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Book #1:
Osho
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"In Dostoevsky’s famous novel, one of the most important novels ever written... If I am asked to name the ten best novels in the world, then this will be one of those ten - not only one of them but the first of those ten: The Brothers Karamazov. It is one of the greatest creations."
--Tao: The Golden Gate Vol 1
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Book #3:
"There are millions of books in the world, but The Book of Mirdad stands out far above any other book in existence"
--The Osho Upanishad Osho
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| Book #4: "I love very few books; I can count them on my fingers ... The fourth is Jonathan Livingston Seagull" --Books I Have Loved Osho
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| Book #5:
"When Lao Tzu was leaving the border of China, the guard at the border prevented him. He said, "I won't allow you to leave the country unless you write something." He must have been a very perceptive man, the guard. The world is in his debt for one of the greatest things that has ever been written -- the Tao Te Ching. There is no other book comparable to it"
--The Book of Wisdom Osho
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Book #6: That's what happened to Chuang Tzu. One morning he woke up -- a cold winter morning. He was sitting in his bed, wrapping his body with his blanket, very sad. He was not a man of sadness. In fact, in the world history of philosophy and consciousness, Chuang Tzu is a unique person, so absurd and so rational together.... He was a very playful man. His disciples had never found him so serious. They asked him, "What is the matter? Are you sick or something?" He said, "The problem is so big, I don't think you will be able to solve it. But anyway, I will tell you the problem; perhaps somebody can solve it. The problem is, while asleep, in my dream, I became a butterfly."
The disciples laughed. They said, "Don't unnecessarily make a fuss about it. In dreams everything happens. Who cares?"
Chuang Tzu said, "You don't understand the implications! If Chuang Tzu can become a butterfly in the dream, then what is the problem? -- the butterfly may have gone to sleep and be dreaming of being Chuang Tzu. Now the problem is: Who am I? A butterfly dreaming herself as Chuang Tzu? And if I can dream myself as Chuang Tzu, there is no reason that the butterfly cannot dream!"
The disciples said, "It is beyond our comprehension. This is... we never thought about it. We have become many things in our dreams, and we never bothered."
--Turning In Osho
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| Book #7: "Only The Sermon On The Mount not the whole Bible. The whole Bible is just bullshit except The Sermon On The Mount" --Books I Have Loved Osho
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| Book #8: Bhagavadgita -- the divine song of Krishna. By the way 'Christ' is only a mispronunciation of 'Krishna' just as 'Zoroaster' is of 'Zarathustra'. 'Krishna' means the highest state of consciousness, and the song of Krishna, the Bhagavadgita, reaches to the ultimate heights of being --Books I Have Loved Osho
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| Book #9: "Rabindranath’s book Gitanjali, for which he as awarded the Nobel prize, became world famous. He translated it himself - because he wrote in Bengali; the original was Bengali, then he translated it himself. But he was not so confident: it is easy to translate prose, it is very, very difficult to translate poetry, even if it is your own, because poetry exists somewhere beyond grammar. It is more music, less language; it is more a feeling, less a thought. It eludes, and that is the beauty of it. You cannot fix it; it is like a river, moving, it is not like a pond. Prose is like a pond, poetry is like a river." --Returning to the Source Osho
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| Book #10: "It is said that once Milarepa, a Tibetan mystic, asked his master, Naropa, "Following you, listening to you, I have dropped everything. But still nothing has happened." Naropa laughed and said, "Drop this also - that you have dropped everything. Drop this also, don't say it any more, because this again is a clinging: I have dropped everything. But the 'I' has remained, and the dropping itself has been converted into doing. The doer has remained."
--Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi
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External Link:
EBooks:
Books I Have Loved
Tao: The Golden Gate Vol. 1
The Osho Upanishad
Returning to the Source
Audio:
The Book of Wisdom
Tao The Golden Gate Vol. 1
Turning In
The Osho Upanishad
Returning to the Source
Vendata: Seven Steps to Samadhi
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