Dancing in the Breeze: The Discipline of Transcendence on Buddha's Sutra of Forty Two Chapters.

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Osho has referred to Buddha as the first truly humanistic master: he is not concerned with a God, with another world, with paradise or hell. Buddha is directly focused on raising man's awareness in this life and showing, in very scientific, exact words, how man can reach his full potential.

These commentaries on Buddha's teachings make them absolutely accessible to anyone looking to bring a new dimension of consciousness to his life. Osho is pragmatic throughout - and also beautifully entertaining, as he eloquently adds his own insights, understanding and methods while commenting on those of Buddha.

"Watch, and you will see the truth of Buddha's saying. It is a fact, it has nothing to do with any theory. Buddha is not interested in abstract systems, he simply says that which is. He's not formulating a philosophy. Always remember, never forget, that he is very experimental, existential. His whole approach is just to say something that you can immediately experience."

Osho's unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. Mystic and scientist, a rebellious spirit whose sole interest is to alert humanity to the urgent need to dis- cover a new way of living. To continue as before is to invite threats to our very survival on this unique and beautiful planet.

His essential point is that only by changing ourselves, one individual at a time, can the outcome of all our "selves" - our societies, our cultures, our beliefs, our world - also change. The doorway to that change is meditation.

Osho the scientist has experimented and scrutinized all the approaches of the past and examined their effects on the modern human being and responded to their shortcomings by creating a new starting point for the hyperactive 21" Century mind: OSHO Active Meditations.

Once the agitation of a modern lifetime has started to settle. "activity" can melt into "passivity," a key starting point of real meditation. To support this next step, Osho has transformed the ancient "art of listening" into a subtle contemporary method- ology: the OSHO Talks. Here words become music, the listener discovers who is listening, and the awareness moves from what is being heard to the individual doing the listening. Magically, as silence arises, what needs to be heard is understood directly, free from the distraction of a mind that can only interrupt and interfere with this delicate process.

I love Gautama the Buddha because to me he represents the essential core of religion. He is not the founder of Buddhism Buddhism is a by-product - but he is the beginner of a totally different kind of religion in the world. He's the founder of a religionless religion. He has propounded not religion but religiousness. And this is a great radical change in the history of human consciousness.

Before Buddha, there were religions but never a pure religious- ness. Man was not yet mature. With Buddha, humanity enters a mature age. Not all human beings have yet entered that, it's true, but Buddha has heralded the path; Buddha has opened the gate- less gate. It takes time for human beings to understand such a deep message. Buddha's message is the deepest ever. Nobody has done the work that Buddha has done, the way he has done. Nobody else represents pure fragrance.

Other founders of religions, other enlightened people, have compromised with their audience. Buddha remains uncompromised, hence his purity. He does not care what you can under- stand, he cares only what the truth is, and he says it without being worried whether you understand it or not. In a way this looks hard; in another way this is great compassion.

Truth has to be said as it is. The moment you compromise, the moment you bring truth to the ordinary level of human conscious- ness, it loses its soul. It becomes superficial, it becomes a dead thing. You cannot bring truth to the level of human beings; human beings have to be led to the level of truth.

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