5 5 May 1977

Rooted in past, life must flower: sannyas trains continual growth; ultimate awakening is sudden - the thousand-petalled lotus blooms all at once, not gradually.

This Is It #6 6 May 1977

Loveless society breeds hunger, ambition and loneliness; love must be sought without romantic ideals, take initiative despite fear of rejection, seek connection.

This Is It #7 7 May 1977

Give parents a heartfelt guarantee of presence and compassion rather than duty; be alert, transform obligation into love through awareness and share your growth.

This Is It #8 8 May 1977

Abide in the hara to root life, shed the past and cleanse repressions before true meditation; drugs are cheap shortcuts, authenticity frees fear.

This Is It #9 9 May 1977

Draw the withdrawn out with no argument: praise, listen and pose as a disciple; complete practical studies like sociology; conserve and share inner energy.

This Is It #10 10 May 1977

Uncover sensitivity to discover the divine; shed desires, own responsibility for inner growth, reject political violence and dogma, and accept yourself fully without guilt.

This Is It #11 11 May 1977

Become rooted in the body to dissolve fear, jealousy and possessiveness; enjoy bodily joy and relationships now as nourishment for growth until independence.

This Is It #12 12 May 1977

Love must remain moving; God is the ongoing flow. Emptiness can be transformed into light through meditation; running and silence become direct paths.

This Is It #13 13 May 1977

See yourself as conscious divine energy rather than a material body; cultivate silence and solitude to create, avoid dead tradition, and prefer living paths.

This Is It #14 14 May 1977

Will and positive addiction transform discipline into meditation; truth, embodied sexuality and non-dual living free energy for genuine spiritual birth.

This Is It #15 15 May 1977

Ego dissolves through watchful awareness and embodied practices like running, chanting and play; anger transforms fear and meditation yields compassion.

This Is It #16 16 May 1977

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.

This Is It #17 17 May 1977

Drop boundaries, become one with existence; dissolve into divinity through awareness and Vipassana, create meaning in life and join commune energy.

This Is It #18 18 May 1977

Let go of doing, center inward through relaxed surrender and passive meditation; being "fed up" becomes the doorway to true inner growth and bliss.

This Is It #19 19 May 1977

Keep disciplined meditation to dissolve conditioning so true, spontaneous meditation arises; includes practices for flying, love's recovery, and dying.

This Is It #20 20 May 1977

Go home and sit silently with your dying father; acceptance and meditative presence can transform fear into a celebratory, peaceful death — you should go.

This Is It #21 21 May 1977

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

This Is It #22 22 May 1977

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.

This Is It #23 23 May 1977

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.

This Is It #24 24 May 1977

Sannyas is a welcome to the divine: abandon dogma, trust not doubt; embrace and transform bodily energy—especially sexuality—into love and aliveness.

This Is It #25 25 May 1977

Deva patra — divine potential: participate fully; watch from within by total absorption, not by cultivating outer witnessing; accept being stuck without guilt.

This Is It #26 26 May 1977

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.

This Is It #27 27 May 1977

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.

This Is It #28 28 May 1977

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.

This Is It #29 29 May 1977

Dhyana is contentless, non-thinking awareness; watch thoughts without judgment and move with the breath rather than mantras to become the witnessing silence.

This Is It #30 30 May 1977

Heart's gentle persistence can outlast the mind's defenses: love, patience and simple presence open the closed heart and heal alienation and vulnerability.

This Is It #31 31 May 1977

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?