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THE DIAMOND SWORD
Rediscovering Meditation:The Forgotten Treasure of India
Osho
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Contents
Preface
3
1. Lines Drawn on Water
4
2. The Sword of Meditation
11
3. The Seeds to the Flowers: Creating the Milieu
21
4. An Experience of Deathlessness
36
5. Forfeiting Duality
42
6. Picking Up the Diamonds
47
7. The Ultimate Opulence: Love and Meditation
60
8. The Call of Your Interiority
73
9. Freedom From the Past
78
10. The Treasure of One’s Own Experience
93
11. Ambition: The Roots of Terrorism
100
12. Transforming Sexual Energy
110
13. The Light of Buddhahood
121
14. India: The Eternal Pilgrimage
138
 
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PREFACE
Miseries are not clinging to you, remember - you are clinging to your miseries.You can drop your miseries only when some inner meaning starts flowering in you.Miseries can be dropped only when meditation starts blooming in you because thenyou start enjoying your emptiness, it is no longer empty. Emptiness itself startshaving a positive fragrance; it isn't negative anymore.That's the whole magic of meditation: it transforms your emptiness into a positivefulfillment, into something overwhelming. Emptiness becomes silence, emptinessbecomes peace, and emptiness becomes divine, it becomes godliness. There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into thepositive, to transform darkness into light, that is the miracle of meditation. Totransform a trembling person into a fearless soul, to transform a person who wasclinging to every stupid thing into a nonclinger, into a nonpossessor, that is whathappens through meditation.Buddha used to call meditation a great sword, it cuts your problems at the very root.It makes you aware that you need not be afraid of your inner abyss. It is beautiful, itis blissful. You have not experienced its bliss and beauty because you have nevergone into it, you have always been escaping. You have not tasted of it; it is nectar, itis not poison. But how are you going to know without tasting it? You are running awayfrom something which can become your life's fulfillment. You are running away fromsomething which is the only thing worth achieving. You are running away fromyourself.
Osho
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Volume 12
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Paxxx5

Hmmm, Nityananda's belly is as much a manner of yogic prana as his eating habits. The whole intriguing issue re wisdom, "crazy" or otherwise is that NO ONE can be ENTIRELY trusted. Nonetheless, there are enough signs, experiences, intuitions to make a much better go of it than most of us are inclined toward. And certainly, belief-oriented religion is entirely ludicrous, w/the exception of some hum

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Paxxx5

This text invites a running commentary. ;-) I actually doubt Jesus literally existed, relating to the Gnostic metaphor explored in The Laughing Jesus more.

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Paxxx5

I appreciate this posting especially. "Crazy wisdom" is when Spirit confronts the fallacies of "The Matrix" grid of pathological "normality" directly. Whatever one may think of the aberrations of Osho's Oregon commune, what he says and emanates remains true (he's a fave of writer Tom Robbins for that "roguishness").

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