Osho speaking on the theosophist, Mabel Collins. He speaks of the  intensity and totality needed by meditators, the relationship between  sex and death, the role of the master, and pain caused by active  meditations. He also answers basic questions such as, Why meditate? Why  seek? What is the difference between mind and consciousness... between  surrender and blind faith? How can I be wholehearted in meditation? He  answers many specific questions about his different techniques. The  appendix, Catharsis and Meditation: Steps on the Path, presents Osho's  reasons for cathartic techniques.

In these talks, each of which is based on the sayings of a different enlightened Zen master, Osho gives detailed explanations of the Zen method of meditation, "turning in." He outlines the development of man's mind, and emphasizes that meditation is essential not only for the growth of the individual, but ultimately for the survival of the planet.

The real Jesus behind the myths and distortions of Christian dogma in  these commentaries on the sayings of Jesus as they are recorded in the  Gospel according to Thomas, discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In this unique world of Zen, masters with strange sounding names and  even stranger behavior ask disciples odd questions and then hit them -  whether their answers are right or wrong! Osho deciphers the great game  Zen masters play with their disciples and elucidates the central message  of Zen - "nothingness." He also talks on the difference between  students and disciples, the role of a spiritual master, and how the  energy field of an enlightened being can affect the whole world.

Based on anecdotes of famous and little-known Zen masters. Many of  these stories were previously only available in Japanese and were  translated specially for these discourses. In his discussion of these stories Osho gives meditation techniques to help understand and go beyond  death, as well as techniques to be used in everyday life. This discourses also contains radical insights into the problem of drugs and Osho presents a revolutionary solution.

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Osho says that if Heraclitus had been born in India rather than Greece,  he would have been recognized not simply as a philosopher but as a  mystic. The fragments of his words which remain were for a long time  rejected as obscure and riddling in favor of the one-dimensional logic  of Aristotle. Osho brings the wisdom of Heraclitus to the eternal  riddles of life and death, man's spiritual sleepiness, self-knowing, and  avoiding extremes.

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Discourses on the Heart Sutra, the Prajnaparamita Hridayam Sutra of  Gautam the Buddha reveal his essential teachings: the merging of  negative and positive, the insubstantiality of the ego, and the  buddha-nature of all of existence. In his inimitable way Osho brings  these archaic yet invaluable insights right to the doorstep of the  contemporary inquirer. He also speaks on the seven chakras and the  corresponding facets in man - the physical, psychosomatic,  psychological, psycho-spiritual, spiritual, spiritual-transcendental and  transcendental.

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Aflame in the medium of Kabir's exquisite and timeless love poems, Osho  speaks on the inner lover, and the art of becoming a host, receptive and  available, to the Guest who resides within. He also talks on a wide  range of subjects - from greed, unworthiness, jealousy, sex in old age,  children and intelligence, children and the facts of life, the fear of  exposing oneself, God, and being a loner.

Osho discusses how Zen came into being and describes the remarkable  people who spread it across the vastness of the Asian continent. This  discourse contains great stories about Lao Tzu, Bodhidharma, Confucius,  Bokuju and others. Osho's humor and insight give the reader a feeling of  timelessness, as though the reader has come to Lao to ask about "the  way," is being shocked by Bodhidharma's spontaneous totality or is being  awakened by Seddyo's koan. And of course, Osho himself...a mystic's  mystic!

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The Zen koan, "The goose is out!" captures the whole absurdity of the  human condition - how, throughout our lives, we remain voluntarily  ignorant of our true nature. In this discourse, his last responses to  disciples' questions before going into silence for three and a half  years, Osho penetrates the prejudices and beliefs we have gathered as our protection against the truth.

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