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Buddha: His Life and Teachings and Impact on Humanity

144 p., Paperback, with CD included

An authority on the world’s spiritual traditions, Osho was celebrated for his unique ability to refresh ancient wisdoms for a contemporary audience. Here he takes the reader on an exciting journey into the life and world of Prince Gautam Siddhartha, who became the Buddha. Like a great storyteller, Osho explains the Buddha’s teachings through life stories and anecdotes that demonstrate how these teachings arose from Buddha’s own experiences. Lively and lifelike, with unconventional wit and deep wisdom he guides the reader step by step through the secrets and subtleties of the “world religion without God,” as only a true spiritual teacher can. Stunning color photographs throughout the book, along with Osho’s inspiring insights, reveal the inner quality of Buddha’s spirituality, leading the reader to a new understanding of his timeless message.

Zen: His Life and Teachings and Impact on Humanity

144 p., Paperback, with CD included

Only once in the history of human consciousness, says Osho, has a thing like Zen come into being. In Zen: Its History and Teachings, the noted mystic explains that Zen has no rituals, no chanting, no mantras, no scriptures — only short, evocative parables and teachings that make it ideal for the modern seeker. Using his characteristic humorous, encouraging style, Osho guides readers through the origins and development of this seminal spiritual tradition that is neither religion nor dogma nor creed. He provides a context for those who have not been born into the Zen tradition, introducing them to its timeless approach to existence. The book argues that the only preparation for fully experiencing Zen’s power is meditative awareness, and Osho presents simple techniques to achieve this awareness. Stunning color photographs throughout offer further inspiration and illumination.

Danger: Truth at Work

The Courage to Accept the Unknowable

224 p., Paperback, with DVD included

Danger: Truth at Work goes to the heart of our most fundamental human issues. Why can’t we just live happily and be content? While we seem to have all the knowledge we need to solve our problems, we haven’t. In this timely book, Osho explains that religious conditioning has held us back. Each chapter covers a different aspect of this conditioning, and, in gentle but persuasive language, shows readers how to transcend it. Individual chapters cover such subjects as The Nuclear Family: The Imminent Meltdown; Pseudo-Religion: The Stick-on Soul; They Say Believe, I Say Explore; and Ecstasy Is Now: Why Wait? and others. The enclosed DVD gives a firsthand experience of the process of spiritual renewal, which Osho calls a "dry cleaning of the mind." While Osho passed away in 1990, he left a rich legacy of video recordings that form the basis of this important book and video.

The Magic of Self-Respect

Awakening to your Own Awareness

224 p., Paperback, with DVD included

So much of the experience of everyday life, says Osho in this insightful guide, is shaped by religious and social conditioning — and we are not even aware of the fact. We are constantly being pulled away from the unique nature that is our birthright. In place of that original and unique self, a false self called the “ego” is constructed that eventually gains control of our creativity, our ideas about what it means to be successful, our relationships, and our very experience of who we are. At the same time, he argues, the collection of egos known as “society” shapes our political, educational, and religious institutions, which in turn combine to force the same old patterns onto new generations. In this book, Osho shows how to discard these old patterns in favor of a new and nurturing trinity of watchfulness, awareness, and alertness. The bundled DVD lets readers directly experience the insights of this important modern mystic.

Beyond Enlightenment

560 pages, Hardbound

Whatever you may have thought or read up until now, these talks will take you further. They are not about enlightenment, rather words spoken by a man who has known enlightenment – and left it far behind. Through his responses to the questions of people from all walks of life, Osho explores the subject from the inside, revealing the inner workings of a mystic. What does enlightenment mean? – spiritual awakening, discovering the truth about life? Or is it less defined, just a formless sense of something to work towards on a journey of personal exploration? In this book one starts to have a glimpse that enlightenment is something achievable by anyone ready to take the jump here and now. And yet, while it is the peak of all beautiful, blissful experiences, it is still an experience. So what is beyond that, when one goes beyond individuality to the universal, dissolving one’s separation from existence…?

“Beyond enlightenment there is no experience at all, because the experiencer has disappeared. Enlightenment is not only the peak of experience, it is also the finest definition of your being. Beyond it, there is only nothingness.” Osho

Chapter Titles:

Preface
Chapter 1: Beyond Enlightenment Is Only Beyondness
Chapter 2: Innocence Is a Light unto Itself
Chapter 3: No Other Path but Life
Chapter 4: In the End There Is No Word
Chapter 5: Questions: Exposing Your Way from Ignorance to Innocence
Chapter 6: Truth Knows No Fifty-Fifty
Chapter 7: Zorba and Buddha: Their Split Is Your Social Disease
Chapter 8: Indifference to the Mind Is Meditation
Chapter 9: The Master Is a Mirror
Chapter 10: I Answer Your Questions Just to Kill Them
Chapter 11: Harmony…The Birthplace of Love
Chapter 12: The Three Initiations: Student, Disciple, Devotee
Chapter 13: The Only Holy Approach
Chapter 14: Don’t Be a Missionary, Be a Message
Chapter 15: A Mystery beyond Explaining
Chapter 16: Rising in Love…A Partnership in Meditation
Chapter 17: The Point of No Return
Chapter 18: Meditation – The Courage to Be Silent and Alone
Chapter 19: The Future Belongs to the Creative Man
Chapter 20: Let Go…The Cure for the Disease of Becoming
Chapter 21: The Watermelon and the Knife
Chapter 22: The Forgotten Language of the Heart
Chapter 23: Ten Non-Commandments
Chapter 24: Eastern Psychology: The Science of the Soul
Chapter 25: You Are What You Are Seeking
Chapter 26: The Alchemy of Enlightenment
Chapter 27: Whatsoever Happens in Silence Is Your Friend
Chapter 28: Unless the Whole Existence…
Chapter 29: I Am Crazy, but You Are Crazier!
Chapter 30: You Are the Watcher Not the Actor
Chapter 31: Discarding the Container, Discovering the Content
Chapter 32: Truth Has to Wait…but Not to Wait Forever

Fame, Fortune and Ambition

What is the Meaning of Real Success?

Paperback 206 p., with DVD included, 131 Min.

About Fame, Fortune and Ambition

“I want you to be rich in every possible way – material, psychological, spiritual. I want you to live the richest life that has ever been lived on the earth.” - Osho

Fame, Fortune, and Ambition examines the symptoms and psychology of preoccupations with money and celebrity. Where does greed come from? Do values like competitiveness and ambition have a place in bringing innovation and positive change? Why do celebrities and the wealthy seem to have so much influence in the world? Is it true that money can’t buy happiness? These questions are tackled with a perspective that is thought-provoking, surprising--and particularly relevant to our troubled economic times.

Fame, Fortune, and Ambition includes an original talk by Osho on DVD: "Innocence- The Price You pay for the Failure of Success" (From: "From Darkness to Light" #2).
This visual component enables the reader to experience the direct wisdom and humor of Osho straight from the source.

Content:

Introduction
1 Success is in the eye of the beholder
2 Neither here nor there
3 Money can’t buy you love
4 dreams and realities
5 Lofty ambitions
Epilogue

Destiny, Freedom, and the Soul

What is the Meaning of Life?

Paperback 208 p., with DVD included, 92 Min.

Destiny, Freedom, and the Soul: What Is the Meaning of Life? explores deeply human questions, such as: Is there really such a thing as "soul," and if so, what is it? Where does the concept of karma fit in? Does my life have a special meaning or purpose?

Includes an original talk by Osho on DVD: "Life is a Mystery to be lived" (From: "The Goose is out" #9).
This visual component enables the reader to experience the direct wisdom and humor of Osho straight from the source.

Content:
1 The Mystery of “Who Am I?”
2 In Search of Meaning
3 Self, No-Self, and Reincarnation
4 Destiny, Fate, and Karma
5 In Search of Freedom Epilogue

Zen: The Quantum Leap

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?

The Prophet

768 pages, Hardbound

Reflections on Kahlil Gibran
Originally published as "The Messiah", Volumes 1 & 2

Osho loves Gibran:,“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.”

Chapter Titles

Chapter 1 A Dawn unto His Own Day
Chapter 2 A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean
Chapter 3 A Seeker of Silences
Chapter 4 Until the Hour of Separation
Chapter 5 Disclose Us to Ourselves
Chapter 6 Speak to Us of Love
Chapter 7 Love Possesses Not
Chapter 8 Let There Be Spaces
Chapter 9 Your Children Are Not Your Children
Chapter 10 When You Give of Yourself
Chapter 11 Life Gives unto Life
Chapter 12 The Wine and the Winepress
Chapter 13 Speak to Us of Work
Chapter 14 Work Is Love Made Visible
Chapter 15 Beyond Joy and Sorrow
Chapter 16 From House to Home, From Home to Temple
Chapter 17 The Boundless within You
Chapter 18 Shame Was His Loom
Chapter 19 The Gifts of the Earth
Chapter 20 Crime: A Crowd Psychology
Chapter 21 Leaves of a Single Tree
Chapter 22 Sinners and Saints: The Drama of Sleeping People
Chapter 23 Except Love, there Should Be No Law
Chapter 24 In This Silence
Chapter 25 The Real Freedom
Chapter 26 Each Moment a Resurrection
Chapter 27 Breaking the Shell of the Past
Chapter 28 Beyond Mind and Heart
Chapter 29 Within Your Own Self
Chapter 30 Friendliness Rises Higher than Love
Chapter 31 Into the Very Center of Silence
Chapter 32 Time Remains Where It Is
Chapter 33 Evil Is Nothing but an Absence of Good
Chapter 34 Only a Question of Awareness
Chapter 35 The Silent Gratitude
Chapter 36 The Seed of Blissfulness
Chapter 37 A Dewdrop Cannot Offend the Ocean
Chapter 38 A Heart Aflame, a Soul Enchanted
Chapter 39 From Dawn to Dawn, a Wonder and Surprise
Chapter 40 In You Are Hidden All Men
Chapter 41 I Call It Meditation
Chapter 42 Let My Words Be Seeds in You
Chapter 43 Don’t Judge the Ocean by Its Foam
Chapter 44 Become Again an Innocent Child
Chapter 45 A Peak unto Yourself
Chapter 46 Doors to the Mysterious
Chapter 47 We Shall Be Again Together

Excerpt from Reflections on Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet Chapter 1

"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. You have chosen a man who is the most beloved of this beautiful earth. Centuries have passed; there have been great men, but Kahlil Gibran is a category in himself. I cannot conceive that even in the future there is a possibility of another man of such deep insight into the human heart, into the unknown that surrounds us. He has done something impossible. He has been able to bring at least a few fragments of the unknown into human language. He has raised human language and human consciousness as no other man has ever done. Through Kahlil Gibran, it seems all the mystics, all the poets, all creative souls have joined hands and poured themselves. Although he has been immensely successful in reaching people, still he feels it is not the whole truth, but just a glimpse. But to see the glimpse of truth is a beginning of a pilgrimage that leads you to the ultimate, to the absolute, to the universal. Another beautiful man, Claude Bragdon, has said a few beautiful words about Kahlil Gibran. He says, “His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life, else it could not have been so universal and so potent. But the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own.” I have always loved this statement of Bragdon, even though not agreeing with it."

Philosophia Perennis 1

272 pages, Hardbound

About Philosophia Perennis, Vol. 1 In this book of talks on the Greek mathematician and mystic, Pythagoras, Osho declares that had Pythagoras been listened to humanity’s history would have been totally different. Pythagoras is a man close to Osho’s heart, with his understanding that materialism and spirituality - East and West, body and soul - exist together. Pythagoras understood that are not opposing forces but complementary facets of a harmonious whole. In this series of talks Osho delves into the insightful verses of Pythagoras and responds to seeker’s questions.

And Now and Here

Hardbound, 654 pages with CD

Beyond the Duality of Life and Death

Most of us look for security in our relationships, in our choice of living and working conditions, and in our finances. Underlying this search for security is a deep, instinctive fear of death, which continually colors our lives and drives our focus outward, toward survival. But we also have a longing to turn inward, to relax deeply within ourselves, and experience the sense of freedom and expansion this brings.

With this book we can start exploring our inner world without fear. Osho debunks our myths and misunderstandings around death and invites us to experience our eternal inner space – now and here – through guided meditations at the end of the first chapters.
One of these meditations has been recorded with music and is included as a CD with this book.

Called Relaxing the BodyMind Meditation it is a gentle yet profound process and technique that can be used again and again to deepen our experience of awareness.

Chapter 1: No Bigger Lie than Death
Chapter 2: Seeing Life As It Is
Chapter 3: The Whole Universe Is a Temple
Chapter 4: Returning to the Source
Chapter 5: Find Your Own Way
Chapter 6: Love Is Dangerous
Chapter 7: I Teach Death
Chapter 8: Not Knowing Life Is Death
Chapter 9: The Ultimate Freedom
Chapter 10: Religion Is a Search for Meditation
Chapter 11: The Choice Is Always Yours
Chapter 12: Becoming a Witness
Chapter 13: The Science of the Esoteric
Chapter 14: I Am Ready, If You Are
Chapter 15: The Art of Suchness

Dimensions Beyond the Known

Hardbound, 237 pages

A fascinating journey into many mysterious realms of our existence, including what happens to a per-son after death, reincarnation, the esoteric roots of religious experience, and the dimension of time. There is also an account of the Tibetan practice of Bardo. The beauty of this book is that it explains metaphysical concepts in a simple and comprehensive way, at the same time presenting some challenging new perspectives on the universe and what makes it tick.

"In the past it was necessary for some things to remain secret, because knowledge in the hands of the ignorant can be dangerous... We must wait for the time when man becomes so capable that the knowledge can be made open and it will not be dangerous... But now, because of scientific progress, the moment has come for it to be made open. Science will prove dangerous if spiritual, esoteric truths still remain unknown. They must be made open so that spiritual knowledge will be able to keep pace with scientific knowledge."

Ecstasy the forgotten Language

Hardbound, 344 pages

Osho speaks on the exuberant poems of Kabir, as translated by India’s Nobel Prize-winning poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He also responds to questions as diverse as the difference between relationship and aloneness, mind and society, self and enlightenment, and explains the difference between a crystallized self and a strong ego.

Chapter Titles

Chapter 1: Now or Never
Chapter 2: Sannyas: The Radical Revolution
Chapter 3: Natural, Spontaneous, Aware
Chapter 4: The Forgotten Language of Ecstasy
Chapter 5: There Are No Words to Tell
Chapter 6: Trust Your Nature
Chapter 7: Go In
Chapter 8: Indifference to the Mind Is Meditation
Chapter 9: Dance Today with Joy
Chapter 10: The Choice Is Yours

In Search of the Miraculous

Hardbound, 662 pages

This book is an unusual yet fascinating read for anyone who is interested in the practical application of the esoteric aspects of mysticism, and the science of human energy as it is understood in the East.
During this series Osho is in the process of developing his Dynamic meditation, and responding to questions about many facets of his work, including kundalini energy and shaktipat, the transfer of energy from an awakened one to a seeker of truth.
All techniques in this book can help us experience miraculous moments when our energy expands and takes us into something far beyond the known.

Guiding the reader through the seven bodies and their corresponding chakras, Osho talks on psychic phenomena, dreams, telepathy, hypnosis, color therapy, Dynamic Meditation, Kundalini, mediums, gurus, and the Tantric dimension of sex. "I am talking about very scientific things," he says, "not something belonging to religious superstitions."

"But you were seeking on your own, a lonely wanderer in search of the miraculous. Because you were not with any master, not with any school where many people were working together for their inner consolidation, you don't have any memory of such a thing. You have only one feeling, of waiting. That shows that for many lives you have been waiting.
And perhaps the time has come and now you may not need to wait anymore because I am ready to give you that which you have been seeking - whether you know or not."

Joy: The Happiness that comes from within

Paperback, 180 pages with DVD included (Excerpt from "From Personality to Individuality")

Timely and relevant to a society increasingly populated by people who depend on prescription drugs to get them through the day. Osho challenges us to look into the ways we so often create - and then cling to - our own unhappiness. And urges us to reconnect with the natural joy we were born with, and that is available to us the moment we turn our attention to the silent space within.

WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
It Depends on You
From the Surface to the Center
Empty Hands

IN PURSUIT
The Fundamental Duality
Not Character But Consciousness
Chasing Rainbows
The Roots of Misery

FROM AGONY TO ECSTASY
Understanding Is the Key
Bread and Circuses
Ecstasy is Rebellious
Real or Symbolic?
Being and Becoming

UNDERSTANDING THE ROOTS OF MISERY
Responses to Questions

How can human beings be happy and blissful?
Why is it so difficult to forgive and forget?
Why do we make mountains out of molehills?
Can’t somebody take this misery away?
Why do people pretend to be somebody they are not?
How can I be myself?
Sometimes I feel I’m in hell…
Isn’t the real problem that people don’t love themselves?
Why is it so hard to let go of the things that cause us misery?
Should one first come to terms with one’s own loneliness before entering into relationship?
My life seems so meaningless and empty…
What exactly is boredom?
Why do people get involved in using drugs?
How can we be so concerned with our own happiness when there are so many problems in the world?
Why am I always daydreaming about the future?

LIVE IN JOY

Life-Love-Laughter

Paperback, with DVD included

In this collection of reflections, Osho’s inspiring and loving stories go far beyond the usual chicken-soup fare. Life, Love, Laughter establishes a new genre of reflective and inspirational text stripped of all platitudes and clichés, and absolutely in tune with the realities of the 21st century. In this artful work, Osho mixes entertainment and inspiration, ancient Zen stories and contemporary jokes to help us to find love, laughter, and ultimately, happiness.

Life, Love, Laughter includes an original talk by Osho on DVD. This visual component enables the reader to experience the direct wisdom and humor of Osho straight from the source.
(Questions 1, 4 and 6 "From Bondage to Freedom" # 24 and question 3 "The Invitation" # 27)

Take it really seriously

Available again!

Hardbound, 703 pages

Take It Really Seriously is a big, beautifully bound, collectors edition joke book, available only in Hardcover. At the time of writing there are only a few hundred copies remaining, and it is unlikely to ever be reprinted.
It has 30 chapters of jokes, on subjects ranging from:

Marriage to Maxims
Sex to Shrinks
Cannibals to Kids

And there are big chapters on:

Religion, Politics, Nations, Animals.......

A joke for every occasion: weddings, meetings, parties,
religious sermons, college lectures...... anytime anywhere!

As well as over 2000 jokes, there are many of Osho's insights.

On humor, and why a sense of humor is essential in
life
On laughter, and why it is gives us a healthy mind, body
and soul
On the psychology of jokes, and why they make us
laugh
On the history of jokes, and how they differ in different
cultures.

In fact this book really is A Revolutionary Insight into Jokes.