The mantra that begins and ends all Eastern scriptures, OM, represents  the universal heartbeat. And shantih, the peace or silence that envelops  those who fall in tune with that heartbeat. In this volume Osho opens  new windows on timeless topics: the origins of compassion, freedom as  the ultimate value, surrendering to love and not to the object of one's  love, and transcending transcendence itself.

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Each chapter opens with a Zen story which Osho uses as to  illustrate the obstructive attitudes and conditionings we carry and  which prevent us from seeing the world and ourselves through fresh,  clear eyes. A guide to the authentic search for  our true, natural selves, and a guide to making ourselves available for  transformation through the innocence and wisdom that every inner heart  knows. 

"Life is not a riddle to be solved, it is a mystery to be lived. It  is a deep mystery, to trust and allow yourself to enter it."

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Using anecdotes about Zen masters and their disciples, as well as a  magnificent selection of haikus, Osho reveals the mystery of Zen as  something to be savored rather than solved. He then confirms the  assertion of the Japanese seeress Katue Ishida that he has become a  vehicle for the wandering soul of Gautama the Buddha, who has promised  to return to the world as Maitreya, the friend.

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"There are a thousand and one poisons, but nothing like idealism --  it is the most poisonous of all poisons. Of course, the most subtle: it  kills you, but kills you in such a way that you never become aware of  it. It kills you with a style. The ways of idealism are very cunning.  Rarely a person becomes aware that he has been committing suicide  through it. Once you become aware, you become religious. Religion is not any ideology... "

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Based on the anecdotes of Nansen, the poetry of Sekiso and the questions  of a disciple, this series of talks is penetrated by Osho's love for  the radical revolutionary depicted in the courageous innovator Nansen  and his insistence that the spiritual is not apart from the material -  The Point of Departure. Challenging the listener to be a whole person, not  denying anything, Osho continually hits us with the Zen stick of his  wit, encouraging us to "transform everything, including everything in  your spiritual growth."

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Just before Buddha died, somebody asked him : When a  Buddha dies where does he go - does he survive, or simply disappear into  nothingness? Buddha is reported to have said: "Just like a white cloud disappearing". This very morning there were white clouds in the sky. Now they are  there no more. Where have they gone? From where they come? How they  evolve, and how they dissolve again? A white cloud is a mystery, the coming, the going, the very being of  it. That's the first reason why I call my way "The Way of the White  Clouds", but there are many reasons, and it is good to ponder, to  meditate upon those ...

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He walked like a cow and looked like a tiger. He could touch his nose  with his tongue and had two rings on the soles of his feet! The  unpredictable Ma Tzu brings fresh responses and devices to every  situation - the empty mirror who simply reflects. To see things as they  really are, you have to be absolutely empty - a mirror, clean, without  any prejudices, without any judgments. And that is Ma Tzu's whole  teaching: Don't react - just be, and reflect.

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Through a dissection of anecdotes about Zen masters and their disciples,  Osho introduces us to Zen, "the only living religion." He experiments  in these discourses with an existential understanding of Zen through the  introduction of No-mind Meditation, leading the assembly through the  three stages of it at the end of each discourse.

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Kyōzan  was such a simple and ordinary man that, as his own master put  it, if it was possible for him to become enlightened, then it is  possible for anyone. These discourses - based on anecdotes about  Kyōzan's life and on a selection of exquisite haikus - are filled with  that promise. Osho uses Kyōzan's life to make Zen as accessible to the  contemporary seeker as preparing a cup of tea.

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With humor and sensitivity this discourse illuminates traditional Sufi  stories revealing the hidden dimensions of Sufism. Set out in poetic  format it is illustrated with pictures of Sufi whirling.A discourse to rekindle the sense of wonder at the mysteries of the world around us.

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