Osho - Ah, This!

Osho on Zen Stories = Ah, This!

Talks given from 03/01/80 am to 10/01/80 am
8 Chapters = total time 13h 11m
Year published: 1982

The Heart of Knowing is Now

ZEN IS JUST ZEN. There is nothing comparable to it. It is unique -- unique in the sense that it is the most ordinary and yet the most extraordinary phenomenon that has happened to human consciousness. It is the most ordinary because it does not believe in knowledge, it does not believe in mind. It is not a philosophy, not a religion either. It is the acceptance of the ordinary existence with a total heart, with one's total being, not desiring
some other world, supra-mundane, supra-mental. It has no interest in any esoteric nonsense, no interest in metaphysics at all. It does not hanker for the other shore; this shore is more than enough. Its acceptance of this shore is so tremendous that through that very acceptance it transforms this shore -- and this very shore becomes the other shore.
This very body the buddha;
This very earth the lotus paradise.

Hence it is ordinary. It does not want you to create a certain kind of spirituality, a certain kind of holiness. All that it asks is that you live your life with immediacy, spontaneity. And then the mundane becomes the sacred.

"The great miracle of Zen is the transformation of the mundane into the sacred.
Zen goes beyond Buddha and beyond Lao Tzo. It is a culmination, a transcendence, both of the Indian genius and of the Chinese genius."

Zen stories serve as a starting point for several talks in the series, illuminating the nature of that rare and precious human capacity to transcend the limits of the rational mind. In alternating talks, Osho responds to questions from listeners about how these insights can be applied to everyday challenges and life concerns.

Track Title
1. The Heart of Knowing is Now
2. Neti Neti
3. I am Higher
4. Dying into the Master
5. See Right at Once
6. Try it My Way
7. Take No Notice
8. Not knowing Is The Most Intimate

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