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The Guest: Talks on Kabir: Fifteen Spontaneous Talks
A new vision is needed in the world - a new vision which will be as scientific as possible and as religious as possible. That I call revolution. The world is waiting for that revolution, the world is hungry for that revolution - where religion and science can disappear into each other, where East and West can become one for the first time, where the materialist and the spiritualist are no more enemies but are holding hands in deep friendship. Because that is what is happening in life itself: matter is holding hands with spirit. The materialist need not be against the spiritualist, nor need the spiritualist be against the materialist. That is stupid. And that stupidity has lasted really too long and man has suffered too much.
557 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1981
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Osho
4,354 books6,786 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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January 2, 2015
Kabir poetry have so much to understand, you can't simply translate them. You have to prepare a base first, build the whole context, have to go line by line and word by word. That is what this book does it just not explain the mind of Kabir and his poetry but also gives you perspective to life. This book also includes the answers to OSHO's followers about meditation and his teaching, which doesn't go with the theme of the book. Overall a good book I like the way OSHO explain things.
March 28, 2023
My fav quotes (not a review):
-Page 84 |
"The third is an intelligent trust. Again a paradox! You have always thought of trust as needing no intelligence; you have always thought of intelligence as sceptical. You have never thought of the beautiful synthesis, the harmony, of intelligence and trust. When intelligence and trust meet. when you dive deep but fully aware – fully aware of the risk – when you dive into your being risking all, gambling, but knowing, knowing perfectly that you may simply be entering into something from which there may be no return – you may be dying and there may be no resurrection – not even a perhaps in the mind; risking without motive, risking intelligently, seeing that the life outside is futile – you have seen it, you have lived it, you have been through it, and enough is enough – you are ready to risk the inner journey intelligently. But remember, I say intelligently; love has not to be blind.
There is this guy from India and he is walking along a cliff, falls off, grabs the branch and pleads, ”Is there anyone up there? Help me!” God answers true to form, ”Trust me – let go! ” The guy does, and immediately falls to his death on the rocks below. God speaks again through the clouds, ”That will teach you, you stupid Indian!” And the second story.... A Jew is walking along a cliff, falls off, grabs the branch and pleads, ”Is there anyone up there? Help me!” God answers, ”Trust me – let go!” The Jew thinks for a minute, then with eyes uplifted to the sky, says, ”Is there anyone ELSE up there?”"
-Page 116
Joke: "Have you included the four basic elements of successful fiction religion, royalty, sex, and mystery?” ”Yes, I did,” said the boy. ”I will read it to you:
"”HOLY Moses!” said the PRINCESS. ”PREGNANT again? I WONDER who done it this time...."
-Page 249
Joke: ”Cleanliness is next to what?” she asked. ”Impossible!” a small boy replied with great feeling."
-Page 84 |
"The third is an intelligent trust. Again a paradox! You have always thought of trust as needing no intelligence; you have always thought of intelligence as sceptical. You have never thought of the beautiful synthesis, the harmony, of intelligence and trust. When intelligence and trust meet. when you dive deep but fully aware – fully aware of the risk – when you dive into your being risking all, gambling, but knowing, knowing perfectly that you may simply be entering into something from which there may be no return – you may be dying and there may be no resurrection – not even a perhaps in the mind; risking without motive, risking intelligently, seeing that the life outside is futile – you have seen it, you have lived it, you have been through it, and enough is enough – you are ready to risk the inner journey intelligently. But remember, I say intelligently; love has not to be blind.
There is this guy from India and he is walking along a cliff, falls off, grabs the branch and pleads, ”Is there anyone up there? Help me!” God answers true to form, ”Trust me – let go! ” The guy does, and immediately falls to his death on the rocks below. God speaks again through the clouds, ”That will teach you, you stupid Indian!” And the second story.... A Jew is walking along a cliff, falls off, grabs the branch and pleads, ”Is there anyone up there? Help me!” God answers, ”Trust me – let go!” The Jew thinks for a minute, then with eyes uplifted to the sky, says, ”Is there anyone ELSE up there?”"
-Page 116
Joke: "Have you included the four basic elements of successful fiction religion, royalty, sex, and mystery?” ”Yes, I did,” said the boy. ”I will read it to you:
"”HOLY Moses!” said the PRINCESS. ”PREGNANT again? I WONDER who done it this time...."
-Page 249
Joke: ”Cleanliness is next to what?” she asked. ”Impossible!” a small boy replied with great feeling."
September 20, 2021
Osho’s lateral philosophy is an icebreaker. It pulls you out of conventional wisdom into uncharted waters. This book is a fine example of thinking outside of the box.
When I read ‘The true name’ it was all about Nanakdev, this book is an assimilation of all great thoughts which eventually melt into Kabirdasji dohe.
Splendid read as always.
When I read ‘The true name’ it was all about Nanakdev, this book is an assimilation of all great thoughts which eventually melt into Kabirdasji dohe.
Splendid read as always.
October 11, 2019
Osho as usual! Spellbound!! Mystical!! Mesmerizing!!
December 29, 2021
Read it at your own risk. First, he will prove something then he will disprove that thing.
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