Absolute Tao: Subtle is the way to love, happiness and truth (TAO - The Three Treasures) Kindle Edition
by Osho (Author), Osho International Foundation (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Moving beyond the usual interpretations of this classic Chinese text — that of using it as an indicator of what to do next or attempting to predict the future — Osho is using the Tao Te Ching as Lao Tzu intended: to ignite the flame of individual awareness and insight.
His commentaries on these seven verses burn through every idea we may hold about ourselves until we can see with the same crystal clear light as Lao Tzu.
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KCSANTHAKUMAR
4.0 out of 5 stars Don’t try to be victorious, then nobody can defeat you.
Reviewed in India on 12 April 2020
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Osho comments in this book on Lao Tzu’s ‘Tao Te Ching’, which is considered as one of the significant treatises in Chinese philosophy. Lao Tzu who lived for ninety years refusing to say anything or to write anything is believed to have lived in between 6th and 4th century BC. Some historians are doubtful about his existence. Lao Tzu means “the old guy.” The basic attitude of Lao Tzu is that “the moment you say something about truth, it is no longer true, the very saying falsifies it.”
Lao Tzu, at the age of ninety, took leave of his disciples saying good-bye to them and left towards the Himalayas. Alone he was crossing the border and the guard who was also a disciple of Lao Tzu imprisoned him and forced him to write a book. So for three days Lao Tzu was imprisoned by his own disciple and made him write this small book, the book of Lao Tzu, ‘Tao Te Ching’. Lao Tzu had to write the book, which he finished in three days, because the disciple wouldn’t allow him to cross. The book begins with this sentence: “The Tao that can be told of is not the Absolute Tao.”
Lao Tzu believes in interdependence. He believes that everything exists with everything else and everything is interconnected and nothing exists without any purpose in life. He says: “Take everything as it is, don’t choose.” Lao Tzu also believes that when everything is too much, it is bound to be taken away. For him too much is the only sin, either be it too much richness or be it too much poverty. So don’t do too much, don’t overdo; be balanced and remain in the limits and then life is a flow.
Lao Tzu’s concept of the house is the space within, not the walls; one lives in the emptiness and not in the walls. He says: “Look at the inner, don’t look at the outer.” According to Osho “Tao is a vast hollowness, a vast space, emptiness.”
Osho says that Lao Tzu goes the deepest that anybody has ever gone; he is the greatest key, the master key to open all the locks that exist in life and existence. This book consists of ten chapters of which five chapters are set apart for Osho’s responses to questions from seekers and disciples on different topics which include love, hate and ambition; independence, dependence and interdependence; inner silence and emptiness; growth and spirituality; wisdom and understanding etc.etc. Also, the jokes, parables and anecdotes scattered elsewhere in this book are highly interesting and thought provoking. Following are some of Osho’s observations:
People always talk about things which they don’t know.
The moment you create a God, you immediately create a Devil.
When you try to be somebody, you cannot love. An ambitious mind cannot love.
You cannot love a person twenty-four hours a day; if you try, the love will become dead.
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Ibrahim B
5.0 out of 5 stars Tao Te Ting
Reviewed in India on 30 May 2019
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Keep your options of E book and Paperback etc selection mode in bold and dark letter... Font size must be bigger than the rest of the page... Book is just fantastic
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NinjaReader
5.0 out of 5 stars Livro maravilhoso de OSHO
Reviewed in Brazil on 14 May 2018
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Osho está sublime neste livro. O Tao - o caminho - é um santo remédio para a vida obsessiva do mundo contemporâneo.
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Jake
5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorite Osho Books
Reviewed in India on 3 August 2020
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Definitely one of the better Osho books. Really insightful and deep. I also recommend hidden mysteries and his commentaries on Pythagoras' golden verses.
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prasad mahajan
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for read
Reviewed in India on 5 December 2018
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Always OSHO books for reading is top priority. He gives insight us and teach balancing in life.
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