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Osho

Nirvana: The Last Nightmare

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Nirvana has become an idealized word associated with the juxtaposition of a cult rock celebrity who died before his time and a vague new age version of Eastern religion. An altered state to be hoped for, but likely unattainable, reinforcing that all too familiar uneasiness associated with never being able to have what we truly desire in life.Osho masterfully brings this internal state of tension to the surface and through the use of five beautiful Zen stories examines, unravels and reveals the meaning of nirvana. By absorbing without interpreting, making a decision without worrying if it is the right one, or surrendering to each moment, it is possible to come to a point where we simply drop through the manifestations of the ego. In that moment, living an ordinary life becomes an extraordinary delight.
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300 printed pages
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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Quotes

  • Shubhendu Kumarhas quoted2 years ago
    They are not aware what they are asking. They are asking the impossible. The divine is not a thing. The divine is not an object. You cannot seek it. Divinity is this whole. How can you seek the whole? You can dissolve in it, you can merge in it, but you cannot seek it. The seeking simply shows that you go on believing yourself separate from the whole – you the seeker, and the whole the sought.
  • Shubhendu Kumarhas quoted2 years ago
    A seeker is in trouble. A seeker is confused. He has not understood the basic problem itself. It is not that you have to seek the divine and then everything will be solved. Just the opposite – if everything is solved, suddenly there is divinity.
  • Shubhendu Kumarhas quoted2 years ago
    desiring, is the basic health of your being. It is very easy to go on changing the objects of desire, but that is not the way of transformation. You can desire money, you can desire power, you can change the objects of desire, you can start desiring godliness; but you remain the same because you go on desiring. The basic change is to be brought not in the objects of desire, but in your subjectivity. If desiring stops – and remember, I am not saying that it has to be stopped – if desiring stops then for the first time you are at home; peaceful, patient, blissful. And for the first time life is available to you and you are available to life. In fact, the very division between you and life disappears, and this state of non-division is the state of existence.

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