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Osho
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“To be a buddha is not a difficult job. It is not some achievement for which you need a Nobel Prize”. Commenting on anecdotes and haikus by the Zen masters, Osho explains that being a buddha is the easiest thing in the world - it has already happened without you knowing. The empty heart, a place beyond thoughts and feelings, is within everyone. Meditation, and becoming truly thoughtless, is the key. Osho presents Zen as potent, alive, and relevant to the modern world.
“Once your heart is empty, you are the buddha - serene, silent, utterly blissful, at home. When I say to you that you are a buddha, I mean it. It is just that you have to recover from your dreams, afflictions, addictions. You just have to penetrate deeply to the point where even the self starts disappearing and the door opens to the vast, to the infinite”.
Chapter #1: The Emptiness of the Heart
Chapter #2: Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Chapter #3: This Knowing Is a Transformation
Chapter #4: Enter the Door of Anatta
Chapter #5: In the Blink of an Eye
Chapter #6: To Take up a Koan
Chapter #7: From the Surface to the Center
Chapter #8: The Man of Enlightened Freedom
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- Kham Piseth
- 02-08-21
The Best of OSHO !
I have listened to about 100 titles of OSHO's discourses... This is one is the BEST!
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