Open up! Throw your doors and windows open. Let wind and rain and sun come in. let people enter into you and you enter into people's lives. That is the only way to become aware of the tremendous mystery of life, says Osho, the Zen master.
This book chronicles a twelve-day revolution in the life of Osho Rajneesh beginning on December 26, 1988, a period which altered the lives of millions of people – and most of them don’t know it.
Life has its strange ways, but this was the strangest. The Living Master, Osho Rajneesh, in a sizzling retort to thirty years of accusations and abuse about His name ‘Bhagwan’ dropped it altogether.
The explanation He gave of His simple strategy – to adopt and then drop the name ‘Bhagwan’ – dealt a paralyzing blow to two of the so-called “great religious” of India, Hinduism and Jainism. The name was a challenge they could never meet, created by a man they could never equal.
It revealed a secret which even the Master’s most intimate disciples never knew. He showed something which could never be uttered; a Master stroke was needed. One man against 900 million people, and the solitary man has won.
The third “great religion” born in India, Buddhism’ then had its share of attention. For millions of Buddhists worldwide, the haunted wait for the return of Buddha’s soul was over. As predicted, the ‘Maitreya’, the reincarnated soul of Buddha, had come – and had chosen as his home none other than Osho Rajneesh.
What happened in the next four days puzzled Buddhist pundits, scholars and theologians the world over – and defeated the expectations of everyone. The Master exposed a forgotten but obvious truth: that truth itself is fresh, never old, never antique. And the whole idea of Gautama the Buddha as a returning guide is anachronism, a bullock cart in the space age.
The very dream of a return to some imagined perfection of the past, He showed, could keep us from living the sweetness of this moment, from living the benediction of our own buddha nature. Another burden removed.
He showed us in these twelve discourses that this moment contains an even greater possibility than Gautama the Buddha promised, a different and greater synthesis, a vaster discovery: Zorba the Buddha.
Osho Rajneesh became that. Explained that. And moved on. He left a wild unexplored space behind, a space for His disciples, a promise, a potential. Wild flowers blooming on the slopes of Everest.
Springtime.
This book chronicles a twelve-day revolution in the life of Osho Rajneesh beginning on December 26, 1988, a period which altered the lives of millions of people – and most of them don’t know it.
