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.
