Meditation & More

Hardbound, 318 pages


"I go on answering your questions, your problems, and I go on solving them knowing well that you have none. You can ask me then why do I go on answering you? I can simply say that this is useless. But then you won't be able to understand.
You give me a problem, I give you a solution. You ask me a question, I give you the answer. I become part of the game. If you are interested in playing the game, I will play. By and by you will become aware of what you are doing. And remember, it is only your time that is wasted, not mine, because now I have nothing to attain; so nothing is wasted, only your time.
Once you understand this, then you drop the problems, then you start enjoying and celebrating. Rather than thinking, dance; rather than thinking, sing; rather than thinking, go for a long walk, swim in the river."

These recorded evening meetings give the phenomenon of enlightenment a contemporary, personal focus. One by one, disciples and visitors sit in front of Osho, alone or as part of a therapy group, to receive his individualized advice on their questions and life experiences.

Chapter 1: Cooperate with Love
Chapter 2: Personal and Existential
Chapter 3: When Anger Is False, Laughter Is False
Chapter 4: When Death Is Taboo, Fear Uncoils
Chapter 5: Be a Chaos at Easy
Chapter 6: Live Dangerously
Chapter 7: The Rock Bottom of It All
Chapter 8: Life Is Beyond Your Control
Chapter 9: Intrinsic Imperfection
Chapter 10: Use That Clarity
Chapter 11: Free and Alive
Chapter 12: Be Capable of Non-Doing
Chapter 13: Health Is a Function of Love
Chapter 14: Love Is as Rare as Buddhahood
Chapter 15: Keep the Doors Open
Chapter 16: Ride on the Wave of Harmony
Chapter 17: Outgoing, Ingoing
Chapter 18: Be Available to the Unknowable
Chapter 19: Guilt, the Shadow of the Ego
Chapter 20: Slipping into the Vertical
Chapter 21: Totality Transforms Quality
Chapter 22: The Transparency of Children
Chapter 23: Emptiness and Stuffing
Chapter 24: Beyond Experience
Chapter 25: Dancing with the Whole
Chapter 26: In Tantra, Forget About Technique
Chapter 27: Now Follow That Insight
Chapter 28: A Synthesis of Love and Awareness

Hardbound
Previous title: Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol.1

Talks on fragments from Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Osho says speaking on Lao Tzu is as if he is speaking on himself, and you can feel this throughout the book. Tao is, as is Osho, the way of wholeness: not dividing anything, not denying anything — he remains choiceless. The first sutra of this classic work by Lao Tzu begins: The Tao that can be told of is not the Absolute Tao. In this book, the Tao is simply absolutely reflected by Osho.

You seem to not read this book, but rather listen to it as if it were a waterfall. And in this way you can come to understand why Tao emphasizes hollowness. To be empty inside, to be hollow is the meaning of meditation. Osho’s insight is if you can be nourished even by emptiness, then you are in touch with the eternal. This nourishment comes through a dancing being. The more you dance outwardly, the more an inner dance becomes possible and then the emptiness becomes blissful, ecstatic.

Chapter   1: On the Absolute Tao
Chapter   2: Ordinariness
Chapter   3: On the Character of Tao
Chapter   4: Emptiness
Chapter   5: On the Danger of Overweening Success
Chapter   6: There is No Meaning
Chapter   7: On the Utility of Not-Being
Chapter   8: Witnessing
Chapter   9: On the Wise Ones of Old
Chapter 10: Wisdom and Understanding

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

Paperback

Ten years have passed since, in the words of his attending physician, Osho prepared for his departure from the body that had served him for 59 years "as calmly as though he were packing for a weekend in the country." This volume is a recognition that the time has come to provide a historical and biographical context for understanding Osho and his work. Who was this man, known as the sex guru, the "self-appointed Bhagwan", the Rolls Royce Guru, the Rich Man’s Guru and simply the Master?

Drawn from nearly 5000 hours of Osho’s recorded talks, we hear the story of his youth and education, his life as a professor of philosophy and years of travel teaching the importance of meditation, and the true legacy he sought to leave behind: a religionless religion centered on the act of meditation and the teaching of "Zorba the Buddha", a celebration of the whole human being.

OSHO is one of the most provocative spiritual teachers of our time. In the 1970’s he captured the attention of young people from the West who wanted to experience meditation and transformation; A decade after his death, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers around the world.


Reviews

Booklist:
"Osho’s posthumous autobiography affords a delightful glimpse into the life of one of the most outrageous twentieth-century spiritual leaders. Consisting of anecdotes that Osho told during his many lectures and classes, the book has a conversational tone that well conveys the sometimes infamous guru’s dynamic personality as it offers a sampling of his thoughts on meditation, enlightenment, sex, money, education, and the evolution of consciousness."

"Osho was not afraid to tackle the world’s major religions, pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrisy where he found them and simultaneously drawing together their best aspects into a synthesis grounded in meditation. Osho also answers some of the criticisms leveled at him for his seemingly outrageous behavior and his iconoclastic tendencies. He proves a fascinating man: a prolific writer and lecturer, highly educated, and deeply passionate about his own search for truth. Whether or not one is interested in Osho’s teachings or in the controversies surrounding his movement, his autobiography is entertaining, insightful and for some, perhaps, even enlightening."

"The New York Times" calls Booklist "an acquisitions bible for public and school librarians nationwide." It is the review journal of the American Library Association, and recommends works of fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, reference books, and media to 30,000 institutional and personal subscribers.

Paperback, 190 pages

Hardbound

Talks on the Nirvana Upanishad

In these talks on one of the ancient Hindu Upanishad scriptures, the Nirvana Upanishad, the enlightened mystic Osho explores the essential nature of spiritual longing, the moving force behind every seeker’s quest for truth - truth beyond the many names we call it and claim to know it by. Speaking at a mediation camp in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, in India, Osho elucidates the enduring wisdom of this ancient teaching: the true meaning of initiation, or sannyas; the qualities needed by the seeker that will allow him to flower to his full potential; the dangers and pitfalls along the way; the harmonious dance between devotion, the path of love, and discipline, the path of meditation. Through the medium of this Upanishad, Osho shares with us the very fragrance of self-realization, the vision of nirvana. Osho says: "The sutra that we are exploring is so revolutionary that perhaps this is why no commentaries have ever been written on the Nirvana Upanishad. It is one of the neglected ones. ...This one is really revolutionary."

Chapter   1: The Seed’s Prayer
Chapter   2: Paramhansa: The Supreme Swan
Chapter   3: Only Knowing Remains
Chapter   4: The Light of Twelve Suns
Chapter   5: Awareness Is His Protection
Chapter   6: Longing For Beyond the Beyond
Chapter   7: Meditation Is the Way
Chapter   8: Behind a Thousand Names
Chapter   9: Shunya: The Divine Source
Chapter 10: Only For Bliss
Chapter 11: The Right Use of Power
Chapter 12: The Attitude of the Sky
Chapter 13: Turiya: The Fourth
Chapter 14: He Shatters All Illusions
Chapter 15: The Vision of Nirvana

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

Hardbound

Talks in Uruguay

Covering topics ranging from therapy, hypnosis and the limits of Western psychology; sexuality, love and relationship; society, religion and politicians; the mind, conditioning and meditation; other mystics, including Gurdjieff, Buddha, J. Krishnamurti and Mahavira, Osho leads us through an immense, multidimensional existence, available to us all, beyond the narrow confines of the mind, beyond psychology; in consciousness.
This is a big book – worlds within worlds – in questions and answers.

“The people who will go beyond mind will create the new man, the new mind. And the most special thing to be remembered about the new mind is that it will never become a tradition, that it will be constantly renewed. If it becomes a tradition it will be again the same thing.
The new mind has to become continuously new, every day new, ready to accept any unexpected experience, any unexpected truth…just available, vulnerable. It will be a tremendous excitement, a great ecstasy, a great challenge.”
Osho

Chapter   1: Truth Is the Greatest Offender
Chapter   2: Your Mind Is the Judas
Chapter   3: Just Counting Other People’s Cows
Chapter   4: Dancingly, Disappear
Chapter   5: You Have to Go Nowhere
Chapter   6: A Lot - and Nothing
Chapter   7: Empty from Birth to Death
Chapter   8: The Head Is Compulsory, but Not the Cap
Chapter   9: I Want to Provoke Your Jealousy
Chapter 10: The Ostrich Argument
Chapter 11: It Is Pure Light…Pure Delight
Chapter 12: Obedience Needs No Art
Chapter 13: Christianity Is an Empty Box
Chapter 14: Let It Sink Within Your Heart
Chapter 15: I Have Kept My Wondering Eyes Alive
Chapter 16: Emptiness Has Its Own Fullness
Chapter 17: The World Is Where the Work Is
Chapter 18: Terrorism Is in Your Unconsciousness
Chapter 19: Step Aside, Let the Mind Pass
Chapter 20: It Is All Happening Silently
Chapter 21: The Most Blissful Moment – When You Cannot Find Yourself
Chapter 22: Freedom Doesn’t Choose, It Discovers
Chapter 23: Trees Grow Without Being Taught
Chapter 24: Whenever the Ego Gains, You Are the Loser
Chapter 25: We Cannot Be Otherwise
Chapter 26: The Circle Can Be Broken
Chapter 27: So Which Way Are You Moving?
Chapter 28: Going Just with His Flute and a Bottle of Wine
Chapter 29: Come a Little Closer
Chapter 30: New Bottles for the Old Wine
Chapter 31: The Courage to Be Ignorant
Chapter 32: Life Consists of Small Things
Chapter 33: Prayer – Your Psychological Armor
Chapter 34: Rocks, the Earth…They Are All Alive
Chapter 35: Falling Above the Mind
Chapter 36: Wake Up and You Are It
Chapter 37: Each Moment Is Insecure
Chapter 38: A World Beyond Time
Chapter 39: Your Mind Is Not Yours
Chapter 40: The Body Does Not Have Beliefs
Chapter 41: Times of Crisis are Just Golden
Chapter 42: Everybody Is Enough
Chapter 43: Logic Should Serve Love
Chapter 44: Watchfulness Is the Greatest Magic

Paperback with CD

Using Your Mind to Heal Your Body

Many everyday discomforts and tensions arise from the fact that we are alienated from our bodies. With the help of Body Mind Balancing, we can learn to talk to and reconnect with our bodies. After just a short time, we begin to appreciate how much the body has been working for us and supporting us, and from this new perspective we can find new ways to work with the body and create a more harmonious balance of body and mind.
The guided meditation process, "Reminding Yourself of the Forgotten Language of Talking to Your BodyMind" is a CD that accompanies the text. Developed by Osho, this meditative therapy guides the listener in reconnecting with his or her body and creating a new and greater sense of well being.

Chapter Titles

1. THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE BODY
The Wisdom of the Body
Talk to the Body
Listen to the Body
The Body is a Miracle
The Body has all the Mysteries
Body-Mind Connections
Your Mind and Your Body are Not Two Things
Treating Man as a Whole

2. DE-CODING LIFE-NEGATIVE CONDITIONING
Why We Choose to be Unhappy
Two Ways to Live
The Body is Your Friend
The Ghost of “Ought”
Uncling to Misery
Be Conscious of Bliss

3. BASIC CONDITIONS FOR WELL-BEING
Make Contact with the Body
Be true to yourself
Relax into Life as it Comes
Allow the Wisdom of the Body
A Symphony of Joy
Laugh and Be Whole

4. SYMPTOMS AND SOLUTIONS
[1] Tension in the Belly
[2] Feeling Disconnected from the Body
[3] Shoulder and Neck Pain
[4] Stress-related illness
[5] Feeling the Body from Within
[6] Sleeplessness
[7] Tension and Relaxation
[8] Negative Feelings about the Body
[9] Pretty and Unpretty
[10] False and True Beauty
[11] Aging
[12] Frigidity
[13] Impotence
[14] Feeling Withdrawn
[15] Hypochondria
[16] Enlivening the Senses
[17] Sensuousness
[18] Too Much Food, Too Little Sex
[19] Detoxification through fasting
[20] Fasting and Feasting

5. THE HEALING POWER OF MEDITATION
Osho Active Meditation Techniques
The State of Let-Go
Everyday Meditation
Relaxed and Easy

6. THE DOOR TO CONSCIOUSNESS
Center and Circumference
The Harmony of Body, Mind and Soul
You are not the Body
From Goal Seeker to Celebrator
Remember the Resident

7. REMINDING YOURSELF OF THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE OF TALKING TO THE MIND AND BODY – AN OSHO MEDITATIVE THERAPY
How to Use the CD
Preparing for the meditation

Hardbound, 242 pages

In a series of private talks, Osho talks on his favorite authors and books, and in a completely different way than is his public discourses. "Books I have loved" documents a ‘Zen koan’-like situation: While having treatments on his teeth he talks. Devageet, the dentist, Amrito and a nurse are meant to be the note-taker, but without using a notepad. Osho asks the three to write afterwards from their memory what they remember to have heard, while one is doing the writing and the others are doing the editing....

144 p., Paperback, with CD included

Hardbound

Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth

Through the verses of the New Testament gospels, Osho brings the teachings of Jesus to life, calling him a poet. “Jesus became a great milestone in the history of consciousness. It is not just coincidental that Jesus’ birth has become the most important date in history. Before Christ, one world; after Christ, a totally different world has existed – a demarcation in the consciousness of man.”Osho

Review:
"I have never heard anyone so beautifully and playfully integrate and then dissolve the psychological problems which, for generations, have sapped our human energies."
Rev. Cain, Chaplain, Churchill College Cambridge

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Reflections on Jesus of Nazareth

Osho redefines and resurrects the essential core of Jesus and all enlightened people’s messages of religiousness, of a moment-to-moment celebration and an appreciation of life and existence. Talking on verses and parables from the New Testament gospels, Osho not only emphasizes Jesus uniqueness but shows us how each one of us can find our own individuality and uniqueness through meditation and a passionate involvement with each moment; how each one of us can become a light unto ourselves.

Interspersed with these chapters are answers to seekersEquestions on the nature of consciousness, how to remain aware of death and yet celebrate every moment, living and working with awareness, the significance of the crucifixion, why all enlightened masters sound egoistic, fear, guilt, the difference between trying to change the other and helping him, politics, love, grounding, humbleness, the family, why religion has become a dirty word, peaks and valleysE

Osho resurrects the essential core of JesusEmessage Ea religiousness which embraces silence, celebration and a moment-to-moment appreciation of life and existence. He explains how each one of us can rediscover our individuality and uniqueness and become a light unto ourselves.

Chapter 1: Spiritual Hedonism
Chapter 2: Happy People Are Dangerous
Chapter 3: The Gardener Is the Garden
Chapter 4: Right Now
Chapter 5: Character Kills
Chapter 6: Politics and Love
Chapter 7: A Diamond Hidden in an Onion
Chapter 8: The Fear of Happiness
Chapter 10: The Right Side Up
Chapter 11: The Law of Grace

Paperback, with DVD included

In this tenth volume of the popular Insights for a New Way of Living series, Osho examines the nature of compassion from a radically different perspective. He points out that “passion” lies at the root of the word, and then proceeds to challenge assumptions about what compassion really is. Many so-called acts of compassion, he says, are tainted by a subtle sense of self-importance and desire for recognition. Others are based in the desire not really to help others, but to force them to change. Using stories from the life of Jesus, Buddha, and the world of Zen, Osho shows how the path to authentic compassion arises from within, beginning with a deep acceptance and love of oneself. Only then, says Osho, does compassion flower into a healing force, rooted in the unconditional acceptance of the other as he or she is. Compassion includes an original, 120 minute talk by Osho on DVD. This visual component enables the reader to experience the direct wisdom and humor of Osho straight from the source.

Chapter Titles

Part One: Compassion, Energy and Desire
Compassion is Love Come of Age
Meditation the Flower and Compassion the Fragrance
A Desire is a Desire is a Desire – Responses to Questions
Part Two: Sheep’s Clothing – What Compassion is Not
Loving Kindness and Other Delusions of Grandeur
The Zen Master and the Thief – A Parable of Forgiveness
Hearts and Minds – Responses to Questions
Part Three: Compassion in Action
Don’t Be a Lawyer, Be a Lover
Crime and Punishment
Matters of Life and Death – Responses to Questions
Part Four: The Healing Power of Love
Only Compassion is Therapeutic
Unconditionally Value-Free: The Compassion of Zen

Paperback, 192 pages

Courage is not the absence of fear, says Osho. It is, rather, the total presence of fear, with the courage to face it. This book provides a bird’s-eye view of the whole terrain -- where fears originate, how to understand them, and how to find the courage to face them. In the process, Osho proposes that whenever we are faced with uncertainty and change in our lives it is actually a cause for celebration. Instead of trying to hang on to the familiar and the known, we can learn to enjoy these situations as opportunities for adventure, and for deepening our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The book begins with an in-depth exploration of the meaning of courage and how it is expressed in the everyday life of the individual. Unlike books that focus on heroic acts of courage in exceptional circumstances, the focus here is on developing the inner courage that enables us to lead authentic and fulfilling lives on a day-to-day basis. This is the courage to change when change is needed, the courage to stand up for our own truth even against the opinions of others, and the courage to embrace the unknown in spite of our fears -- in our relationships, in our careers, or in the ongoing journey of understanding who we are and why we are here.

Review:

"Were enough Americans to heed the brilliantly provocative words in this book, we might actually become ’the land of the free and the home of the brave.’ Imagine that!" Tom Robbins

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
- Don’t call it uncertainty - call it wonder.
- Don’t Call it insecurity - call it freedom.

WHAT IS COURAGE?
- The Tao of Courage
- The Way of the Heart
- The Way of Intelligence
- The Way of Trust
- The Way of Innocence

WHEN THE NEW KNOCKS ON YOUR DOOR, OPEN IT!

THE COURAGE OF LOVE
- Not a Relationship, but a State of Being
- This Cake Is Delicious!
- A World of No Boundaries
- Neither Easy nor Difficult, Just Natural

TAKE YOURSELF OUT OF THE CROWD
- The Politics of Numbers
- Listen to Your "Inner Sense"
- Freedom From, Freedom For
- Find Your Original Face

THE JOY OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
- Whatever You Do, Life Is a Mystery
- Life is Always in the Wild
- The Ultimate Courage: No Beginning, No End

IN SEARCH OF FEARLESSNESS
- Meditation Techniques & Responses to Questions
- Meditation for Fear of Emptiness
- Meditation for Dissolving Old Patterns of Fear
- Meditation for Trust
- Meditation for Transforming Fear into Love
- And the Last Question: The Fear of God