The Open Door
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Dec. 1977
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
Osho Books—Darshan Diaries

    Prem means love, amrita means deathless,
    immortal. And love is the only thing that knows
    no death; everything else dies. Love is the only
    reality that never dies. It is the eternal in
    existence, it is the very stuff that existence is
    made of. Everything is on the surface, it is at
    the core. The surface changes; the core
    remains the same. One flower comes, another
    flower comes, and another. Beauty continues,
    flowering remains eternal. One lover, another
    lover and millions of lovers, but they all float in
    the same river of love.

    Lovers are born and die. Love goes on.


    [ A sannyasin who is leaving for the West says
    that when meditating his energy builds up until
    he either experiences a blissful state or much
    pain.
    Osho checks his energy. ]

    Good! You do a few things....

    One is: whenever you are feeling that the
    energy is moving into bliss, dance. Stand and
    start moving and dancing. Whenever, but it has
    to be started when you are feeling that it is
    moving into bliss, mm? So first let your dance
    be associated with blissfulness: for a few days,
    for two weeks simply dance only when it is
    blissful. After two weeks start dancing when it is
    painful.

    So the dance will become the bridge and will
    help you in both ways. It will help you to release
    your energy in bliss and it will help you to
    release your pain, your pressure. But start first
    with the blissful quality. First let dance become
    associated with it, so when it is a pressure and
    you start dancing, immediately you will change
    the trend of it, the direction of it...

                                                      — Osho
                                            The Open Door, ch. 1