Earthen Lamps: 60 Parables and Anecdotes to Light Up Your Heart by Osho (Epub)

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One needs a very sympathetic ear and a very sympathetic heart to understand these beautiful parables, which are a rarity in Osho’s work because they don’t come from the talks that have made him so famous — the parables are actually written by him. Mystics like Buddha and Jesus talked in parables — and in his book Osho provides us with sixty parables, anecdotes, and stories that speak directly to us — contemporary people of the modern age. These parables and their metaphors are all very simple, and because they are so simple they have a purity, they are unpolluted by complicated rationalizations of the modern mind. They are straightforward and direct, aimed to the heart like an arrow.In these parables Osho says in a poetic way things that cannot be said in prose. He is expressing things from the heart, things that cannot be expressed by the head. Each parable is a lesson to bring insights into one of the most important issues we face in life.As he points out, a parable is a way to talk in pictures and not in words. And in our dreams, we are again living in parables because the unconscious understands only pictures. Your conscious has become trained for language, words, but the unconscious is still that of a child.When a mystic like Osho wants to communicate something from his innermost depth to your innermost depth — he uses parables. They function like a seed, hovering around the consciousness and emerging into sharp focus when our everyday life experiences bring an opportunity to apply their lessons. It is very easy to remember them.In the preface to this book, Osho writes: “What do I find when I look deeply into man? I find that man, too, is an earthen lamp! But he is not just a lamp made of clay; in him there is also a flame of light that is constantly rising towards the sun. Only his body is made of earth, his soul is that very flame.”

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Osho is a contemporary mystic whose life and teachings have influenced millions of people of all ages and from all walks of life. His often provocative and challenging teachings generate today more and more interest and his readership is dramatically expanding around the world in more than fifty languages. People can easily recognize the wisdom of his insights, and their relevance to our lives and to the issues we are facing today. The Sunday Times (London) named Osho as one of the “1,000 Makers of the 20th Century.” He is known around the world for his revolutionary contribution to meditation – the science of inner transformation – with the unique approach of his “OSHO Active Meditations” acknowledging the accelerated pace of contemporary life and bringing meditation into modern life. –This text refers to the paperback edition.

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⭐These are short parables of tremendous significance! I read one or two each night and give myself time to digest the meaning and importance of each one. Osho transmits a vibration with each story that awakens something essential that is often hidden deep within me. His energy touches my heart and brings something beautiful out. This is an opportunity to read without the mind commenting, and to absorb the light of awakening consciousness. I feel deep gratitude.

⭐Soul enriching

⭐Earthen Lamps was first published in India about 1966. This book is simply beautiful!

⭐Osho was one of the most prolific spiritual speakers of the 20th century. I am never disappointed with his readings.

⭐O, that Osho! Love the stories and love his divine wisdom… Beautiful book with depths of insights for anyone looking to grow spiritually.

⭐Truly priceless and no stars will do justice to what is inside the book! More valuable than then the kohinoor diamond by miles!

⭐love all his books

⭐Someone asked an old sage, “Among all the things of the world, which is the biggest?” The sage replied, “The sky, because whatever exists, exists in the sky and the sky itself does not exist in anything.” The person continued, “And what is the best thing?” The sage replied, “Grace, because everything can be sacrificed for grace but grace cannot be sacrificed for anything.” Then he asked, “And the most mobile?” “Thought,” responded the sage. And the man asked, “And what is the easiest to give?” The sage replied, “Advice.” “And the most difficult?” “Knowledge of the self,” said the sage.Knowing the self is the most difficult because in order to know it, everything else has to be given up. The self, the soul is not a dead lamp but an immortal flame which is constantly rising towards the sky. This book of sixty parables and stories is Osho’s only book that is written by him. In these parables Osho’s saying of things is poetic , simple and direct. The stories can even overturn our conventional thinking process. Here is one such story:A boat was travelling to a distant land. Among those on board sat a poor monk. Some mischievous people were teasing him in all kinds of ways. While he was praying at night, they thought that he would be unable to protect himself and so they started beating on his head with their shoes. He was deep in prayer and tears of love were falling from his eyes.Then a voice came from the sky. “My beloved one, you just have to ask and I will overturn the boat.”The antagonists became nervous and the other travellers were also concerned. Their sport was becoming too dangerous. They fell at the monk’s feet and started apologizing to him.When the monk’s prayers came to an end he got up and spoke to them saying, “Don’t be worried.” then he lifted his face up to the sky and said, “Dear God, in what Devil’s language were you talking? If you want to play the game of overturning, overturn the understanding of these people. What is the use in overturning the boat?”Given below are some of Osho’s observations:A person whose opinion has any value will never express it without being asked.He who takes an oath is a weak man and who decides to renounce never does so.If a man is ignorant, he stuffs himself with words and scriptures and covers himself with their knowledge.The person who sees the small, is filled with the small; the one who sees the great, is filled with that greatness.

⭐The stories in this little book are engaging and evocative of something deeper in the human psyche. They linger long after reading them. It is the sort of book you pick up when you need inspiration or simply have a little time you want to spend in an often humorous or pleasant way. Each little story or anecdote is a pearl of wisdom. This is a book I will pass on to my children and my children’s children.Only regret is not having it in hardcover.

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