The Beauty of the Human Soul

The Beauty of the Human Soul
Provocations Into Consciousness
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The entire Authentic Living series is a manifesto of the priceless gift of individuality, of both the freedom and the responsibility that comes with living life according to your own light, free from fixed concepts and ideologies given by others – whether that be parents, teachers, priests, or politicians. The challenge is to take nothing for granted, leave no sacred cow unexamined. And to take the courage to step into the unknown with no idea of what is going to happen, with great creativity, sensitivity, and awareness, but with no fixed ideology.

All of the Osho books are created from his extemporaneous talks, and in this volume reflect the intimate setting in which they were given, with small audiences of those gathered in the Oregon commune around him. Everything is on the table - belief in God, the meaning of compassion, what happens when we die. In sharing stories from his own life, bringing new insights to old parables, and challenging his listeners to examine their own conscious and unconscious beliefs, he begins to create a new and more authentic "narrative" about what we human beings are doing on this planet, and why we are here.

Osho says: "You have to go through a transformation and that, only you can do. Except you, nobody can reach there. And this is the beauty of the human soul, that it is absolutely unavailable to anybody. Your center is so protected by existence that nobody can even touch it."
Chapter Titles
    #1: God: The Phantom Fuehrer
    #2: Death: The Ultimate Orgasm
    #3: The New Man: Intellect in Harmony with the Heart
    #4: The Only Hope: The Enlightenment of Humanity
    #5: Superman: The Fantasy for the Inferior
    #6: Holy Scriptures: Wholly Bullshit
    #7: The Beauty of the Human Soul
    #8: Is It Boredom, or Aloneness?
    #9: The Only Sin Is to Forget Your Being
    #10: I Don’t Want My Truth to Be Your Theory
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The Beauty of the Human Soul continues the Authentic Living series by Osho, with talks by the contemporary mystic during his stay in the United States.

PREFACE :
When you are true and authentic, living your life on your own, in your own light, with no blueprints given by others to you – by the parents, by the priests, by the politicians… When you are moving every day into the unknown with no idea of what is going to happen, with great creativity, sensitivity, awareness, but with no fixed ideology; when you are exploring newer pastures, new peaks of being, then certainly you are no longer a part of the crowd.

The crowd hates individuals for the simple reason that they are so different. It hates them because they are rebels. It hates them because they cannot be enslaved easily; in fact, it is impossible to enslave them. It hates them for their intelligence, it hates them for their joy, it hates them for their creativity. It wants to destroy them.

That’s why people are afraid of life: life has many dangers. The path of life is full of hazards. One never knows what is going to happen the next moment; everything is possible. You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live with expectations. The more expectations you have, the more frustrated you will be.

You can go astray. In death, nobody can go astray; in life you can go astray. In life you can commit errors, mistakes. In fact, if you really want to live you will have to commit many errors and many mistakes. Remember, never be afraid of committing errors and mistakes; otherwise you will be paralyzed because of the fear. Go on committing mistakes and errors. Remember only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. Once is enough. Invent new mistakes, discover new errors. Don’t go on falling in the same ditch, find new ditches. By committing mistakes, by going astray, you grow. That’s the only way to grow.

Life is dangerous; death is very cozy, very comfortable. Lying down in your grave, what danger is there? There is no problem, no anxiety. You can’t go bankrupt, your wife cannot leave you, you cannot die anymore. You are so safe in death. Life is not safe, anything is possible. Life is full of accidents.
Osho
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 11

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Type    Compilations
Publisher    Osho Media International
ISBN    0918963133
ISBN-13    978-0918963130
Dimensions (size)    5.6 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Number of Pages    225