ZORBA THE BUDDHA

Zorba, is the unlived part of every so-called religious person and Buddha is the unlived part of every materialist. Osho proclaims the new man as Zorba the Buddha, the meeting of the materialist and the spiritualist. Without Buddha, Zorba is incomplete and without Zorba, Buddha is incomplete. Read on as Osho brings out the essence of Zorba the Buddha……

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AN EVENING DEDICATED TO LAUGHTER

Osho World galleria was rocked with uproarious laughter, on April 01, when April fools day, celebrated as Mulla Nasruddin day, in honour of the laughing Sufi mystic popularized by Osho in his discourses was inaugurated by popular Hindi humour poets Yusuf Bhardwaj, Rajesh Chetan and Poetess Ritu Goyal

CEREMONIAL BOWLS”, CERAMIC EXHIBITION LAUNCHED BY VETERAN    ARTIST DEVI PRASAD

“Ceremonial Bowls”, a collection of ceramics, was launched by Shri Devi Prasad, renowned veteran master studio potter, at Osho World galleria, Ansal Plaza, New Delhi, on 10th April 2005 at 6.00 pm.

“Ceremonial Bowls”, is the celebration of artistic expressions and for the first time 4 studio potters, Dipalee Daroz, Ela Mukherjee, Rahul Kumar and Abhay Pandit, have displayed their creations together at Osho World.

OSHO WORLD CELEBRATES MAHAVIR JAYANTI

Osho World celebrated Mahavir Jayanti at the galleria on 22nd April 2005 by dedicating melodious evening with renown Violin player Asghar Husain.

Osho’s love for Mahavir is conspicuous by the volume of discourses He has spoken on Mahavir. In His discourses, Osho says, Mahavir was a very unique and rare flowering, a rare fragrance.

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REACTION IS NOT REBELLION

When somebody asked Osho, if people become rebellious, how can society control them, Osho shares that the very concept of control has lead the world into a mess. And the reaction against such an order is not rebellion. Osho says, “rebellion only emerges after satori and there are not many rebellious persons –only a Jesus, a Buddha, a Socrates, very few.”

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THE WISDOM OF FOOLISHNESS

Everyone is trying to become intelligent in this world. People make efforts to make wiser than what they are. Their ambitious streak makes them compete with one another. In the process, they stop loving people and being loved by them.

Sacrificing love for the sake of outsmarting others is not an intelligent move because in this pursuit people become insensitive.

In “The Discipline of Transcendence”, enlightened mystic Osho advises us to follow the wisdom of foolishness. He says, “Empathy comes, compassion, love comes, but it comes only when you are a fool.

That’s why everybody thinks that lovers are foolish, blind hypnotized by each other. Love is a sort of foolishness.

MAKE YOUR WORK A WORSHIP

Creativity is the essence of silence. Osho says, if your creativity comes out of your silence and meditations, then it is authentic and original. But if it comes only as an occupation because there is nothing to do, it is coming out of the crazy mind, then it cannot be a creative phenomenon.
Osho shares, “Anything that arises from your silences has a beauty, a
truthfulness, an authenticity. And that which arises out of the mind is only a carbon copy. Howsoever beautiful it may appear to the ignorant, it cannot be called a creative phenomenon.”

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BODY IS THE TEMPLE

“The body is the temple, it is the shrine; god lives in it. It has to be respected... it is sacred. But the religions in the past have condemned it very much. Because of their condemnation man has become split; they have created a conflict in man's being. They have conditioned humanity to think that the body is the enemy -- one has to fight with it, one has to crush it -- that the body is the barrier between you and god. This is utter nonsense. The body is the bridge, not the barrier. It is god's creation. How can it be against god? God has chosen it to live in as consciousness. It's god's play.

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PARENTS

“THE TROUBLE with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of their parenthood! Man has not even yet learned that parenthood is not something that you have to cling to it forever. When the child is a grown-up person your parenthood is finished. The child needed it -- he was helpless. He needed the mother, the father, their protection; but when the child can stand on his own, the parents have to learn how to withdraw from the life of the child. And because parents never withdraw from the life of the child they remain a constant anxiety to themselves AND to the children. They destroy, they create guilt; they don't help beyond a certain limit.
To be a parent is a great art. To give birth to children is nothing -- any animal can do it; it is a natural, biological, instinctive process. To give birth to a child is nothing great, it is nothing special; it is very ordinary. But to be a parent is something extraordinary; very few people are really capable of being parents.

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Topic - BEING

Meditation - STOP!

Sutra (Technique) - When some desire comes, consider it. Then, suddenly, quit it.

AND THE FLOWERS SHOWERED

I’M INTRIGUED AND DELIGHTED TO be writing this introduction, no doubt about it. All the same, I ask myself, what for? For whom is it intended? Why insert, between Osho and you his reader, the reflections of a third party called Douglas Harding? Or of any other go-between, for that matter?

I’m not at all sure about the answer to these questions. What I can say with full assurance, however is that I have found this book fascinating. There’s so much in it that I want to underscore heavily. Mind you, I am not saying that Osho’s way is exactly my way. Or that it s or should be exactly yours. But I would like to think that my responses to it will help you to clarify and deepen yours. After all, the essential thing is that we should discover what’s true and precious in our very own experience. Here, each of us must, as the Buddha taught, be a lamp unto himself, and his own authority on what its like to be and not to be. Nowhere in all the world is there any substitute for direct, first hand experience of the experiencer. Namely, oneself.

D.H. Harding

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HAPPINESS: THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF LIFE

Life is purposeless. Life is a sheer joy, a playfulness, a fun, a laughter, to no purpose at all. Osho says, “Life is its own end, it has no other end. The moment you understand it you have understood what meditation is all about. It is living your life joyously, playfully, totally, and with no purpose at the end, with no purpose in view, no purpose there at all.”

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