And the Flowers Showered: The Freudian Couch and Zen by Osho (Epub)

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Using eleven Zen stories as a starting point and diving deep into their mysterious world, he then weaves his magical clarity on many diverse contemporary topics. From the true meaning of happiness to an understanding of the process of death, it’s all here. To begin reading this book is to commence a journey into the world of wonder.Buddha’s disciple Subhuti is showered with blossoms upon experiencing sublime emptiness. But isn’t emptiness usually an absence of something? Through his commentary on this seemingly strange tale, Osho illuminates the vast difference between a negative and a sublime emptiness.

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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 recognise the wisdom of his insights, and their relevance to our lives and to the issues we are facing today. The Sunday Times in 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

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⭐A well written book full of wisdom and knowledge! I normally donate books I have read but this one is a keeper I want to read again!

⭐Excellent read.One of the few books I have found which elaborate on Zen anecdotes.Great read and inspiring enough to contemplate change in our life.

⭐Excellent book! Highly recommended!

⭐A musst read

⭐Beautiful read

⭐This book is the transcript of Osho’s talks on Zen, Zen masters and Zen life based on 11 selected Zen stories. The book begins with the story of Subhuti, one of Buddha’s disciples who one day, when sitting under a tree in a mood of sublime emptiness, flowers began to fall around him.”We are praising you for your discourse on emptiness”, the gods whispered to him. “But I have not spoken of emptiness”, said Subhuti. “You have not spoken of emptiness, we have not heard emptiness” responded the gods,”this is true emptiness.” And blossoms showered upon Subhuti like rain.Buddhism teaches us to drop totally all the three layers of our self ; the world of things, the world of thoughts and the world of self. It says, “When you are not, the whole existence feels ecstatic and celebrates; flowers shower on you.”The whole essence of Zen teachings is that everything is empty, everything is just relative and nothing exists absolutely. Zen also says that one need not be too bothered or concerned with what comes and goes like anger, hate and love . Anger arises and goes, hate arises and goes, love arises and goes – anything that comes and goes is not one’s true nature. Here Osho reminds us of Sigmund Freud and Freudian analysis. The whole Freudian analysis is concerned with things that come and go. It is concerned with what happened and not to whom it happened – and that is the difference between Zen and Freud. In Osho’s words “Lying down on a Freudian couch one is concerned with the objects of the mind. Sitting in a Zen monastery one is concerned with to whom it happened – not with the objects but with the subject.”The basic thing of zen is not to hit the target but to attain a non-trembling being. If the arrow moves from a non-trembling being it will hit the target; because the end is in the source, the end is in the beginning, the tree is in the seed.Zen masters have lived a very ordinary life. They have lived as householders, farm workers, gardeners, helpers in grocery shops and the likes. But a Zen master renounces mind, lives life in its totality. He drops mind and becomes simple existence Here is the story of Tozan’s Five Pounds:The master Tozan was weighing flax in the storeroom.A monk came up to him and asked: “What is Buddha?”Tozan said: “This flax weighs five pounds.”What Tozan means when he says “This flax weighs five pounds”, according to Osho is that this very ordinary life is Buddha, this very ordinary life is truth, this very ordinary life is God, Some of Osho’s observations in this book:Whatsoever you want to show to people, that is the thing you don’t have.People who cannot love a person start loving God.Don’t think about others. First solve your problem, then you will have the clarity to help others also.Truth can be learned, cannot be taught.You listen just to tell others what you have learned. The very reading of this book can transform the whole mindset of the reader.

⭐Leitura muito boa, acrescenta muito conteúdo. Meio repetitivo, mas nada de surpreender sendo Osho. Original é diferente. Ler e reler.

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