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THE DIAMOND SUTRA




“You are the people Buddha is talking about. And you are the people I am depending on. The wheel of Dharma has stopped. It has to be turned again.” 

As I listen to these words, I realize Osho is doing the impossible: bridging a historical gap of 2,500 years and bringing Gautama the Buddha again into the present, into the here and now.

In these discourses, Osho makes us witness to a rare event: Buddha talking to Subhuti, a devoted disciple on the verge of enlightenment, helping him understand the significance of being a bodhisattva – one who has to potential to help others experience the same blissful state as Buddha. 

But the real significance of this book reveals itself only when, while reading about Buddha and subhuti, you suddenly realize that the past has become the present. Osho is offering the same possibility to us, to you and to me. He is inviting us to rise with him to those Himalayan heights of consciousness where we can see our potential as bodhisattvas. We, too, are living in a time when the flower of buddhahood is blossoming. And we are doubly blessed, because we are at the very beginning. As Osho points out, the five epochs of Buddha’s turning of the Wheel of Dharma have come to an end. A new cycle is beginning, a new dawn is breaking, a new type of bodhisattva is being born.