No soul, no self, only I now
Recording 04 of 12
Ending the lament with the freedom of being
The talk dismantles “soul” and “self” as structures of unhappiness and separation, revealing only I—being—now. Duality collapses, and with it the need for hope.
LENGTH: 30 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
YEAR RECORDED: 1988
PLACE RECORDED: TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN, AUSTRALIA
MAIN TOPICS
Discipline and self, Osho, Identifying with the body, Duality versus non duality in BLs teaching, Purusha, Leaving the master, Soul
SUMMARY
Beginning amidst rain, blinds, and lorikeets, the teaching moves from sensory immediacy to the critique of beauty, soul, and self. 'Soul' is named as the very existence of sorrow; divine mercy is the crushing of soul so that suffering ends. The Eastern 'Self' with a capital S becomes another excuse to maintain a lower self, generating duality, time, and spiritual postponement.
The master-disciple dynamic is clarified by reversing the blame in 'the God that failed.' Masters do not fail; disciples exhaust their capacity, then must live what they have received—leaving either gracefully in love or willfully in grievance. Identification with the body is exposed as attachment to a reflection that dies; the reality is the feeling of being, available only now.
Practice is immediate: hear the birds, feel the living body, and notice that no hope is needed when being is felt. Death touches the reflection, not the being. The path is no path to now; it is the end of postponement.
Outline – Soul/self , Purusha, Duality, Discipleship , Rajneesh , identification with the body
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