OVERVIEW OF OSHO’S BOOK ON ENLIGHTENMENT

• The ABC of Enlightenment, A Spiritual Dictionary For the Here and Now
  “The present is so vast, and the past is so narrow. Why look through a hole in the wall when you can come out and look at the whole sky? So try not to use words – but if you have to, then be very choosy about them because each word has a nuance of its own. Be very poetic about it. Use it with taste, love, feeling.” Osho
• Beyond Enlightenment, Responses to Questions
  “So just forget about spirituality, enlightenment, God – they will take care of themselves. That is their business. They are sitting there without customers. You need not worry. Do the best you can do with life – that is your test, that is your worship, that is your religion. And everything else will follow on its own accord.” Osho
• From Misery to Enlightenment
  “The question is, Why has every society, every civilization tried to spoil the child? It is something very important to understand, that all that we have created up to now – social structures, religious philosophies, teaching systems – knowingly or unknowingly all need a miserable man for their existence. They are parasites.” Osho
• Enlightenment is your Nature. The Fundamental Difference Between Psychology, Therapy, and Meditation.
  Soon after he first settled in Pune and a community of seekers had begun to gather around him, Osho began to integrate new Western therapeutic approaches into his work. Known broadly as ‘Humanistic Psychology Movement’ these methods had evolved in the West as a response to the limitations of Freudian “talk therapy” and B. F. Skinner’s behaviorism. 
• Enlightenment the only Revolution. Discourses on the Great Mystic Ashtavakra
  “You are eternally free, you have always been free. Liberation is not a happening which we need to strive for.
  Liberation has already happened in our being. The whole existence is made of freedom. Every particle of it, every pore of it is made of liberation. Freedom is the material from which the whole existence is produced. Freedom is its very nature.” Osho 
• Guida Spirituale. Discourse #2. About Buddha’s Enlightenment That very night he became enlightened. And he became enlightened for the simple reason that for the first time he relaxed into his being and simply followed his essential core. 
• No Water No Moon. On the Enlightened Woman Chiyono
  One night, she was carrying an old pail filled with water. As she was walking along, she was watching the full moon reflected in the pail of water. Suddenly, the Bamboo strips that hold the pail together broke, and the pail fell apart.
  The Water rushed out; the moon’s reflection disappeared – And Chiyono became enlightened
• The Last Morning Star, talks on the Enlightened Woman Mystic Daya
  If someone clings to the last morning star, how long will their happiness last? It is like catching a bubble of water. The bubble will burst before you can even hold it. You can try in thousands of ways to make it stay, but it will not stay. And this is what we are always doing the whole world does it. What are the things that we try to hold on to? Relationships, attachments, love, our husband or wife, sons and daughters, wealth and riches, fame, position, prestige.
• Showering Without Clouds, the Poems and Path of a woman Mystic
  “Sahajo’s statements are fresh, simple and direct. She is ordinary and uneducated, neither a poet nor a scholar, just a very direct, simple-hearted woman from Rajasthan – but she is awakened. She says things clearly and to the point and in a way that nobody has ever said before. Nothing is hidden, nothing is borrowed.” Osho
• Yakusan, Straight to the Point of Enlightenment. “My concern is somehow to bring you to an Awakening
  “I have 500 books, but what I wanted to say I have not said yet. I am trying hard, hoping that in some way in some moment whether I say it or not you will hear it. Perhaps I may not be able to say it, but I may be able to show it. You may not hear it, you may see it.” Osho, Straight to the point of Enlightenment

• The Great Zen Master Ta Hui, behind these dialogues there is a long discipline of meditation, understanding   
  The enlightenment of these two monks is precisely where you are lost; where you have doubts is exactly where these two monks asked their questions. “Phenomena are born from discrimination and also perish through discrimination.
  Wipe out all phenomena of discrimination – this dharma has no birth or destruction.” Ta hui #25, Two awakenings
• The Madman’s Guide to Enlightenment, a Darshan Diary
  “Remember only one thing: the past is a hindrance, the greatest hindrance. It has to be completely dropped, utterly dropped. To be with me is to be in the now — no past, no future. This moment is all there is and just this moment is god. Everything else is just the mind dreaming, desiring, imagining. Once the past and future have dropped — and they are always dropped together; if you drop one, the other disappears of its own accord. They are two aspects of the same game.” Osho
• The Invitation. Discourse #5. “To hell with Enlightenment”
  “It is a confusing Business” Osho. “Gather all your desires, make your life one-pointed towards enlightenment – and I
  assure you, you will find it. But without this nobody has found it either.” Osho