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Perfectly Imperfect
Perfectionism is a neurotic idea. Infallibility is good for stupid Polack popes but not for intelligent people. An intelligent person will understand that life is an adventure, a constant exploration through trial and error. That's its very joy, its very juice!
I don't want you to be perfect. I want you to be just as perfectly imperfect as possible. Rejoice in your imperfections! Rejoice in your very ordinariness! Beware of so-called "His Holinesses" -- they are all "His Phoninesses." If you like such big words like "His Holiness" then make a title such as "His Very Ordinariness" -- HVO, not HH!
I preach ordinariness. I make no claims for any miracles; I am a simple man. And I would like you also to be very simple so that you can get rid of these two polarities: that of guilt and that of hypocrisy. Exactly in the middle is sanity.
´Perfectly imperfect`,is included in the book: ZEN Its History and Teachings and Impact on Humanity euro 15.95 - order here

The Art of Living
The art of living is the art of growing up, finding its own maturity: ‘Growing up means moving every moment deeper into the principle of life; it means going farther away from death - not towards death. The deeper you go into life, the more you understand the immortality within you.’ 73 min./ € 15.95 order here ... read further ... this talk is selected from series: Beyond Enlightenment

Awareness Is Enough
Beloved Osho,
Do I have to know and understand the roots of my old patterns in order to be able to drop them, or is awareness enough? Please comment.
This is the dividing line between Western psychology and Eastern mysticism. Western psychology is an effort to understand the roots of your old patterns, but it does not help anybody to get rid of them.
You become more understanding, you become more sober, you become more normal; your mind is no longer a great mess. Things are settled a little better than they ever have been before, but every problem remains the same -- it simply goes dormant. You can understand your jealousy, you can understand your anger, your hate, your greed, your ambitions, but all this understanding will remain intellectual. So even the greatest psychologists of the West are far away from the Eastern mystics. ...
Awareness leads you beyond the mind. It does not bother to understand the problems of the mind, their roots, it simply leaves the mind aside, it simply gets out of it. That is the reason why in the East there has been no development of psychology.
2 CD-set-118 min. /Euro 16.50 - order here

Body & Mind
Osho answers the question: ´Does the body follow the mind, and is my mind being influenced by my heart?` He explains the working of our body/mind/soul: ´Whatever happens to you, in the body or in the mind or in the heart or in your awareness, is going to change everything in the whole organism. You are going to be affected as a whole. The members of the organic unity are not just parts put together, there is something more.` 2 CD-set-95 min. /€ 16.50 - order here

Children and Parents
I am not saying there is any sense in making parents responsible - because they have suffered because of THEIR parents, and so on and so forth.... Understanding is needed. Finding scapegoats is of no help. You cannot simply say, "I am destroyed because my parents have destroyed me - what can I do?" I know, parents ARE destructive, but if you become alert and aware you can get out of that pattern that they have created and woven around you. 72 min./Euro 15.95 - order here

Compassion
Osho, Is it wrong to try to save somebody? Is it not part of compassion?
Compassion is a very delicate affair. It certainly has some place in making an effort to save others, but there are many conditions which have to be fulfilled first.
The first condition is that you are saved; otherwise, in the name of saving others you will be simply destroying them. And in the effort of saving others you will be missing the opportunity to save yourself Only a person who has come home himself can be of any help to somebody. A blind man cannot help blind people. You must have your eyes opened; you must have seen light yourself before you start telling others what it is.
Compassion certainly includes the idea of saving others, but not against their will. If somebody does not want to be saved, you are not to force him; not at the point of a sword do you have to save him. That is not saving. That simply shows that in the name of saving you are trying to dominate people. 2 CD-set-130 min. /Euro 16.50 - order here read more about Compassion

Conditioning and Deprogramming
Personality is that which society manages to make you. And individuality is that which society is afraid of: Personality is created by the society according to its own requirements, but individuality is wild, natural. It is not to fit into some mechanism; it cannot be made a cog in the wheel. I want you to be individuals, not persons. Drop your personality. Drop all the ideas that people have given to you.
2 CD-set-140 min. /Euro 16.50 - order here

Death
Death is an organic, integral part of life, and it is very friendly to life. Without it life cannot exist. Life exists because of death; death gives the background. Death is, in fact, a process of renewal. And death happens each moment. The moment you breathe in and the moment you breathe out, both happen. Breathing in, life happens; breathing out, death happens. 2 CD-set-90 min. /Euro 16.50 - order here
This talk is selected from series: The Art of Dying

Dropping the Mind
Life is a movement, a constant flux. Each moment it is new. But the mind? - the mind is never new. It is always lagging behind. The very nature of the mind is such that it cannot be one with the life. Life goes on: mind lags behind. There is always an inconsistency between life and mind - it has to be so.
The mind says that if something is valid today, it will be valid tomorrow. That's how traditions are born.
Whatsoever I am saying to you is true this moment. Tomorrow it will become a dead burden. Don't carry it. Live it if you can live it right now. Enjoy, if you can enjoy it with me right now. Celebrate it! This very moment let your consciousness meet... let it go deep in you. It can transform you. Be pregnant with it - but this very moment! Don't postpone it for tomorrow, because tomorrow it will not be valid any more. Nothing can be valid beyond its moment. 2 CD-set-85 min./Euro 16.50 - order here

EGO
Osho answers the question: How Does Buddhism Explain Egotism?
The ego is like a closed door. The guest is standing outside. The guest has been knocking, but the door is closed. Not only is the door closed, but the ego goes on interpreting. It says: There is nobody outside, no guest has come, nobody has knocked, just a strong wind is knocking at the door. It goes on interpreting from the inside. without looking at the fact. And the door remains closed. By interpretations, even the possibility of its opening becomes less and less. And a moment comes when you are completely closed in your own ego. Then all sensitivity is lost. Then you are not an opening, and you cannot have a meeting with existence. Then you are almost dead. The ego becomes your grave.
This is the most basic problem. If you solve it, everything is solved.
2 CD-set-115 min./ € 16.50 - order here - This talk is selected from the series: Returning to the Source

Fear
"Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move." This wonderful statement by the poet Rumi is the beginning of a extra ordinary talk by Osho into the world of Jalaluddin Rumi, the man Osho describes: ´There have been very few people who have moved and transformed as many hearts as Jalaluddin Rumi.´ 64 min./€uro 15.95 - order here

Happiness
Be an individual if you want to be happy. If you want to be happy, then start choosing on your own. There are many times when you will have to be disobedient -- be! There are many times when you will have to be rebellious -- be! There is no disrespect implied in it. Be respectful to your parents. But remember that your deepest responsibility is towards your own being.
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative. Then nothing distracts you. When things distract you, that simply shows that you are not really interested in those things.
2 CD-set-89 min./€uro 16.50 - order here

Life´s Meaning
Life in itself is meaningless. Meaning is not something sitting there and you have just to reach and possess it. Meaning has to be created. It is not like a thing that you can uncover, you will have to become your meaning, you will have to give a rebirth to yourself. Only when you feel meaning in life will you be happy, not before it. 2 CD-set-94 min./Euro 16.50 - order here

Life´s meaning has to be created... - - This talk is selected from the series: Sufis the People on the Path

Loving Oneself
Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that destroys that love - because if a child goes on growing in loving him-self, who is going to love Jesus Christ? Who is going to love the president? Who is going to love the parents? In a fiery discourse Osho takes us by the hand to self-love.
2 CD-set-84 min./Euro 16.50 - order here

Maturity
Maturity has nothing to do with age; growing old is not necessarily growing up. One can be young and grown-up and one can be very old and very childish. Age and maturity have no necessary link. Maturity comes through meditation.
2 CD-set-101 min./ € 16.50 - order here

Meditation & Joy
‘If you are joyful, in a mood of dancing, meditation is very easy. So it is up to you, to make your meditation easy and successful, or difficult and unsuccessful. Meditate, and you will find the greatest joy of your life happening’ 69 min. /euro 15.95 - order here

Sammasati: Osho´s Last Words
´Just remember one thing, and that is witnessing. Call it awareness, call it total consciousness, call it what Buddha used to call sammasati, right remembering, but witnessing is the most important word out of all these.´
2 CD-set-112 min./Euro 16.50 - order here
This talk is selected from the series: The Zen Manifesto - Freedom from Oneself

Sex, Love & Prayer
Love has three possibilities: sex, the lowest; love, higher than sex; and prayer, the highest. Answering the question: ´What really is the difference between a Baul, a Tantrika, a Bhakta, and a Sufi?´ Osho creates the fragrance of fulfilment in that moment.
2 CD-set-83 min./Euro 16.50 - order here

Tantra
Tantra avoids mind and encounters life face to face, neither thinking, "This is good," nor thinking, "This is bad": simply facing that which is. So it is difficult to say that this is an attitude -- in fact it is a no-attitude.
The second thing to remember, that tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything. It has nothing like "no" in its vocabulary, there is no negation. It never says no to anything, because with no the fight starts, with no you become the ego. The moment you say no to anything, you have become the ego already; a conflict has come in, now you are at war.
Tantra loves, and loves unconditionally. It never says no to anything whatsoever, because everything is part of the whole, and everything has its own place in the whole, and the whole cannot exist without anything missing from it.
2 CD-set-116 min./Euro 16.50 - order here
This talk is selected from the series: Tantra the supreme understanding

The Ultimate Joke
Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou. Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand it as a cosmic joke you will never be able to understand the ultimate mystery.
Beloved Master,
I feel shocked when you use the word 'fuck'. What to do?
Sargamo, it is one of the most beautiful words. The English language should be proud of it. I don't think any other language has such a beautiful word.... 2 CD-set-90 min./Euro 16.50 - order here

Trusting the Inner Guide
When things change, trust your inner guide. Trust will change you, will transform you. Live courageous -- without asking any why. You will know how to love, know how to penetrate into the future without carrying the load of the past.
2 CD-set-109 min./Euro 16.50 - order here
This talk is selected from the series: The Wisdom of the Sands

What is Meditation?
Meditation is the very center of my whole effort.
It is the very womb out of which the new religion is going to be born.
But it is very difficult to verbalize it. To say something about meditation is a contradiction in terms. It is something which you can have, which you can be, but by its very nature you cannot say what it is. Still, efforts have been made to convey it in some way. Even if only a fragmentary, partial understanding arises out of it, that is more than one can expect.
But even that partial understanding of meditation can become a seed. Much depends on how you listen.
2 CD´s total time: 119 minutes Euro 16.50 - order here

Work & Creativity
How to be creative while doing jobs which seem not to leave any space for creativity, like cleaning, etc.?
This question is from Krishna Radha. She cleans. But I also do the same thing: every morning, every evening, twenty-four hours -- cleaning your mind, cleansing. But I never feel that there is any need for any other creativity.
Cleaning a floor can be a tremendously creative act. Remember, creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatsoever you do can become creative. Whatsoever you do can become creative if you know what creativity means.
Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love.
2 CD´s total time: 89 minutes Euro 16.50 - order here - This talk is selected from series: Nirvana the Last Nightmare

Work as Meditation
Your question is, "Here in our commune, there is no separate time for meditation...." It is our basic approach. We cannot have a separate time for meditation. Meditation should be spread all over your life: eating, sleeping, taking a bath, or just having a walk, or just sitting doing nothing. Meditation should be in all these actions, inactions, activities, non activities. The thread of meditation should continue underground, whatever you are working at.
A great master, Nan In, was chopping wood. The king of the country had come to see him. He had heard so much about Nan In that finally he could not resist the temptation to go and see the man. Just as he entered the monastery, near the gate was a man perspiring in the hot sun, chopping wood.
Naturally the king thought, "This man must be able to direct me to where I can find the master" -- because it was a vast monastery with five hundred monks living in it. So he asked the man, who was Nan In himself, "Please forgive me for interrupting you; you are so absorbed in chopping wood, you have not even seen that I have been standing here for a few minutes, waiting. But then I thought it is better to interrupt you because you are not going to see me of your own accord."
The man said, "I am sorry, but this is how my life is. Whatever I am doing I am doing it totally. Nothing of me remains to do anything else. Chopping wood, I am simply chopping wood. There is nobody else other than the chopper of wood. So, no need to be embarrassed. What do you want?"
He said, "I want to see the master, Nan In."
Nan In said, "You go directly into that hut and wait. The master will be coming soon."
The king went and waited there. Nan In took a shower, put on his master's robe, and came in from the back door. But the king was very puzzled, because both men looked so alike. He thought, "It is almost an impossibility. There are not two men alike in the whole world, and just in this monastery, within a few hundred yards I have seen a man exactly like this man."
Nan In said, "You wanted to see master Nan In -- master Nan In is now here."
The king said, "That I will enquire about later on. First I want to know who was chopping wood at the gate."
Nan In laughed. He said, "At that time I was a chopper of wood. Now I am going to chop your head; now I am a master.
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2 CD-set-80 min. /Euro 16.50 - order here