Our new welcome-centre, Mirdad House, is stocking up with some more juicy books, both from Osho, and from Osho’s friends and lovers. So after your white-robe meditation in the evening you can curl up in your cosy bed, in your cottage deep into the mountains, and gently fall asleep with some quiet reading.
1. The Path of Meditation
The talks in this book were given at a meditation camp in the hills of Mahabaleshwar, and the book is illustrated with photos from that time. Osho moves us step by step through preparations for meditation, beginning with the purification of the body and how to keep the body free of blockages, to purifying the mind and the emotions. He then explains the different stages that happen on the path of meditation. This is not just a book to read but an invitation to experiment with the extremely powerful techniques that are given.
2. My Way: The way of the white clouds
"Tibetan mystics or Zen masters or Sufi dervishes have all talked about the white clouds. The white clouds have been catching many people′s inner being. A rapport is achieved, it seems, with the white clouds. Make it a meditation and then many things will come to you."
Osho has chosen the symbol of the white clouds to represent the way a seeker moves on the path, and these talks address all the states – storms, winds, sun, rain and rainbows – that are part of the mystery of being.
"A white cloud has nowhere to go. It moves, it moves everywhere. All dimensions belong to it, all directions belong to it. Nothing is rejected.
Everything is, exists, in a total acceptance. Hence I call my way, ′The Way of the White Clouds′."
-Osho
3. The Only Life
Osho, Laxmi and a Journey of the Heart
by Rashid Maxwell
This is the story of a woman who blazed a path for herself and others in Osho's presence. Growing up an ordinary Indian girl in British India, and rendered powerless in a domineering world, Laxmi went to become Osho's first disciple and secretary. What follows is an account of not just a life, but of the massive international movement which grew around Osho in the 1970s and 80s – one that Laxmi was at the helm of. Equally, what unfolds is a narrative, full of pathos, where her protégé usurps her place. Heartbroken, ostracized and later banished, she wanders the wastelands of America in isolation, seeking to rediscover herself by choosing devotion for her master over despair.
4. Encounters with an Inexplicable Man
Compiled and Edited by Savita Brandt
What was it like to live in the community of a spiritual anarchist? To be buffeted in the energy-field of the most controversial mystic of the 20th century? Osho, then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, drew world attention by driving Rolls Royces, dressing in otherworldly robes and attracting vast numbers of red-clothed followers. His iconoclastic views punctured the serenity of both Indian and American society, and the world press had a field day attempting to discredit him. Yet the power of his radical spiritual vision has infiltrated the 21st century in broad swathes, his hundreds of books still sell in scores of languages and his work continues to be celebrated worldwide.
These simple tales of the jolts and joys along the way to transformation give us an intimate glimpse into the relationship between this rare contemporary mystic and some of his thousands of ‘sannyasins’, who came from all walks of life and several continents to live and work around him.
5. व्यस्त जीवन में ईश्वर की खोज
(Vyast Jeevan Mein Ishwar Ki Khoj)
सचमुच ईश्वर की खोज के लिए अलग से समय निकालने की ज़रूरत नहीं। जीवन की तमाम सक्रियताओं के बीच उसे पाया जा सकता है, क्योंकि वह एक चेतना है, कार्यकलाप नहीं है। व्यस्त जीवन से परमात्मा की खोज का कोई विरोध नहीं है। असल में, व्यस्त जीवन से अलग परमात्मा के लिए समय खोजने की कोई ज़रूरत नहीं है। तुम्हारे व्यस्त जीवन में ही, तुम्हारे सब कुछ करने में ही - चाहे गिट्टी फोड़ो, चाहे मकान बनाओ, चाहे फ़ैक्टरी में कारख़ाना चलाओ, चाहे घर में रोटी बनाओ, चाहे कपड़े सीओ, चाहे वीणा बजाओ, चाहे चित्र बनाओ, कुछ भी करो - करने से परमात्मा की खोज का कोई विरोध नहीं है, क्योंकि परमात्मा की खोज एक नए प्रकार का करना नहीं है। वह एक नया एक्शन नहीं है। परमात्मा की खोज एक कांशसनेस है, एक चेतना है, एक्ट नहीं, डूइंग नहीं।
6. शिव-सूत्र
(Shiv Sutra)
अपनी तरफ देखो—न तो पीछे, न आगे। कोई तुम्हारा नहीं है। कोई बेटा तुम्हें नहीं भर सकेगा। कोई संबंध तुम्हारी आत्मा नहीं बन सकता। तुम्हारे अतिरिक्त तुम्हारा कोई मित्र नहीं है। जैसे कि आग को तुम उकसाते हो—राख जम जाती है, तुम उकसा देते हो; राख झड़ जाती है, अंगारे झलकने लगते हैं। ऐसी तुम्हें कोई प्रक्रिया चाहिए, जिससे राख तुम्हारी झड़े और अंगारा चमके; क्योंकि उसी चमक में तुम पहचानोगे कि तुम चैतन्य हो। और जितने तुम चैतन्य हो, उतने ही तुम आत्मवान हो।
तुम्हारी महत यात्रा में, जीवन की खोज में, सत्य के मंदिर तक पहुंचने में—ध्यान बीज है। ध्यान क्या है?—जिसका इतना मूल्य है; जो कि खिल जाएगा तो तुम परमात्मा हो जाओगे; जो सड़ जाएगा तो तुम नारकीय जीवन व्यतीत करोगे। ध्यान क्या है? ध्यान है निर्विचार चैतन्य की अवस्था, जहां होश तो पूरा हो और विचार बिलकुल न हों।
7. The Song of the Ocean (1979-1990)
This photo-biography of Osho and his work is in continuation of the “The Sound of Running Water”. The equally mesmerizing pictures in this volume include the period of Osho’s life and the work around him from 1979 to 1990. The photographs take us through a fascinating journey to Osho’s presence in America, the city of Rajneeshpuram, in the state of Oregon, built by thousands of dedicated Osho sannyasins, his world tour and return to India until he left his body in 1990.
8. Osho: Call of the Ocean | Osho: Mahasagar ki Pukar (In Hindi and English)
The volume contains glimpses of Osho’s life in photographs from 1931 to 1990 published as a souvenir on his 75th Birthday. The biographical story written in English is simultaneously followed by its Hindi translation.
9. Revolution in Education (Translation of Osho’s Hindi discourses)
by Dr. Vasant Joshi (Sw. Satya Vedant)
The book contains English translation of selected discourses on Education given by Osho at different times and places.
10. Past the Point of No Return: Inner and Outer Journeys
A Compilation by Ma Anand Bhagawati
A Sun rose on the horizon: gorgeous flower bloomed….a distant call came from the peaks and valleys, from rivers and mountains all of it revealing an incredible phenomenon called: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh — the enlightened Master now known as Osho. Thousands upon thousands drew to this mystic from India from around the world, in search of–‘what it is, that which is?’ They found the end of their journey at the feet of the Master. The book is an enormously touching narration of the challenges and thrills of the inner as well as the outer journeys, coming straight from the heart.
