LIVE ZEN, Part of The World of Zen

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The Book ‘Live Zen’ is one Volume of the ‘World of Zen’ set OSHO TEACHES ZEN The talks in Live Zen are for anyone wanting to discover what Zen is and delve deeply into it. Commenting on anecdotes from many of the great Zen Masters, Osho provides a doorway to the language of Zen. Through his realisation of that language and his playfulness with his present-day assembly of meditators, Osho brings Zen to life, finding the extraordinary within the ordinary. A NEW THERAPY IS BORN: GIBBERISH In the last talk, Osho leads his audience through a living and contemporary experience of Zen with the first instance of his unique “gibberish, silence, and let-go” meditation. “If you are searching for truth, please stop. Truth is so vast you will be lost. Rather than searching for any truth, just be yourself. In your very being you will find the seed of the whole universe. In your own heartbeat you will find the universal heartbeat.” Osho

THE WORLD OF ZEN On December 11 2025, Osho’s Birthday, a Brand new Reprint of this Zen series has been published. This beautifully Colored Box contains 5 books of his Zen discourses in 1987.  The Titles of these 5 books are these:     Live Zen Zen: The Quantum Leap From Mind to No-Mind This This A Thousand Times This Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest      A Review of Each book is found, if you follow the links

NO MIND MEDITATIVE THERAPY During this series Osho introduces his visionary OSHO No-Mind Meditative Therapy. To experience the no-mind of Zen, says Osho, first get rid of all the garbage and repressions that the mind is carrying. The cure: one hour of gibberish followed by one hour of silent sitting for a week. “What I could say, I have said to you. What I could not say, I have given to you.” Osho “Any child can do gibberish, it doesn’t need any training. From the very first moment you are almost trained. Gibberish needs no training, nor does laughter need any training. If you can do the gibberish you are cleansing your mind of all kinds of dust that goes on gathering. And as the mind becomes silent…there is nowhere to go other than inwards. All roads are forgotten, there remains a single one-way traffic. Just for a day or two you may hesitate to go that much inside. Who knows whether you will be able to come back or not? That’s the whole purpose of creating an energy field – so that you can see that so many people are coming and going, becoming enlightened, unenlightened. It is a playful, joyful exercise; there is nothing to be worried about, you can go as deep as you want. And when everybody else is going, in that tremendous storm it is so easy to join. Alone you may find it difficult to do gibberish, but when ten thousand people go simply with their wings, not knowing Chinese but speaking Chinese, not knowing what they are saying but saying it very emphatically, not bothering at all who is listening….” Osho, The Miracle #2

The World of Zen  NEDERLANDS

In Live Zen neemt Osho ons mee in de de wereld van Zen en het specifieke optreden van de Zen Meesters. Osho heeft over niets meer gesproken dan over de levensstroming Zen. Deze biedt naar zijn zeggen de enige ervaring van een levende religie.
Zen kent geen dogma’s, geen geloofssysteem of theologie. Het gaat om het pure leven zelf: als er stilte is en alleen de dans van de bamboes in de wind hoorbaar is, groeit er iets in je hart.
Geen wonder dat Osho’s Zenwerken in Universiteiten en Zen-kloosters over de hele wereld gelezen worden.
‘Zen is mystiek, Zen is oneindig.’,zegt Osho.
Deze mysterieus uitgevoerde herdruk van Live Zen is een nieuwe kans om hiervan doordrenkt te raken.

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Impression van Live Zen

Osho′s extraordinary and inspirational talks on Zen are recognized works of genius and are studied in universities and Zen monasteries throughout the world. He is the author of over 600 books covering everything from the wisdom of the world′s mystics to responding to intensely personal questions about every step of the inner search and the future of humanity.

The Mysterious World of Zen 

Osho leads us through the mysterious world of the ancient Zen masters. When illuminated by his words and silences, what at first look like insoluble riddles become playful leaps into meditation.

During this series Osho introduces his visionary OSHO No-Mind Meditative Therapy. To experience the no-mind of Zen, says Osho, first get rid of all the garbage and repressions that the mind is carrying. The cure: one hour of gibberish followed by one hour of silent sitting for a week.

“What I could say, I have said to you.
What I could not say, I have given to you.” Osho

Excerpt uit Live Zen

“That is the greatest difference between all the religions on one side and Zen on the other side. All religions except Zen are dead. They have become fossilized theologies, systems, philosophies, doctrines, but they have forgotten the language of the trees. They have forgotten the silence in which even trees can be heard and understood. They have forgotten the joy that has to be natural and spontaneous to the heart of every living being.

“The moment the experience becomes an explanation, an expression, it breathes no more; it is dead – and all over the world people are carrying dead doctrines.

Zen is the Only Living Religion

“I call Zen the only living religion because it is not a religion, but only a religiousness. It has no dogma, it does not depend on any founder. It has no past; in fact it has nothing to teach you. It is the strangest thing that has happened in the whole history of mankind – strangest because it enjoys in emptiness, it blossoms in nothingness. It is fulfilled in innocence, in not knowing. It does not discriminate between the mundane and the sacred. For Zen, all that is, is sacred.

“Life is sacred whatever form, whatever shape.”Wherever there is something living and alive it is sacred.

The Unique Incidents of Zen

“Today we are beginning to discuss a few incidents in the long history of Zen – which are unique because no other religion exists on anecdotes. They are not holy scripture; they are simply incidents that have happened.”It is up to you.

“If you understand them they can open your eyes and your heart. If you don’t understand them nothing else will ever be able to open your eyes and your heart. And what I am saying is categorical, absolute.

“These small anecdotes in their very smallness just like dewdrops contain the whole secret of the ocean. “If you can understand the dewdrop there is no need to understand the ocean you have understood it. “Please be very silent and careful.” Osho