Rajneesh Bible Vol. 4

By Osho

BONUS! I am including small Rajneesh photo I found in this book. Minor handling wear. No marks, highlighting or underlining. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3907757025
• ISBN13: 9783907757024
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Osho Intl
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 1.8" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Aha, the buddhas, another specimen

Not being a follower of Rajneesh, and mindful of the confusing legacy of his movement of which I was an early critic, all of which I find tragic, I nonetheless will always recall the eerie flood of books he produced starting in the mid seventies. Strange times, I hated the man, but as a speed reader zipped through two hundred of his books, beautiful first editions from Bombay, now disappearing. Whatever your take on the man, he was nothing if not interesting, and he produced a universe of discourse that is of historical value, and it is a pity to see the original texts start to disappear. The sugar coated reprints are a distortion to say the least.This series called the Rajneesh Bible is one of the most monumental critiques of organized religion ever penned, and is a reminder that founders of religion and the religions history leaves us don't get along at all. It is unbelievable really, a level of savage anger that is stunning, and it just goes on and on for three volumes of caustic comment. Rajneesh said somewhere (his commentaries on Patanjali)that the 'Buddha phenomenon' needs to be studied, and that's true. The New Age movement has produced such a long list of casualties here that the whole thing seems less than what the sutras tell us of Gautama (probably distorted). Figuring out where this man went wrong in the middle of getting something right is a case study in a special world of madmen ordinary life can't handle. They'll make sure you forget him.

IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK

The Rajneesh Bible is a massive collection of discourses collected in three or four volumes. I was lucky enough to find them in my local library and without having read anything previously of Eastern spirituality, quickly found myself addicted to the simple but insightful and entertaining talks. I read the first two volumes and couldn't keep myself from copying out extracts to savor. Bhagwan's stand is this: there is only one true religion; the art of living, living with awareness. He encouraged living fully, savoring every moment and minute of life, moving beyond social masks and dropping illusory consolations. What he has to say about the world religions is tremendously insightful and revealing. The Bibles are independent of themselves, so you can start with any one of them. I really can't recommend them enough. They'll change the way you look at life and religion.