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El libro de la nada: Hsin Hsin Ming
El zen nace del encuentro entre el budismo de la India y el taoísmo de China. En el vértice mismo de tal confluencia se encontraba el maestro Sosan, tercer patriarca zen. Su HSIN HSIN MING, o Libro de la Verdadera Fe. Es un texto muy breve en el cual se encuentra codificada la esencia misma de este camino de conciencia y meditación. Osho expande e ilumina aquí las palabras de Sosan, desplegando su mensaje y haciéndolo accesible a la mentalidad actual. "Si de todos los libros jamás escritos tuviera que quedarme tan sólo con dos, uno de ellos sería el Hsin Hsin Ming de Sosan. Estas palabras son atómicas, están llenas de energía. Si estás preparado, dispuesto para ser fecundado, estas palabras vivas, inmensamente poderosas, entrarán en tu corazón transformándote totalmente". Eres el camino y eres la meta; no hay distancia entre tú y la meta. Eres el buscador y eres lo buscado; no hay distancia entre el buscador y lo buscado. Eres el adorador y eres lo adorado. Eres el discípulo y eres el Maestro. Eres los medios y eres el fin. Este es el Gran Camino. Osho
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Osho
4,318 books6,771 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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July 6, 2014
Some memorable quotations:
"Attain to that silence again, that’s all – again be a child. The whole thing comes to this, you can conclude it. All the Buddhas come to this conclusion: that you have to become a part of nature again."
"But look – they are concerned with small things because life consists of small things. Great problems are only in the mind, not in life."
"Where are the boundaries? The tree moves in you, the sun moves in the tree, the ocean moves into the tree, you move in the child and this goes on..."
"Everything is moving. The breath that is within you will be in me a little later. And the breath is life, so your life and my life cannot be different, because the same breath you breathe I breathe."
"Language is time, divided into the same categories as time. And life is beyond. Life if not past."
"You cannot be perfect! The very goal of perfection is an ego trip. The whole is already perfect, you need not be worried about it – and in the whole you are also perfect."
"Attain to that silence again, that’s all – again be a child. The whole thing comes to this, you can conclude it. All the Buddhas come to this conclusion: that you have to become a part of nature again."
"But look – they are concerned with small things because life consists of small things. Great problems are only in the mind, not in life."
"Where are the boundaries? The tree moves in you, the sun moves in the tree, the ocean moves into the tree, you move in the child and this goes on..."
"Everything is moving. The breath that is within you will be in me a little later. And the breath is life, so your life and my life cannot be different, because the same breath you breathe I breathe."
"Language is time, divided into the same categories as time. And life is beyond. Life if not past."
"You cannot be perfect! The very goal of perfection is an ego trip. The whole is already perfect, you need not be worried about it – and in the whole you are also perfect."
November 29, 2020
Osho says that if you do not think, there won’t be any concept of time. That is why in meditation one is in a state of timelessness. That is why in love you are in timelessness. Love is not thinking, it is cessation of thought. When you are with your beloved, you are not thinking about love, you are not thinking about the beloved. A moment of love is a timeless moment. Jesus Christ has said of enlightenment, there shall be time no longer. In the experience of enlightenment, there is no time at all. It is beyond time. There is no past, no future, there is no present even. These two are the most important elements of religious experience – egolessness and timelessness.
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October 9, 2016
Brilliant. Exceptional read.
I was going through some phase in life where I continuously had thoughts of missing someone in life.
This book was intense read and could relate few chapters with my own life situation.
The last few chapters esp 7, 8, 9 and 10 simply blew my mind.
Such zen parables by Sosan can be easily misunderstood and not easy to understand.
Osho explains these parables in an easy sense but with deep insights which often include quotes from Mahaveera, Buddha, and other relate-able examples
.. hats off..
A must read!
I was going through some phase in life where I continuously had thoughts of missing someone in life.
This book was intense read and could relate few chapters with my own life situation.
The last few chapters esp 7, 8, 9 and 10 simply blew my mind.
Such zen parables by Sosan can be easily misunderstood and not easy to understand.
Osho explains these parables in an easy sense but with deep insights which often include quotes from Mahaveera, Buddha, and other relate-able examples
.. hats off..
A must read!
February 3, 2024
Reco by Osho http://oshosearch.net/Convert/Article...
My fav quotes (not a review):
-Page 3 | "Zen is a crossbreeding between Buddha’s thought and Lao Tzu’s thought."
-Page 11 | "You love a person; sometimes you feel angry. Really, you feel angry only because you love. Sometimes you hate! Sometimes you would like to sacrifice yourself for your lover, and sometimes you would like to kill the lover. And both are you."
-Page 19 |"But your mind will say, “You will become an animal if you don’t prefer. If you don’t choose then what will be the difference between you and a tree?” There will be a difference, a great difference, but not the difference which brings the mind in – a difference which comes through awareness. The tree is choiceless, unconscious; you will be choiceless, conscious. That is what choiceless awareness means and that is the greatest distinction: you will be aware that you are not choosing."
-Page 20 |"And this awareness gives such profound peace. You become a Buddha, you become a Sosan, a Chuang Tzu. The tree cannot become a Chuang Tzu. Chuang Tzu is like the tree, and plus he is like the tree as far as choice is concerned; he is absolutely unlike the tree as far as awareness is concerned. He is fully aware that he is not choosing."
-Page 159 |"Your mind is at the back of the whole thing, and the mind is the projector. But you always look at the other because the other is the screen."
-Page 161 | "Try in small things not to bring the mind in. You look at a flower –simply look. Don’t say, “Beautiful! Ugly!” Don’t say anything. Don’t bring words, don’t verbalize. Simply look. The mind will feel uncomfortable, uneasy. The mind would like to say something. Simply say to the mind, “Be silent! Let me see. I will just look.”"
-Page 178 | "Even the brain is divided, everything is divided in the body. The only thing which is one is the third eye – the witnessing. It is one. If you want to be one within you, seek the point of witnessing consciousness. While walking, watch. While eating, watch. While going to sleep, fall asleep watching what is happening."
-Page 186 | "If you see only life then you will miss. See death hidden everywhere in life!"
-Page 199| "Simply seeing the reality, that the opposite is implied everywhere, Sosan says trust happens. It is not that you say, “I accept.” It is not in any helplessness that you accept."
-Page 201 | "Go even to the churches, synagogues, and see people praying to God. What are they saying? They are giving advice. They are saying, “Don’t do this, this is wrong. My son is ill, make him healthy.” In the first place, if you really trust, then he makes your son ill – so trust it! Why go complaining and praying?"
-Page 202 | "That’s why in the East we have been emphasizing meditation, and in the West they have been emphasizing morality."
-Page 211 | "Remember, the word accept is not very good. It is loaded – because of you, not because of the word – because you accept only when you feel helpless. You accept grudgingly, you accept half-heartedly. You accept only when you cannot do anything, but deep down you still wish… You would have been happy if it had been otherwise. You accept like a beggar, not like a king, and the difference is great."
-Page 221| "Whenever you feel a clinging towards life say, “Not two.” Whenever you feel a fear of death say, “Not two, only one is.” And this saying should be your understanding; it should be filled with intelligence, penetrating clarity. And suddenly you will feel a relaxation within. The moment you say, “Not two” – if you are saying it understandingly, not repeating in a mechanical way – you will suddenly feel the illumination."
-Page 243 | "The disciple worked for years: then he became empty, silent. Then he came to Bodhidharma and said, “Now, master, I have come, and you had told me, ‘Be silent and empty.’ Now I have become silent and empty.” Bodhidharma said to him, “Go out and throw out this emptiness and silence also.” Because if you can feel it, then it is not total, a division exists."
-Page 254| "A real religious person is concerned with wholeness, never with perfection"
What is silence? It is a deep understanding – understanding of the phenomenon that if you prefer, you will be tense. Even if you prefer silence, you will be tense.
Right is Chuang Tzu; ”When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.”
My fav quotes (not a review):
-Page 3 | "Zen is a crossbreeding between Buddha’s thought and Lao Tzu’s thought."
-Page 11 | "You love a person; sometimes you feel angry. Really, you feel angry only because you love. Sometimes you hate! Sometimes you would like to sacrifice yourself for your lover, and sometimes you would like to kill the lover. And both are you."
-Page 19 |"But your mind will say, “You will become an animal if you don’t prefer. If you don’t choose then what will be the difference between you and a tree?” There will be a difference, a great difference, but not the difference which brings the mind in – a difference which comes through awareness. The tree is choiceless, unconscious; you will be choiceless, conscious. That is what choiceless awareness means and that is the greatest distinction: you will be aware that you are not choosing."
-Page 20 |"And this awareness gives such profound peace. You become a Buddha, you become a Sosan, a Chuang Tzu. The tree cannot become a Chuang Tzu. Chuang Tzu is like the tree, and plus he is like the tree as far as choice is concerned; he is absolutely unlike the tree as far as awareness is concerned. He is fully aware that he is not choosing."
-Page 159 |"Your mind is at the back of the whole thing, and the mind is the projector. But you always look at the other because the other is the screen."
-Page 161 | "Try in small things not to bring the mind in. You look at a flower –simply look. Don’t say, “Beautiful! Ugly!” Don’t say anything. Don’t bring words, don’t verbalize. Simply look. The mind will feel uncomfortable, uneasy. The mind would like to say something. Simply say to the mind, “Be silent! Let me see. I will just look.”"
-Page 178 | "Even the brain is divided, everything is divided in the body. The only thing which is one is the third eye – the witnessing. It is one. If you want to be one within you, seek the point of witnessing consciousness. While walking, watch. While eating, watch. While going to sleep, fall asleep watching what is happening."
-Page 186 | "If you see only life then you will miss. See death hidden everywhere in life!"
-Page 199| "Simply seeing the reality, that the opposite is implied everywhere, Sosan says trust happens. It is not that you say, “I accept.” It is not in any helplessness that you accept."
-Page 201 | "Go even to the churches, synagogues, and see people praying to God. What are they saying? They are giving advice. They are saying, “Don’t do this, this is wrong. My son is ill, make him healthy.” In the first place, if you really trust, then he makes your son ill – so trust it! Why go complaining and praying?"
-Page 202 | "That’s why in the East we have been emphasizing meditation, and in the West they have been emphasizing morality."
-Page 211 | "Remember, the word accept is not very good. It is loaded – because of you, not because of the word – because you accept only when you feel helpless. You accept grudgingly, you accept half-heartedly. You accept only when you cannot do anything, but deep down you still wish… You would have been happy if it had been otherwise. You accept like a beggar, not like a king, and the difference is great."
-Page 221| "Whenever you feel a clinging towards life say, “Not two.” Whenever you feel a fear of death say, “Not two, only one is.” And this saying should be your understanding; it should be filled with intelligence, penetrating clarity. And suddenly you will feel a relaxation within. The moment you say, “Not two” – if you are saying it understandingly, not repeating in a mechanical way – you will suddenly feel the illumination."
-Page 243 | "The disciple worked for years: then he became empty, silent. Then he came to Bodhidharma and said, “Now, master, I have come, and you had told me, ‘Be silent and empty.’ Now I have become silent and empty.” Bodhidharma said to him, “Go out and throw out this emptiness and silence also.” Because if you can feel it, then it is not total, a division exists."
-Page 254| "A real religious person is concerned with wholeness, never with perfection"
What is silence? It is a deep understanding – understanding of the phenomenon that if you prefer, you will be tense. Even if you prefer silence, you will be tense.
Right is Chuang Tzu; ”When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.”
January 18, 2016
The great book of nothing :)
January 7, 2017
Great book. An Essential to understanding mindfulness and the nature of consciousness. Profound. Good in every aspect. If you really want to learn what the mind is, then you have to listen to Osho.
August 27, 2024
Beautiful. Thought-provoking. Soothing.
Simply that. I thought about writing down my favourite ideas and quotes, but that would mean writing down about half the book.
Simply that. I thought about writing down my favourite ideas and quotes, but that would mean writing down about half the book.
February 22, 2018
Golden Words to live by (if you can!)...... Another Osho masterpiece!!
“Do not search for the truth; only cease to hold opinions”. – Search is a desire. You searched in the world for wealth, power, prestige, and you failed. Now you search for God and truth, but you remain the same. Nothing has changed only words have changed. Before it was “power” now it is “God” – but you remain the same seeker. The truth cannot be sought. On the contrary, when all seeking stops the truth knocks at your door; when the seeker is no longer, truth comes to you. When you cease all desires, when you have no motivation to go anywhere, suddenly you find you are illuminated. Suddenly you find you are the very temple you were seeking. Suddenly you come to realize you are Krishna, you are Jesus. No vision comes to you – you are the source of all, you are the very reality.
“Although all dualities come from the one, do not be attached even to this one. When mind exists undisturbed in the way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.”
“Do not search for the truth; only cease to hold opinions”. – Search is a desire. You searched in the world for wealth, power, prestige, and you failed. Now you search for God and truth, but you remain the same. Nothing has changed only words have changed. Before it was “power” now it is “God” – but you remain the same seeker. The truth cannot be sought. On the contrary, when all seeking stops the truth knocks at your door; when the seeker is no longer, truth comes to you. When you cease all desires, when you have no motivation to go anywhere, suddenly you find you are illuminated. Suddenly you find you are the very temple you were seeking. Suddenly you come to realize you are Krishna, you are Jesus. No vision comes to you – you are the source of all, you are the very reality.
“Although all dualities come from the one, do not be attached even to this one. When mind exists undisturbed in the way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way.”
April 7, 2025
The last sentence of this book on the audio recording is:
The whole message is how to drop out of mind, language, and time.
The PDF version does not show this.
The last part of Sen Tzan's Verses on the true faith goes like this:
Words! Words!
The Way is beyond language,
for in it there is no yesterday
no tomorrow
no today.
>> It has been beautiful.
The whole message is how to drop out of mind, language, and time.
The PDF version does not show this.
The last part of Sen Tzan's Verses on the true faith goes like this:
Words! Words!
The Way is beyond language,
for in it there is no yesterday
no tomorrow
no today.
>> It has been beautiful.
March 31, 2015
Sin palabras.
April 1, 2018
Si tuviera que quedarme con un solo libro sin duda me quedaría con este; El libro de la Nada.
Gracias!
Gracias!
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May 17, 2020
I guess these are some of the highest paradigms
and without self - experience, there is no way to conceptulize it or reffer to it,
ironicly if you already had realized it yourself, I guess there would be no intrest nor point to read it
what stroke me the most is the idea that in pain or suffering - we "feel" the I more (the ego I guess)
that's why we gravitate towards pain or unhappiness, problems
kind of like your forget about your skin becasue it fits so well, but when it's cuted or itching, all of the sudden you feel it more !
and without self - experience, there is no way to conceptulize it or reffer to it,
ironicly if you already had realized it yourself, I guess there would be no intrest nor point to read it
what stroke me the most is the idea that in pain or suffering - we "feel" the I more (the ego I guess)
that's why we gravitate towards pain or unhappiness, problems
kind of like your forget about your skin becasue it fits so well, but when it's cuted or itching, all of the sudden you feel it more !
September 17, 2020
Es un libro complejo para el lector. Es complicado de entender en las primeras páginas. Además es bastante pesado, lo que hace una lectura lenta y reflexiva. No lo recomiendo para aquellos que les interese la lectura a modo de distracción. El Libro de la Nada puede pertenecer al género de auto-ayuda aunque a Osho no le gustaría que así fuera.
May 21, 2022
A citation from the book: Sosan is the third Zen Patriarch. Nothing much is known about him – this is as it should be, because history records only violence. History does not record silence – it cannot record it. All records are of disturbance. Whenever someone becomes really silent, he disappears from all records, he is no more a part of our madness. So it is as it should be.
May 23, 2018
So much wisdom in Oshos's words.
With a higher ground view of nowadays religions and social norms, Osho's words are based on an ancient one called Sosan.
The explanations and the example are very thought-provoking, with a very different, yet simple approach to daily lives.
With a higher ground view of nowadays religions and social norms, Osho's words are based on an ancient one called Sosan.
The explanations and the example are very thought-provoking, with a very different, yet simple approach to daily lives.
June 12, 2019
Life changing.
A book not for quick reading but to carefully begin to observe your thoughts. For me it is a book for daily inspiration, joy and continuous consult on how to quiet one's mind and get rid of the ego.
A book not for quick reading but to carefully begin to observe your thoughts. For me it is a book for daily inspiration, joy and continuous consult on how to quiet one's mind and get rid of the ego.
September 15, 2025
Loved this book, it is very Buddhistic book and very ‘simple’. Meaning a simple look at life. About what really matters, and how you can see life for what it is instead of constantly searching for pleasure or distractions.
September 12, 2020
Another great Osho's talks compilation
January 23, 2021
This book is very clearly written and explains perfectly the texts of Sosan and
will make you understand the zen "no-mind" and the Tao te Ching
will make you understand the zen "no-mind" and the Tao te Ching
January 6, 2022
Libro recomendado para aquellos que desean saber por qué es importante trascender el tiempo y calmar la mente con la meditación: la Unión con el Todo.
March 16, 2022
For people who are new to Buddhism and Zen
I suggest to start with this book, it's simply and clearly explained
I suggest to start with this book, it's simply and clearly explained
October 12, 2023
This book shares a philosophical manner of explaining how to live in the present without carrying the luggage of the past or worrying for the future.
December 26, 2024
Lo leí en un momento muy necesario de mi vida y me sirvió muchísimo en ese momento.
November 10, 2016
Sosan! Very Zen.
September 13, 2020
5000 year old wisdom explained by a genius. What a book.
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July 30, 2011"Aristotle says A is A and cannot be not A – the opposites cannot meet. Sosan says there are no
opposites – they are already meeting, they have always been meeting. This is one of the most
fundamental truths to be realized, that the opposites are not opposites. It is you who say they are
opposites, otherwise they are not opposites. Look existentially and you will feel they are the same
energy"
Mmmm... thats the sound of my brain salivating at the anticipation of tumor like growth that surely awaits it from the epic journey I have embarked upon since deciding to navigate through the course plotted by Hsin Hsin Ming.
Should I survive the trip with linguistic abilities in tact I shall dare to deliver a personal recap of the adventure. Wish me well.
Breathe in 1,2,3... and out 1,2,3
opposites – they are already meeting, they have always been meeting. This is one of the most
fundamental truths to be realized, that the opposites are not opposites. It is you who say they are
opposites, otherwise they are not opposites. Look existentially and you will feel they are the same
energy"
Mmmm... thats the sound of my brain salivating at the anticipation of tumor like growth that surely awaits it from the epic journey I have embarked upon since deciding to navigate through the course plotted by Hsin Hsin Ming.
Should I survive the trip with linguistic abilities in tact I shall dare to deliver a personal recap of the adventure. Wish me well.
Breathe in 1,2,3... and out 1,2,3
January 7, 2014
awesome - this is the essence of mindfulness. It's life changing book absolutely must have !
February 11, 2014
Excellent book. Vintage Osho!
November 9, 2015
the best
February 13, 2016
Read it!Don't ask any more questions because it's absolutely amazing!
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