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DESIRE: THE LINK WITH LIFE 18 February 1972 pm in Bombay, India Question 1 LAST NIGHT YOU SAID THAT DESIRES MOVE BETWEEN THE DEAD PAST AND THE IMAGINARY FUTURE. PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY THIS DEAD PAST PROVES SO DYNAMIC AND POWERFUL THAT IT COMPELS A PERSON TO FLOW INTO THE PROCESS OF ENDLESS DESIRE. HOW CAN ONE BE FREE FROM THIS DYNAMIC PAST, THE UNCONSCIOUS AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS? THE past is not dynamic at all: it is totally dead. But still it has a weight – a dead weight. That dead weight works; it is not dynamic at all. Why the dead weight works has to be understood. The past is so forceful because it is the known, the experienced, and mind always feels fearful of the unknown, the unexperienced. And how can you desire the unknown? You cannot desire the unknown. Only the known can be desired. So desires are always repetitious. They repeat, they are circular. You always move in the same pattern, in the same circle. The mind becomes just a groove of rep

Zen Master Gettan used to say  to his companions --- "When you have a talking mouth, you have no listening ears.  When you have listening ears, you have no talking mouth.  Think about this carefully." (Photo courtesy -  http://www.iaido-koeln.de/wp- content/uploads/2010/03/gettan.jpg) **************** Abraham Lincoln once asked one of his secretaries, "If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?". "Five," replied the secretary. "No," said the President, "The answer is four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg." **************** "Thank God we took a mule with us on the picnic because  when one of the boys was injured we used the  mule to carry him back." "How did he get injured?" "The mule kicked him." ****************

Osho answers a question by freelance journalist Penny Allen from Sisters, Oregon, USA:  “What happened to your glasses?” That was just because of these lights, my eyes were feeling teary. Continuous exposure for two hours in the morning or two and a half hours, two and a half hours in the evening, my eyes started feeling teary. That’s why I used those glasses; I don’t need them now that they have managed to put the lights a little farther away. I think they need still to adjust because I can feel the strain on the eyes a little. Otherwise, my eyes… you just look at my eyes. People think they get hypnotized… I don’t know. Journalists avoid looking into the eyes that perhaps they may get hypnotized. And for me it is such a simple job that I don’t need to exert too much energy – just a little smile toward a woman is enough. I don’t have to chase her and go through all the dramas and traumas. There is no need. In my whole life I have never met a single woman who was not

DRUCKER’S CAREER TIMELINE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Early Years Peter Ferdinand   Drucker was born in Vienna, Austria on November 19, 1909. The household in which he grew up was one of great intellectual ferment. His parents, Adolph and Caroline, regularly held evening salons with economists (including Joseph Schumpeter, who would come to have a tremendous influence on Drucker), politicians, musicians, writers and scientists. “That was actually my education,” Drucker later said. 1920s Drucker moved from Austria to Germany to study admiralty law at Hamburg University before transferring to Frankfurt University, where he studied law at night. He also became senior editor in charge of foreign affairs and business at Frankfurt’s largest daily newspaper, the  Frankfurter General-Anzeiger . 1930s Drucker received his PhD in international law from Frankfurt University in 1932. Three years later, he moved to England after two of his essays—one on Friedrich Julius Stahl, a leading Ge