Zen Books
One Hand Clapping (a collection of zen stories)
Paperback (Edition: 2003)
Rupa and Co.
ISBN 81-291-0216-1
Size: 7″ X 4.6″
Pages: 113
About the Book:
This book is a collection of zen stories that have withstood the test of time. Perhaps it is because Zen is a way of life offering profound insights into human nature, the cosmos, and spirituality. Or perhaps it is just because they are fun to tell. These stories capture all sorts of truths about life and death. But they are also witty, entertaining, and at times puzzling, even mind-bending. And they are not just the secret lessons of monks sequestered away in mountain monasteries. The ancient teachers intended these stories to be used by everyone, everywhere. On the bus to work, during meal times, taking an evening stroll with a friend- all of these situations and more lend themselves to these stories. Once you know a few of them, you will see opportunities to tell them popping up everywhere – when you are with your family, friends, and coworkers. Think of these tales as conversation pieces, as handy tools that you can lift out of your pocket to help you and others talk, think, and laugh about the wonderful and mysterious details of this thing we call Life.
Kyozan: A True Man of Zen
(Zen Masters Series)
by Osho
Hardcover
The Rebel Publishing House
ISBN 3893380809
Size: 8.4″ X 5.8″
Pages: 75 (Illustrated With B & W Figures)
From the Jacket:
Kyozan was a very simple man – not the philosophic kind, not a poet, nor a sculptor. Nothing can be said about him except that he was absolutely authentic, honest. If he does not know a thing he will say so, even at the risk of people thinking that he has fallen from his enlightenment. But this makes him a unique master.
Zen is full of unique masters, but Kyozan’s uniqueness is his simplicity. He is just like a child.
About the Author:
Osho has explained that his name is derived from William James’ word ‘oceanic’ which means dissolving into the ocean. Oceanic describes the experience, He says, but what about the experiencer?
For that we use the word ‘Osho’.
Later, He Came to find out that ‘Osho’ has also been used historically in the Far East, meaning “The Blessed One, on Whom the Sky Showers Flowers.”
From the Back of the Book:
These are not sermons in a church: these are communications.
A discourse, a sermon, remains within the limits of the mind. Only a communication can raise you beyond the mind, and that which is beyond the mind is Zen.
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CONTENTS
The Tremendous Statement
December 3, 1988 (2)
Zen is Like Wild Flowers
December 4, 1988 (22)
A Very Fresh Communion
December 5, 1988 (42)
A Stone Striking Bamboo
December 6, 1988 (58)
Product Code: IDF369
Dogen The Zen Master
(Zen Masters Series)
by Osho Rajneesh
Hardcover
The Rebel Publishing House
ISBN 3893380639
Size: 8.4″ X 5.8″
Pages: 196 (Illustrated With B & W Figures)
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Dogen is saying, that forms don’t change into other forms. Winter remains winter, summer remains summer, but something inner moves from one climate to another climate which is beyond birth and beyond death, which is beyond life, which simply is.
You can give it any shape, any form, but you cannot take away its isness.
This isness is the greatest discovery of the East. The West has missed it completely.
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CONTENTS
Introduction VIII
Note to the Reader X
To Study the way…
To Forget the self… 1
The mountainless ocean 41
Dive a little deep 65
The moon never breaks the water 91
The sky is not scratched by the cloud 111
Live one day as a buddha 137
Secretly, a jewel in his robe 161
Product Code: IDF356
Rinzai Master of the Irrational
(Zen Masters Series)
by Osho Rajneesh
Hardcover
The Rebel Publishing House
ISBN 3893380698
Size: 8.4″ X 5.8″
Pages: 204 (Illustrated With B & W Figures)
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Rinzai would shout at his disciples to give them a first experience of their centering. You are both a circumference and a center. You live on the circumference; the shout simply pushes you to the center.
Once you experience being at the center you suddenly see the whole world changing. Your eyes are no more the same….
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CONTENTS
The Master of the Shouts 1
Empty Heart, Empty Mind 27
Either Experience or Just Go Home 61
How Coarse! 85
Relax and Disappear 105
All You Can Do is Drop Your Mind 125
There is No Final Destination 145
Holidays are Not for Saints 167
Product Code: IDF357
Yakusan: Straight To The Point Of Enlightenment
(Zen Masters Series)
by Osho Rajneesh
Hardcover
The Rebel Publishing House Gmbh Colonge
ISBN 3893380841
Size: 7.6″ X 4.8″
Pages: 205
From the Jacket
I am neither a savior nor a prophet. I am simply a man amongst you. I am not talking to you from a high peak, from the point of view that I know and you don’t know. I am talking to you man to man. All that I am saying to you is that there was a time when I was asleep just as you are asleep, and there is nothing wrong in it. It is perfectly okay with existence- you can sleep for eternity; but it is not good for you.
What you are seeing in your sleep is only dreams, hallucinations. If you want to know the reality and its beauty you have to wake up. And only you can do it, nobody can help you in any way.
I can go on shouting till my last breath. That will not help unless you are ready to hear and be receptive. And even if you hear, you are receptive, then too you have to walk the path from the circumference of your life to the centre of your being. Nobody can do it on your behalf. I teach the individual. Jesus tries to convince the masses; I don’t care about the masses at all. Religion is the greatest creative art, in which you create yourself again. You become the womb and you give birth from the mother’s womb is only physical. You have to give yourself a birth is going to bring your spiritually with all its flowers, with all its mysteries, with all its roses, with all its freedom, its truth, its beauty, its godliness. But you have to do it.
From the Back of the Book:
To me religion is an individual love affair with existence. I teach you rebellion! Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your light. Find the light and it will show you the path. The path that is shown by your own light is the only path that is right. What others have been telling may be right for them; it cannot be right for you.
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CONTENTS
1 Whatever The Cost Enlightenment Is Cheap (2)
2 There Is No Way To Compare Me With Anybody (46)
3 A Grand Approach To Reality (82)
4 The Sutra Is Long, The Night Is Short (146)
5 The Truth Is What Works (166)
Product Code: IDF491
Zen-Yoga - A Creative Psychotherapy to Self-Integration
by P.J. Saher
Hardcover (Edition: 2004)
Motilal Banarsidass Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 81-208-0809-6
Size: 8.8″ X 6.0″
Pages: 387 (B & W Illus: 25)
From the Jacket:
This fascinating and profound book of ancient, Eastern esoteric wisdom backed by the latest discoveries and experiments of modern science treats of the health of the soul by showing the relationship between soul and brain.
Here is a practical guide to Zen-Yoga, which can help to master suffering and harness latent powers. At a time when science is exploring outer space Zen-Yoga helps us to explore the inner space of the human psyche, to recognize within ourselves a new freedom – freedom to work out our destiny with integral consciousness or the divine supra-Self as the light within.
This book is a cybernetic exploration of mind’s inner space leading to expanded cosmo-electronic consciousness.
Having shown the differences between Eastern and Western thought-processes, Saher explains how the sages of the East have acquired that source of wisdom and bliss which our misguided youth seeks vainly in hallucinogenic drugs.
About the Author:
P.J. Saher, best known for his book Eastern Wisdom and Western Thought, was born in Bombay and studied in England and Germany. He gave up a career at the Bar to take up research in mysticism, mastered yoga, and came under the influence of first of Heidegger, then of Radhakrishnan and Huxley. He has published several widely read books in German.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD ix
PREFACE xi
EXPLANATION OF ILLUSTRATIONS xix
PART I
INTRODUCTION xix
CHAPTERS
1. Mind and Thinking - and how both drift? 1
2. Drifts of the Mind and what they convey? 7
3. What is this Mind of Man 16
4. Do we think and how? 20
5. Must we sleep and how much? 23
6. The expanding Consciousness 26
7. Breathing and its relationship to Consciousness and Life 28
8. Spiritual Planes 34
9. Avoidable Mistakes 38
10. The Centres and their Mechanism 43
11. Use of Free Will in Trifles 62
12. Correct Methods in Daily Living 65
13. Progress on the Path 73
14. Will-Force 77
15. The Internal Non-equilibrium of Centres 80
16. How can we restore the Internal Equilibrium of the Centres? 84
17. What is the Purpose of Life and Birth? 94
PART II
THE UNPUBLISHED SECRETS OF ZEN AND YOGA
1. Pratyahara 101
2. Self-conquest 106
3. Understanding of the Laws of Spiritual Success 108
4. The glamour of Liberation from Bondage to the Ego 110
5. Yoga Sutra in the Light of our Understanding 113
6. The Five Gospels 119
(i) The sixty secret sacred Steps to salvation 119
(ii) The twentyfive Spiritual Sentences 126
(iii) Mysteries of the Higher Grades of Initiation 130
(iv) The Holy Concordat 133
(v) Devotion to Avatara surpasses all 139
7. Recapitulation 143
APPENDICES
I. A few Questions answered 151
II. Practical Exercises 182
III. Celestial Influence or Intensities of Celestial Bodies 199
IV. What happens to the Resultant Intensity finally? 220
V. The Neuro-physiological Basis of our Mind 233
VI. Practical Exercises 238
BIBLIOGRAPHY 240
INDEX 257
ILLUSTRATIONS 1-25
Product Code: IDC342
Isan No Footprints in the Blue Sky
(Zen Masters Series)
by Osho Ranjeesh
Hardcover
The Rebel Publishing House
ISBN 3893380701
Size: 8.4″ X 5.8″
Pages: 186 (Illustrated With B & W Figures)
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Isan was a great master as one can be, but he has left behind him neither great scriptures nor great commentaries.
His is a great master, but almost forgotten. Who remembers people who have not created great followings, who have not made organized religions, who have not chosen their successors, who have not made their religion a politics, a power in the material world? Isan did none of that. He simply lived silently. Of course thousands of disciples were attracted towards him, but it was not his fault. You can not blame him for it – it was just a magnetic force that he had become by disappearing into enlightenment.
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CONTENTS
1 Dig Deep (2)
2 Inertia of Habit (30)
3 Start Witnessing (54)
4 How About You? (76)
5 Just Be Here (102)
6 The Only Hope (128)
7 Blue Sky (152)
8 Essential Zen (170)
Product Code: IDF370
Nansen: The Point of Departure
(Zen Masters Series)
by Osho Rajneesh
Hardcover
The Rebel Publishing House GmbH Colonge
ISBN 3893380671
Size: 8.5″ X 5.8″
Pages: 197
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Nansen is a tremendous departure from the past spirituality, accepting secular and sacred as together, one – two aspects of one reality.
My love for Nansen is immense because of this understanding that the earth and the sky are not separate – are not separable – and both should be enjoyed. My own understanding is the same. I want the earth and the sky to be together. Only in their togetherness is wholeness; only in their togetherness is a joy, is a fulfillment. Buddha alone is half, Zorba alone is half, and unless they are together they can never be whole.
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CONTENTS
1 The earth and the sky are not separate (2)
2 Go beyond emptiness (22)
3 Your urge must become urgent (38)
4 Even the himalaya come and go (62)
5 Sit in the center of the circle (80)
6 All your Seriousness is about sandcastles (102)
7 You have forgotten your wings (122)
8 You need roses just wheat will not do (140)
9 Just a morning walk (160)
10 My Dance is complete (178)
Product Code: IDF489
Nirvana the Last Nightmare: Talks on Zen Anecdotes
by Osho
Hardcover (Edition: 2006)
Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 8172612001
Size: 8.2″ X 5.6″
Pages: 288
About the Osho
Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people – along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha – who have changed the destiny of India.
Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as “Zorba the Buddha” – one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology.
He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the thought-free state of meditation.
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Mastered by Zen (1)
Chapter 2 The Ultimate Nightmare (33)
Chapter 3 Players of a Game (61)
Chapter 4 The Drunken Dancer (89)
Chapter 5 Killing the Buddha (119)
Chapter 6 Taking the Risk (145)
Chapter 7 The Infinite Journey (173)
Chapter 8 Collecting Seashells (205)
Chapter 9 A Conscious Death (233)
Chapter 10 Living in Nirvana (263)
About Osho (291)
Product Code: IDH350
The Search: Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen
by Osho
Hardcover (Edition: 2003)
Tao Publishing
ISBN 8172611889
Size: 8.5” X 6.8”
Pages: 308
From the Jacket
Your Birth came out of the unknown, out of nothingness you were Born. One day you will disappear again into the unknown that will be your death. And in between these two, sometimes there will be glimpses of love. They will all be of the unknown.
The ten Bulls of Zen are something unique. In the history of human consciousness. Kakuan painted ten pictures of the whole search of man and man is a search. He is not only an inquirer. He is inquiry. These ten bulls are a pictorial representation of the inquiry, the inquiry that I call -Man
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CONTENTS
Introduction
The Search for the Bull; Discovering the Footprints 1
Dropping the Why 31
Discourse in Silence 55
Perceiving the Bull; Catching the Bull 83
Happiness knows no Tomorrow 117
Taming the Bull; Riding the Bull Home 149
Come In! 181
The Bull Transcended; both Bull and Self Transcended 209
Life is the Goal 241
Reaching the Source; In the World 267
About Osho 296
Further Information 308
Product Code: IDH508
