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El hombre que amaba a las gaviotas y otros relatos
The myth illuminates the path of the human spirit, and without it our lives would be in the abyss. In this book, Osho shares eleven stories that feed the spirit, in which he says that life is a gift that human beings do not deserve and for that we should not demand anything. The essential thing is to understand that love should be the foundation of any act.
328 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2003
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Osho
4,309 books6,807 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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September 15, 2013
I got to say... I think I'm finished with these Osho books. This last one was a struggle to get through and I almost quit on the book a couple of times. It's not that it's bad - on the contrary, if you have never read any of Osho's work, then this book will blow your mind! However, his books have a tendency to bleed into each other and feel redundant because he goes over the same stuff over and over and over. There are only so many ways he can explain these concepts without rehashing stuff. There is a lot of wisdom to be gleaned from this, and many of his other books, so by all means, go forth and read them! Personally, I believe I have had enough and think it's time I endeavored to actually *live* out some of these important life lessons!
August 20, 2011
Almost finished, but so far it hits close to home and his messages ring true for me. One thing you will ask yourself midway through the book, "why am I even reading this when life is the true teacher?"
February 23, 2010
Fantastic book.
June 2, 2018
If you are reading this book "change is a must" and the best way to imbibe the parables is to be with them for the whole day ....I gave each of them a whole day and it was a very intimate experience !!
September 21, 2013
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is mostly a gathering of transcriptions of talks that Osho gave as lessons to his followers and maybe some who were not followers.
What I liked about this book are the stories that Osho tells and his explanations
of these very same stories.
For those who might want a taste of the book, I include the following quote from the preface:
“God must love stories so much; he is a creator of myths himself, he must love stories. He is the first one who started the whole gossip!
Yes, life is a gossip, a momentary gossip in the eternal silence of existence, and man is a gossip-creating animal. Unless you become a god you will have to love gossiping: you will love stories of Rama and Sita, of Adam and Eve, of the Mahabharata; you will love Greek, Roman, Chinese stories. Millions of them exist-all beautiful.
If you don’t bring logic to them, they can reveal inner doors; they can open inner mysteries. If you bring logic to them, doors are closed; then that temple is not for you. Love stories. When you love them they open their mysteries. And much is hidden in them. That’s why Jesus goes on talking in parables, Buddha on talking in stories. They all loved gossiping.”
(xii)
Osho offers much to consider in this book.
What I liked about this book are the stories that Osho tells and his explanations
of these very same stories.
For those who might want a taste of the book, I include the following quote from the preface:
“God must love stories so much; he is a creator of myths himself, he must love stories. He is the first one who started the whole gossip!
Yes, life is a gossip, a momentary gossip in the eternal silence of existence, and man is a gossip-creating animal. Unless you become a god you will have to love gossiping: you will love stories of Rama and Sita, of Adam and Eve, of the Mahabharata; you will love Greek, Roman, Chinese stories. Millions of them exist-all beautiful.
If you don’t bring logic to them, they can reveal inner doors; they can open inner mysteries. If you bring logic to them, doors are closed; then that temple is not for you. Love stories. When you love them they open their mysteries. And much is hidden in them. That’s why Jesus goes on talking in parables, Buddha on talking in stories. They all loved gossiping.”
(xii)
Osho offers much to consider in this book.
July 19, 2024
Vrlo površna razmišljanja sa malignim simplifikacijama najvećih religija. Puno dezinformacija o Islamu, koje ukazuju na znanje stečeno iz anti-islamskih propagandnih izvora. Suptilnost izlaganja ovih dezinformacija s druge strane ukazuje na to da narator dobro zna da govori neistine. Na stranu ovaj aspekt, teško je ne primijetiti površnost misaonog toka naratora u svim drugim pričama, kao i manjak obrazovanja. O nedosljednostima u stavovima da i ne govorimo, u prvim pričama religiozni ljudi su budale, a na kraju se transformišu u moralne gromade...
February 9, 2025
The real power of an individual has long been held hostage to irrational myths. Deploying parables to unravel the message hidden in commonplace happenings, Osho not only questions blind faith, but also demystifies the foggy perceptions we hold in our mind. Religion, philosophy and spirituality are meant to converge towards the crux of oneness, not veer into divisiveness.
Each chapter examines one parable at length, returning to it repeatedly in parts, to convey it’s essence.
Easy to read and comprehend, this compilation makes a lot of practical sense.
Each chapter examines one parable at length, returning to it repeatedly in parts, to convey it’s essence.
Easy to read and comprehend, this compilation makes a lot of practical sense.
August 24, 2018
This was the most unsubstantial, repetitive Osho book I have ever read. It not only repeats what’s been said in his other books but also repeats itself over and over again
. I think I’m done with him for a bit.
. I think I’m done with him for a bit.
January 19, 2024
¡El primero del año! Un regalo de un muy querido alumno, el cual me hizo recordar la belleza de la vida, la importancia del tiempo presente y la base del amor para cualquier interacción humana. Hoy más que nunca necesario para vivir conscientemente y con intención.
December 10, 2023
Si quieres replantearte toda tu existencia, léelo y abre la mente
March 3, 2017
Beautiful stories and life lessons. Never to be read in a hurry. Read, live it & read again. Every chapter is a story worth living..
February 2, 2016
Osho is a big voice on the subject of spirituality and I think someone interested in such stuff should try at least one book by him.
I didn't read "The man who loved seagulls" just because it came to me, but also because it contained stories, myths, and I love those. I can safely say one of my favourites is exactly the last one. It preaches laughter and life, detachment from it, but living. It's about the Buddha Hotei, who went through villages with only one bag of sweets, giving it to children. He always laughed - he is known as the laughing buddha. Being asked what was zen, he put down his bag. Then, he was asked how do you act on zen, so he took his bag and went on.
The stories are absolutely beautiful and Osho's view is interesting, sometimes obvious, sometimes surprising and sometimes almost scandalous. He begins by explaining his philosophy as one about life, of living, of truly enjoying, and he doesn't trust or believe in ascetism. He also explains that faith today is rather a set of beliefs than what is should be, a true feeling of religiousness. He also explains that dealing with life is about balance and consciousness is more of a thing that you have to win again and again. Calmness, detachment and not knowing is best: since all life is a dream, whatever we learn about it does nothing but dip us father into it. All knowledge is truly useless, it's rather feeding the ego and taking us away from the truth. According to zen, consciousness is something you reach in a moment, a second. There is no preparation for it. To Osho, all you can do is prepare a context good enough. Another story shows that it is important not to be possesive, that all love is free and the desire to posses kills it. Also, whatever you think of, life will give you: this is what Osho explains as a rule of energies, something that is probably more largely detalied defined in The Secret. Conclusion is, embrace life with consciousness, love, be free, laugh and dance to the music.
I didn't read "The man who loved seagulls" just because it came to me, but also because it contained stories, myths, and I love those. I can safely say one of my favourites is exactly the last one. It preaches laughter and life, detachment from it, but living. It's about the Buddha Hotei, who went through villages with only one bag of sweets, giving it to children. He always laughed - he is known as the laughing buddha. Being asked what was zen, he put down his bag. Then, he was asked how do you act on zen, so he took his bag and went on.
The stories are absolutely beautiful and Osho's view is interesting, sometimes obvious, sometimes surprising and sometimes almost scandalous. He begins by explaining his philosophy as one about life, of living, of truly enjoying, and he doesn't trust or believe in ascetism. He also explains that faith today is rather a set of beliefs than what is should be, a true feeling of religiousness. He also explains that dealing with life is about balance and consciousness is more of a thing that you have to win again and again. Calmness, detachment and not knowing is best: since all life is a dream, whatever we learn about it does nothing but dip us father into it. All knowledge is truly useless, it's rather feeding the ego and taking us away from the truth. According to zen, consciousness is something you reach in a moment, a second. There is no preparation for it. To Osho, all you can do is prepare a context good enough. Another story shows that it is important not to be possesive, that all love is free and the desire to posses kills it. Also, whatever you think of, life will give you: this is what Osho explains as a rule of energies, something that is probably more largely detalied defined in The Secret. Conclusion is, embrace life with consciousness, love, be free, laugh and dance to the music.
August 6, 2013
Best book ever! It's not a self-help book, but a change of perspective that will make you understand everything related to existence.
January 29, 2015
It was a bit repetitive, but nonetheless, I loved it.
October 21, 2016
Outro excelente livro de OSHO com ensinamentos riquíssimos para a vida. Recomendado para qualquer tipo de pessoa.
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