In this collection of his discourses on Zen Buddhism, Osho says that he has called this series of talks ‘Take it Easy’ because it isn’t easy. It is difficult to take it, very difficult to take it. It is almost impossible to take, because it will shatter your whole life pattern.This is the book for the spiritual seeker who’s read everything and yet somehow survived. This one you wont survive – that is, if you can read it. For the contents of this book are such that if you can keep your attention in focus for more than a few seconds at a time, then plunging into these pages you may well be entering the last literary investigation of your starry spiritual career – And where you had once was, there might well be inscribed something like: "Took it Easy". It is strange that such a shattering shock of a volume should simultaneously offer such solace to the seeker. It seems to contain something for everybody in all the moods, phases and stages of this crazy game we are caught up in playing: spiritual rounders. It is a practical players’ handbook. Each chapter has some key, clue or word of comfort and encouragement, with many a handy hint and guideline of what to expect as you hang in there in the playing fields of inner chaos.
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.
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