Discourse

Osho, why do I always fall asleep during the discourse?

That's what happens in many car accidents. Many car accidents happen somewhere in the night nearabout between two and four, and the reason is that the driver is trying hard to keep his eyes open; by and by, he becomes capable of keeping his eyes open, and still he falls asleep. He keeps his eyes open and falls asleep with open eyes. Now this is a scientific finding. And that makes the whole problem: because he thinks he is awake he goes on driving because his eyes are open, but the sleep has taken possession of him, he is no longer aware. When you are awake, there is not much wakefulness; just a small part of you is awake. So you are not a loser, don't be worried. Whenever sannyasins come and ask me, "What should we do?" I tell them: Don't fight, otherwise you will miss me and you…

Osho, the cuckoo’s cooing and your discourse go on together. Which should I attend to? Please tell me!

Shanti Swarup, why choose at all? Let both go together. The cuckoo’s cooing is not a disturbance to my discourse; it is the background. The cuckoo’s cooing supports exactly what I am saying; it is a base for the very ecstasy I am teaching. But ordinarily we have been taught one thing—concentration. And we fail to distinguish between concentration and meditation. The books say: meditation means concentration. Nothing could be more wrong. Meditation and concentration are entirely different. Concentration means: pull your attention back from everywhere and fix it in one place. It means: narrow the mind. Meditation means: make the mind vast. It means: open all the doors and windows. The cuckoo has sung—let that in; the sound of the train—include that too; and what I am saying—let that be there as well. There is no need to oppose any of it. Absorb everything together. And you will be…

Beloved master, what is the point of calling your juicy discourses, the bible?

[These discourses were first given under the title, THE RAJNEESH BIBLE -- Ed.] The point is clear. The Bible of the Christians is not juicy. They have destroyed a beautiful word, "bible." It has become dead. I want to make it alive. I love the word, and I want to give it all the juice that is possible. The point is very simple: so people can see the dead BIBLE and the living Bible -- the BIBLE which is just dry bones and the BIBLE which has juice. Now the choice is theirs. Okay?

Why do I always fall asleep in discourse? Sometimes I can't help comparing myself to those people who sit absolutely still, just imbibing you, and that makes me feel like I have so far to go, especially every time when people come up to me after the lecture and say, "wasn't it amazing today?" maybe more would come through to me if I just accept that discourse is a good place for me to sleep.

It is the perfect place. Don't be worried about those people who come and tell you, they must be joking. You sleep well. They must be trying to disturb you, they must be trying to create some jealousy in you. They must be really jealous of you -- that you are sleeping so well and snoring, and those poor people are just sitting. They want to disturb you. Don't be worried. Go on sleeping. You have to go far, but in sleep, nowhere else. The game was drifting off into total boredom when a man in the crowd suddenly burst into a round of applause. The man next to him said, "Why did you do that?" "Sorry," he replied. "I was trying to keep myself awake." You don't know how much difficulty people are having in keeping themselves awake. You just go into your sleep, relax into it. If you…