Darshan diaries are documents from early years in Pune. In Darshan - a meeting with the Master - Osho initiated people into Sannyas and was answering questions of the person in front of him. The subjects are as various as the interest of the people have been, love, hate, relating, meditation, therapy, coming back to the ashram, going to the West, working and many more. Osho here often took the opportunity to give direct input to someone’s situation, and yet these words are much more than just a answer to one person. He also explains the meaning of the sannyas names, and here we find the specific personal answer, and yet it is an indication for anyone with the chosen name.

Full with pictures from that time, these books are treasures and stand for 
a special period of the work of the master Osho, not being missed. 

The titles, as obscure as they sometimes sound, have deeper meaning than seen on the very first look..... and for people interested in counseling, here you can find a real counselor-master at work.

These books are rare and limited in stock,.

A Rose is a Rose is a Rose
Prem means love and dhanya means blessed -- blessed by love. Love is the only blessing there is, and those who love are the only ones who are blessed. All others simply live a life of curse. Nobody is cursing them; they themselves are responsible. If one wants to live a life of tremendous bliss and blessing, one should be more loving -- not loving to a particular person, just loving.
[Osho suggested that the new sannyasin do the forthcoming ten-day meditation camp as an introduction to the various techniques used....]
Do the camp madly. Once you come to know which meditation goes deep inside and takes you like an arrow and reaches to the very core of your being, once you have known one meditation, then there is no problem. Then you can go on working on that meditation, and within three to six months much starts happening.
The most basic and important thing, and the most difficult, is to find the right technique. There are a thousand and one techniques, but only one technique will fit you. So to sort it out, figure it out... these techniques are such that one is bound to fit you. There are five types of people, so I have chosen five -- one for each type. Everybody belongs to one type or other, so one is going to fit you. Once it fits, then I know everything about what can be done and how you should proceed.
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[An elderly sannyas came to say goodbye to Osho tonight. He discussed what meditations would be suitable for her, saying that if she did Nadabrahma [the Humming meditation] in the morning, she should do the 'life/death' meditation each evening.]
In the night before you go to sleep, do this fifteen-minute meditation. It is a death meditation. Lie down and relax your body. Just feel like dying and that you cannot move your body because you are dead. Just create the feeling that you are disappearing from the body. Do it for ten, fifteen minutes, and you will start feeling it within a week. Meditating that way, fall asleep. Don't break it. Let the meditation turn into sleep, and if sleep overcomes you, go into it.
In the morning, the moment you feel you are awake -- don't open your eyes -- do the life meditation. Feel that you are becoming more wholly alive, that life is coming back and the whole body is full of vitality and energy. Start moving, swaying in the bed with eyes closed. Just feel that life is flowing in you. Feel that the body has a great flowing energy -- just the opposite of the death meditation. So do the death meditation in the night before falling asleep and the life meditation just before getting up.
With the life meditation you can take deep breaths. Just feel full of energy... life entering with breathing. Feel full and very happy, alive. Then after fifteen minutes, get up. These two -- the life and death meditation -- are going to help you tremendously.

Be Realistic: Plan for a Miracle
Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast
Beloved of My Heart
Blessed are the Ignorant
Dance Your Way to God
Don't Bite My Finger, Look I'm Pointing
Don't Let Yourself Be Upset by The Sutra...

Far Beyond the Stars
[A sannyasin couple has returned from running a centre in the West. They say that they learned a lot from the experience: We became very unaware and we can see it now. A lot of things dropped once we came here... so it has been a teaching.]
Living is always a teaching, and living together with somebody in love is a great teaching. The greatest teacher you can find in the world is love: it teaches you sometimes very painfully and sometimes very pleasantly. Sometimes the journey is just beautiful and sometimes very rough, but it teaches you all the same in all the ways, and both ways are needed.
But it is good -- you are back; now many more things will happen.

For Madman only
God is Not for Sale
God's Got a Thing About You
Hallelujah
Just Around the Corner
Let Go! 
Nothing to lose but your head
Only Losers can win in this game
Snap Your Fingers, Slap your Face and Wake Up!
The 99 Names of Nothingness
The Buddha Disease

The Cypress in the Courtyard
[A sannyasin says: You told me to be in the moment for twenty-one days... I think my mind is more visible to me than it has ever been. It was even more ridiculous than I could ever imagine.]
It is, mm? It is not only your mind. The mind as such is ridiculous. We can go on tolerating it because we never look at it. To be in the moment is to encounter it continuously. Then one can see the whole stupidity of the mind. It is just absurd. We are wasting much time and energy with it. As a master the mind is the most terrible thing there is. As a servant it is useful.
Watching, becoming aware, first will make you recognize the fact that the mind as such is mad, and one starts laughing at oneself. That is the beginning of wisdom. Ordinarily, people laugh at others. Then they have not yet known what laughter should be. When you see your mind, you start laughing at your own situation. And when one laughs at oneself, it is a breakthrough.
Once you understand that the mind is ridiculous, the mind is losing control over you already -- otherwise you would not have been able to see the ridiculousness of it. It is very clever in hiding itself, in rationalizing itself. In deception it is very clever, but if you have seen it, it is a very good indication. And to live moment to moment is the only way to get out of the mind.
The mind can exist only with the help of the past and future. It is either of the past or of the future. When you live moment to moment, it becomes ridiculous. It is continuously running into the past or into the future and is never here.
You want to be here because the moment is here, so you see the whole foolishness of it. You are eating and the mind is going somewhere else. You are looking at the stars and the mind is going somewhere else; it is never here.
It is always missing, always desiring, and when the moment comes, it never enjoys. It is always fragmented and jumping from one thing to another, never completing anything and creating a mess around itself. Looking at these antics, one starts laughing.
 
The Further Shore
The Great Nothing
The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment
The Open Door
The Shadow of the Bamboo
The Shadow of the Whip

The Sun Behind the Sun Behind Sun
[A sannyasin ma asks: Why do all my lovers beat me?]
Start beating them! This is not good... this is not fair! You start beating them! No need to be worried about why they beat you; the problem is why you don't beat them. That is their problem, mm? -- let them come and ask! You start beating them.
(to Vivek) You have the whip? Tomorrow find a whip and give it to her. (to the sannyasin) I will give you a good whip! Nothing to be worried about. It is good; it is part of love. It brings a little spice into love.
You are with somebody right now?
[She answers: Yes.]
So you give him a good beating (much laughter) and he will enjoy it. It is really... it is worth experiencing! And I will find something for you -- a whip or something. Good!

The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao
This is it!
Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot
What Is Is, What Ain't Ain't
Won't You Join the Dance

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