Aus purer Lust am Leben. Die Suche nach dem Guten, Wahren, Schönen

by Osho

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352 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 1988

About the author

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.

In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.

Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.

In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".

In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.

In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.

In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[

After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.

Reviews

[Ankit Kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sublime experience!

[Akhil Jain · Rating 4 out of 5]

My fav quotes (not a review):
-Page 57 |"”Salesmanship is the difference between rape and rapture.” ”Whiskey may not cure a cold, but no remedy fails with such satisfaction.”"
-Page 79 |"Receptiveness feels like dying because receptiveness looks like humiliation. To (want to) receive something, particularly love, means you are a beggar."
-Page 111 "Tibetans’ heaven is warm and remains warm all the year round. Snow never falls in their heaven, it falls in their hell – the hell is utterly cold, far worse than Tibet."
-Page 174 "Being shy is another way of the ego. It has been converted almost into something ornamental. The modern woman in the West has thrown it away because it was also a binding chain, and for liberation it needs to be broken. You are so beautiful!” And then a shyness comes because you know it is not true, but it is very ego-fulfilling."
-Page 318 "A great Zen master entered the hall where all the disciples had gathered for the evening meditation. ”There is good news tonight and bad news,” he said. ”First, the bad news: there is no good news. Now the good news: you don’t have to listen to the bad news.”"
-Page 361 "What kind of archer are you? If the archer cannot stand on this small cliff without trembling, how can he be called an archer? If your hands are trembling – people may not be able to know it, but you cannot deceive a master."
-Page 414 "You can start from the other end also. Just relax... let all tensions drop... and as you relax you will be surprised that a certain awareness is arising in you. They are inseparable. But to start from awareness is easier; to start with relaxation is a little difficult, because even the effort to relax creates a certain tension."
-Page 422 "The difference between a politician and an English lady... When a politician says yes, he means maybe. When he says maybe, he means no. If he says no, he’s no politician. When an English lady says no, she means maybe. When she says maybe, she means yes. If she says yes, she’s no lady."
-Page 463 "But according to me you have rightly gone astray. Nothing could have been more right than going astray from the crowd. A doctor who worked in a psychiatric hospital got a flat tire in the parking lot, and when he took the wheel off he dropped the wheel-nuts down the drain. He was at a loss what to do when one of the inmates walked up and told him to take one nut from each of the other wheels and that would last until he got to a garage. The doctor was very impressed and said, ”That’s good thinking on your part, young man. Why are you in here?” The man replied, ”I’m crazy, not stupid.” It is perfectly good here to be crazy, but not to be stupid."

[Quiver · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kontrovers ist Osho sicher in Bezug auf Religionen und Lebenseinstellungen, er weiss das und versucht ab und zu sich durch seine Lehre zu verteidigen; kontrovers ist er auch im historischen Kontext, wie er gelebt hat und was er gemacht hat. Wer weiss, was eigentlich passiert ist, man kann in solchen Situationen kaum auf der ganzen historischen „Wahrheit" bestehen. Auch wenn er der reinste, beste Mensch war (was auch immer das bedeutet), muss man immer damit rechnen, seine Aussagen sind letztendlich nur schöne und tröstende und manchmal ungeheuerlich beeindruckende Floskeln, und werden solche Floskeln bleiben, bis der Leser seine eigene Wahrheit und Natur verstanden hat. Dann vielleicht wandeln sich manche von diesen Floskeln in etwas Bedeutsames aber Offensichtliches was den Leser angeht, und der Leser verspürt selbst das Bedürfnis, ähnliche Floskeln zu anderen Menschen zu wiederholen, um jetzt die zum Denken anzuregen.

[Chimedee M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another pearl in the series of pearls to be shining around the seekers of truth all over. It was surely a nourishment.