The Heartbeat of the Absolute (Talks on The Ishavasya Upanishad)

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Using the most fundamental of the ancient Upanishad texts Osho answers man's most enduring and perplexing question "Who am I?" Set in the backdrop of a meditation camp, these talks are an invitation not to stop at an intellectual contemplation of the question, but to also experience man's true nature through meditation.

Osho demonstrates the limitations of the Western mind, and man's misplaced faith in science as providing all the answers. He points out how man is blinded by his own conditioning and instead leads the reader on a path of self-discovery. This path will necessitate a leap of faith beyond the realm of the senses and the ego, to give up reason and intellect, and go deep within to experience the full mystery of life. Only through this journey can man experience his true nature, that of the infinite whole, pure consciousness and love that flows through. all things.

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 discover 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.

These thousands of talks cover everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today.

Nietzsche is right: God is dead - because theologians have killed him. God can be alive only when a lover is dancing. When a theologian is trying to find arguments to prove God, he is dead. God is alive when two people fall in love-then God is throbbing and kicking. God is alive when you look at a flower and you cannot move from there - something overpowers you. overwhelms When look at the stars you. you and you are one with the mystery, and your boat starts sailing toward the other shore, then God is alive. When you sing a song - it may be meaningless, it may be just la-la-la- it may not have any meaning, but God is alive in that sheer expression of joy.

God is alive when you are alive. If you are not alive, how can your God be alive? Your God is yours. If you are dead, your God is dead; if you are alive, your God is alive. Your God cannot be more than you because your God is your innermost core of being. So if you want to know what God is, become more alive. If you want to know what God is, become more divine. If you want to know what God is, then don't try to know - try to feel. It comes through the door of the heart.

God is such a mystery - or call it life or existence. Life is such a mystery that even if you enter the innermost shrine of it, you will not be able to believe - it is unbelievably true. It is incredible.

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