Osho’s extraordinary
talks on Zen are recognized works of genius, studied in Zen monasteries and
universities and throughout the world. His inspiring books cover everything
from the wisdom of the world’s mystics, to answers to intensely personal
questions about meditation and the inner search. His unique authenticity
touches the reader in a way no other can.
In this potent book, Osho leads us through the mysterious world of Zen
masters. When illuminated by his words and silences, what at first look like
insoluble riddles become playful leaps into meditation.
Osho, Live
Zen / 308 pages, HC. /
euro 18.00 - order here
Preface
To say it in words has not been the
way of Zen. It attracts people, takes away their ideologies, their
theologies, their religions. It leaves you absolutely fresh at the very
center of your being. Without saying anything, you experience the mystique,
you experience the mystery of existence and life.
But because it is
an experience - in Zen they don't even use the word `experience', they use
the word `experiencing', because the experience is not something dead and
complete. It is a river flowing, flowing, alive, moving.
The word `experience'
indicates that it has become complete. Anything that becomes complete
becomes dead, and Zen is the most alive thing in the world; hence it cannot
be said that it is an experience. We have to invent a word, `experiencing';
instead of river, `rivering'... That gives the clear-cut idea that a river
is not static, it is moving. On the way, always on the way, moving eternally,
falling into the ocean, rising into the clouds, falling in the rain on the
mountains, and again into the river... moving in a circle of tremendous
aliveness, never stopping anywhere.
There is no full
stop in Zen, and all our words -- `experience', `knowledge', `understanding'...
give the illusion of a full stop. We have to change our nouns into verbs --
verbs come closer to life. We use the word `life', but we should use the
word `living' -- that comes closer. Moment to moment, living. `Life' seems
to be something dead; it has already completed its course, has come to an
end, to the graveyard.
Zen is certainly a
mystique. In fact, it is the only mystique there is. But it is not being
said, it is kept a secret so that you don't go inside your being with a
certain idea. You go absolutely clean and fresh. You will find the mystery,
the immense mystery of life, but Zen's absolute approach is not to give you
any idea what you are going to find.
Always Now and Here
A taste of Osho talking:
ZEN &
The Art of Escaping the Circle of Life & Death
On no other subject Osho has talked more than on Zen.
