Una mirada innovadora sobre el anhelo humano de la búsqueda de la felicidad.
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.
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.
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.
Desde la primera página, sentí como si alguien me hablara al oído, recordándome que la felicidad no es algo que se busca allá afuera, sino que nace dentro de uno mismo. Este libro no ofrece fórmulas mágicas ni frases motivacionales vacías. Osho va más allá: te sacude, te confronta, te hace mirar hacia adentro.
Me gustó cómo mezcla la espiritualidad con una visión muy humana y realista del mundo. Habla de desapego, de autenticidad, del ego… pero siempre con una claridad que te deja pensando largo rato después de cerrar el libro.
Me han gustado muchas de las reflexiones que escribe Osho acerca de la felicidad, con otras no estoy de acuerdo. Explica que la felicidad es el resultado de vivir la vida en su totalidad, que no puede buscarse.
La parte final del libro de preguntas y respuestas me ha resultado muy repetitiva y me ha costado terminar el libro por ese motivo.