The Revolution
A fiery book alive with Osho’s love for Kabir and for the only revolution that counts: enlightenment.
It is the only revolution that can bring about a total transformation so that we can once again see the world through eyes free of all the judgments and conditionings that have been put there from the outside.
In Osho’s hands, Kabir’s vision is equally if not more mind-shattering.
Talks on Zen
This book is a glorious mixture of no-nonsense Zen and sublime poetic mystery.
Being ordinary, says Osho, is the most extraordinary phenomenon possible. He uses stories about many different Zen masters to illustrate the timeless power and magic of Zen and its potential to transform contemporary humanity.
A Zen master is nothing special: he meditates, and has a wonderful sense of humor, but also goes to the forest to cut wood because winter is approaching… He does many things just like an ordinary man but with an extraordinary awareness.
Zen doesn’t believe in renouncing the world or not renouncing the world; the basic thing is just to be alert wherever we are. Zen gives us total freedom; our lifestyle doesn’t matter. All that counts is our awareness, which will take us back to our original source.
“If you are courageous and you don’t go backwards, if you don’t fall back to the ego and you go on and on, there is a hidden center within you that you have been carrying for many lives. That is your soul, the atman, the self.”
Osho
This book is a glorious mixture of no-nonsense Zen and sublime poetic mystery.
Starting with the flesh and bones of these ten beautiful Zen stories, Osho takes us deeper and deeper into ourselves…back to the source, our source.
Reflections on Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
Osho loves Gibran, but, unlike the millions before him who have just extolled the beauty and splendor of his words, he sees not only where Gibran soars and takes flight, but also the times where his words fall again to the earth – still beautiful, but ultimately missing an existential depth.
In Reflections, Osho examines Gibran’s poetic explorations of life – and goes further. He looks at whether Gibran is “a mystic of the highest order,” simply a poet “who speaks in words of gold” – or perhaps an extraordinary mixture of the two.
Throughout this book, Osho comprehensively trounces the so-called religious and philosophical approaches to life. All that is of worth is to be found, not in the extraordinary, but in the ordinary; not in fantastical ideas of the other world but in this very world that we find ourselves in. In short, this book shows that making a simple yet utterly basic shift in our lives will awaken the silence in our beings and bring joy into our every moment.
“Kahlil Gibran… The very name brings so much ecstasy and joy that it is impossible to think of another name comparable to him. Just hearing the name, bells start ringing in the heart which do not belong to this world. Kahlil Gibran is pure music, a mystery, such that only poetry can sometimes grasp, but only sometimes.”
Osho
