ZEN ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW

 

ZEN ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW

In ‘Zen all the Colors of the Rainbow’ … Speaking on Mind-Blowing Stories of Zen, the intimate dialogues between those who know and those who seek, Osho reveals the Depths upon Depths of Human Experience, until one stands face-to-face with one’s Ultimate Potential – The Buddha Within

 

“Zen does not preach any discipline, any doctrine, any practice. It is one of the greatest blessings to humanity that Zen has made the search for oneself so obvious and so simple.” Osho, Turning in 

 Zen All the Colors of the Rainbow
Zen All the Colors of the Rainbow

OSHO GOES ON TALKING (ABOUT) ZEN, these years 1987/1988. ANOTHER BEAUTIFULLY COLORED BOX HAS BEEN REPRINTED: “ZEN ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW”

Set of 5 Books Talks on Zen

1. The Miracle

2. The Language of Existence

3. The Original Man

4. Turning In

5. The Buddha The Emptiness of the Heart

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Zen All the Colors of the Rainbow

‘ZEN, ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW’
“Zen does not preach any discipline, any doctrine, any practice. It is one of the greatest blessings to humanity that Zen has made the search for oneself so obvious and so simple.” Osho, Turning in
 Zen All the Colors of the Rainbow
Zen: The Miracle

Man is a crossroads, where four ways meet. The First way is that of matter. The atheist takes that road, the scientist takes that road: “Man is nothing but matter.” And almost half of the world today is on that path, because communism does not believe in anything else but matter – mind is only an epiphenomenon. Epiphenomenon means just a shadow: when the man disappears, the shadow disappears. There is nothing beyond death, and there is nothing before birth.

The Second road defines man as a duality between matter and mind. Most of the philosophers of the world have chosen that definition because it seems completely rational. All that we know about man is that his body consists of matter, and we know that he has thoughts which are not material. These things can be observed from outside. Hence, man is basically matter with an addition of a shadow that is his mind. As the body dies, mind also dies. On this path also, life extends only between birth and death.

The Third possibility, which has been accepted by all religions, is that man is not just matter or just mind; he is also a soul. Matter is his outer expression, soul is his inner expression, and mind functions as a bridge between the two. On the third path there is a possibility of a life beyond death. The people who have accepted it have created on this foundation the idea of reincarnation: birth after birth, one changes houses but the essential soul remains. 

Zen has a Fourth standpoint. Man is not matter, although he is covered with matter. He is not mind, although he is covered with mind. Nor is he an individual soul. He is a pure nothingness. Man, from this fourth standpoint, which is the standpoint of Zen, is almost like an onion. You go on peeling it, one layer after another layer, hoping that you are going to find something. Finally, when you have peeled all the layers off, your hands are full of emptiness; nothing is left. The onion was only layers and layers and layers and layers. Behind those layers was emptiness, nothingness, which will not be visible to the eyes, which will not be tangible to the hands.