Take It Easy: Talks On Zen Buddhism

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In these delightful and playful talks, available for the first time in one volume, Osho introduces the mystery, the wonder, and the emptiness that in Zen. He uses the poetry of one of the most outrageous Zen masters, lkkyu, to show the ways and methods a Zen master uses to permanently transform, rather than simply inform.

Osho and lkkyu’s whole message is about how to experience the essence of emptiness: that blissful state of no-mind where all old conditionings are gone and man is free just to be himself. As Osho speaks of lkkyu, and answers people’s questions, he is also speaking of himself. As he speaks of whom lkkyu is, he reveals more about himself.

This book can change the life of anyone who reads it with an open mind. Osho words are a fire that burns away old enslaving concepts, setting man free from the fears that have constricted his life. He gives the reader a fresh, new understanding of himself, and shows him the way to light his own path.

Osho in a category all of his own, and as he states: “I am nobody, I don’t belong to any nation, I don’t belong to any religion, I don’t belong to any political party. I am simply an individual, the way existence created me. I have kept myself absolutely uninfluenced by any idiotic ideology- religious, political, social, and financial. And the miracle is that because I am not burdened with all these glasses on my eyes, and curtains before me, I can see clearly.

These words of lkkyu describe the Buddhist approach profoundly. Listen to lkkyu’s song. Accept this emptiness and the fear of death will disappear like a month. When you find the flame of love burning bright-be a month!.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Osho .

Osho was born in Kuchwada, Madhya Pradesh, on 11 December 1931. Rebellious and independent from childhood, he insisted on experiencing the truth for himself rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others. He attained 'enlightenment' at 21 and went on to complete his academic studies. He spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile, he travelled throughout India delivering talks and meeting people from all walks of life. By the 1960s, Osho had begun to develop his unique dynamic meditation techniques. He felt that modern man is so burdened with the archaic traditions of the past as well as the anxieties of modern-day living that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thought-less, relaxed state of meditation. In the early 1970s, the West first began to hear of Osho. By 1974, a commune had been established around him in Pune, and the trickle of visitors from the West soon became a flood. Osho spoke of every aspect of life and on the development of human consciousness. Based on his own existential experience rather than on intellectual understanding, he distilled the essence of what is significant to the spiritual quest of contemporary man. Osho left his body on 19 January 1990. His commune in India continues to attract thousands of international visitors who come to participate in its meditation, therapy and creative programmes or to simply experience being in a 'Buddhafield'. Osho's talks have been published in more than 600 volumes and translated into over thirty languages.