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Discourses on the Sufi Mystic Hakim Sanai

This is the first of a two-volume series on Sanai’s Hadiqa, about which Osho says: "Such books are not written, they are born. These words are saturated with satori."
The story of Hakim Sanai, the twelfth century Persian court poet, begins like a political thriller. Sanai is travelling with the Sultan of Persia and army on an expedition to conquer India. As they pass a certain walled garden they come across a drunken singer, who is really a great Sufi mystic, an enlightened man named Lai-Kur.
Sanai is transformed, enlightened by this chance meeting. He leaves the king and sets off alone to absorb what has happened to him. Out of this experience comes a book of poems- the Hadiqatu’l Haqiqat, The Walled Garden of Truth.

Reviews:

"Some planetary collective awareness is continually building, along with the tribal, personal, familial, national, and neighborhood consciousnesses. They trickle, pour, drip-drop, and thunder down through each other, altering the consistency and intensity of who we are and what we know and feel. Soul is the usual hapless word we throw at the process.
"I contend that Osho will come to be seen as a germane, yeasty presence in our soul fermentation. The history of soulmakers is our most significant history. They are the moving indices of how we say our truth."
From the introduction by Coleman Barks, poet and translator. His 16 volumes of Rumi translations have made Rumi the best selling poet in the US today.

The radiance of this extraordinary man can be felt between each and every pair of lines, and one begins to understand why thousands of people all over the world feel themselves attracted to this eloquent master of language and of the heart." Carol Neiman, author of Afterlife and Miracles

Chapter   1: Polishing the Mirror of the Heart
Chapter   2: On the Altar of the Real
Chapter   3: Crying for the Light
Chapter   4: A Pearl of Exceeding Beauty
Chapter   5: The Fire Test
Chapter   6: The Bridge of Love and Laughter
Chapter   7: Raw, Cooked, Burnt
Chapter   8: The Great Palace of Consciousness
Chapter   9: A Wedding and a Wake
Chapter 10: Something to Be Remembered

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Discourses on the Sufi Mystic Hakim Sanai

In his commentary on Hakim Sanai’s verses, Osho invites the reader to participate in an experience that can be life-transforming. Osho talks on war and the minds that create it. He offers a fresh outlook, a blueprint that will cut the roots of man’s destructive political mind and create a human being who loves and celebrates life. "I am trying to create a space for the future to happen."
Osho holds Sanai in high esteem, saying if he were to save only two books from the world of the mystics, one would be Sosan’s Hsin Hsin Ming and the other would be Hakim Sanai’s Hadiqa because, "It is the essential fragrance of the path of love. No other Sufi has been able to reach to such heights of expression and such depths of penetration." Alternating talks on these verses with responses to questions from seekers on things like asceticism, love, intelligence, and aloneness, Osho provides an opportunity "to become aware at the very core of your being."

Reviews:

"Some planetary collective awareness is continually building, along with the tribal, personal, familial, national, and neighborhood consciousnesses. They trickle, pour, drip-drop, and thunder down through each other, altering the consistency and intensity of who we are and what we know and feel. Soul is the usual hapless word we throw at the process. "I contend that Osho will come to be seen as a germane, yeasty presence in our soul fermentation. The history of soulmakers is our most significant history. They are the moving indices of how we say our truth."
Coleman Barks, poet and translator. His 16 volumes of Rumi translations have made Rumi the best selling poet in the US today.

"The radiance of this extraordinary man can be felt between each and every pair of lines and one begins to understand why thousands of people all over the world feel themselves attracted to this eloquent master of language and of the heart." Carol Neiman, author of Afterlife and Miracles

Chapter   1: On the Road of Sighs
Chapter   2: Creating Space for the Future
Chapter   3: Melt Yourself Down
Chapter   4: A Buddhafield in Spring
Chapter   5: Existence Still Hopes
Chapter   6: Back to Eros
Chapter   7: The Sacred Explosion
Chapter   8: Dying in Wonder
Chapter   9: Beyond the Shadow
Chapter 10: We Shall Meet Again

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Discourses on the Akshya Upanishad

These seven steps to enlightenment are keys of wisdom, step-by-step instructions handed down from the unnamed ancient seers. In this series of nine discourses Osho discusses these timeless sutras from the Akshyupanishad, transforming their archaic language into the language and context of the 20th-century seeker.

Reviews.

"He was the most original thinker that India has produced: the most erudite, the most clear-headed and the most innovative. And in addition he had an inborn gift of words, spoken and written. The like of him we will not see for decades to come. He has to be judged as a thinker, and as a thinker he will be judged amongst the giants."
Khushwant Singh, Former editor of The Times of India; author and historian

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Responses to Questions

In the presence of journalists from the German magazine, Bunte, Osho overturns the apple-cart of decorum, making fun of the Nazi regime and recounting some of his most outrageous jokes. He also creates one of his most powerful meditations, the Mystic Rose Meditation. This question-and-answer series is an existential illustration of a contemporary Zen master at work. An additional section of inspiring photographs and touchingly intimate interviews make this book quite simply irresistible.
"This [Mystic Rose] is absolutely my meditation. I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one. It can take over the whole world. If you cry and weep without any reason, just as an exercise, a meditation nobody will believe it.
"Tears have never been accepted as meditation. And I tell you, they are not only a meditation, they are a medicine also. All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy."

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"Osho’s speech just flows. It’s not the ’what’ but the ’how’ that captures you."
Bunte, Germany

Chapter   1: I Am a Beginning and an End
Chapter   2: Nowhere and Everywhere
Chapter   3: Heart Is the Soil - Trust Is the Climate
Chapter   4: Laugh and Drop the Past
Chapter   5: Blindness and Following Are Synonymous
Chapter   6: Let-Go - The Fundamental Principle
Chapter   7: No Dialogue, No Monologue - Yaa-Hoo!
Chapter   8: Our Longing Is for the Stars
Chapter   9: Say Goodbye to Politics - Not to Science
Chapter 10: That Flame Depends On You
Chapter 11: These Creatures Are Found Everywhere
Chapter 12: On the Flight Alone
Chapter 13: Just Ordinary Friday
Chapter 14: The Way Goes Through
Chapter 15: Never Ask, "Who Am I?"
Chapter 16: Helplessness: Another Name of Let-Go
Chapter 17: A No-Return State of Affairs
Chapter 18: Love the Only Freedom from Attachment
Chapter 19: No "I," No "You" - Just a Mirror Reflecting
Chapter 20: Just a Glimpse and the Work Is Done
Chapter 21: I Have Come Again - The Storm Has Persuaded Me
Chapter 22: My Experience Is of the Wordless
Chapter 23: Enlightenment Without Bargaining
Chapter 24: Saying Small Things with Big Words
Chapter 25: A Great Surgery in the Right Hands
Chapter 26: To Be Effortless Is Just to Be Spontaneous
Chapter 27: Love Your Camel and Trust
Chapter 28: The Art of Listening Is Enough
Chapter 29: When Your Hands Are Empty…
Chapter 30: Laughter and Tears - A Cleansing of the Heart

Paperback

"Liberation," says Osho, "means coming back home!"

Hardbound. / 313 pages

A selection of five talks from the classic ten-volume series illuminating Patanjali’s yoga sutras, plus selected responses to questions.

Much of what is known today as yoga emphasizes physical postures and exercises to increase flexibility and help relaxation. But, in fact, yoga has its roots in the understanding of human consciousness and its potential, which was developed over centuries of rigorous investigation and research in the East.
In Yoga Osho explains the meaning of some of the most important Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, an early "scientist of the soul" who is credited with being the father of Raja Yoga, or the "royal path" of yoga. Raja Yoga uses physicl postures and breath primarily as a means to achieve higher states of consciousness. Here is a fresh translation of these ancient texts, and Osho’s unique insights into the modern mind and its psychology. Patanjali comes to life on these pages with an approach to using yoga for greater self-understanding that is absolutely relevant to our times.

This book is an invaluable resource for either beginning or experienced yoga practitioners, and for anyone who seeks a better understandin of the intricate and powerful relationship that exists between body and mind.

Chapter 1: Now the Discipline of Yoga

Now the discipline of yoga.
Yoga is the cessation of mind.
Then the witness is established in itself.
In the other states there is identification with the modifications of the mind.

Chapter 2: The Five Modifications of the Mind

The modifications of the mind are five. They can be either a source of anguish or of nonanguish.
They are right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep, and memory.

Chapter 3: Constant Effort Is the Key

The first state of vairagya, desirelessness - cessation from self-indulgence in the thirst for sensuous pleasures, with conscious effort.
The last state of vairagya, desirelessness - cessation of all desiring by knowing the innermost nature of purusha, the supreme self.

Chapter 4: The Eight Steps

By practicing the different steps of yoga for the destruction of impority, there arises spiritual illumination that develops into awareness of reality. The eight steps of yoga are: self-restraint, fixed observance, posture, breath regulation, abstration, concentration, contemplation, and trance.

Chapter 5:Posture and Breath

Posture should be steady and comfortable.
Posture is meastered by relaxation of effort and meditation on the unlimited.
When posture is mastered, there is a cessatikon of the disturbances caused by dualities.
The next step after the perfection of posture is breath control, which is accomplished through holding the breath on inhalation and exhalation or stopping the breath suddenly.
The duration and frequency of the controlled breaths are conditioned by time and place, and they become more prolonged and subtle.
There is a fourth sphere of breath control, which is internal, and it goes beyond the other three.

Chapter 6: Yoga in the Fast Lane
Responses to questions

Hardbound, illustrated, 180 pages

Explorations for Open Minds

What happens when the majority is wrong? Where do your ideals and convictions come from - are they yours alone, or did someone give them to you? What purpose does anger serve? Is there a difference between loneliness and aloneness? Where do love and lust meet? What is jealousy? How can one truly forgive?

Your Answers Questioned is a collection of intriguing, humorous, and surprising inquiries. Each page will encourage you to consider the world in a different way, from a different angle, by gently pointing you in new and interesting directions. You never know - you might just find some of your old answers to the age-old questions flying out the window!

144 p., Paperback, with CD included

Paperback, 192 pages

New edition, originally released as Osho on Zen - A stream of consciousness reader

A perfect introduction to the paradoxical world of Zen, and a companion text to the Meditations on Zen audiobook published by Audio Renaissance and also available for download in MP3 format on www.audible.com. In these commentaries on Zen anecdotes and stories, Osho leads the reader step by step through the mystery of the words into a deeper understanding of this unique approach to life. Concluding with a chapter of responses to questions, the text of the book has been selected from a series of talks originally called "Zen: The Path of Paradox." Introducing the book, Osho says: "Zen lives in the present. The whole teaching is how to be in the present - how to get out of the past, which is no more, and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet. And just to be rooted, centered, in that which is."

Reviews:

"Reading Osho on Zen is like a meditation in and unto itself. You will throw off the accumulated ’knowing’ of a lifetime; let go of physical, mental and emotional tensions; relax into the flow of an extraordinary discourse; and become silent. As you do this you will be receptive to the present moment and the potential therein."

288 pages, Hardbound

Osho’s extraordinary talks on Zen are recognized works of genius, studied in Zen monasteries and universities and throughout the world. His inspiring books cover everything from the wisdom of the world’s mystics to answers to intensely personal questions about meditation and the inner search. His unique authenticity touches the reader in a way no other can.

Self-transformation, explains Osho, can only happen when we make a conscious jump from mind to no-mind, from the ego to our inner being. The Zen stories he comments on in this book are about real people to whom this has happened. Osho’s twenty-first century Zen technique is to speak on these stories in such a way that we are transported from the head to the heart, and then from the heart to silence.

Chapter 1 : No-Mind Is the Buddha
Chapter 2 : Listen to the Message of the Rain
Chapter 3 : A Master in Your Own Right
Chapter 4 : Zen Is as Simple as the Taste of Tea
Chapter 5 : Can a Circle Be More Circular?
Chapter 6 : Enough unto Yourself
Chapter 7 : One Cannot Have a Problem
Chapter 8 : Feel the Silent River
Chapter 9 : Zazen: Just Being
Chapter 10 : Compassion Can Only Be Unlimited
Chapter 11 : Words Don’t Answer; Only Silence Does
Chapter 12 : The Buddha Is in the Paper Bag
Chapter 13 : You Cannot See with Your Ears
Chapter 14 : Mind with a Small m
Chapter 15 : Can We Celebrate Now?

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Responses to Questions

Living the Fire of Life

Osho devotes this series of talks to responding to seeker’s questions on a whole range of topics - innocence, freedom, love, sex, compassion and women. He also talks of his vision of India and his personal "philosia" - life, love and laughter.
While these talks were being given one of Osho’s beloved disciples died, Anand Vimalkirti, who attained enlightenment at the moment of his death. Osho speaks in this book on Vimalkirti’s life and death, encouraging those listening to accept, embrace and celebrate both of these existential phenomena of living and dying.

Reviews:

"Osho delivers his theses with humor and rhetoric brilliance, indeed complacent, but with an irony that actually enhances and exhilarates." Der Spiegel

Chapter   1: Zen: The Koan of Life
Chapter   2: Innocence: Lost and Found Again
Chapter   3: Sex, Love and Compassion: Seed, Flower and Fragrance
Chapter   4: Mind: An Expert Coward
Chapter   5: Freedom and Love: The Center and the Circumference
Chapter   6: Osho: Perfectly at Ease, Totally at Home
Chapter   7: The True Master: The Ultimate Rebel
Chapter   8: Women: Free of All the Chains
Chapter   9: India: A New Present for a New Future
Chapter 10: Here and Now: The Only Time, The Only Place
Chapter 11: Man: The Call of the Eternal
Chapter 12: Life: Let It Have It’s Dance
Chapter 13: Godliness: An Experience of Immense Joy
Chapter 14: The Child: Father to the Man
Chapter 15: The Philousia