:: BOOK OF THE MONTH ::

GOD IS DEAD, NOW ZEN IS THE ONLY LIVING TRUTH

"God is dead...." And not only God, but all our other consoling but false dreams are, if not dead, at least extrememly ill-family, nationalism, "progress", wealth as salvation, psychiatry...the list goes on.
"God is dead, therefore man is free," sais Friedrich Nietzsche, to whom this book is dedicated. That's true, but free for what? As a Westerner he knew nothing of meditation. His insight, however correct, was a negative one, and the negative never nourishes. He was free, but found only anguish, misery and meaninglessness. Nietzsche and his so-called existentialist followers had a distressing tendency toward insanity and suicide. They were free, but if all they could manage with their freedom was to drive a car at high speed into a telephone pole, then that freedom wasn't worth much.
"God is dead, now Zen is the only Living Truth." In this volume Osho continues from the point where Nietzsche stopped. Zen - meditation leading toward no-mind - will unify us with an intelligent and bountiful existence which nourishes us as it nourishes all living things. Meditation, and only meditation, will fill the emptiness left by the loss of our dreams. We are seekers, and we often resist finding what we seek. Osho, as clearly as perhaps anyone ever has, puts it all right in our laps, "Here it is, take it." With humor and lightness and infinit compassion, always leading but never pushing, he spells out his positive answer to Nietzsche's negative dilemma. "I know how to make the whole world happy. Out of deep meditation bliss arises, and then you are so happy the whole day, without any cause. It is just bubbling inside you."
Once I went to a meditation center in America and explained to a very pleasant lady there, with some understatement, that I hadn't been feeling very well emorionally and I wanted a regular meditation program simply to feel better. She smiled at me and said,"I understand. Meditate or die, right?"
"It id meditation that fulfills your inner being and takes away the vacuum that used to be filled by a great lie, God."

Swami Anand Burt