Osho is one of the most outspoken and controversialmystics and spiritual teachers this planet has seen since Jesus and Buddha. He was born in India in 1931 and became enlightened at the early age of 21. Starting his career as a young professor of philosophy, he went on to become a spiritual guide for millions of people around the globe.
Through his seven thousand hours of audio and video recordings published as 350 book titles and translated into
than fifty languages, and with his brilliance and enlightened genius, he not only shook the foundation of all outdated beliefs, but also paved the way for the New Man and Woman of the New Earth. Skillfully gathering the nectar of all the greatest spiritual teachers and minds this world has ever produced, he lovingly, and with unparalleled insight, brought the fragrance of all the past masters back to life as an offering to the rising tide of the novo homo. He gave practical tools and guidance on how to live in a new state of neo-religious consciousness – a consciousness that transcends personal, national, and religious boundaries and conditionings, a consciousness that brings us as one humanity into the new era of living in a state of authenticity and awareness of the true nature of the ever-present Cosmic Joy within us.
Speaking on all spiritual paths and masters with tremendous love, depth of understanding, and respect, Osho emphasizes the bringing together of the paths of love (outer devotion) and meditation (inner discipline). He teaches that taking one path would lead to the other and, ultimately, to self-realization, but living them together would enrich one’s life even more. He teaches that a life of devotion without the awareness and discipline of meditation is shallow, and a life of meditation without the heart of devotion is selfish.
He also emphasizes that this new path would lead to the birth of the New Man whom he calls “Zorba the Buddha.” A “Zorba,” the name of a character from the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, is someone who embraces life and all it has to offer with a joyful heart and celebration, and a Buddha is someone who lives consciously with compassion and awareness of their inner silence.
In essence, Osho encourages us to live life fully and consciously without repression, preconceived ideologies, judgments, and conditionings, emphasizing the ultimate truth that lies within our inner silence. "There is only one path which goes inwards,” he says “where you will not find a single human being, where you will only find silence, peace."
In his small booklet The Greatest Challenge: the Golden Future Osho gives the blueprint of how to cut the roots of our problems and come out of our old outdated beliefs so we can lay a new foundation for the New Man and New Humanity.
Never Born – Never Died – Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990, are the words written on his epitaph. They clearly echo his life and teachings, and the unsurpassed legacy he left behind for the flowering and transcendence of human consciousness.
"Yes, I am the beginning of something new, but not the beginning of a new religion. I am the beginning of a new kind of religiousness which knows no adjectives, no boundaries; which knows only freedom of the spirit, silence of your being, growth of your potential; and finally the experience of godliness within yourself – not of a God outside you, but a godliness overflowing from you."
"My way has been described as that of the heart, but it is not true. The heart will give you all kinds of imaginings, hallucinations, illusions, sweet dreams – but it cannot give you the truth. The truth is behind both: it is in your consciousness, which is neither head nor heart."
“ My whole effort is to shake you, to shock you - to wake you
."Osho
"Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works."
–K. R. Narayanan, President of India
"Osho is an enlightened master who is working with all possibilities to help humanity overcome a difficult phase in developing consciousness."
–The Dalai Lama
"I've been charmed from reading his books."
–Federico Fellini
"I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch."
–Marianne Williamson, author
"These brilliant insights will benefit all those who yearn for experiential knowledge of the field of pure potentiality inherent in every human being. This book belongs on the shelf of every library and in the home of all those who seek knowledge of the higher self."
–Dr Deepak Chopra, Author of: Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; Quantum Healing and Unconditional Life
“Through my friend Deepak Chopra I came across Osho’s books which gave me another deeper shift in my life. I regret I did not meet him in person, and I feel sorry the US Government missed such an opportunity back in ‘86”
–Madonna
"I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion."
–Yehudi Menuhin
"I read all his books."
–Shirley MacLaine
“When we wrote and prepared for shooting Vanilla Sky, I constantly checked in with Osho’s insights. It is not so easy to present the unconscious mind with images and a story. Osho is the only one who can perfectly explain it all, the inner and the outer, and that helped me and my team immensely.”
–Tom Cruise
“You don’t just read Osho, you undefine yourself.”
– The Book Reader, USA
"Osho is the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ... He's obviously a very effective man, otherwise he wouldn't be such a threat. He's saying the same things that nobody else has the courage to say. A man who has all kinds of ideas, they're not only inflammatory-they also have a resonance of truth that scares the pants off the control freaks."
–Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker and Jitterbug Perfume
"These books are really what people are looking for...they are even more relevant now than when they were spoken."
–Michael Mann, Chairman of Element Books
"No one is more qualified to introduce the mystics than Osho, a man who stands out even in their exalted company. He speaks from his own experience, bringing his mystic predecessors to life, making them his contemporaries."
–John Lilly
"Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy."
Paul Reps, author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
"His incredible taped discourse lectures and books have inspired me, and millions of others, on the path of self-evolution... He is like a great bell tolling, Awaken, Awaken, Awaken!"
–James Coburn, actor
“There are many readers of his books in Japan. What is special about Osho is that he dares to make statements on subjects which are related to society, subjects that our old Zen masters tried not to touch.”
–Zen Bunka, Japan
"He [Osho] is the greatest incarnation after Buddha in India. He is a living Buddha."
–Lama Karmapa, late head of the Kargyupta, (or Red Hat) Sect of Tibetan Buddhism
