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On the Songs of the Indian Mystic Kabir

Kabir was a 15th-century Indian mystic whose poetry and teachings are beloved by Muslims and Hindus alike. He is also said to have been the mentor of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh religion. Some say that he lived for 120 years, and history records that he died near Varanasi in 1518.
Kabir is a poet, a weaver, a husband and father — enlightened and yet an ordinary man. His poetic songs tell of the ecstasy and the pitfalls on a seeker’s journey on the path of love. Osho describes Kabir as one of the greatest mystics ever born and dedicated five series of talks to Kabir’s work.

Chapter 1: Love Is the Master Key
Chapter 2: So Far, So Good
Chapter 3: Home Is Not Far Away
Chapter 4: Religion Is Individual Flowering
Chapter 5: I Sing the Glory of Forms
Chapter 6: The Inner Trinity
Chapter 7: A Harmony of Love and Renunciation
Chapter 8: Freedom to Choose
Chapter 9: The Song of Love
Chapter 10: Please Wake Up

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Meditation

This book is highly recommended for every meditator. In these talks given during a meditation camp Osho introduces us to the most fundamental steps of meditating. He begins with guidance related to diet, exercise and sleep, and then helps us understand how the body, thoughts and emotions can be purified to help us move into meditation.

Chapter   1: The Foundation of Meditation
Chapter   2: Begin with the Body
Chapter   3: Finding Quality in Life
Chapter   4: Understanding the Mind
Chapter   5: Understanding Emotions
Chapter   6: Body and Soul: Science and Religion
Chapter   7: The Light of Consciousness
Chapter   8: Truth: Your Birthright
Chapter   9: One Step at a Time

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In Search of the Ultimate Freedom

When Osho was forced to leave the United States, he spent several months traveling around the world in search of a place to resume his work. During that time, he stayed with a small group of people in Uruguay and gave three series of daily talks, including The Path of the Mystic. These talks reflect the intensity, intimacy and sense of urgency of the time and setting.

Throughout this book, Osho emphasizes the imperatives of individual freedom and of seeking and living the truth. Among the tools he offers to travelers on the mystic path are the dynamic yet subtle combination of meditation and hypnosis, methods for exploring past lives, and the Bardo – the ancient Tibetan instructions for the dying.

He outlines his liberating, radical vision for a new humanity – awakened beings who are a synthesis of the worldly, earthy Zorba the Greek and the silent, witnessing Buddha.

Readers are challenged to step beyond the limits imposed on them by their social, religious and political conditioning, and to bring about the global transformation that can only begin at the most personal, individual level.

Chapter 1 The Individual Versus the Society
Chapter 2 A Majority of One
Chapter 3 A Call from the Unknown
Chapter 4 The Tolling Bell
Chapter 5 The Essence of Zen
Chapter 6 Peeling the Onion
Chapter 7 Between Two Dreams
Chapter 8 A Beginning with No End
Chapter 9 Rejoicing in Existence
Chapter 10 The Lazy Man’s Way to Enlightenment
Chapter 11 And the Wheel Moves
Chapter 12 Mind Is the Whole Problem
Chapter 13 Misery Is Nothing but Choice
Chapter 14 Just by Celebrating
Chapter 15 The Real Riches
Chapter 16 Treasures or Dragons
Chapter 17 Existence Has No Hurry
Chapter 18 Intelligence Is Our Only Treasure
Chapter 19 The Bliss of Aloneness
Chapter 20 Tears of Gratitude
Chapter 21 Only If Love Allows
Chapter 22 The Watcher Is Not Amused
Chapter 23 Inner and Outer Realities
Chapter 24 Following Existence
Chapter 25 Stealing the Truth
Chapter 26 The Essence of Surrender
Chapter 27 The Future Religio
Chapter 28 A Silent Waiting Heart
Chapter 29 Passing the Mind’s Borders
Chapter 30 Possibilities of Love
Chapter 31 The Last Milestone
Chapter 32 A Vision of the Whole
Chapter 33 The Open Challenge
Chapter 34 The Psychology of Belief
Chapter 35 Your Open Sky
Chapter 36 A Man of Zen
Chapter 37 A Silent Equilibrium
Chapter 38 The Authentic Word
Chapter 39 Mysteries of Existence
Chapter 40 The Spiritual Proletariat
Chapter 41 Distributing Health
Chapter 42 The Essence of Sannyas
Chapter 43 Living In Consciousness
Chapter 44 The Spontaneous Source 

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Previous title: Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol. 1

Commentaries of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Yoga is the science of being in the here and now. In this series of powerful and penetrating talks on Patanjali’s Yoga sutra’s, Osho shows us - step by step - how to move towards this state where "simply looking while the mind flows, a time comes when by itself, of itself, the mind stops."
Osho describes Patanjali as "an Einstein in the world of Buddha’s" for creating an inner science of man that is so accurate and which thousands of years later still provides a transformational guide for humanity of freedom through consciousness.
Through these sharp, intelligent and often humorous talks Osho brings the invaluable insights of Patanjali alive.

Chapter   1: Introduction to the Path of Yoga
Chapter   2: Desireless, You Are Enlightened
Chapter   3: Five Modifications of Mind
Chapter   4: Madness or Meditation
Chapter   5: Right-Knowledge
Chapter   6: The Purity of Yoga
Chapter   7: Established Within Yourself
Chapter   8: Stop, and It Is Here!
Chapter   9: Practice and Desirelessness
Chapter 10: The Cause of Misery

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In this rare book of meditation Osho calls himself a "dream breaker." His method of dream breaking includes a meticulous guided tour through the maze of our own minds, through our process of creating thoughts, toward a zone of silence. He points us as far as one can with words toward the inner world of the self, of our being.
"To be without thoughts is meditation," Osho says. "When there are no thoughts, it is then we come to know the one hidden by our thoughts. When there are no clouds, the blue sky is revealed."
This book is page after page of blue sky.

Chapter   1: Invitation Into Light
Chapter   2: Listening with the Heart
Chapter   3: Thought Birth Control
Chapter   4: Meditation Is Non-doing
Chapter   5: Stop and See
Chapter   6: Naturally Moral
Chapter   7: Seeing Without Thinking
Chapter   8: I’m a Dream-Breaker
Chapter   9: The Fully Drowned
Chapter 10: Entering the Gap
Chapter 11: A Zone of Silence
Chapter 12: The Discipline of Witnessing
Chapter 13: The Dewdrop and the Ocean
Chapter 14: Birth of a New Man
Chapter 15: With Infinite Awaiting

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Osho begins from where Western psychology leaves off. Beyond Freud and Jung, beyond the Human Potential Movement, to the psychology of enlightenment, of buddhahood. In these talks Osho reveals his vision of a New Man a man who embraces all aspects of life from the mundane to the sacred, and of the creation of a climate in which that new man can realize his ultimate potential. Response to questions from seekers cover a multitude of topics including the nature of meditation; sex, love and prayer as the three essential steps to the divine; destiny; why Westerners are attracted to Eastern religion and philosophy; the significance of kundalini yoga; dream psychology and the seven energy bodies.

Reviews:

"Osho has the ability to make the esoteric seem instantly appealing and utterly obvious."
- Meditation Magazine, Canada

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Central to Osho’s vision of the New Man is what he calls "the rebellious spirit." These talks offer a glimpse into what he means by this way of life, and how he is working with people to bring it about. This book is the very expression of the rebellious spirit - vibrant, urgent and courageous. Comprised of his responses to questions, Osho speaks on innumerable issues, which include: what it means to truly love, the ambitious drive of the ego for enlightenment, the repression of playfulness by society and its rediscovery, and the sacredness of laughter.

Reviews:

"His incredible taped discourse lectures and books have inspired me (and millions of others) on the path of self-evolution. He is like a great bell tolling, Awaken, Awaken, Awaken!"
James Coburn, actor

Chapter   1: Meditation Is the Greatest Charity
Chapter   2: The Pilgrimage Is Endless
Chapter   3: What Binds You Is the Lust for the Unlived Life
Chapter   4: The Thread of Understanding
Chapter   5: God Has No Hands
Chapter   6: The Mind Has No Reverse Gear
Chapter   7: Arguing with the Ocean
Chapter   8: A More Human Technology
Chapter   9: I Am a River Continuously Flowing
Chapter 10: Freedom Opens the Door of Responsibility
Chapter 11: Rebellion Is a Style of Life
Chapter 12: All Buddhas Are Gamblers
Chapter 13: God Is the Ocean You Are In
Chapter 14: The Golden Key
Chapter 15: God the Father - Just Another Teddy Bear
Chapter 16: The Present Is the Only Time You Have
Chapter 17: The Child Is Still Within You
Chapter 18: You Are the Mirror
Chapter 19: The Secrets and Mysteries of Existence Are Infinite
Chapter 20: Forget All About Enlightenment
Chapter 21: Attention Is Invisible Nourishment
Chapter 22: Work Can Produce, Silence Can Create
Chapter 23: Miracles Are Mostly Fiction
Chapter 24: I Am Nothing but Pure Champagne
Chapter 25: Silence Is Always Louder than Any Scream
Chapter 26: Your Existence Is Just a Carbon Copy
Chapter 27: Silence Has Its Own Fragrance
Chapter 28: When Buddhas Rebel
Chapter 29: Pregnant with Enlightenment
Chapter 30: Let Everything Pass 

Hardbound, 308 pages

Talks On The Ten Bulls Of Zen

Osho talks on the ten paintings that tell the famous Zen story of a farmer in search of his lost bull, providing an allegorical expression of the search for enlightenment. Originally Taoist, The Ten Bulls were repainted by the 12th century Chinese Zen master, Kakuan, and first appeared in the West in American author, Paul Reps’ book, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. These discourses are Osho’s commentaries on the paintings, and on the poetry and prose which accompany them in Paul Reps’ book. In The Search, Osho dismantles probably every "why" the mind can contrive, and you may well find that you learn more about yourself in one chapter than in dozens of other books!

Reviews:

"You’ll learn more about yourself reading one chapter of "The Search" than you will reading a dozen ordinary books on Zen."
Carol Neiman, author of Afterlife and Miracles

Chapter   1: The Search for the Bull; Discovering the Footprints
Chapter   2: Dropping the Why
Chapter   3: Discourse in Silence
Chapter   4: Perceiving the Bull; Catching the Bull
Chapter   5: Taming the Bull;Riding the Bull Home
Chapter   6: Come In!
Chapter   7: The Bull Transcended; Both the Bull and Self Transcended
Chapter   8: Life Is the Goal
Chapter   9: Reaching the Source; In The World  

Hardbound,  Vol.1 & Vol.2 in one edition 850 pages

Talks on the Secret of the Golden Flower

In this beautiful book, Osho speaks on the magical sutras of Master Lu-tsu, which he describes as "deeply based in Taoist teachings… a flowering of the Taoist approach to life and existence," and he gives specific instructions for the Taoist Golden Light meditation which helps harmonize the male and female elements, and transmute sexual energy.
Osho also answers related questions from an international audience of seekers, which cover subjects as diverse as the difference between male and female energies, sex, fear, aloneness; the differences and similarities between Tao, Yoga and Tantra; how meditators can tell if they are on the right track, how to become integrated through watching, and the significance of the third eye. Throughout these talks there is a sense of urgency, the urgency of a scientist who sees the "technology" available for authentic transformation of man, but which is not being implemented. For Osho religion is not speculative but essentially experiential, an experiment as scientific as the outer, objective science.

Chapter   1: The Secret of the Magic of Life
Chapter   2: Empty Eyes
Chapter   3: The Atomic Moment
Chapter   4: I Mean Business Here!
Chapter   5: To Be One Again
Chapter   6: Born with Joy
Chapter   7: Turning the Key
Chapter   8: Real Is for Always
Chapter   9: Riding on a Miracle
Chapter 10: The Zorba-Buddha Synthesis
Chapter 11: The Whole and Holy Circle
Chapter 12: To Create a Balance
Chapter 13: A Listening Heart
Chapter 14: The New Man
Chapter 15: Beyond Indolence and Distraction
Chapter 16: In the Lake of the Void
Chapter 17: A Little Bit of Sky
Chapter 18: Love Is the Only Friend
Chapter 19: The Golden Flower Is Opening
Chapter 20: Words Cannot Contain It
Chapter 21: The Spirit Returns and Touches Heaven
Chapter 22: Aloneness Is Ultimate
Chapter 23: The Moon Gathers Up the Ten Thousand Waters
Chapter 24: I Sure Dig You, Man
Chapter 25: With Emptiness, the Matter Is Settled
Chapter 26: Because of Love, We Are Together
Chapter 27: The Contemplation of Emptiness
Chapter 28: Tao Is Already Happening
Chapter 29: Where the Positive and Negative Meet
Chapter 30: This Very World the Paradise
Chapter 31: The Festive Dimension

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Talks on Adi Shankara’s Bhaj Govindam

Osho has spoken many times of Adi Shankaracharya, the enlightened mystic of eighth-century India, as someone who traveled across India arguing, debating and defeating all the renowned scholars, theologians and so-called religious leaders who were turning the inner search into a mental exercise, an academic discussion. But here we are introduced to a different Adi Shankaracharya - one who can sing in his song of ecstasy and dance his joy in life. His popular song, written in Sanskrit, is sung throughout India and is known as Bhaj Govindam.
As he comments on these verses and answers related questions Osho shows us yet again, his vision of the New Man, the whole man - joyous, silent, ecstatic; repressing nothing, watching everything.

Chapter   1: Always Sing the Song of the Divine
Chapter   2: Sowing the Seed
Chapter   3: The Search for Nirvana
Chapter   4: Every Step Is the Destination
Chapter   5: The Bondage of Hope
Chapter   6: The Great Transcendence
Chapter   7: A Song of Life
Chapter   8: This World Is a School
Chapter   9: The Essence in Life
Chapter 10: Just One Moment...

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Discourses on the Ken Upanishad

In this book Osho speaks on the ancient Indian Vedic scriptures to his first Western audience. The Supreme Doctrine deals in depth with many aspects of meditation - the fundamentals of how to move intensely and totally into this experience spoken of by the seers in the Ken Upanishad.
He answers seekers’ questions relating to using the intellect, transcending the duality of sex, the role of a master in a seeker’s spiritual journey, the contribution and limitations of psychoanalysis, the significance of active meditations for the modern man, and much more. Osho says of this book, "I have chosen to talk about the Upanishads because to me they represent one of the purest expressions of the ultimate that is possible, if it is possible at all."
Osho says of the process of meditation: "Meditation is first of all an effort to make you independent; and second, to change your type and quality of consciousness. With a new quality of consciousness old problems cannot exist; they simply disappear."

Reviews:

"The Upanishads talk about ultimate wisdom, Osho tells you how to live it"
- R.E. Gussner, Professor of Religion University of Vermont, USA

Chapter   1: Toward the Awakening
Chapter   2: Transcending the Basic Duality of Sex
Chapter   3: Surrender and I Will Transform You
Chapter   4: The Unknowable Self
Chapter   5: It Is Your Being
Chapter   6: God Is Existence
Chapter   7: Meditation and the Inner Eye
Chapter   8: Beginningless Beginning, Endless End
Chapter   9: Death: The Climax of Life
Chapter 10: The Eternal Play of Existence
Chapter 11: Truth or Trick?
Chapter 12: The Great Circle of Brahman
Chapter 13: Man Can Be Transcended
Chapter 14: Knowing All Through the One
Chapter 15: Now You Can Go
Chapter 16: The Great Dance of Suchness
Chapter 17: Make Every Moment a Celebration  

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Talks on The Royal Song of Saraha

An absorbing book about the relationship between Saraha, an affluent young Brahmin, and a lower-cast arrowsmith woman - he as disciple and she as his Tantric master. These revolutionary talks on "The Royal Song of Saraha" are "...not the composition of a poet, but the realization of a mystic." Through his characteristically penetrating insights into previously insolvable paradoxes of life, Osho reveals how the Tantra experience will help free us from the destructive Hebraic-Christian dualism that has crippled our bodies, minds and hearts, and has condemned as evil almost everything we do.
Osho offers crystal-clear answers to questions and dilemmas we could never understand - even if we had dared to ask about them - and gives us a new perspective, a new way of looking at life and a new way of living in harmony with existence...for Tantra is not an intellectual proposal, it is pure experience. "You may not have even heard the name of Saraha, but Saraha is one of the great benefactors of humanity. If I were to count on my fingers ten benefactors of humanity, Saraha would be one of those ten. If I were to count five, then too, I would not be able to drop Saraha."

Reviews:

"With Osho as a guide Tantra can give you a new perspective, a new way of looking at yourself and at life, a new way of living in harmony with existence for Tantra is not an intellectual proposal, it is pure experience." Penguin Books

Chapter   1: Aiming at the One
Chapter   2: The Goose Is Out!
Chapter   3: This Honey Is Yours
Chapter   4: Love Is Death
Chapter   5: Man Is a Myth
Chapter   6: I Am a Destroyer
Chapter   7: Truth Is Neither Holy nor Unholy
Chapter   8: Be True to Love
Chapter   9: Mind Immaculate in Its Very Being
Chapter 10: Hingle de Jibity Dangely Ji

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Talks on the Atma Pooja Upanishad

Thousands of years ago, awakened beings living in India spoke to seekers of truth. Their words were compiled according to themes and now exist as a body of work called the Upanishads. In this volume, Osho speaks on the Atma Pooja Upanishad -which literally means "worship of the self" - and reveals many alchemical secrets and meditation techniques for present-day seekers to penetrate their unconscious and find the truth within themselves. This is the "ultimate alchemy" in which man’s baser nature is refined into the gold of pure cosmic consciousness.

Reviews:

"Osho is not trying to purvey information but a truth that bypasses conscious thought and all that belongs to it, just as the most important activities of human beings bypass the mind."
Bernard Levin, Journalist, commentator and writer

Chapter   1: The Tradition of the Upanishads and the Secrets of Meditation
Chapter   2: Dissolution into the Cosmic
Chapter   3: An Opening to the Unknown
Chapter   4: Desire: The Link with Life
Chapter   5: A Still Mind: The Door to the Divine
Chapter   6: Encountering the Unconscious
Chapter   7: The Upward Flow of the Mind
Chapter   8: The Complementariness of Opposites
Chapter   9: What Can Man Offer?
Chapter 10: The Secret of Totality
Chapter 11: Light, Life and Love
Chapter 12: You Are Responsible!
Chapter 13: The Fragrance of Awareness
Chapter 14: Facing the Reality
Chapter 15: Witnessing: The Base of All Techniques
Chapter 16: Will or Surrender?
Chapter 17: A Flowering of Consciousness
Chapter 18: The Light of Awareness

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Talks on the Atma Pooja Upanishad

Thousands of years ago, awakened beings in India spoke to seekers of truth. Their words were compiled according to themes and now exist in a body of work called the Upanishads. In this book, Osho gives his response to the Atma Pooja Upanishad — which literally means “worship of the self.” His words show present-day seekers how to penetrate their unconscious and find the truth within themselves. This uncovering of inner truth is called the ultimate alchemy.

Chapter   1: Man: A bridge Between Two Infinities
Chapter   2: Totality Is Bliss
Chapter   3: The Fire of Awareness
Chapter   4: The Fear of Freedom
Chapter   5: The Inner Alchemy
Chapter   6: Real Freedom
Chapter   7: The center of the Cyclone
Chapter   8: Tomorrow Never Comes
Chapter   9: Blissfulness Beyond Ignorance
Chapter 10: Worship of the Self
Chapter 11: Two Paths: One Ultimate Reality
Chapter 12: Silence Is the Prayer
Chapter 13: The Taste of Now
Chapter 14: Conscious Dying
Chapter 15: Divorce Yourself
Chapter 16: The Western Mind and the Eastern Mind
Chapter 17: Wholeness Is Holiness
Chapter 18: Neither This, Nor That

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Sufism: A Way Into the Mysteries of Existence

Throughout history, stories have always been the best teaching material. They are alive, entertaining, and in a simple way they can be used to convey the basic lessons for life. This book presents a special selection of commentaries by Osho on incomparable stories from the world of Sufism.
Beginning with the haunting story of a stream that encounters a desert – and the fears and doubts that arise in the stream as a mysterious voice urges it to allow itself to disappear and be carried aloft by the wind – Osho invites us to explore the world of the Sufis. In that world we discover the meaning of trust, the wisdom of the heart, the value of letting go, and so much more….

Chapter 1: The Tale of the Sands
Chapter 2: Trusting
Chapter 3: The Journey Is the Goal
Chapter 4: Contrary to Expectation
Chapter 5: The Oasis of Your Awareness
Chapter 6: Being Total
Chapter 7: The Mad King and His Idol
Chapter 8: Just a Quantum Leap
Chapter 9: Experience: The Heart of the Matter

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This book is for those searching for the ultimate freedom, the ultimate flowering, and for dissolving into the ocean of existence.
Osho takes on many well known members of the Western Zen tradition such as D. T. Suzuki, Paul Reps, Nyogen Senzaki, Thomas Merton, Alan Watts, Philip Kapleau, Gesta Ital, and Nancy Wilson Ross, as he gives the reader glimpses of the authentic Zen experience.
Osho also speaks on Wilhelm Reich: "In the East, he would have become a Gautam Buddha. He had the quality, the insight. But a wrong society, a society of very little men, of very small people... small-minded, who cannot conceive the vast, who cannot conceive the mysterious."
Osho’s Zen is for everyone, no matter who they are or where they are from. He says it is "simply a technique of entering into your veryness."

Reviews:

"As you savor the chapters, you’ll discover that Osho is like a Zen archer. Almost poetically he circles his target, surveying it over and over again from many positions before he draws back his bow and lets the arrow fly." Robert Rimmer, USA. Author of The Harrad Experiment and Proposition 31

Chapter   1: This Disappearance Is Anatta
Chapter   2: Let the Christian Ship Drown
Chapter   3: To Wait, to Wait for Nothing
Chapter   4: Freedom Not Licentiousness
Chapter   5: The Sky of Completion
Chapter   6: Chaos - The Very Nature of Existence
Chapter   7: Mind Only Thinks, Meditation Lives
Chapter   8: Inscape - The Ultimate Annihilation
Chapter   9: Small Intervals of Light
Chapter 10: The Less Your Are, the More You Are
Chapter 11: Sammasati - The Last Word