The Beginning
of the Beginning

talks on meditation

translation from Hindi,
Satya Ki Khoj

by Osho

5 talks given live   Feb. 1969
India
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Chapter Titles

Chapter 1: From Dependence toward Truth

Chapter 2: From Delusion toward Truth

Chapter 3: From Belief toward Truth

Chapter 4: From Dreams toward Truth

Chapter 5: From Emptiness toward Truth

    Enchanted by the song of a bird singing
    happily on the branch of a tree, a king had it
    caught and kept in a cage. Even singing is
    wrong in the presence of wrong people. The
    poor bird could not have imagined that his
    song would get him behind bars!

    The bird that flew in abandon in the free
    skies and flitted from one branch to another
    as he wished, now found himself in a golden
    cage, inlaid with precious stones to one who
    has tasted the freedom of the skies? A cage
    is a cage, whether of gold or iron....

                                                  – Osho
             The Beginning of the Beginning, ch. 1