You may have heard The Starfish Story in which the old men asked the boy why does he bother to throw them back into the ocean, one by one, when there were tens of thousands of starfish on the beach, doomed to die when the sun will rise, because he won't be able to make much of a difference !? ... and the boy, after picking up another starfish and throwing it as far as he could into the ocean, said smilingly : “It made a difference to that one!”
That's what is about here!
Nirvana has become an idealized word associated with the juxtaposition of a cult rock figure who died before his time and some vague new age version of eastern religion. An altered state to be hoped for, but likely unattainable, reinforcing that all too familiar uneasiness associated with never being able to have what we truly desire in life.
Osho masterfully brings this internal state of tension to the surface and through the use of five beautiful Zen stories examines, unravels and reveals the meaning of nirvana. By listening without interpreting, making a decision without worrying if it is the right one, or surrendering to each moment, it is possible to come to a point where we simply drop through the manifestations of the ego and the delight of ordinary life is revealed.
Sufism is the mystical dimension of the Islamic faith. Osho clarifies the Sufi approach to religiosity, which is to become part of the mystery of existence by living meditatively, being total and transcending experience itself. Osho distills the essence of Sufism, not to inform you about the state of mysticism, but to create a situation in which you can discover the mystic within yourself.
These remarkable discourses are original, live recordings made during Osho's
extemporaneous daily talks to audiences of disciples and visitors at his meditation retreat in Poona, India. His talks were, and continue to be, central to his work as a mystic trying to find ways to share his experience. And as you
listen to this great teacher, you too will enter a state of meditative awareness that will bring you to a new understanding of this ancient pathway into the wonders and mysteries of existence.
The tradition of Tantra, of Tantric Buddhism, has existed in India from as early as the 5th Century. The message of Tantra endorses Osho's perspective: that only through total acceptance of ourselves can we grow. In Osho's understanding, Tantra is one of the greatest of man's visions, a religion which respects rather than destroys individuality, and is an extraordinary method of expanding inner consciousness.
In The Secret, Osho introduces the reader to Sufism, a world of love.
“Sufism is not concerned with knowledge. Its whole concern is love, intense, passionate love: how to fall in love with the whole, how to be in tune with the whole, how to bridge the distance between the creation and the creator.”
That world of love becomes an open secret when Osho unlocks the inner wisdom of colorful Sufi stories and parables. He illustrates many points with jokes, as he responds to the Sufi stories as well as to listeners’ questions about everyday experiences – including love, education, knowledge and wisdom, doubt and trust, freedom and responsibility, sex and death.
A compendium of Osho's meditation techniques and personal letters to disciples — including Dynamic, Nadabrahma, Kundalini, Nataraj, Vipassana, Gourishankar, Mandal, Prayer, Kirtan, and Sufi whirling meditations — along with sutras on witnessing, silence, and awareness in daily life.
ओशो की ध्यान विधियों और शिष्यों को लिखे व्यक्तिगत पत्रों का संकलन — जिसमें सक्रिय, नादब्रह्म, कुंडलिनी, नटराज, विपश्यना, गौरीशंकर, मंडल, प्रार्थना, कीर्तन एवं सूफी नृत्य ध्यान शामिल हैं — साथ ही साक्षी भाव, मौन और दैनिक जीवन में सजगता पर सूत्र।
Taking its title from Kabir's famous line about the word "love" — written with only "two and a half letters" in Hindi, yet containing more wisdom than any scholar's library — this is a collection of personal letters written by Osho (then known as Acharya Rajneesh) to individual disciples between 1968 and 1971, each addressed by name. Rather than formal discourses, these are intimate notes touching on love, surrender, silence, and inner awakening, closing with the same Kabir couplet that gives the book its title.
कबीर की उस प्रसिद्ध पंक्ति से अपना शीर्षक लेते हुए, जिसमें "प्रेम" शब्द को हिंदी में केवल "ढाई आखर" में लिखा गया बताया गया है, फिर भी वह किसी भी विद्वान के पूरे पुस्तकालय से अधिक ज्ञान ...
Taking its title from a mystic Palto couplet — "just as the river is one, many are its shores" — this discourse explores how the mind's division creates all difference, while beyond mind lies a single, unified taste of truth. Osho uses the image of many rivers merging into one ocean to illustrate how different paths (Buddha's way, Mahavira's way, Christ's way) all dissolve into the same destination, while people mistakenly cling to their particular "shore" — a scripture, a ritual, a tradition — as if it were the truth itself rather than just one of countless ways to reach it.
संत पलटू के एक रहस्यवादी दोहे से अपना शीर्षक लेते हुए—"जैसे नदी एक है, बहुतेरे हैं घाट"—यह प्रवचन बताता है कि मन का भेद ही सारे अंतर को जन्म देता है, जबकि मन के ...
