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Osho Life Essentials
Žijte podle svého: Jste skutečný rebel?
Rebelství je téma, které se objevuje v Oshových promluvách často. Člověk, který se nechá ovládat druhými a podléhá obecně rozšířenému pohledu na svět, nemůže být šťastný, protože nežije svůj vlastní život. Je pouhou loutkou plnící příkazy okolí a jeho bytí je nudné a bezútěšné. Stane se součástí davu a ztratí osobitost.
Osho obhajuje rebelství, jež není pouhou vzpourou proti danému společenskému řádu, ale cestou k volnosti a poznání. Není to ani útok, ani útěk, ale autentická existence opravdového svobodného rebela – Osho mu říká Zorba Buddha –, jenž si naplno užívá přítomný okamžik a zároveň je vyrovnaný a zodpovědný.
Osho obhajuje rebelství, jež není pouhou vzpourou proti danému společenskému řádu, ale cestou k volnosti a poznání. Není to ani útok, ani útěk, ale autentická existence opravdového svobodného rebela – Osho mu říká Zorba Buddha –, jenž si naplno užívá přítomný okamžik a zároveň je vyrovnaný a zodpovědný.
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Osho
4,354 books6,784 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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March 29, 2017
Deși numele autorului -Osho- nu e foarte răspândit în rândul "marilor lideri spirituali", el aduce un uriaș aport de coerență gândirii. Pentru cititor, opera lui se caracterizează prin reflexivitate. Redă totul într-un mod simplu, ceea ce face ca "parabolele" sale să fie înțelese de oricine. Pe lângă asta, la fiecare subiect pe care-l tratează, mai oferă și o anecdotă care are partea ei comică, dar și tragică deopotrivă.
January 17, 2020
This is the first book I've read from Osho but I feel like there are lots of things Im still going to learn.
He is talking about trivial things in the deepest way. Learned a lot from his analyses and his interpretations of life and the world.
He is talking sincerely about things that he has done in his youngest years and 80% you are not going to agree with that and thats the real Osho, I think. He is giving you the freedom to choose, to have your opinion, because thats the greatest idea - the freedom.
“But the freedom I have been talking about you simply are – in utter silence, serenity, beauty, bliss.”
He is talking about trivial things in the deepest way. Learned a lot from his analyses and his interpretations of life and the world.
He is talking sincerely about things that he has done in his youngest years and 80% you are not going to agree with that and thats the real Osho, I think. He is giving you the freedom to choose, to have your opinion, because thats the greatest idea - the freedom.
“But the freedom I have been talking about you simply are – in utter silence, serenity, beauty, bliss.”
June 18, 2023
Osho este probabil unul dintre cei mai controversații autori de rang mondial. Ei bine cărțile ce apar cu semnătura Osho nu sunt cărți scrise de el, sunt defapt alcătuite de către urmașii lui care redau ideile lui Osho și care prezintă sub formă de întrebări-răspunsuri discursurile acestuia. Este mai curând un brand folosit pentru a scoate pe lentă cărți cu teme diferite pornind de la ideea de meditație dinamică.
Este a doua carte Osho pe care o citesc și probabil că nu voi mai reveni prea curând la acest tip de cărți. Din păcate nu am învățat nimic nou de aici, nici măcar nu mi-a adus aminte unele idei prețioase cum este cazul altor cărți de dezvoltare personală.
Însuși conotația termenului de “rebel” pe care o dau adepții lui Osho este diferită de accepțiunea generală. Interpretarea adusă aici ține mai mult de individualitate și libertate, deși și acestea includ nesupunerea.
Ideea de a-ți urma propria cale, parcursul personal și chemarea inimii, fără a încerca să imiți pe cineva, a te desprinde de turmă, nu este o idee rea și chiar aș zice c-o susțin. Însă, Osho merge la exagerare, duce această idee la extreme.
Diferite fraze sunt dezvoltate pentru a reda ideea că fiecare om trebuie să-și urmeze instinctele, să ignore orice regulă impusă de societate și să trăiască așa cum crede el mai bine.
Conform acestei teorii nu trebuie să-i impui nimic nici măcar unui copil mic, păi cum să-l lași să crească ca-n junglă?!
“Rețineți: numai ceea ce dobândiți prin experiență proprie e al vostru.” Această idee conține ceva adevăr însă poate fi și combătută. Cum rămâne cu învățarea din greșelile altora?!
Despre psihoterapeut se menționează: “Te poți apuca de meseria asta - nu e nevoie de nicio altă calificare - dacă știi un singur lucru: cum să stai lângă pacient și să-l asculți cu atenție.”
Pe final vă las o întrebare la care Osho a răspuns ceva de genul: dacă asta simți, asta fă. Concluzia mea: așa apar trântorii.😂
“Când îmi ascult sentimentele, vocea lăuntrică, ele îmi spun să nu fac nimic altceva decât să dorm, să mănânc și să mă joc pe plajă! Mă tem să-mi urmez sentimentele acestea, deoarece cred că voi ajunge prea slab ca să supraviețuiesc în lumea asta.”
Și încă o frază amuzantă pe final: “… oamenii care trăiesc ghidați de instinct sunt veseli, fericiți, iubitori, iar cei care trăiesc conduși de intelect sunt seci, certăreți.”
Am impresia că multe idei susținute de către Osho și adepții lui au fost enunțate doar de dragul de a șoca și a aduce senzație, nimic mai mult…
“Trăiește în felul tău. Ce înseamnă cu adevărat să fii rebel?” de Osho
Este a doua carte Osho pe care o citesc și probabil că nu voi mai reveni prea curând la acest tip de cărți. Din păcate nu am învățat nimic nou de aici, nici măcar nu mi-a adus aminte unele idei prețioase cum este cazul altor cărți de dezvoltare personală.
Însuși conotația termenului de “rebel” pe care o dau adepții lui Osho este diferită de accepțiunea generală. Interpretarea adusă aici ține mai mult de individualitate și libertate, deși și acestea includ nesupunerea.
Ideea de a-ți urma propria cale, parcursul personal și chemarea inimii, fără a încerca să imiți pe cineva, a te desprinde de turmă, nu este o idee rea și chiar aș zice c-o susțin. Însă, Osho merge la exagerare, duce această idee la extreme.
Diferite fraze sunt dezvoltate pentru a reda ideea că fiecare om trebuie să-și urmeze instinctele, să ignore orice regulă impusă de societate și să trăiască așa cum crede el mai bine.
Conform acestei teorii nu trebuie să-i impui nimic nici măcar unui copil mic, păi cum să-l lași să crească ca-n junglă?!
“Rețineți: numai ceea ce dobândiți prin experiență proprie e al vostru.” Această idee conține ceva adevăr însă poate fi și combătută. Cum rămâne cu învățarea din greșelile altora?!
Despre psihoterapeut se menționează: “Te poți apuca de meseria asta - nu e nevoie de nicio altă calificare - dacă știi un singur lucru: cum să stai lângă pacient și să-l asculți cu atenție.”
Pe final vă las o întrebare la care Osho a răspuns ceva de genul: dacă asta simți, asta fă. Concluzia mea: așa apar trântorii.😂
“Când îmi ascult sentimentele, vocea lăuntrică, ele îmi spun să nu fac nimic altceva decât să dorm, să mănânc și să mă joc pe plajă! Mă tem să-mi urmez sentimentele acestea, deoarece cred că voi ajunge prea slab ca să supraviețuiesc în lumea asta.”
Și încă o frază amuzantă pe final: “… oamenii care trăiesc ghidați de instinct sunt veseli, fericiți, iubitori, iar cei care trăiesc conduși de intelect sunt seci, certăreți.”
Am impresia că multe idei susținute de către Osho și adepții lui au fost enunțate doar de dragul de a șoca și a aduce senzație, nimic mai mult…
“Trăiește în felul tău. Ce înseamnă cu adevărat să fii rebel?” de Osho
January 5, 2021
,, Așa ca oameni precum Socrate spun mereu:
,,Cunoaște-te pe tine însuți" dar nu-i aude nimeni, nu-i ascultă nimeni. Nimeni nu vrea să se cunoască pe sine însuși, fiindcă ai hotărât deja că ești o ființă dezgustătoare, că ești bolnav, ca ești urât, că ești anormal, că ai în tine tot felul de răni puroiate. Cine vrea să intre acolo? E mai bine să nu te uiți la rănile alea, uită de ele."
,,Renunțând la lume, fugind în pădure și-n munți, nu faci decât să fugi de o situație din care ai fi putut învăța. Într-o peșteră din Himalaya nu vei avea nicio responsabilitate, dar reține, fără responsabilitate nu poți crește ; conștiința ta va rămâne blocată. Pentru creștere e nevoie să înfrunți, să întâmpini, să accepți provocările responsabilităților."
4/5. A fost cartea potrivita la momentul potrivit, și chiar are câteva învățături interesante ici-colo. Nu sunt de acord cu tot ce s-a spus, dar oferă perspectivă, totuși, a fi menționat faptul că există contraziceri (,, Nu există Dumnezeu"- ,,Dumnezeu ne-a creat pe toți perfecți"). Mi-a plăcut, e o lectură foarte ușoară. O recomand celor interesați de cărți în domeniu, cât despre cei care nu sunt într-o legătură prea strânsă cu latura lor spirituală...hmmmm, nu prea. E cheessy cartea pe alocuri.
P.S: perfectă pentru carantină.
,,Cunoaște-te pe tine însuți" dar nu-i aude nimeni, nu-i ascultă nimeni. Nimeni nu vrea să se cunoască pe sine însuși, fiindcă ai hotărât deja că ești o ființă dezgustătoare, că ești bolnav, ca ești urât, că ești anormal, că ai în tine tot felul de răni puroiate. Cine vrea să intre acolo? E mai bine să nu te uiți la rănile alea, uită de ele."
,,Renunțând la lume, fugind în pădure și-n munți, nu faci decât să fugi de o situație din care ai fi putut învăța. Într-o peșteră din Himalaya nu vei avea nicio responsabilitate, dar reține, fără responsabilitate nu poți crește ; conștiința ta va rămâne blocată. Pentru creștere e nevoie să înfrunți, să întâmpini, să accepți provocările responsabilităților."
4/5. A fost cartea potrivita la momentul potrivit, și chiar are câteva învățături interesante ici-colo. Nu sunt de acord cu tot ce s-a spus, dar oferă perspectivă, totuși, a fi menționat faptul că există contraziceri (,, Nu există Dumnezeu"- ,,Dumnezeu ne-a creat pe toți perfecți"). Mi-a plăcut, e o lectură foarte ușoară. O recomand celor interesați de cărți în domeniu, cât despre cei care nu sunt într-o legătură prea strânsă cu latura lor spirituală...hmmmm, nu prea. E cheessy cartea pe alocuri.
P.S: perfectă pentru carantină.
April 12, 2023
An incredibly interesting read which provokes self-reflection.
The book is written as a transcript, of questions asked of Osho. I found this to be a very different approach, but I found it easy to adapt.
I have since read a number of his books which I find regularly provide enlightenment of humanity and the behaviours we can often get caught up in.
The book is written as a transcript, of questions asked of Osho. I found this to be a very different approach, but I found it easy to adapt.
I have since read a number of his books which I find regularly provide enlightenment of humanity and the behaviours we can often get caught up in.
December 13, 2013
This book is about 50% great material, 40% decent/still useful material, and 10% confused and slightly contradictory material. I say read it, learn, and take from it what you will. If it doesn't resonate with you, just move on. Ultimate lesson to be learned: Just be you!
August 19, 2019
Insightful,simple.
Be rebellious but not revolutionary.
Be authentic and Yourself ,this is the ultimate way of living.
Don't follow others.
Don't live in the past or future but live in the moment,now.All the past dead.
You have no authority of others.you are the only authority to yourself .
Don't become ,because you cannot become...A pebble can't become rose... It is just you need realise ur being..
'Be a light unto Yourself"
Be rebellious but not revolutionary.
Be authentic and Yourself ,this is the ultimate way of living.
Don't follow others.
Don't live in the past or future but live in the moment,now.All the past dead.
You have no authority of others.you are the only authority to yourself .
Don't become ,because you cannot become...A pebble can't become rose... It is just you need realise ur being..
'Be a light unto Yourself"
May 1, 2023
One of the greatest speakers / minds I've ever experienced. A must read - I couldn't recommend enough! We must break free of the chains of expectations placed on us and just be allowed to be ourselves! Individuality must be celebrated and 'be a light unto ourselves' 🙏
December 2, 2015
I struggle with how to rate books like this. In this case, (and with books like the power of now) I ignore the crazy and rate based on the perspective shifts I experience from the insightful Buddhist-ish, stripped-down thesis: By reminding yourself that memory and anticipation are mental constructions, your current experience tends to become more vivid and enjoyable.
July 27, 2015
Odkedy som videl tohto pána na pár videách a čítal zopár jeho citátov, postupne vo mne zrelo presvedčenie, že si o ňom chcem prečítať viac. A hoci obal knihy vyzerá trochu šarlatánsky, pri čítaní máte pocit, akoby ste sedeli so svojím dedkom na chate pri ohni a on vám rozprával, o čom ten život vlastne je. Výborné počúvanie. Teda čítanie.
February 12, 2022
Am cumpărat această carte din gară, atunci când am constatat că îmi uitasem cartea preferată acasă. Cred că a fost un dat să uit cartea respectivă, fiindcă cea scrisă de Osho chiar m-a determinat să îmi pun câteva semne de întrebare în ceea ce mă privește. Este o lectură ușoară, interesantă cu multe idei care te fac să spui "Ahaa! Ia să încerc asta." 5/5 ⭐️
June 17, 2017
A life changing book. Simple yet powerful. Mesmerizing.
March 24, 2021
(My copy is 124 pages long.)
Osho used to be this disembodied voice for me. The name at the end of quotes many like to share around, with peaceful nature in the background. Then I heard a clip of him talking in Blinkers Removed album by No Man's Ego. And intonation and accent conveys a lot of information, but he was still not a real person to me. It was knowing that he led a failed, confused (let's put it bluntly: fucked up) commune & movement that has actually connected me much more to him.
So it's interesting to read the lines, "The rebel can do only one thing.… He is not going to organize, because the moment you organize you have to follow the same patterns as the society you are going to oppose" (pg. 10), and then paragraphs later, "There are moments when encouragement is needed, because to change—and to change totally—is not an easy job. Many times the mind wants to fall back into its old patterns, old habits; therefore, the commune. [...] And if five thousand people are trying, there is hope." (pg. 11). It reads to me like, he's hopeful. That if he doesn't figure it out, doesn't live true to rebellion, then at least he can share these thoughts, pass along the torch and others will pick it up, somewhere, somehow.
I do think he's level in his thinking here... Otherwise he would not have picked these to be his examples, "Socrates is not a revolutionary, he is a rebel. Gautam Buddha is not a revolutionary, he is a rebel. Heraclitus is not a revolutionary, he is a rebel.", nor said "This is the only respect expected of sannyasins: Do not destroy the dignity of the other person. That person is as valuable in existence as you are. There is no need to impose your ideas on anybody. Who are you? What authority have you got to impose your ideas on others? You can share, you can tell, you can expose your heart." (pg. 13) Also, I can't seem to find when he wrote this? Did he write it, or was this transcribed as QnA from the audience? What's the context? The book's published in 2013, but he died two decades earlier, so it's not obvious to me yet.
Also -- this reminds of Finite and Infinite Games :)
"I am not saying become an escapist. I am not saying don’t contribute to existence. But your contribution to existence should not be a means to reach God—that’s what I am saying. Your contribution to existence should be in gratefulness that you are already in God." (pg. 16)
"The ordinary rebel starts enjoying destruction and he forgets completely what he is destroying for; destruction becomes a goal unto itself. Disobedience becomes his ego, his stubbornness, his adamant attitude toward life. I don’t want political rebels; I want spiritual rebels whose concern is not with destruction at all. They will not destroy even a small thing unless it is absolutely needed for the new creation, for the new world." (pg. 29)
"Yes remains your highest value, and no becomes a servant—then there is not a problem with no. No has a beauty of its own. When it is just a shadow of yes, it is immensely beautiful. And a person who cannot say no—his yes has no meaning at all." (pg. 29)
"[If you are] capable of coming out in the cold and dropping the coziness of the crowd and the mob. Just in the beginning it feels cold; soon your body has its own system of creating warmth. Your being soon starts creating its own aroma." (pg. 49)
"Your society, your insane society, only leaves two alternatives for you: Either go crazy trying to improve upon yourself, pulling yourself up by your shoestrings; or, if you are a little more intelligent, be a hypocrite. Pretend and say one thing, and do just the opposite—keep a back door to
your life. At the front door have a beautiful facade—paint the should, the ideal, the ought—and live from the back door, live really naturally from the back door.
But that too creates a split: You can never be at ease. You are constantly lying, and you will be caught again and again. How long can you pretend? And you cannot succeed in your pretensions because your neighbors are also pretending, so everybody knows what everybody else is doing. They know they have back doors, so they know that you must also have them." (pg. 51)
"It is so simple if you see it: the only way to live life is to live on your own. It is an individual phenomenon, it is an independence, it is freedom. It is a constant unburdening of all that is dead, so that life can go on growing and is not crushed under the weight of the dead." (pg. 62)
"The past has destroyed the beauty of the word responsibility. They have made it almost equivalent to duty; it is not really so. A duty is something done reluctantly, as part of your spiritual slavery. [...] To understand the word responsibility is very significant. You have to break it in two: /response/ and /ability/.
You can act in two ways—one is reaction, another is response. Reaction comes out of your past conditionings; it is mechanical. Response comes out of your presence, awareness, consciousness; it is nonmechanical. And the ability to respond is one of the greatest principles of growth. You are not following any order, any commandment; you are simply following your awareness. [...] Renouncing the world, escaping to the forest and the mountains, you are simply escaping from a learning situation." (pgs. 62-63)
"Between two moments there is a gap; in that gap, Buddha disappears. I say a word to you, then I disappear. Then I say another word and I am there, and then I disappear again. I respond to you and then I am no more. The response is again there and I am no more. Those intervals, those emptinesses keep one utterly fresh, because only death can keep you absolutely alive.
You die once, after seventy years. Naturally you accumulate seventy years’ garbage. A Buddha dies every moment—no garbage is accumulated, nothing is accumulated, nothing is ever possessed." (pg. 71)
"That is the real meaning of resurrection. If you understand this you will be free from memory, psychological memory that is. Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in a ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact, it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called 'I,' the ego. And naturally this false entity called 'I' is continuously afraid of death. That’s why you are afraid of the new." (pg. 71)
"Naturally, authority and discipline become associated with each other. So whenever authority is removed, you think now there is no need of discipline. The reality is, when authority is removed then there is a real need of discipline. Now there is nobody to impose any order on you; it is your responsibility to live a life of order, discipline. Why? Because one who lives without order starts falling into pieces, falling apart. His life starts losing harmony. A man who does not know
discipline lives a life that cannot be called really human; he falls back into the world of the animal kingdom.
Discipline makes you integrated, gives you a certain crystallization. And without that crystallization you cannot be more conscious. Authority is slavery for you. Discipline is living an organic, harmonious life." (pgs. 77-78)
"Discipline means you remain open. It comes from the same root as disciple. A disciple means one who is ready to learn." (pg. 82)
"Now when I say this world is a very beautiful world but it is in the wrong hands, I don’t mean that you start fighting those wrong hands. What I mean is: Please don’t you be those wrong hands, that’s all." (pg. 83)
"Man has not even yet learned that parenthood is not something such that you have to cling to it forever. When the child is a grown-up person, your parenthood is finished. The child needed it—he was helpless. He needed the mother, the father, their protection; but when the child can stand on his own, the parents have to learn how to withdraw from the life of the child. And because parents
never withdraw from the life of the child they remain a constant anxiety to themselves and to the children. They destroy, they create guilt; they don’t help beyond a certain limit.
To be a parent is a great art. To give birth to children is nothing—any animal can do it; it is a natural, biological, instinctive process. To give birth to a child is nothing great, it is nothing special; it is very ordinary. But to be a parent is something extraordinary; very few people are really capable of being parents. And the criterion is that the real parents will give freedom." (pg. 86)
"The religious person is one who understands that 'I am very tiny, I am very limited. If with this limited energy, even if I can change myself, that will be a miracle.' And if you can change yourself, if you are a totally different being with new life shining in your eyes and a new song in your heart, then maybe you can be helpful to others also, because then you will have something to share." (pg. 100)
"Your own light is not burning and you start helping others. Your own inner being is in total darkness and you start helping others. You yourself are suffering and you become a 'servant of the people.' You have not passed through the inner rebellion and you become a revolutionary. This is simply absurd, but this idea arises in everybody’s mind. It seems so simple to help others. In fact, people who really need to change themselves always become interested in changing others." (pg. 100)
"In existence there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary there is no superiority complex either. The marigold is happy being a marigold—even the idea is stupid, 'Why am I not a rose?' It will be a very poor existence where there are only roses and roses and roses, and no other flowers. Roses will lose all their beauty. The variety of millions of flowers makes existence rich beyond all our dreams." (pg. 104)
"The Sufi wrote in his diary, 'What I saw today was a real problem. Up to now I have seen people wondering how to drop this, how to drop that.… Those were all unreal because the problems were not clinging to them, they were clinging to their problems. It was not a question of any help; if they wanted to drop it, they could drop it.' The Sufi wrote, 'But today it was totally different; it was a real problem! It was beyond that poor man’s ability to drop it, because he was not clinging to it; now the wolf was clinging to him, and the wolf took him down to his grave.'
It is good that wolves are not clinging to you. Whatever you are clinging to, all are just false ideas given by others to you. And the reason why you are clinging to them is that you are afraid that without them you will be almost naked, you will be empty, and you will be moving in an unknown space." (pg. 110)
Osho used to be this disembodied voice for me. The name at the end of quotes many like to share around, with peaceful nature in the background. Then I heard a clip of him talking in Blinkers Removed album by No Man's Ego. And intonation and accent conveys a lot of information, but he was still not a real person to me. It was knowing that he led a failed, confused (let's put it bluntly: fucked up) commune & movement that has actually connected me much more to him.
So it's interesting to read the lines, "The rebel can do only one thing.… He is not going to organize, because the moment you organize you have to follow the same patterns as the society you are going to oppose" (pg. 10), and then paragraphs later, "There are moments when encouragement is needed, because to change—and to change totally—is not an easy job. Many times the mind wants to fall back into its old patterns, old habits; therefore, the commune. [...] And if five thousand people are trying, there is hope." (pg. 11). It reads to me like, he's hopeful. That if he doesn't figure it out, doesn't live true to rebellion, then at least he can share these thoughts, pass along the torch and others will pick it up, somewhere, somehow.
I do think he's level in his thinking here... Otherwise he would not have picked these to be his examples, "Socrates is not a revolutionary, he is a rebel. Gautam Buddha is not a revolutionary, he is a rebel. Heraclitus is not a revolutionary, he is a rebel.", nor said "This is the only respect expected of sannyasins: Do not destroy the dignity of the other person. That person is as valuable in existence as you are. There is no need to impose your ideas on anybody. Who are you? What authority have you got to impose your ideas on others? You can share, you can tell, you can expose your heart." (pg. 13) Also, I can't seem to find when he wrote this? Did he write it, or was this transcribed as QnA from the audience? What's the context? The book's published in 2013, but he died two decades earlier, so it's not obvious to me yet.
Also -- this reminds of Finite and Infinite Games :)
"I am not saying become an escapist. I am not saying don’t contribute to existence. But your contribution to existence should not be a means to reach God—that’s what I am saying. Your contribution to existence should be in gratefulness that you are already in God." (pg. 16)
"The ordinary rebel starts enjoying destruction and he forgets completely what he is destroying for; destruction becomes a goal unto itself. Disobedience becomes his ego, his stubbornness, his adamant attitude toward life. I don’t want political rebels; I want spiritual rebels whose concern is not with destruction at all. They will not destroy even a small thing unless it is absolutely needed for the new creation, for the new world." (pg. 29)
"Yes remains your highest value, and no becomes a servant—then there is not a problem with no. No has a beauty of its own. When it is just a shadow of yes, it is immensely beautiful. And a person who cannot say no—his yes has no meaning at all." (pg. 29)
"[If you are] capable of coming out in the cold and dropping the coziness of the crowd and the mob. Just in the beginning it feels cold; soon your body has its own system of creating warmth. Your being soon starts creating its own aroma." (pg. 49)
"Your society, your insane society, only leaves two alternatives for you: Either go crazy trying to improve upon yourself, pulling yourself up by your shoestrings; or, if you are a little more intelligent, be a hypocrite. Pretend and say one thing, and do just the opposite—keep a back door to
your life. At the front door have a beautiful facade—paint the should, the ideal, the ought—and live from the back door, live really naturally from the back door.
But that too creates a split: You can never be at ease. You are constantly lying, and you will be caught again and again. How long can you pretend? And you cannot succeed in your pretensions because your neighbors are also pretending, so everybody knows what everybody else is doing. They know they have back doors, so they know that you must also have them." (pg. 51)
"It is so simple if you see it: the only way to live life is to live on your own. It is an individual phenomenon, it is an independence, it is freedom. It is a constant unburdening of all that is dead, so that life can go on growing and is not crushed under the weight of the dead." (pg. 62)
"The past has destroyed the beauty of the word responsibility. They have made it almost equivalent to duty; it is not really so. A duty is something done reluctantly, as part of your spiritual slavery. [...] To understand the word responsibility is very significant. You have to break it in two: /response/ and /ability/.
You can act in two ways—one is reaction, another is response. Reaction comes out of your past conditionings; it is mechanical. Response comes out of your presence, awareness, consciousness; it is nonmechanical. And the ability to respond is one of the greatest principles of growth. You are not following any order, any commandment; you are simply following your awareness. [...] Renouncing the world, escaping to the forest and the mountains, you are simply escaping from a learning situation." (pgs. 62-63)
"Between two moments there is a gap; in that gap, Buddha disappears. I say a word to you, then I disappear. Then I say another word and I am there, and then I disappear again. I respond to you and then I am no more. The response is again there and I am no more. Those intervals, those emptinesses keep one utterly fresh, because only death can keep you absolutely alive.
You die once, after seventy years. Naturally you accumulate seventy years’ garbage. A Buddha dies every moment—no garbage is accumulated, nothing is accumulated, nothing is ever possessed." (pg. 71)
"That is the real meaning of resurrection. If you understand this you will be free from memory, psychological memory that is. Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more. It is living in a ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison. In fact, it is us. Memory creates the knot, the complex called 'I,' the ego. And naturally this false entity called 'I' is continuously afraid of death. That’s why you are afraid of the new." (pg. 71)
"Naturally, authority and discipline become associated with each other. So whenever authority is removed, you think now there is no need of discipline. The reality is, when authority is removed then there is a real need of discipline. Now there is nobody to impose any order on you; it is your responsibility to live a life of order, discipline. Why? Because one who lives without order starts falling into pieces, falling apart. His life starts losing harmony. A man who does not know
discipline lives a life that cannot be called really human; he falls back into the world of the animal kingdom.
Discipline makes you integrated, gives you a certain crystallization. And without that crystallization you cannot be more conscious. Authority is slavery for you. Discipline is living an organic, harmonious life." (pgs. 77-78)
"Discipline means you remain open. It comes from the same root as disciple. A disciple means one who is ready to learn." (pg. 82)
"Now when I say this world is a very beautiful world but it is in the wrong hands, I don’t mean that you start fighting those wrong hands. What I mean is: Please don’t you be those wrong hands, that’s all." (pg. 83)
"Man has not even yet learned that parenthood is not something such that you have to cling to it forever. When the child is a grown-up person, your parenthood is finished. The child needed it—he was helpless. He needed the mother, the father, their protection; but when the child can stand on his own, the parents have to learn how to withdraw from the life of the child. And because parents
never withdraw from the life of the child they remain a constant anxiety to themselves and to the children. They destroy, they create guilt; they don’t help beyond a certain limit.
To be a parent is a great art. To give birth to children is nothing—any animal can do it; it is a natural, biological, instinctive process. To give birth to a child is nothing great, it is nothing special; it is very ordinary. But to be a parent is something extraordinary; very few people are really capable of being parents. And the criterion is that the real parents will give freedom." (pg. 86)
"The religious person is one who understands that 'I am very tiny, I am very limited. If with this limited energy, even if I can change myself, that will be a miracle.' And if you can change yourself, if you are a totally different being with new life shining in your eyes and a new song in your heart, then maybe you can be helpful to others also, because then you will have something to share." (pg. 100)
"Your own light is not burning and you start helping others. Your own inner being is in total darkness and you start helping others. You yourself are suffering and you become a 'servant of the people.' You have not passed through the inner rebellion and you become a revolutionary. This is simply absurd, but this idea arises in everybody’s mind. It seems so simple to help others. In fact, people who really need to change themselves always become interested in changing others." (pg. 100)
"In existence there is no inferiority complex anywhere, and as a corollary there is no superiority complex either. The marigold is happy being a marigold—even the idea is stupid, 'Why am I not a rose?' It will be a very poor existence where there are only roses and roses and roses, and no other flowers. Roses will lose all their beauty. The variety of millions of flowers makes existence rich beyond all our dreams." (pg. 104)
"The Sufi wrote in his diary, 'What I saw today was a real problem. Up to now I have seen people wondering how to drop this, how to drop that.… Those were all unreal because the problems were not clinging to them, they were clinging to their problems. It was not a question of any help; if they wanted to drop it, they could drop it.' The Sufi wrote, 'But today it was totally different; it was a real problem! It was beyond that poor man’s ability to drop it, because he was not clinging to it; now the wolf was clinging to him, and the wolf took him down to his grave.'
It is good that wolves are not clinging to you. Whatever you are clinging to, all are just false ideas given by others to you. And the reason why you are clinging to them is that you are afraid that without them you will be almost naked, you will be empty, and you will be moving in an unknown space." (pg. 110)
July 11, 2021
My fav quotes (not a review):
"Any schoolchild can say, “This is nonsense! Stars are not so close, and trees … who has seen such big trees, reaching above the stars?” But Vincent van Gogh used to say, “Whenever I see a tree, this is my feeling: that the earth is trying to reach the stars, to go beyond the stars, through the trees. These are the hands of the earth reaching for the unknown, for the transcendental. And I love my earth, hence my stars are small and my trees are big. I am part of this earth; I am also a hand of my earth. To me, stars are small.”"
"The Japanese was a longtime customer at this Greek restaurant because he had discovered that they made especially tasty fried rice. Each evening he would come in he would order flied lice. This always caused the Greek restaurant owner to nearly roll on the floor with laughter. Sometimes he would have two or three friends stand nearby just to hear the Japanese customer order his “flied lice.” Eventually, the customer’s pride was so hurt that he took a special diction lesson just to be able to say “fried rice” correctly. The next time he went to the restaurant he said very plainly, “Fried rice, please.” Unable to believe his ears, the Greek restaurant owner said, “Sir, would you repeat that?” The Japanese replied, “You heard what I said, you Gleek plick!” This is not the way to change."
"The most basic thing to remember is that when you are feeling good, in a mood of ecstasy, don’t start thinking that it is going to be your permanent state. Live the moment as joyfully, as cheerfully as possible, knowing perfectly well that it has come and it will go—just like a breeze comes in your house, with all its fragrance and freshness, and goes out from the other door."
"A very sad, mournful man visited a doctor in London. Seating himself in a chair in the waiting room and glumly ignoring the other patients, he awaited his turn. Finally the doctor motioned him into the inner office, where after a careful examination the man appeared even more serious, sad, and miserable than ever. “There’s nothing really the matter with you,” explained the doctor. “You are merely depressed. What you need is to forget your work and your worries. Go out and see a Charlie Chaplin movie and have a good laugh!” A sad look spread over the little man’s face. “But I am Charlie Chaplin!” he said. It is a very strange world! You don’t know people’s real lives; all that you know are their masks."
"A famous psychologist had bought a farm just for fun. Every time he threw grain into his plowed furrows an army of black crows would swoop down and gobble up his grain. Finally, swallowing his pride, the psychologist appealed to his old neighbor, Mulla Nasruddin. The Mulla stepped into the field and went through all the motions of planting without using any seed. The crows swooped down, protested briefly, and flew away. The Mulla repeated the process the next day and then the next, each time sending the birds off befuddled and hungry. Finally, on the fourth day, he planted the field with grain; not a crow bothered to come."
"I have also found a G-point. It is not in the vagina, it is in everybody’s belly—just behind your navel. And it is meaningful to call it the G-point because it creates giggling."
"A Sufi mystic was also standing there. Sufis use just a blanket, a woolen blanket to cover the body; they don’t use anything else. In fact, the name Sufi is derived from woolen blankets. In Persian, suf means wool, and sufi means one who uses only wool."
"Any schoolchild can say, “This is nonsense! Stars are not so close, and trees … who has seen such big trees, reaching above the stars?” But Vincent van Gogh used to say, “Whenever I see a tree, this is my feeling: that the earth is trying to reach the stars, to go beyond the stars, through the trees. These are the hands of the earth reaching for the unknown, for the transcendental. And I love my earth, hence my stars are small and my trees are big. I am part of this earth; I am also a hand of my earth. To me, stars are small.”"
"The Japanese was a longtime customer at this Greek restaurant because he had discovered that they made especially tasty fried rice. Each evening he would come in he would order flied lice. This always caused the Greek restaurant owner to nearly roll on the floor with laughter. Sometimes he would have two or three friends stand nearby just to hear the Japanese customer order his “flied lice.” Eventually, the customer’s pride was so hurt that he took a special diction lesson just to be able to say “fried rice” correctly. The next time he went to the restaurant he said very plainly, “Fried rice, please.” Unable to believe his ears, the Greek restaurant owner said, “Sir, would you repeat that?” The Japanese replied, “You heard what I said, you Gleek plick!” This is not the way to change."
"The most basic thing to remember is that when you are feeling good, in a mood of ecstasy, don’t start thinking that it is going to be your permanent state. Live the moment as joyfully, as cheerfully as possible, knowing perfectly well that it has come and it will go—just like a breeze comes in your house, with all its fragrance and freshness, and goes out from the other door."
"A very sad, mournful man visited a doctor in London. Seating himself in a chair in the waiting room and glumly ignoring the other patients, he awaited his turn. Finally the doctor motioned him into the inner office, where after a careful examination the man appeared even more serious, sad, and miserable than ever. “There’s nothing really the matter with you,” explained the doctor. “You are merely depressed. What you need is to forget your work and your worries. Go out and see a Charlie Chaplin movie and have a good laugh!” A sad look spread over the little man’s face. “But I am Charlie Chaplin!” he said. It is a very strange world! You don’t know people’s real lives; all that you know are their masks."
"A famous psychologist had bought a farm just for fun. Every time he threw grain into his plowed furrows an army of black crows would swoop down and gobble up his grain. Finally, swallowing his pride, the psychologist appealed to his old neighbor, Mulla Nasruddin. The Mulla stepped into the field and went through all the motions of planting without using any seed. The crows swooped down, protested briefly, and flew away. The Mulla repeated the process the next day and then the next, each time sending the birds off befuddled and hungry. Finally, on the fourth day, he planted the field with grain; not a crow bothered to come."
"I have also found a G-point. It is not in the vagina, it is in everybody’s belly—just behind your navel. And it is meaningful to call it the G-point because it creates giggling."
"A Sufi mystic was also standing there. Sufis use just a blanket, a woolen blanket to cover the body; they don’t use anything else. In fact, the name Sufi is derived from woolen blankets. In Persian, suf means wool, and sufi means one who uses only wool."
September 4, 2025
Osho ist ein sehr eigensinniger provokanter Denker. Der leicht aggressive Ton in seinem Buch hat mich stellenweise gestört, obwohl ich viele seiner Grundgedanken nachvollziehen konnte.
Im Wesentlichen geht es darum, dass der Mensch zu mehr Authentizität, Freiheit und zur Glückseligkeit gelangt, indem er all die Konzepte, Stimmen und Tugenden die von außen kommen ablegt und selber in sich hineinhorcht und auf seine eigene Stimme hört. Unsere Handlungen sind fremdbestimmt, weil wir von klein an fremde Stimmen
für wahr halten ohne diese weiter zu hinterfragen- egal ob diese von den eigenen Eltern sind, spirituellen Lehrern oder auch Lehrern an der Schule. Dabei werden fremdbestimmte Handlungen, Lehren und Gedanken von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben ohne eine Erklärung zu haben, wieso man etwas macht oder nicht macht. Die Generationen haben es eben auf die Art und Weise gemacht, daher werden diese Strukturen, Denkweisen oder Handlungen beibehalten und weitergegeben. Sehr oft bezieht sich der Autor dabei auf die religiösen Praktiken und auf die Politik und bringt auch persönliche Anekdoten mit rein.
Für ihn ist es selbstverständlich, dass jedes Individuum mehrmals im Leben stirbt - metaphorisch gesehen.
Jeder Mensch sollte im Laufe des Lebens das Neue und das Unbekannte annehmen und das Alte bekannte aufgeben für persönliches Wachstum und Entwicklung. Als Mensch neigt man eher dazu am alten Leben festzuhalten, weil das Neue ungewiss ist, auch wenn man mit dem alten Leben unzufrieden ist. Dabei ist das alte Leben nach Oshos Vorstellung bereits tot. Das Neue bringt Leben, neues Wissen und neue Erfahrungen mit sich.
Des Weiteren erklärt der Autor auch, wieso die Menschen heutzutage sich nutzlos führen und häufig unter ihrem geringerem Selbstwertgefühl leiden. Der Mensch neigt dazu sein eigenes Selbst aufzugeben und eine Maske aufzusetzen, um Achtung und Anerkennung von außen zu erhalten. Das führt jedoch dazu, dass trotz aller Anerkennung, Ehre und Ruhm, man erkennt, dass man nicht man selbst ist.
Die Bruchteile des alten Ichs, die in einem noch vorhanden sind, rufen die Gefühle der Unvollkommenheit hervor.
Alles in allem ist das Buch definitiv sehr zu empfehlen, wenn man sich nicht vom Schreibstil von Osho stören lässt.
Im Wesentlichen geht es darum, dass der Mensch zu mehr Authentizität, Freiheit und zur Glückseligkeit gelangt, indem er all die Konzepte, Stimmen und Tugenden die von außen kommen ablegt und selber in sich hineinhorcht und auf seine eigene Stimme hört. Unsere Handlungen sind fremdbestimmt, weil wir von klein an fremde Stimmen
für wahr halten ohne diese weiter zu hinterfragen- egal ob diese von den eigenen Eltern sind, spirituellen Lehrern oder auch Lehrern an der Schule. Dabei werden fremdbestimmte Handlungen, Lehren und Gedanken von Generation zu Generation weitergegeben ohne eine Erklärung zu haben, wieso man etwas macht oder nicht macht. Die Generationen haben es eben auf die Art und Weise gemacht, daher werden diese Strukturen, Denkweisen oder Handlungen beibehalten und weitergegeben. Sehr oft bezieht sich der Autor dabei auf die religiösen Praktiken und auf die Politik und bringt auch persönliche Anekdoten mit rein.
Für ihn ist es selbstverständlich, dass jedes Individuum mehrmals im Leben stirbt - metaphorisch gesehen.
Jeder Mensch sollte im Laufe des Lebens das Neue und das Unbekannte annehmen und das Alte bekannte aufgeben für persönliches Wachstum und Entwicklung. Als Mensch neigt man eher dazu am alten Leben festzuhalten, weil das Neue ungewiss ist, auch wenn man mit dem alten Leben unzufrieden ist. Dabei ist das alte Leben nach Oshos Vorstellung bereits tot. Das Neue bringt Leben, neues Wissen und neue Erfahrungen mit sich.
Des Weiteren erklärt der Autor auch, wieso die Menschen heutzutage sich nutzlos führen und häufig unter ihrem geringerem Selbstwertgefühl leiden. Der Mensch neigt dazu sein eigenes Selbst aufzugeben und eine Maske aufzusetzen, um Achtung und Anerkennung von außen zu erhalten. Das führt jedoch dazu, dass trotz aller Anerkennung, Ehre und Ruhm, man erkennt, dass man nicht man selbst ist.
Die Bruchteile des alten Ichs, die in einem noch vorhanden sind, rufen die Gefühle der Unvollkommenheit hervor.
Alles in allem ist das Buch definitiv sehr zu empfehlen, wenn man sich nicht vom Schreibstil von Osho stören lässt.
April 23, 2020
Cuốn sách hay về tâm lí và tư tưởng khác biệt của con người. Nếu bạn đã đọc cuốn "Dám bị ghét" thì đây là cuốn sách ở 1 cái tầm cao hơn, sâu hơn, giàu triết lí hơn "Dám bị ghét". Osho đã phân tích cho ta thấy cái tư tưởng của ông về sự Khác biệt, những tư tưởng đọc qua thì có thể rất khác lạ, dễ gây tranh cãi và hiểu lầm (có lẽ vì thế nên cuốn sách này không quá được ưa chuộng) nhưng nếu thực sự ngẫm nghĩ thì ta sẽ phải thốt lên: "Uầy, chuẩn vãi" không biết bao nhiêu lần. Đọc phần đầu có thể khá khó hiểu, nhưng càng đọc thì càng hay, mọi người nên đọc cuốn này nếu đã hiểu hoặc muốn hiểu tư tưởng của Osho về cuộc sống.
Ngoài lề 1 chút, mình biết cuốn sách này nhờ anh Vui Lên - một booktuber rất dễ thương - giới thiệu. Video của anh rất chất lượng và hay nên mọi người có thể ghé qua Youtube Vui Lên của anh ý nhá :)))
Ngoài lề 1 chút, mình biết cuốn sách này nhờ anh Vui Lên - một booktuber rất dễ thương - giới thiệu. Video của anh rất chất lượng và hay nên mọi người có thể ghé qua Youtube Vui Lên của anh ý nhá :)))
January 22, 2019
لقد عشقت هذا الكتاب بكل ما قدمه!
لقد جائني هذا الكتاب وقتما إحتجته فعلاً. كانت تتملكني الكثير من الأفكار المشككة بسلوكيات إجتماعية و نفسية إعتدتها منذ الصغر لكنني إستنكرتها مع مرور الأيام. و الجميل أن هذا الكتاب لا يغير مبادئك بأخرى بل هو فقط يجعلك تعيد النظر في كل ما هو محيط بدون أي إستثناء.
إن كنت تخاف أن تتزعزع راحة حياتك و أفكارك فلا تقرأه. هذا الكتاب هو فقط لمن يرون إنعدام المنطق بكثير من العالم و يحتاجون فقط أن يروا أنهم ليسوا وحدهم و أن يساعدهم أحد على إستكمال خطوات لم تتعدى مبادرات ذهنية.
أفضل كتاب قرأته بحياتي حتى الآن بلا منازع.
لقد جائني هذا الكتاب وقتما إحتجته فعلاً. كانت تتملكني الكثير من الأفكار المشككة بسلوكيات إجتماعية و نفسية إعتدتها منذ الصغر لكنني إستنكرتها مع مرور الأيام. و الجميل أن هذا الكتاب لا يغير مبادئك بأخرى بل هو فقط يجعلك تعيد النظر في كل ما هو محيط بدون أي إستثناء.
إن كنت تخاف أن تتزعزع راحة حياتك و أفكارك فلا تقرأه. هذا الكتاب هو فقط لمن يرون إنعدام المنطق بكثير من العالم و يحتاجون فقط أن يروا أنهم ليسوا وحدهم و أن يساعدهم أحد على إستكمال خطوات لم تتعدى مبادرات ذهنية.
أفضل كتاب قرأته بحياتي حتى الآن بلا منازع.
November 2, 2020
"Compromise simply means you are on uncertain ground. Rather than compromising, find grounding, roots, individuality. Find a sincerity of feeling the support of your heart. Then whatever the consequence, it does not matter. One who knows knows perfectly well that no harm is possible. You can kill him, but you cannot harm him. And one who does not know is always trembling, always worried. In that worrying and trembling, that anguish, he goes on compromising with everybody, just to be safe, not to be harmed. But what are you trying to save? You don’t have anything to save."
November 19, 2021
The lessons taught in the book are good but I found that Osho contradicted himself a lot in the book. When you are asking not to be judgemental, how can you go ahead and label Abraham Lincoln as ugly. Aren’t you then following the definition of beauty provided by the society? Osho asks people to be authentic and not to follow any ideology but yet go ahead to label people as coward who does not follow his ideas. If you eliminate the fact that he is contradicting his own teaching, it is a good read. The book is similar to “The Four Agreements”.
March 10, 2024
It was a joy to read this book of transcribed audio from the mystic Osho. Many anecdotal nuggets of him challenging the status quo (but surely slightly exaggerated by him here and there to suit his argument). Most important takeaway for me: A rebel is someone who acts according to their own nature, while a revolutionary is someone who reacts against what’s gone before them. The latter is nothing but the same - perpetuating the cycle. The former is unique - breaking the cycle and leaving it altogether.
December 23, 2024
What is a rebellion?
It is simply to be one who question the value and meaning of believes, knowledge and being.
Our values are passed down through school, society and workplace, and ask yourself when was the last time you think about what you do and why you do it?
Try to live on your own terms than following what others considered normal might be a little extreme but it certainly provides you a way to rediscover self-meaning.
‘Try to be a being, not a doing’
It is simply to be one who question the value and meaning of believes, knowledge and being.
Our values are passed down through school, society and workplace, and ask yourself when was the last time you think about what you do and why you do it?
Try to live on your own terms than following what others considered normal might be a little extreme but it certainly provides you a way to rediscover self-meaning.
‘Try to be a being, not a doing’
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 26, 2018
When i grabbed the book to read i was hoping to find a different kind of content. In general, the author contradicts himself in many different spots in the book, and i could not really get rid of the feeling that the beliefs are mocked up.. they looked really fragile to me
August 25, 2018
O livro é interessante, com alguns insights pra refletir, mas não concordo com muitas passagens e algumas chegaram a me incomodar. Talvez esse seja um dos objetivos, causar reações. Vale a leitura reflexiva.
September 3, 2020
This book was a breath of fresh air for me during this time of my life. It was very light, easy to read, and relaxing. For and about me :) hehe
Thanks, Osho! Would have loved to meet you and chat with you.
Thanks, Osho! Would have loved to meet you and chat with you.
November 11, 2023
A refreshing addition to the Osho readings so far. For some powerful excerpts, feel free to see my book reviews blog post
September 9, 2025
3.5 steluțe.Este o carte buna,dar greu de înțeles pentru oamenii care nu citesc dezvoltare personală des(ma incadrez aici).La început poate părea plictisitoare și fără sens,dar la final totul o sa aibă mai mult înțeles .
August 20, 2018
The greatest book ever. I rezonate with these thoughts so much. His way on life is quite unique and has the power to heal and help a lot of people. Cannot wait to read another book by this author.
October 13, 2018
Fantastic books, great ideas; liberating
April 23, 2019
O carte fara inceput si sfarsit. Spune multe si ...nimic!
July 3, 2019
Modern society may try to chain you up if it finds out this book exists. Considering you decide to take a peek at the "facts" here.
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