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this compilation Osho guides the reader all the way from the birth
of Zen to its contemporary practices of Zen. It contains many anekdotes
of Zen Masters like Bodidharma and Sosan as well as the famous story
of 'The Ten Bulls of Zen".
The book is illustrated with photos of the world of Zen and photos
from the Osho Commune in Poona.
'Zen is like a telegram. It believes in the very essentials. It has
no nonsense around it, no rituals, no chanting, no mantras, no scriptures—just
small anecdotes. If you have the right awareness, they will hit you
directly in the heart. It is a very condensed and crystallized teaching,
but it needs the person to be prepared for it. And the only preparation
is meditative awareness.''
'Zen books themselves are very fragmentary. They are telegrams—urgent,
immediate, not giving you any explanation, but simply giving you the
very essence, the perfume of thousands of flowers. You just have to
be alert and meditative enough to absorb them. I’m trying to
give a context, the right background, because I am talking to people
who are not born in the Zen tradition.'
OSHO.
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