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The Dhammapada, Vol. 8: The Way of the Buddha
The Dhammapada, Vol. 8: The Way of the BuddhaThe Dhammapada, Vol. 8: The Way of the Buddha
Osho
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Listening Length 17 hours and 51 minutes
Author Osho
Narrator Osho
Audible.com Release Date January 19, 2016
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The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Gautama the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. This is volume one of a 12-volume series of Osho Talks, where Osho brings Buddha's Dhammapada into the 21st century, opening them for a new understanding for contemporary mankind.
In alternating chapters, Osho comments on specific sutras of Buddha and responds to questions from his audience, deepening the understanding of these timeless works. "My talking on Buddha is not just a commentary: It is creating a bridge. Buddha is one of the most important masters who has ever existed on the Earth - incomparable, unique."
The setting of these talks is an open-air auditorium at the Osho International Meditation Resort in Pune, India. Osho and his audience sit surrounded by trees, and the elements of nature - the chirping of birds, wind, and the cracking bamboos as well as the distant sound of the local Pune-Mumbai morning train - are all parts of these recordings and give them a truly existential flavor.
Osho employs his penetrating insight and wonderful humor to remove the dust of many misunderstandings gathered on Buddha's teachings and again emphasizes meditation over dogma, meditation being Buddha's greatest contribution to the development of human consciousness.
"Buddha transformed the word meditation. Meditation had always been something of the mind, and Buddha brought a new quality, so totally new, diametrically opposite to the old meaning: He said meditation means a state of no mind. It is not concentration; it is not contemplation. It is not thinking; it is not thinking about God. It is not even prayer, because thinking is of the head, intellectual; prayer is emotional. That is another side of the head, not very far away from it - a different language used by another part of the head."
Osho Talks are "meditating talks", allowing the listener an experience of meditation. "These words of Buddha come from eternal silence. They can reach you only if you receive them in silence."
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Bhakta Kishor
Jan 21, 2019Bhakta Kishor rated it really liked it
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All great religious teachers, compared to Gautam Buddha, fall very short. They want you to become followers, they want you to practice a certain discipline, they want you to manage your affairs, your morality, your lifestyle. They make a mold of you and they give you a beautiful prison cell.
Buddha stands alone, totally for freedom. Without freedom man cannot know his ultimate mystery; chained he cannot move his wings into the sky and cannot go into the beyond. Every religion is chaining people, keeping some hold on them, not allowing them to be their original beings, but giving them personalities and masks – and this they call religious education.
Buddha does not give you any religious education. He wants you simply to be yourself, whatever it is. That is your religion – to be yourself. No man has loved freedom so much. No man has loved mankind so much. He would not accept followers for the simple reason that to accept a follower is to destroy his dignity. He accepted only fellow travelers. His last statement before dying was, “If I ever come back, I will come as your friend.” Maitreya means the friend.
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Bella
Nov 23, 2014Bella rated it it was amazing
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One of the most profunding books which I have read. Of course when the Master is giving discourses, it is indeed a master piece :)
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Fabio
Jun 05, 2019Fabio rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Libro interessante e pieno di spunti.
Meanwhile, let's say that the "laugh" in the title is not found in the book except in the form of jokes that help to understand a concept. The narrative style is in fact very direct, simple, full of examples, sometimes a little repetitive; however clear. The book is structured in ten speeches
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Gustavo Barroso
Jun 14, 2019Gustavo Barroso added it
It is pretentious to comment on a book that supposedly contains the words of Siddartha Gautama the Buddha, but I can highly recommend this reading. It's easy and revealing!
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