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he living books that remain alive down the

centuries were never written. They were

spoken. The Song Celestial or the Bhagavad

Gita, the Bible, the Dhammapada,

Mahavir's sayings, Lao Tzu's

insights, the Koran… all these

books were never written but firstspoken. The enlightened masters

never wrote down, they just

spoke what they experienced.

Later, their disciples wrote down

their sayings in book form, says

Osho in his talks on the Gita.

One can add Osho to this list.

Osho spoke over 13,000 words

estimated to total 33,000,000

words in his daily discourses.

During this period, he alsoanswered over 10,000 questions

from his disciples during his discourses. These were

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Remember, these Upanishads were not written by the Masters themselves; these are notes of the disciples. The

Masters have always believed in the spoken word; there are reasons for it. The Masters have never written books.

The spoken word has a lively quality to it; the written word is dead, it is a corpse.

When I am speaking to you it is a totally different thing than when you read it in a book, because when you

are reading in a book it is a only a word; when you are listening to the Master it is more than the word. Thepresence of the Master is overpowering! Before the word reaches you, the Master has already reached; he is

already over flooding you. Your heart is breathing with the Master, beating with the Master in the same rhythm.

You are breathing in the same rhythm. There is a communion, an invisible link. The presence of the Master, his

gestures, his eyes...the words spoken by him are ordinary words, but when spoken by a Master they carry

something of the beyond; they carry some silence, some meditativeness, some of his experience, because they

come from his innermost core.

It is like passing through a garden: even though you have not touched a single flower, but when you reach

home, you can still feel the fragrance of the garden; your clothes have caught it, your hair has caught it. The

pollen of the flowers was in the wind. You have not touched anything, but the fragrance was in the air; it has

become something part of you.

-Osho: I Am That #9

M a s t e r s N e v e r W r i t e B o o k s

Osho spoke over 13,000

words estimated to total33,000,000 words in his

daily discourses.

During this period, he

also answered over

10,000 questions from

his disciples during his

discourses

transcribed and published in book form within

weeks or months. He never wrote a book and yet has

over 600 titles in print. His books are available in over

2,000 translations in over 40 languages, up loaded on

websites for electronic access,

published as paperbacks and can

be heard on audio tapes, on MP3or CDs or watched on video or

VCD speaking his original

discourses. As one of the best

selling non-fiction authors,

publishers keep releasing Osho

titles every month that are getting

increasingly popular now more

than ever. Why? Because he was

far ahead of his time and now

people are beginning to

understand him and appreciatehow his insights can help them in

their daily lives today.



The Book of Secrets

Vigyan Bhirav Tantra

The Book of Secrets contains Osho's

guidance for 112 meditation techniques,

and responses to questions from

meditators. This book is a contemporary mystic'scommentary on Shiva's five-year-old technique for going

beyond consciousness.

“This is not religion, this is science. No belief is needed

only a daringness to experiment is enough.”

The Book of Secrets is not a series of answers, it's a set of

keys. Osho promises at the very beginning that this set of

keys is complete, not missing even one pattern for even a

single door. The key to your own door is in here

somewhere. All you have to do is try the keys, one afterthe other, until you find one that fits. Then open the door

and see for yourself what lies within.

Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

A practical how-to guide, spotlighting over sixty

meditation techniques-from Zazen, the ancient Buddhist

practice of sitting, to Osho's techniques designed

scientifically for the modern-day seeker. In addition,

Osho answers questions about the obstacles meditators

can meet along the way.

My Way: The Way of the White Clouds

Osho has chosen the symbol of the white clouds to

represent the way a seeker moves on the path. The

white clouds have nowhere to go. They move

everywhere in all directions. Nothing

is rejected. Everything is accepted. This book addresses

all the situations faced by the clouds - the storms, the

winds, the sun, the rain and the rainbow - that are partof the adventure called 'life'. The questions and answers

that make up this book have been selected by Osho to

introduce his work to those looking for a new way of

life. Tibetan mystics and Zen Masters have all talked

about 'the while clouds' as a symbol to guide people

into meditation so that many more things are revealed

to you.

Now Osho uses the same symbols. Life is not a problem

but a mystery and this book does not give solutions but

shows the pathless path for people to realize

themselves.

From Sex to Super Consciousness

One book became world famous, world notorious. This

book is not for sex; it is the only book in the whole existence

against sex, but strange…

The book says that there is a way to go beyond sex; you can

transcend sex that's the meaning of “from sex to superconsciousness.” You are at the stage of sex

while you should be at the stage of super-

consciousness. And the route is simple: sex

is just something sacred.

Sex has to be something not obscene, not

repressed but immensely respected, because we are born

out of it. It is our very life source.

Sufis: The People of the Path

This book is the living, beating heart of the

mystic, Osho. His words are the very life-

blood of existence.

Sufism is a special kind of magic, a rare kind

of magic. It can be transferred only from person to person,

not from a book. … It is also just like Zen a transmission

beyond words. The Sufis have a special word for it, they call

it silsila. What Hindus call parampara, they call silsila.

Silsila means a transfer from one heart to another heart,from one person to another person. It is a very, very

personal religion.

India My Love

India My Love is a mystery tour. Our guide

on the journey is Osho, a man with an

extraordinary gift for storytelling and a

m y s t i c w h o b r i n g s a u n i q u e l y

contemporary freshness to the tales ofIndia's golden past. He introduces us to beggars and kings,

wise men and fools, lovers and warriors, artists and

scholars and they come alive on the page, animating the

enchanted landscape of an India that even today continues

to intrigue and attract the seeker and adventurer within us

all.

By reading this book, one will discover just what it is about

India that has made it a magnet for seekers for centuries

and the importance of India's unique contribution to

human search for truth.



Yoga: The Science of the Soul

In this book Osho talks about the scientific

approach to yoga as expressed by

Patanjali. Osho calls him the greatest

scientist of the inner- his mind is scientific

but his journey is inner. He became the

first and the last word; he is the alpha andomega. He cannot be improved upon

because the very combination to have a

scientific attitude and to be able to enter into the inner is

impossible. Yoga explains the basic truth, the breathing is

deeper than thinking - you can create the climate that you

want, it depends on the way you breathe. In this book

Osho explains the meaning of samadhi and the obstacles

to meditation.

The Secret of Secrets (Vols. 1 & 2 in One Volume)

Osho describes The Secret of the Golden

Flower as very ancient,”…a great

synthesis of all the great religions.” He

also says, “This book, The Secret of the

Golden Flower, is one of the most esoteric

treatises in the world. It will show you the

way to become more than the body. It will show you the

way to go beyond death.”

Among many valuable techniques, Osho gives specific

instructions to harmonise the male and female elementsand transmute sexual energy. The day you are able to

circulate energy in a circle you will not need another

woman; you will not need another man, because your own

man, your own woman will meet and merge with each

other. You will be whole and to be whole is to be holy.

Tantra: The Supreme Understanding

Nothing much is known about the Indian master Tilopa,

yet his mystical insight into Tantra in the form of a songpassed on to his disciple Naropa, has lived on through the

ages.

In this series of discourses, Osho speaks on Tilopa's verses

which contain many significant meditation techniques

that are still as helpful and powerful today as when Tilopa

first sang his song.

The Inner Journey

Love is not something to be obtained from the outside.

Love is the music of your being. Nobody can give you love.

Love can arise within you, but it cannot be

obtained from the outside. There is no shop,

no market, and no salesman from whom you

can purchase love. Love cannot be

purchased, at any price.

Love is an inner flowering. It arises from some dormant

energy within, yet all of us search for love on the outside.But all of us search for love in the beloved...

Ancient Music in the Pines

What is this ancient music? Osho says it is

the soundless sound, the sound of

existence itself and it is surrounding us

all the time but we just cannot hear it. He

tells us that meditation is about how to

listen to that which is already there.

A fascinating collection of talks on Zen stories. The stories

by themselves are profound, at times tantalisingly

mystical, but the commentary upon them by Osho is

stimulating in its originality. His deep perceptions into the

psychology of man, his devastating wit and merciless

exposure of the countless hypocrisies that do duty for

social norms and traditions are captivating.

The Book of Wisdom

Like all Osho’s books, this one whispers

the truth. Wisdom is in the words, but the

truth is in the gaps between the words, in

the spaces between the lines. It is a silent,

unspoken whisper: I love you. Existence

loves you.

Osho says here, that it takes courage to find the truth.

“Only a few people have ever dared to discover the

truth…. It is risky; it may shatter all that you have known

before and you will have to rearrange your whole life. It isdangerous; it may destroy all your illusions, it may shatter

all your dreams.”

Last Morning Star

Talks on the enlightened woman mystic, Daya

“The last morning star” symbolises all that

is ephemeral in the world. Talking on the

playful and provocative poetry of Daya,

Osho takes us on a journey from the



transient, from our world outside, to the eternal, our

boundless world within. This is a journey of the heart, the

joyous, spontaneous, and at times uncompromising way

of the enlightened woman mystic.

Osho takes up various topics in his own unique manner,

speaking intimately as a friend, and a master to daily

existence.

The Great Secret

The book contains discourses that are

commentaries on Kabir's poems in which

Kabir sings of his love for God. Love is the

subject. These commentaries take us back to

a calmer world, before society had felt

Osho's power and reacted violently, to a

world filled by these great subjects of Kabir's songs love,

truth, death, enlightenment.

Sufis: The People of the Path

This book is the living, beating heart of the mystic, Osho.

His words are the very life-blood of

existence.

Sufism is a special kind of magic, a rare

kind of magic. It can be transferred only

from person to person, not from a book. … It is also just

like Zen, a transmission beyond words. The Sufis have a

special word for it they call it silsila. What Hindus call

parampara, they call silsila. Silsila means a transfer from

one heart to another heart, from one person to another

person. It is a very, very personal religion.

Come Follow to You

This book is filled with Osho's insights on the

sayings of Jesus, he rescues Christ from the

dead religion that has been created in his

name. Osho resurrects the teachings of Jesus

from dead scriptures and makes them alive

again.

This book is an invitation for you to do the same: to

discard everything dead and dull that has been imposed

on you by social programming and to explore the living

flame of consciousness that is really you.

The Dhammapada (Vols. 1-12)

The Way Of The Buddha

The Dhammapada is the largest collection

of Gautam Buddha's most significant sutras, and as such

through the years, has generated countless

interpretations by exponents of Buddhism. What makes

this collection rare is that it contains the commentaries

by enlightened master, Osho, on another master, Buddha

or at least on Buddha's words.

This twelve-volume commentary is not just a selection of

words. Beautiful though Osho's words are, he is the first to

remind us that at the most they function as wings to

convey the more intrinsic part of what he is trying to share

that which can't be said, that which lies between the

sounds; silence.

The Hidden Harmony

The Fragments of Heraclitus

Through this series of eleven discourses,

Osho acts as a via media to the

philosophies of Hercalitus, a mystic of the

Western world. Though only fragments of

his words remain, Osho finds in them a

poetry that is refreshing in its simplicity

and clarity.

Osho says, if Heraclitus had been born in India, or in the

East, rather than Greece, he would have been recognised as

not simply a philosopher but as a mystic. He would be

known as a Buddha. If he had been accepted, the whole

history of the West would have been totally different; but

he was a stranger, an outsider, in Greek history.

The Beloved (Vol. 1)

This book will introduce all of us to Osho's

vision of the body and of human

consciousness. Osho brings to life the

profound love and awareness of the Baul

mystics from Bengal, some sane and crazy

poets, singers and dancers.

The wisdom contained here, is atomic…. If one plays with

these rebellious concepts and goes inside with the many

meditative secrets, one will find in oneself “the beloved.”

This vision has already helped transform many thousands

of people's attitudes and inner awareness about the body,

inner sensitivity, love, music, sexual energy, and

spontaneous living. The Beloved is a vast well of inner joy



Zarathustra: God That Can Dance

The book documents Osho's discourses that are a lesson

on a very specific theme, and each theme

is a step deeper into the journey. He

speaks to us man to man, teaches us as a

friend, sorting through the ins and outsof the path of truth, leaving it utterly up

to us whether we agree or disagree.

In this book, Osho talks about Zarathustra, not the

ancient, original one, known as “Zoroaster”. He talks

about the one that, Friedrich Nietzsche, a dedicated

philosopher, uses only as a symbolic figure. Nietzsche

has used a historical name but in a very fictitious way.

Osho is commenting on the fictional “Zarathustra,”

using the clarity of his own enlightened vision to

indicate where Nietzsche's vision came close to the truthand where it fell short.

The Mustard Seed

What happens when a seed becomes a

tree? The seed has to die, only then does

it become a tree. ...don't cling to the seed,

because the seed is a bridge. Help it to

die, dissolve, so that the inner life hiddenin it is freed and the seed becomes a great

tree.

I don't want you to become Christians - that is useless,

that's a lie. I would like you to become Christs. And you

can become, because you have the same seed.

Commentaries on the teachings of Jesus as recorded by

the Apostle Thomas.

Osho takes these sayings out of their narrower Christian

context, and blends their wisdom with rich threads of

Eastern traditions of mysticism, thereby showing the

truly universal nature of Jesus' original teachings.

Zen: All the Colours of the Rainbow

Zen has nothing to give to you, but has something to

take away - your personality, your mask, your false

identities. Zen has to rip you away, so that only the

existence, pure existence, remains unpolluted in you.

Zen does not bother about philosophising. Its concern is

experiencing, its concern is existential. That's why I havecalled it "the language of existence."

The Zen master, or Buddha, does not speak, he only

allows existence to sing its song. The Buddha is just a

flute a bamboo with holes. Existence can sing any song

that it wants; the flute does not interfere. The flute

,allows existence to commune with those who are

capable of listening to the music that is flowing through

it.

The Voice of Silence

In this book, Osho says of Light on the Path,

“It is born out of those few essential words

that man discovers again and again and

loses again and again. Mabel Collins says

that she is not the author of the words that

are collected in this booklet, that she has

only seen them in the depths of meditation. She says,

and rightly so, that these words are from a lost Sanskrit

booklet.”

There are man passages that will be of particular interest

to those who know 'something of Osho's work and want

to know more about it…

He tells many stories about his early work with

individual and shares thoughts into the work of other

mystics and teachers, including Ramana Maharishi and

Shri Aurbindo.

In Search of the Miraculous

What does it mean to receive Shanti path from a master?

What is God? How does a movement of Kundalini

energy different in men from women? How does it

manifest as it moves through seven charkas? What does

it really mean to talk of merging with the inner man, the

inner woman? What is the meaning of Tantra, and how

can lovers help each other move from the lowest centre

to the highest?

Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy

In this book Osho clears up misconceptions

about what meditation is playful and what

it is not serious. He answers fundamental

questions about meditation and gives adetail description of each stage of his most



revolutionary meditation technique, Dynamic

Meditation.

It also contains description of many more techniques:

traditional ones reinvented by Osho, as well as original

Osho meditations that begin with activity and lead to

the stillness of a no-mind consciousness.

The Path of Meditation

The culture that will arise in the future, if

it is truly to be for the evolution of

mankind, will be a balance of science and

religion. This culture will be a synthesis

of religion and science. It will not be only

religious or only scientific: it will be either scientificallyreligious or religiously scientific.

Yaa-hoo! The Mystic Rose

This book will take the reader on a step

by step, on enchanted journey of words,

sil ence and pictures. The story has to be

savored page by page. The photographs help the reader

penetrate deep inside. And when the reader hasfinished the book, with closed eyes…they will beable to

hear the laughter, the roar of the mighty Yaa-Hoo! The

voice of Truth resounding in an empty hall, full of

people.

A Cup of Tea

This book, 'A Cup of Tea' is filled with awareness and

love the love and compassion of the enlightened masterfor anyone who is thirsty for a spiritual life. Osho

encourages us to move more into meditation, as He

shares the insights and experiences that He has had on

the path.

In this book are 395 letters that Osho wrote to disciples,

friends and lovers while he was traveling. Each letter

has to be savored, sipped, and pondered upon- for each

contains a great teaching, a key to inner mysteries.

He answers questions like, “What is mind? How to

become free of thoughts?”

Hidden Mysteries

There are many keys in life which can open

the doors of treasures even today, but

unfortunately we neither know anything

about these treasures nor about the locks

which may be opened. And if we do notknow either about the treasures or the locks, then what is

left in our hands cannot even be called a key. It can only

be a key if it opens a lock.

The key has left a sort of lingering fragrance in the

unconscious mind of man.

Seeds of Wisdom

120 letters written by Osho to a beloved

disciple, Ma Anandmayee. In a

meditation camp in Mt. Abu, Rajasthan,

India, Osho announced that she had also

been His mother a previous incarnation.

Whatever I have, whatever I am, I want to give away as

seeds of wisdom, of divine conscious-abundance. In

knowledge one knows of God; in love one becomes.

Knowing is the spiritual discipline, love is the

fulfillment.”

The Perfect Way

In this a rare book of meditation, Osho carefully guides us

through the maze of our own minds, through our process

of creating thoughts, toward a zone of silence. His genius is

in full flight. And the subject couldn't be more mysterious

nor important: one's own self.

“I cannot give you any dreams. I cannot give you any basis

for self-deception. I am a dream-breaker and I want to wakeyou from your slumber.”

The Diamond Sutra

A contemporary Buddha speaks on Buddha, once again

bringing these beautiful words to life and illuminating

the meaning inherent in them. The Diamond Sutra is one

of Gautama the Buddha's most powerful teachings, and

here Osho brings a modern-day clarity; to thesemysterious sutras.



[Osho's] greatness is that he doesn't give solutions, only

tools for people to realize themselves.

This book is an invitation to all those who, feeling the

truth of Osho's words deep in their hearts, understand

that it is time to awaken as spiritual beings and begin to

claim their long-forgotten buddhahood.

The Discipline of Transcendence (Vol. 3)

This book is not about Buddha. Three hundred frames

of truth per page, and the space between. Here is a

photograph of footprints on the beach, washed out by

old sea.

By presence he conveys the mysterious, and the beat of

the ordinary.

Here rigorous logic and jokes make love. Ordinary facts

transform into visions of transcendence, but both are

here and equal together. Both are seen and felt andloved together. Be with Bhagwan in this caress: Buddha

caressed by Bhagwan. Be Bhagwan. Love.

The Heart sutra

In this book of ten discourses Osho is speaking against

the backdrop of Buddha's Heart Sutra. It

is an invitation to celebrate the pure

nothingness of our innermost being, your

essential Buddha-nature. Somethingfunny, something tough, always lucid,

Osho takes everybody directly to the

experience of that primary subjectivity.

Osho and Buddha both address that nothingness. The

masters say that the root of our troubles, is in ignoring

the basic fact of our aloneness. This book gives various

moods of exploration by which we learn little by little to

lose ourselves, to find ourselves.

These are the most important Sutras in the great

Buddhist literature. Hence they are called The Heart

Sutra; it is the very heart of the Buddhist message.

Absolute Tao

The Tao that can be told of is not the Absolute Tao. “Tao is

totality. Totality is not perfect; it is always imperfect

because it is always alive. Life exists through the tension

of opposites. If you deny the opposite you can become

perfect, but you will not be total, you will miss

something.”

With this book Osho brings new life to Lao Tzu's famous

“Tao Te Ching”

Einstein : The Buddha

No other mystic, since the beginning of

time, has spoken so extensively, so deeply

and so beautifully on most of the scriptures

and spiritual masters included here but also

on Greek, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Sufi,

Tao and Zen masters and paths with equal brilliance and

deep spiritual bending. Osho dusted the scriptures of

yore, made them relevant for this day and age for the

complex modern man.

In addition to the millions of words Osho spoke, he also

devised a number of meditations for the modern man in

the 21st century for inner growth and knowing the

unknowable. Thus he has been called the master of

masters.

The wonderful message of Osho is that, we want a

Buddha who is also an Einstein. If we look at the origins

of knowledge in India and many parts of the world, it

was the philosophy that led to the seeking of

knowledge. Science followed much later.If you look at the last four centuries when science has

moved ahead, the philosophy or the religious people or

thinkers have not been able to understand what science

is talking about. And there is a gap, there is a chasm that

scientists say something, the philosophers say

something. Osho tells us now that gyan or spirituality

and vigyan or science must be brought together.

We require a Buddha, we also need an Albert Einstein.

Otherwise science cannot solve the problem. We have

seen that how the technology can be used in an entirely

different way. We saw a new kind of war, which is beingcreated because of totally new kind of weapons.

Biological weapons and chemical weapons!

What we want is a deeper dialogue between science and

spirituality.

-Padmashree Dr. Vijay Bhatkar

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