Why are so many people living alone nowadays?The model of the traditional family is breaking down, children barely into their teens are experimenting with sex, and half of all marriages in developed countries end with divorce.
In this book, OSHO explains why these phenomena are happening and how they can actually be viewed as a cause for celebration rather then worry. Why is it that people who are happy being alone have the best to be happy with someone else? In the modern world, like it or not, freedom is our basic condition, and until we learn to live with freedom, learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, we will deny ourselves the possibility of finding love and happiness with someone else
Talks on Fragments from “Tao Te Ching” by Lao Tzu
‘Lao Tzu is not logical; he is a very, very simple man, not a scholar at all. He does not know anything about arguments: He simply watches life; he is a great watcherof life, a witness, a spectator.’
‘Only Tao is a natural religion. All other religions are in subtle ways unnatural. Lao Tzu is the future of the whole humanity and all possibilities of bliss and benediction lies through him, pass through him.’ – Osho
‘It is one of the most fundamental things to be remembered by all of you that a religion is living only when there is no organized doctrine, no system of beliefs, no dogma, no theology. When there is just this silence and the trees enjoying the dance in the breeze, in your heart something grows. It is your own, it does not come from any scripture; nobody can give it to you because it is not knowledge. That is the greatest difference between all the religions on one side and Zen on the other side.’
These first talks after OSHO's departure from the US provide a rare glimpse, during his movement's most uncertain times, into his efforts to create a New Man.
Nine discourses based on anecdotes of both famous and little-known Zen masters. Many of these stories were previously only available in Japanese and were translated specially for these talks.
Kyozan was such a simple and ordinary man that, as his own master put it, if it was possible for him to become enlightened, then it is possible for anyone.
Osho presents the opportunity for every person to become a dancing, celebrating Krishna as he reveals the relevance of Krishna’s ancient teachings for contemporary life.
With humor and sensitivity OSHO brings traditional Sufi stories into the 20th century, revealing the hidden dimensions of Sufism. He distinguishes between need and desire, expertise and existential experience, and talks on the nature of the ego, the importance of trust and the stages of growth in one's evolution.
Timely and relevant to a society increasingly populated by people who depend on prescription drugs to get them through the day.
OSHO entices us to the unknown, the Ultimate. This journey is the greatest adventure open to man. It is one which requires the greatest daring, and one in which we have to risk our all.
'A hair's breadth of difference - and what happens?' Joshu is asked. There is no intellectual answer to the Koans of Zen, no approximate answer and no amount of intellect to be applied: 'Heaven and earth are far away.'
To be able to celebrate life is religion — in that very celebration you come close to God.
This special selection of discourses reveals the amazing details behind the demise of OSHO's commune in America and his persecution by the US government.
Here is a city under siege, innocent people not being tolerated because of the success of a lifestyle that threatens the status quo, and a plot to destroy a living enlightened master.
Substantiated with chapters by attorneys, doctors, and law enforcement officers, this book is a passionate indictment of the hypocrisy of American 'Democracy.'
Our eyes are clouded with words, our minds full of doctrines and ideologies, our whole upbringing and education focused on how to leave our mark, how to leave the biggest footprints.
An invitation and introduction to OSHO's vision.
What is intuition? Is it something that some people are born with, and others can never hope to develop? Or is it something that can be taught in courses, according to a set of formulas that anybody with a little perserverance and determination can master?
Hit-and-run relationships are common in a society that has grown more rootless, less tied to traditional family structures, and more accepting of casual sex. But at the same time, there arises an undercurrent of feeling that something is missing - a quality of intimacy.
Osho challenges the idea that the best way to promote intelligence is to train the intellect. Intellect is logical, he says, intelligence is paradoxical. Intellect takes things apart to see how they work; intelligence puts things together to see the functioning of the whole. When our education systems put too much emphasis on developing intellect, an imbalance is created and both the individual and the society suffer. It is only through intelligence that we can respond creatively to the challenges of a changing world. By exploring the distinctions between intellect and intelligence, the book encourages readers to be more aware of how they approach problems - logical, emotional, and practical - and how they resolve them.
The Inner Journey is a precise manual for creating the inner balance and harmony to pave the way for the experience of meditation.
This beautifully illustrated volume is OSHO's tribute to the India he describes in the following excerpt:
This is the book where Osho talks about himself — not as a man, not even as a mystic, but as a manifestation of existence itself.
Hyakujo's greatest contribution to Zen was the monasteries, where thousands of people gathered together with a single intention, toward what Zen calls The Ultimate Experience.
'If I were to save only two books from the whole world of the mystics, one would be Sosan's Hsin Hsin Ming,' OSHO says.'It contains the quintessence of Zen, the path of awareness and meditation...the very soul of Zen.'
OSHO unfolds the basic search for childlike innocence, joy, playfulness, fearlessness...
The real significance of temples, holy places and statues and the original purpose of mantras, astrology and incense has all been lost over the years. As we no longer know how to use them as jumping boards into the ultimate truth, they have either been debased into the mythical trappings of religions and “new age” beliefs or mocked by skeptics.
“Heraclitus is a really rare flowering, one of the most highly penetrating souls, one of those souls who become like Everest, the highest peak of the Himalayas. Try to understand him….”
In these discourses OSHO gave during a meditation camp, sutras from these ancient Sanskrit scriptures - the Ishavasya Upanishad - are transmuted into stunning insights that can open the reader's eyes to his own inner reality. OSHO speaks on issues that touch the heart and intellect of every individual: love and possessiveness, our investment in forgetting the phenomenon of death, and the nature of the mind are but a few. He also gives practical suggestions, how to prepare for meditation and how to extract the most from the meditation techniques.
These talks happened at a time when OSHO was beginning what is now known as the OSHO Multiversity, a university dedicated to the multidimensional exploration of knowing and understanding oneself. Therapy groups were being introduced as an aid for people to go deeper into a life of awareness: Enlightenment Intensive (Satori and Who Is In?), Primal, Breath, Pulsation. At the end of each group the group leaders and participants would meet OSHO to share insights and understandings. The issues brought up are always the same: sex, work, relationships, death and meditation.
