OVERVIEW OF OSHO’S BOOKS ON BLISS, ECSTASY AND JOY

• The Beloved I and II, About the Bauls of Bengal, those “delicious madmen, mystics, fools and poets.”
  “When real gratitude arises, then you see what a tremendous difference there is. The gratitude that was taught was just a concept, a dead ritual.” Osho
• BLISS, Living Beyond Happiness and Misery
  “Bliss is a luminous state of awareness, but there is neither misery nor happiness there. In this sense bliss is like sadness, where there is no happiness or misery. There is light, but the light is not that of happiness because even the light of happiness has an intensity that makes you perspire.” Osho
• Coming Home to Yourself. A Meditator’s Guide to Blissful Living“Bliss is not pleasure; pleasure is physical, momentary. Bliss is not happiness, either; happiness is psychological – a little deeper than pleasure, but only a little. Pleasure is just on the surface and happiness is skin-deep, but just scratch the skin and it disappears. It has no real roots, it is just in the mind. “Bliss is neither of the body nor of the mind; hence it has infinite depth. It is your very soul, your self-nature, your being.” Osho 
• Has this World ever been Spiritual? No Belief: Think! No Knowledge: Innocence! No Suffering: Bliss! Building a temple, 
  three persons had each a different attitude. The first person considered it a compulsion or punishment, the second considered it just a means of earning money, but the third person saw happiness, purpose and dedication in his work.
• Sat Chit Anand – Truth Consciousness Bliss
  “But the deeper you go, the further you are from language. Even dance is a language, even gestures are a language, even your eyes – without saying anything – can say much. But as you go deeper and deeper, there is the world of satchidanand, there is the truth and consciousness and bliss. Everything becomes utterly silent. Mind is left far, far away. The mind cannot hear even faraway echoes of what is happening in the being.”

• Ecstasy the Forgotten Language. It is a language that man completely has forgotten.Every child is born ecstatic.
  “Ecstasy is natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages. It is something that everybody brings with him into the world; everybody comes with it. It is life’s innermost core. It is part of being alive. Life is ecstasy. Every child brings it into the world, but then the society jumps on the child, starts destroying the possibility of ecstasy, starts making the child miserable, starts conditioning the child.
  The society is neurotic, and it cannot allow ecstatic people to be here. They are dangerous for it. Try to understand.the mechanism; then things will be easier. ” Osho
• Meditation the Art of Ecstasy. On meditation and meditation techniques
  “Meditation is not work, it is a play? Meditation is not something to be done to achieve some goal – peace, bliss – but something to be enjoyed as an end in itself. 
  The festive dimension is the most important thing to be understood – and we have lost it totally. By festive, I mean the capacity to enjoy moment to moment all that comes to you.” Osho
• Take it Really Seriously. Osho Joke Book, A revolutionay insight into jokes
  “I have been using laughter itself as a device to wake you up…. My own experience says to me that if you can laugh rightly, in the right moment, it will bring you out of unconsciousness into the open sky, from the darkness to the light….
  Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole and healed.” Osho
• The Song of Ecstasy. Talks on Adi Shankara’s Bhaj Govindam
  Osho introduces his vision of the New Man, the whole man – joyous, silent, ecstatic; repressing nothing, delighting in and watching everything. 
  
  

• Have we forgotten How to Live? Live and Learn, Real life only happens above inertia and mechanism.
  “Humans love, they are angry, and desires flow. But these are not their actions; they are unconscious and mechanical flows. They do not do them; they happen to them. They are not their doer, but are done by them.” Osho
• JOY, The Happiness that comes from Within
  “Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoerver you are doing is your joy.” Osho 
• Where is my Joy? Rediscovering your Sense of Wonder An Amazement
  Are you able to Joyfully look at life with New Eyes?
  It is all about regaining the original sense of Wonder end reclaiming the Feeling that Life at any moment can be transformed into Bliss, into pure Joy. In fact, Bliss is all there is. We just have to SEE it.
• Learning Happiness.“Mind is the most complex phenomenon on earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from it and learn how to be just a witness.” Osho
  In Learning Happiness, Osho explains why Buddha insists that happiness does not have to be created. He says that perhaps the most fundamental truth that Buddha brought to the world is his penetrating insight into the essential nature of happiness. It already exists in the present moment—all that has to be learned is the knack of living in the present.