Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement by #N/A (Epub)

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Zorba the Buddha is the first comprehensive study of the life, teachings, and following of the controversial Indian guru known in his youth as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and in his later years as Osho (1931–1990). Most Americans today remember him only as the “sex guru” and the “Rolls Royce guru,” who built a hugely successful but scandal-ridden utopian community in central Oregon during the 1980s. Yet Osho was arguably the first truly global guru of the twentieth century, creating a large transnational movement that traced a complex global circuit from post-Independence India of the 1960s to Reagan’s America of the 1980s and back to a developing new India in the 1990s. The Osho movement embodies some of the most important economic and spiritual currents of the past forty years, emerging and adapting within an increasingly interconnected and conflicted late-capitalist world order. Based on extensive ethnographic and archival research, Hugh Urban has created a rich and powerful narrative that is a must-read for anyone interested in religion and globalization.

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Review “This book is a must. . . . Smoothly written and accessible, without bias.” ― OshoNews Published On: 2016-03-12″Anyone hoping to dispel the myth that religious studies is boring will find ample support in this book. The blend of scholarly insights, deeply-felt experiences, and a story worthy of a Hollywood movie, make Zorba the Buddha hard to resist.” ― Nova Religio”A tour de force; it is marked by great scholarly research and is written with nimble and eloquent prose.” ― Journal of the History of Sexuality“. . . engrossing . . . it makes a strong case that the Osho movement at its best has been a ‘postnational sodality’—prefiguring in many ways the kind of global subcultures that have gathered around other spiritual leaders, film stars, and pop music idols in the years since—while also being at its worst violent and totalistic.” ― Reading Religion”Urban convincingly limns a picture of a religious manifestation inhaling the spirit of neoliberalism, an embodiment of “re-enchanted capitalism” found across the religious panorama in the twenty-first century. … This is eminently important scholarship.” ― Religious Studies Review –This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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⭐ OSHO had a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being characterized as ” Zorba the Buddha “– one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands touch the stars. The OSHO vision of ” Zorba the Buddha “encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology. The following are quotes by OSHO from this book that further explain his vision of ” Zorba the Buddha ” :– ” But what has gone wrong? Why has man lived for thousands of years in a kind of hell? For thousands of years we have lived with an either/or concept of man as a kind of battleground between the lower and the higher, the material and the spiritual, the worldly and the other-worldly, between good and evil, God and the Devil. The consequences of such have severely limited human potential.”– ” To destroy man, to destroy his power, a great strategy has been used—and that is to divide man in two. Man has lived with the concept of either/or : either be a materialist or be a spiritualist. You have been told you cannot be both. Either be the body or be the soul—you have been taught you cannot be both.”– ” This has been the root cause of man’s misery. A man divided against himself is going to remain in hell. Heaven is born when man is no more divided against himself. Man split means misery and man integrated means bliss.”– ” Up to now, humanity has been schizophrenic—because you have been told to repress, to reject, to deny, many parts of your natural being. And by rejecting them, by denying them, you cannot destroy them—they simply go underground. They go on functioning from your unconscious; they become really more dangerous.”– ” The old religions believed in renunciation. Renunciation has been a curse.”– ” But your so-called religions have been teaching you ways of disharmony, ways of discord, ways of conflict. And when you are fighting with yourself you go on dissipating your energy.”– ” Man is an organic whole. And all that God has given to man has to be used; nothing has to be denied. Man can become an orchestra; all that is needed is the art of creating harmony within oneself.”– ” I bring a blessing to you : I teach rejoicing, not renunciation. The world has not to be renounced, because God has not renounced it; why should you? God IS…why should you be out of it? “– ” Zorba represents materialism, Zorba represents the West. Buddha represents spirituality, Buddha represents the East.”– ” Any materialism that has no values of spirituality is going to be very mundane, profane, ugly. It will not have any flights into the open sky towards the stars. It will not flower and release its fragrance; it will be just a rock. Spiritualism without materialism may have beautiful values but it is without foundations. It may create great palaces reaching to the stars, but without foundations theses palaces can only be hallucinations, they cannot be real.”– ” This is my effort : To bring Zorba the Buddha into the world. That will create a unity in you; your body and soul will have a unity. You will not have to fight against your nature, you can use it as a stepping stone. There is no need to fight, therein no need to repress.”– ” Zorba has to be the foundation, to support the Buddha—-which is the goal of existence.”– ” My message to humanity is : Create a new man—unsplit, integrated, whole. Buddha’s not whole, neither is Zorba the Greek. Both are half and half. I love Zorba, I love Buddha. But when I look into the deepest core of Zorba, something is missing : he has no soul. When I look into Buddha something is missing : he has no body.”– ” A great meeting I teach : the meeting of Zorba and Buddha. I teach Zorba the Buddha—a new synthesis. The meeting of the earth and the sky, the meeting of the visible and invisible, the meeting of all polarities—of man and woman, of day and night, of summer and winter, of sex and samadhi. Only in that meeting will a new man arrive on the earth.”– ” The new man will be a mystic, a poet, a scientist, all together. He will not look at life through rotten divisions. He will be a mystic, because he will feel the presence of God. He will be a poet, because he will celebrate the presence of God. And he will be a scientist, because he will search into this presence through scientific methodology. When a man is all these three together, the man is whole. This is my concept of a holy man.”

⭐ Well written, well researched, very interesting and informative.

⭐ Good non bias writing on Osho with historical timeline close to a biography.Provides a significant amount of information. Focus tends to be Osho’s capitalist views with comparison to global capitalism movement.

⭐ interesting and complete reference about osho highlights and work.

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