Beyond The Enlightenment

by Diamond Books

It is a book

Genres: Philosophy

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1986

Reviews

[Bhakta Kishor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beyond enlightenment is only beyondness. Enlightenment is the last host. Beyond it, all boundaries disappear, all experiences disappear. Experience comes to its utmost in enlightenment; it is the very peak of all that is beautiful, of all that is immortal, of all that is blissful – but it is an experience. Beyond enlightenment there is no experience at all, because the experiencer has disappeared. Enlightenment is not only the peak of experience; it is also the finest definition of your being. Beyond it there is only nothingness; you will not come again to a point which has to be transcended.

Experience, the experiencer, enlightenment – all have been left behind. You are part of the tremendous nothingness that is infinite. This is the nothingness out of which the whole existence comes, the womb; and this is the nothingness in which all existence disappears. Science has something parallel – there is bound to be something parallel. The spiritual experience is of the interior world, and science is the exploration of the exterior. But both are wings of the same existence: the inwardness and the outwardness. They always have similar points.

[Chimedee M · Rating 5 out of 5]

The second book in a series of discourses that marks the beginning of the Mystery School that is still alive in Poona. The third book in this series is Sermons in Stones. The first one is the Osho Upanishad. These three books are putting the foundation stone for much of Osho's later works. Just as after Osho finished giving spontaneous talks titled Notes of Madman started a discourse on the books he has loved, he is once again starting a series of talks on the most valued spiritual heritages from The Messiah (Gibran's Prophet) to The Laughing Prophet (Osho's Nietzsche's Osho's Zarathustra). It was an amusement and a nourishment for my inner works to read this book.

[Chris · Rating 1 out of 5]

My first impression after a chapter or two was that Osho is a cult leader, then I encountered a question he responds to about his arrest by US authorities which caused me to look that up. I then realized that Osho was the leader of the cult that was responsible for poisoning a salad bar in 1985. No thanks. I usually pass books on, but I'll cut this book up to use in art projects.