Una mirada innovadora sobre el anhelo humano de la búsqueda de la felicidad.
En este título, Osho observa la felicidad, y lo que entendemos por felicidad, desde todos los ángulos posibles, y desmonta el espejismo del mundo actual, donde buena parte de la humanidad tiene cubiertas las necesidades materiales básicas pero no es feliz.
Cuando nos apegamos a la felicidad, negamos la dualidad de la experiencia humana. Confundimos el placer con la felicidad, lo que nos aleja de la posibilidad de vivir la auténtica experiencia que nos proporcionaría una vida plena.
La búsqueda de la felicidad es intrínseca al ser humano, y en ese camino las drogas no han sido ni son una solución. La felicidad, nos explica Osho, es el resultado de vivir la vida en su totalidad, sin necesidad de estar constantemente escogiendo y rechazando.
La gran paradoja es que la felicidad no puede buscarse. La auténtica búsqueda es la de la verdad, y es entonces cuando hallamos la felicidad.
Este libro incluye una interesante selección de preguntas y respuestas sobre la naturaleza de la felicidad y los dilemas que plantea, e ilustra de forma práctica las cuestiones abordadas proponiéndonos una nueva manera de vivir la vida.
Felicidad es el duodécimo título de la serie Claves para una nueva forma de vivir, un éxito de ventas mundial de Osho, como los anteriores.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
“ Happiness is not an achievement. It is your nature.” - Osho
Happiness is the twelfth title in the Osho bestselling Insights for a New Way of Living series, and the first new title in the series since 2017.
The popular Insights for a New Way of Living challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and the prejudices that limit their capacity to live life in all its richness. The books shine light on beliefs and attitudes that prevent individuals from being their true selves. The text is an artful mix of compassion and humor, and readers are encouraged to confront what they would most like to avoid, which in turn provides the key to true insight and power.
Rajneesh (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.