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The Secret: Discourses on Sufism
734 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1980
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Osho
4,353 books6,775 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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July 14, 2014
"there is no God but God. There is no goal but the goal. And the paradox is that the goal is in the source. You have it already within you. It is there, vibrating, pulsating in your being. Don’t go anywhere. Move into privacy, into secrecy, into your own innermost chamber. Don’t talk about it. Let it be a secret. If it becomes unbearable, talk to your Master; otherwise keep it a secret. Let the secret go deeper and deeper into the soil of your heart. Let it reach to the very core. Only when it reaches to the core, one becomes aflame."
August 10, 2014
السر .. القوة .. العقل .. تفكير ثم تفكير ثم تفكير .. مشاعر حلوة
طول ما انا بقراً بطبق الكلام على حاجات حصلت قبل كده ... و بيطلع صح جدا
و الاجمل ان لما بلاقى سؤال فى دماغى
فى السطر اللى بعده بلاقىا لسؤال مطروح و معاه اجابته كمان !!
الكتاب كنز
و قانون الجذب هوا اللى خلانى اقراه فى التوقيت ده بالذات من حياتى
انا سعيدة جدا
فعلا الكتاب مبهج ^_^
طول ما انا بقراً بطبق الكلام على حاجات حصلت قبل كده ... و بيطلع صح جدا
و الاجمل ان لما بلاقى سؤال فى دماغى
فى السطر اللى بعده بلاقىا لسؤال مطروح و معاه اجابته كمان !!
الكتاب كنز
و قانون الجذب هوا اللى خلانى اقراه فى التوقيت ده بالذات من حياتى
انا سعيدة جدا
فعلا الكتاب مبهج ^_^
September 4, 2013
nice book
May 5, 2023
My fav quotes (not a review):
“If somebody insults you, the man of character has a readymade answer. The man of consciousness has no ready-made answers. He need not be bothered – he has consciousness, he has a mirror-like quality. He will reflect the situation and he will respond to the situation. His act will be out of that moment’s awareness. His act will not be out of the past, out of memory, out of the mind. His act will be born anew in the present."
“A man walking along a country lane encountered an old lady who was holding two kettles up to her ears. He could not help asking her what she was doing. ”Well, if you hold two kettles to your ears,” the old woman said, ”you can hear a noise like a football match.” The man took the two kettles, held them up to his ears for a while, then said, ”I can’t hear anything.” ”Ha ha ha ” cackled the old lady. ”It must be halftime.” You can always find an explanation. Explanations help you to remain the way you are."
“simplicity is to live without ideals. Ideals create complexity; ideals create division in you and hence complexity."
“In a better world the parents will help the children to be independent as soon as possible, to be on their own."
“One day Ohrenstein came with an unusually big problem. He had fallen in love with a girl; his wife had found out about it; he could not leave the girl, but he did not want to disappoint his wife. On and on he went: the girl this, his wife that, and so on. He talked for two hours, and finally, at the end, he asked, ”Rabbi, give me some advice, what should I do?” ”Hmm,” the rabbi pondered and tapped on the table as though he were deep in thought. Finally he said, ”I have some advice to give you, but I am afraid it may hurt your feelings, you may feel offended by it, so I don’t know if I should really give you any advice this time. ” ”Hurt my feelings?” Ohrenstein exclaimed. ”Rabbi, you can say anything to me!” ”Okay,” said the rabbi, ”then my advice is you convert to Christianity, let yourself be baptized and start going to confession. ”What on earth are you saying, Rabbi?” Ohrenstein exclaimed, shocked. ”Have you gone out of your mind?” ”Not at all,” the rabbi replied. ”You let yourself be baptized and start going to confession, and then you can drive some stupid parish priest crazy and not me!”"
“Start talking to the walls – do gibberish."
“difference between the words ”experience” and ”realization”."
“And the greatest problem arises when you want to change your actions. The greatest problem is that you have preferred those actions your whole life; you have cultivated them, they have become your second nature. It is not just a question of your mind now, thinking and deciding that ”I will not smoke any more.” It is not going to help. Maybe for one or two hours you can try, or for one or two days you can try, but it will come back, and it will come back with great vengeance. And its coming back will destroy whatsoever little self-confidence you had before. That too will be gone. Now you will know that smoking is far stronger than your will; you are defeated. And if it happens again and again, slowly slowly you will lose all trust in yourself."
“My own observation is this: that out of a hundred loves, ninety-nine are narcissistic. People don’t love the woman that is there. They love the appreciation that the woman is giving to them, the attention that the woman is giving to them, the flattery that the woman is showering on the man."
“If somebody insults you, the man of character has a readymade answer. The man of consciousness has no ready-made answers. He need not be bothered – he has consciousness, he has a mirror-like quality. He will reflect the situation and he will respond to the situation. His act will be out of that moment’s awareness. His act will not be out of the past, out of memory, out of the mind. His act will be born anew in the present."
“A man walking along a country lane encountered an old lady who was holding two kettles up to her ears. He could not help asking her what she was doing. ”Well, if you hold two kettles to your ears,” the old woman said, ”you can hear a noise like a football match.” The man took the two kettles, held them up to his ears for a while, then said, ”I can’t hear anything.” ”Ha ha ha ” cackled the old lady. ”It must be halftime.” You can always find an explanation. Explanations help you to remain the way you are."
“simplicity is to live without ideals. Ideals create complexity; ideals create division in you and hence complexity."
“In a better world the parents will help the children to be independent as soon as possible, to be on their own."
“One day Ohrenstein came with an unusually big problem. He had fallen in love with a girl; his wife had found out about it; he could not leave the girl, but he did not want to disappoint his wife. On and on he went: the girl this, his wife that, and so on. He talked for two hours, and finally, at the end, he asked, ”Rabbi, give me some advice, what should I do?” ”Hmm,” the rabbi pondered and tapped on the table as though he were deep in thought. Finally he said, ”I have some advice to give you, but I am afraid it may hurt your feelings, you may feel offended by it, so I don’t know if I should really give you any advice this time. ” ”Hurt my feelings?” Ohrenstein exclaimed. ”Rabbi, you can say anything to me!” ”Okay,” said the rabbi, ”then my advice is you convert to Christianity, let yourself be baptized and start going to confession. ”What on earth are you saying, Rabbi?” Ohrenstein exclaimed, shocked. ”Have you gone out of your mind?” ”Not at all,” the rabbi replied. ”You let yourself be baptized and start going to confession, and then you can drive some stupid parish priest crazy and not me!”"
“Start talking to the walls – do gibberish."
“difference between the words ”experience” and ”realization”."
“And the greatest problem arises when you want to change your actions. The greatest problem is that you have preferred those actions your whole life; you have cultivated them, they have become your second nature. It is not just a question of your mind now, thinking and deciding that ”I will not smoke any more.” It is not going to help. Maybe for one or two hours you can try, or for one or two days you can try, but it will come back, and it will come back with great vengeance. And its coming back will destroy whatsoever little self-confidence you had before. That too will be gone. Now you will know that smoking is far stronger than your will; you are defeated. And if it happens again and again, slowly slowly you will lose all trust in yourself."
“My own observation is this: that out of a hundred loves, ninety-nine are narcissistic. People don’t love the woman that is there. They love the appreciation that the woman is giving to them, the attention that the woman is giving to them, the flattery that the woman is showering on the man."
January 13, 2019
Read the English version. Great book!
April 23, 2014
i really don't know where i have to start from
its traffic book
it could be change the world
and absolutely it will change me as well
i wish i can tell everyone about it
it diverse a million star
its traffic book
it could be change the world
and absolutely it will change me as well
i wish i can tell everyone about it
it diverse a million star
February 8, 2016
"İroni de burada yatıyor; gidip varlığı kuşkulu olan diğerlerine kim olduğumuzu soruyoruz. Ne söylerlerse söylesinler bu onların görüşü olarak kalacaktır. Onlar senin özüne nüfuz edemez; kimse kimsenin özüne nüfuz edemez."
September 3, 2016
This book help you to thing and Stay positive!
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April 4, 2014nice...
April 26, 2014
Wowowowwww
May 14, 2014
Loved most of it all of it made me think deep and hard.
July 23, 2014
Love it! Keeps the mind focused - must remember to practise practise practise!!!
July 30, 2014
قرأته بالعربي وكعادة الكتب المترجمة ضعيف اللغه
قوي المعنى
قوي المعنى
July 4, 2014
WTF???
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