083 | Nansen : The Point of Departure Talks on Zen, Talks given from 05/10/88 pm to 14/10/88 pm, English Discourse series, 10 Chapters, Year Published : 1988 Content : Based on the anecdotes of Nansen, the poetry of Sekiso and the questions of a disciple, this series of talks is penetrated by Osho’s love for the radical revolutionary depicted in the courageous innovator Nansen and his insistence that the spiritual is not apart from the material, The Point of Departure. Challenging the reader to be a whole person, not denying anything, Osho continually hits us with the Zen stick of his wit, encouraging us to “transform everything, including everything in your spiritual growth.” | Read |
084 | The New Alchemy : To Turn You On Talks On Meditation, Talks given from 09/02/73 pm to 14/04/73 pm, English Discourse series, 35 Chapters, Year Published : 1978 Content : Containing talks from two early meditation camps, this volume features Osho speaking on the theosophist, Mabel Collins. He speaks of the intensity and totality needed by meditators, the relationship between sex and death, the role of the master, and pain caused by active meditations. He also answers basic questions such as, Why meditate? Why seek? What is the difference between mind and consciousness…between surrender and blind faith? How can I be wholehearted in meditation? He answers many specific questions about his different techniques. The appendix, Catharsis and Meditation: Steps on the Path, presents Osho’s reasons for cathartic techniques. “No one is more qualified to introduce the mystics than Osho, a man who stands out even in their exalted company. He speaks from his own experience, bringing his mystic predecessors to life, making them his contemporaries.” John Lilly | Read |
085 | The New Dawn Talks given from 18/06/87 pm to 04/07/87 pm, English Discourse series, 33 Chapters, Year published : 1989 Content : A many-faceted series of discourses in which Osho dismantles a great variety of questions from disciples. One asks : With the imminent possibility of global suicide isn’t it a paradox that all we can do is to sit silently? Another worries about the misuse of genetic science, and a third isn’t sure how to respond to the madness of living in the world. And there are many questions of the heart: about feelings of unworthiness; how to make the transition from loneliness; to aloneness and what we learn from love. Osho’s responses are applicable to everyone, everywhere, who is sincerely seeking to understand and to evolve. “Never before or after have I encountered anybody having such a harmonious and immensely creative view encompassing art, science, human psychology and religiousness. Certainly we would lack substantially without his vision of the new man.” Dr. A. Schleger, Ph.D., Institute of Technology, Switzerland | Read |
086 | Nirvana : The Last Nightmare Talks on Zen, Talks given from 11/02/76 am to 20/02/76 am, English Discourse series, 10 Chapters, Year published : 1981 Content : Why does Osho call the desire for nirvana, enlightenment, “the last nightmare”? Because, he says, all desire, all hope is the nightmare. Through Zen stories and responses to seekers’questions, Osho speaks on the nature of desire, the disease of comparison, man’s compulsive need to “do,” macrobiotics, being creative with work, and the chronic state of schizophrenia inflicted upon mankind by the organized religions. | Read |
087 | No Mind : The Flowers of Eternity Talks on Zen, Talks given from 26/12/88 pm to 07/01/89 pm, English Discourse series, 12 Chapters, Year published : 1988 Content : Brimming with paradox and humor, Osho is guaranteed to shake shock and delight with these discourses based on Zen stories. This book is about sudden enlightenment—that supreme moment when we cease struggling to understand with our minds matters beyond the mind, and jump wholeheartedly into the abyss. Osho offers us deep insights into ourselves, our individual natures and the universe in which we live. “I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion.” Yehudi Menuhin | Read |
088 | No Water, No Moon Talks on Zen, Talks given from 11/08/74 am to 20/08/74 am, English Discourse series, 10 Chapters, Year published : 1974 Content : Brimming with paradox and humor, Osho is guaranteed to shake shock and delight with these discourses based on Zen stories. This book is about sudden enlightenment—that supreme moment when we cease struggling to understand with our minds matters beyond the mind, and jump wholeheartedly into the abyss. Osho offers us deep insights into ourselves, our individual natures and the universe in which we live. “I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion.” Yehudi Menuhin | Read |