Strange consequences
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After Friedrich Nietzsche declared that "God is Dead" - the word FUCK has become the most important word in the English language.
Osho used this sketch on the word fuck first in a talk in 1980 and repeated it again in this later talk. We have seen the original of this sketch being attributed to Jack Wagner, George Carlin and Monty Python - no one seems to be sure.
OSHO: Compassion - The Ultimate Flowering of Love
OSHO International Foundation - http://www.osho.com
Osho examines the nature of compassion from a radically different perspective. He points out that "passion" lies at the root of the word, and then proceeds to challenge assumptions about what compassion really is. He shows how the path to authentic compassion arises from within, beginning with a deep acceptance and love of oneself. Only then, says Osho, does compassion flower into a healing force, rooted in the unconditional acceptance of the other as he or she is.
Excerpt from an original, 104-minute talk by Osho now available on DVD with the book COMPASSION -- St. Martin's Griffin (February 2007)
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OSHO: Making Love is a Sacred Experience
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Excerpt from an interview with Playman Magazine, Italy
Books I have loved
To me a book is not just a book, it is a love affair...
I have loved reading from my very childhood. My own personal library consisted of one hundred fifty thousand rare books of all the religions, philosophies, poetry, literature. And I have read all of them, but with no purpose; I enjoyed it.
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The OSHO Library is maintained by Osho International Foundation. All of these books have been read, signed and dated by Osho, except about lO,OOO which have been gathered on his request after he stopped reading.
Osho's personal library is now housed in a building named "Lao Tzu House" at the Osho Meditation
Resort in Pune, India. The library holds more than 150,000 volumes, mostly in the humanities, including
history, psychology, religion and philosophy. It also features a quite substantial collection of the classic
literature of East and West, along with an impressive array of biographies, books on physics and earth
sciences, etc. The library has been created with aesthetic considerations in mind, the object being to create a
light and airy feeling rather than the "heavy" and "serious" look of so many libraries. Books are sorted
according to size and color, and placed on the shelves in an arrangement that suggests ocean waves. The
effect is organic and natural, with no solid blocks of color or size to grab the eye and weigh it down.
Osho himself was an avid book collector and reader throughout most of his life, and the library includes
volumes that he has kept in pristine condition since his childhood. He liked to
underline his books, and to create an individualized painting on the front pages,
often including his signature, in place of a printed book
plate. Part of his work was to give daily extemporaneous talks, which he would sometimes punctuate with
quotes and passages from books he had read. The library was catalogued by hand for many years, with
cross-references that included not only title, author and subject matter, but such things as the cover color,
number of pages and trim size. In that way, if Osho wanted to see that "big book on Einstein's theory of
relativity with the blue cover, " the librarian could locate the needle in the haystack with relative ease. In 1987,
a three-year project was initiated to computerize the card catalog.
The UK library journal LOGOS has published an extensive article about the library written by:
Pierre Evald, Department of Library & Information Management Royal School of Library and Information Science Langagervej 4 - DK- 220 Aalborg Ø Room: 418 T: + 45 98 15 79 22 + 45 98 15 79 22 E-mail: pe@db.dk
OSHO: I Live Spontaneously
OSHO International Foundation - http://www.osho.com
OSHO: I Live Spontaneously
Excerpts from an interview with Ken Kashiwahara
Good Morning America, ABC Network, USA
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