The World of Zen
The Ancient Zen Masters
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.
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
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.
Het boek Live Zen is verkrijgbaar bij de Boekhandel.
Impressie 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.
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.
“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.
“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