The Invitation
responses to questions - by Osho
30 talks given live on Aug. 1987 at Pune, India
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The Western education is so much of a nourishment to the ego... in fact the Western psychology supports the idea that a person should have a very clear ego -- powerful, aggressive, ambitious; otherwise, one cannot survive in the struggle of existence.
To survive, first you have to be, and you have to be not only defensive, because the right way of defense is to offend, to attack... Before anybody else attacks you, you should attack. You should be first, not the second, because to be defensive is already losing the battle.
And because of the Western psychology, the whole educational system supports the idea that a man becomes mature as he attains a more and more crystallized ego.
This goes against the experience of all the buddhas, of all the awakened ones...
-- Osho
The Invitation, ch. 2
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Chapter Titles
Chapter 1: Throw the Bucket and Draw the Water
Chapter 2: Get Out! Get Out from Your Blankets!
Chapter 3: Let Yourself Be a Mystery
Chapter 4: Your God Is as Rich as Your Consciousness
Chapter 5: To Hell with Enlightenment!
Chapter 6: You Don’t Have to Become a Mountain Climber
Chapter 7: Even Donkeys Are Not Worried
Chapter 8: Only Unripe Mangoes Are Safe
Chapter 9: Who Is This Man Osho?
Chapter 10: The Only Romance That Knows No Divorce
Chapter 11: Just Be Happy That Your Hat Is Back
Chapter 12: A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance
Chapter 13: Three Tickets for Titsburg
Chapter 14: Silence Is the Right Soil
Chapter 15: Kissing Is Absurd to the Eskimos
Chapter 16: Drowned in Spaghetti
Chapter 17: G-d
Chapter 18: A Good Laugh Is the Greatest Prayer
Chapter 19: Pick Up the Roses and Avoid the Thorns
Chapter 20: Those Third Rate Politicians, Those Dwellers of the Gutter
Chapter 21: To Know Oneself and to Be Oneself
Chapter 22: A Sannyasin Is Never Retired
Chapter 23: What Kind of Vehicle are You Using?
Chapter 24: Virtue Is the Currency of Heaven
Chapter 25: Just Go and Tell Everybody
Chapter 26: You Have Your Problem - I’m Going Home
Chapter 27: Still Time to Change the Trains
Chapter 28: Opening the Doors of Light and Beyond
Chapter 29: The Crescendo of the Insanity of Centuries
Chapter 30: Avoid the Priests
MsSVig
responses to questions - by Osho
30 talks given live on Aug. 1987 at Pune, India
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The Western education is so much of a nourishment to the ego... in fact the Western psychology supports the idea that a person should have a very clear ego -- powerful, aggressive, ambitious; otherwise, one cannot survive in the struggle of existence.
To survive, first you have to be, and you have to be not only defensive, because the right way of defense is to offend, to attack... Before anybody else attacks you, you should attack. You should be first, not the second, because to be defensive is already losing the battle.
And because of the Western psychology, the whole educational system supports the idea that a man becomes mature as he attains a more and more crystallized ego.
This goes against the experience of all the buddhas, of all the awakened ones...
-- Osho
The Invitation, ch. 2
________________________________________________________________
Chapter Titles
Chapter 1: Throw the Bucket and Draw the Water
Chapter 2: Get Out! Get Out from Your Blankets!
Chapter 3: Let Yourself Be a Mystery
Chapter 4: Your God Is as Rich as Your Consciousness
Chapter 5: To Hell with Enlightenment!
Chapter 6: You Don’t Have to Become a Mountain Climber
Chapter 7: Even Donkeys Are Not Worried
Chapter 8: Only Unripe Mangoes Are Safe
Chapter 9: Who Is This Man Osho?
Chapter 10: The Only Romance That Knows No Divorce
Chapter 11: Just Be Happy That Your Hat Is Back
Chapter 12: A Meditator Needs No Personal Guidance
Chapter 13: Three Tickets for Titsburg
Chapter 14: Silence Is the Right Soil
Chapter 15: Kissing Is Absurd to the Eskimos
Chapter 16: Drowned in Spaghetti
Chapter 17: G-d
Chapter 18: A Good Laugh Is the Greatest Prayer
Chapter 19: Pick Up the Roses and Avoid the Thorns
Chapter 20: Those Third Rate Politicians, Those Dwellers of the Gutter
Chapter 21: To Know Oneself and to Be Oneself
Chapter 22: A Sannyasin Is Never Retired
Chapter 23: What Kind of Vehicle are You Using?
Chapter 24: Virtue Is the Currency of Heaven
Chapter 25: Just Go and Tell Everybody
Chapter 26: You Have Your Problem - I’m Going Home
Chapter 27: Still Time to Change the Trains
Chapter 28: Opening the Doors of Light and Beyond
Chapter 29: The Crescendo of the Insanity of Centuries
Chapter 30: Avoid the Priests
MsSVig