LIVING THE FIRE OF LIFE
“Desiring, fantasizing about life after death is a sheer wastage of time, energy, and also it keeps you stupid. Life is herenow – here is no other life. Life knows no past, no future, it knows only the present.
“Zen is of tremendous importance. It is the greatest flowering of human consciousness yet achieved and it is one of the fundamental revolutions: it cuts the very roots of the so-called religious structure of the mind. It is not religion, it is pure religiousness. It is not religion in the sense of being Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist. Hence to call Zen, ‘Zen Buddhism’ is wrong: it has nothing to do with Buddhism at all. It is not oriented in the past, it is not inspired by the past – it has no goal in the future either. It is living your life passionately, intensely, ecstatically this very moment.
The very idea of this very moment is shattering to the mind because mind lives in the past and the future. And Zen is a tremendous blow to the mind: it cuts it in a single blow, it destroys it, it takes you beyond immediately. Zen is a device of sudden enlightenment.
Living the Fire of Life
Dit klassieke Zen boek ‘Zen Zest Zip Zap en Zing’ is na vele jaren van uitverkocht zijn, nu opnieuw uitgegeven. Het gaat over de vurige levenstroming die Zen is. Zij is eenvoudig uniek in haar benadering. Zo komen vanuit de Zenvisie o.a. de ‘Bevrijding van Vrouwen’ en het ‘Terugvinden van de Verloren 
Onschuld’ aan de orde.
Maar nog veel meer wezenlijke Zen themata staan er in dit boek. Onder andere kun je lezen over: Compassie, de grootste verfijning van Liefde,
Onschuld ben je verloren, maar kun je terug vinden en de mens: het Appel van dat wat Eeuwig is.
Het boek ‘Zen Zest Zip Zap en Zing’ is verkrijgbaar bij de Boekhandel of via internet.
Impression of ‘Zen Zest Zip Zap en Zing’
Osho responds to questions on everything from a child’s right to privacy to the very purpose of life, but as he answers each question, he keeps nudging the reader back to the essential point of Zen: living here and now with total awareness.
Questioners’ concerns are always addressed, but at the same time Osho skillfully shows us how these very preoccupations can keep us from simply being ourselves.
When it comes to responding to academic or pseudo-spiritual questions, heads are hit far harder and such inquiries dismissed as games of the ego, “holy cow dung”!
Between the lines Osho offers a constant invitation to live life to the full, and to take its challenges head-on and with a sense of humor – which he himself demonstrates with superb style throughout this book.
Excerpt from ‘Zen Zest Zip Zap and Zing’ Chapter 1
“Desiring, fantasizing about life after death is a sheer wastage of time, energy, and also it keeps you stupid. Life is herenow – here is no other life. Life knows no past, no future, it knows only the present.
“Zen is of tremendous importance. It is the greatest flowering of human consciousness yet achieved and it is one of the fundamental revolutions: it cuts the very roots of the so-called religious structure of the mind. It is not religion, it is pure religiousness. It is not religion in the sense of being Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian, Buddhist. Hence to call Zen, ‘Zen Buddhism’ is wrong: it has nothing to do with Buddhism at all. It is not oriented in the past, it is not inspired by the past – it has no goal in the future either. It is living your life passionately, intensely, ecstatically this very moment.
The very idea of this very moment is shattering to the mind because mind lives in the past and the future. And Zen is a tremendous blow to the mind: it cuts it in a single blow, it destroys it, it takes you beyond immediately. Zen is a device of sudden enlightenment.
“Mind wants to be slow, gradual. It wants to move carefully, cautiously, guardedly, thinking about the pros and cons. Zen is a jump into the very thick of life. And life surrounds you within and without. Just as a fish is in the ocean you are in life. Don’t wait for the next moment, live it now. Zen is a challenge, a risk, a gamble: putting everything at stake for the moment.” Osho
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics: life… compassion… light… love… past… misery… prayerfulness… vimalkirti… mahavira… nobel…
“Osho delivers his theses with humor and rhetoric brilliance, indeed complacent, but with an irony that actually enhances and exhilarates.” Der Spiegel