Osho refers to these ancient discourses as the most profound insights into nature - not tenets of a doctrine or philosophical treatises but existential insights. Of their originator, the famous 6th-century scholar Ko Hsuan, nothing is known except that he is an enlightened master of the caliber of Lao Tzu. Osho explains why Tao is called "the golden gate" - to indicate that God is not a person but an entrance, an opening that happens internally when the seeker is ready. The way of Tao takes us meandering through such topics as the usefulness of jokes in provoking greater awareness, the role of one's conditioning in creating prejudice, and the unconscious strategies we all adopt that close us to the vitality and change that permeates existence. Among questioners is a priest who challenges Osho's statement that religions have created sexual repression, and one visitor who wants to know if he should become a disciple.