Author: Osho
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): Amrito/Devageet/Krishna Prabhu/Satyam
Publisher: Tao Publishing
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 253
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172611021
Description
An extraordinary book written under extraordinary circumstances. Osho, the enlightened master who has over six hundred books to his name, speaks not in his usual lecture hall to thousands of seekers but in an intimate and eccentric setting to only four disciples. He tells stories and gives poetic and profound descriptions of books that had helped him when nothing else was shinning in the darkness.
Osho talks about one hundred and sixty-eight books in al, from the great seers of the Far East and Indian mystics, to Nietzsche and Western philosophers and novelists. Here is a whole rainbow of the world's literary genius, woven together with wonderfully humorous personal comments and swings of the Zen stick from Osho to his note takers.
EXTRACTS FROM INTRODUCTION
There is a funny story about this volume. Immediately following his first dental session on the Ranch in Oregon, Osho sent for his dental team. We sat on the floor at his feet as he outlined his vision of a book he would dictate from the dental chair.
Oho went on to say that " These books will be so that my people can know how a master speaks when he is with just two or three of his intimate disciples. At first I had no notion that there would be more than one book: Oslo was speaking, and I was noting it all down. After six sessions Osho announced "This is the end of the first series." Osho called the next series Om Mani Padme Hum -an ancient mantra. He spoke on this, the second series, for six sessions. Together they form the book, Notes of a Madman.
Then Osho said, " I have loved books my whole life. They helped me when nothing else was shining in the darkness. Remember, I never had a master .. Not ever, not in any of my lifetimes. Many masters wanted me to become their disciple but always I said I must follow my own way no matter how long it takes, no matter where it leads.
There are many books which have a taste of the truth, but nothing much. Some books, though, can be really helpful. Such books help people to hear the song of truth singing in their hearts. These are the books which are knocking now on the door, asking me to speak about them. I will give one book for every year of my life until now.
Contents
INDEX
SESSION 1
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
The Book of Mirdad by Mikhail Naimy
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Parables of Chuang Tzu
The Sermon on the Mount (from the Bible)
Bhagavadgita (the divine song of Krishna)
Gitanjali by Rabindanath Tagore
The One Thousand Songs of Milarepa
SESSION 2
The Book of the Sufis
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Book of Lieh Tzu
Dialogue on Socrates and his Death by Plato
The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidharma
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi
The Isa Upanishad
All and Everything by Gurdjieff
In Search of the Miraculous by PD Ouspensky
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
SESSION 3
Hsin Hsin Ming by Sosan
Tertium Organum by P D Ouspensky
Geet Govind by Jaya Dev
Samayasar by Kundkund
The First and Last Freedom by J Krishnamurti
The Book of Huang Po (Chinese)
The Book of Hui Hi (Chinese)
The Song of Solomon (in The Old Testament)
SESSION 4
Fragments of Heraclitus
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
The Song of Saraha
The Song of Tilopa (notes by disciples)
Zen and Japanese Culture by D T Suzuki
Let Go by Hubert Benoit
Parables by Ramakrishna
The Fables of Aesop
Mool Madhyamika Karika by Nagarjuna
The Book of Marpa (the Tibetan Mystic)
SESSION 5
Brahman Sutras by Badrayana
Bhakti Sutras by Narada
Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
The Songs of Kabir by Kabir
The Secret doctrine by Madame Blavatsky
The Songs of Meera
The Songs of Sahajo
Rabiya-Al-Adabiya (disciples’ notes)
The Songs of Nanak by Nanak
Vivek Chudamani by Shankaracharya
Koran of Hazrat Mohammed
SESSION 6
Dhammapada of Gautam Buddha
Jin Sutras (the sayings of Mahavira written by his disciples)
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Al-Hillaj Mansoor’s Declarations
The Book of Mahakashyapa (by his Disciples)
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Stories of Baal Shem Tov, the Founder of Hassidism
Songs of Farid/aka Farida (in Punjabi)
Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (the Book of Shiva)
Tattva Sutra by Uma Swati
The Song of Naropa
SESSION 7
Maluka’s Poems (aka Malukdas)
Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs
Light on the Path by Mabel Collins
Lalla’s Songs (Kashmiri-collected by others)
Gorakh Nath’s Writings
The Supreme Doctrine by Hubert Benoit
Shiva Sutra
Songs of Gaurang (Indian, by his disciples)
The thousands of songs of Dadu (collected by others)
Sarmad’s statements (compiled by others)
SESSION 8
The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
A New Model of the Universe by P D Ouspensky
Sanai’s Statements (Sufi)
Dionysius (fragments by disciples)
At the Feet of the Master by J Krishnamurti (Actually by Annie Besant)
Junnaid’s Fragments
God Speaks by Meher Bada
Maxims for a Revolutionary by George Bernard Shaw
The Teachings of Hui Neng (Chinese)
Mulla Nasruddhin (Sufi)
SESSION 9
The Destiny of the Mind by Haas
Eckhart-his sayings
Boehme-his sayings
The Sufis by Idries Shah
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
This is IT by Alan Watts
Rinzai -his sayings
Hazrat Inayat Khan (12 volumes of his lectures)
Hazrat Vilayat Ali Khan (all his books)
Jesus, the Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran
The Madman by Kahlil Gibran
SESSION 10
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
Time and Being by Martin Heidegger
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwing Wittgenstein
Vimalkirti Nirdesh Sutra by Vimalkirti
Commentaries on Living by J Krishnamurti
Our Life With Gurdjieff by Hartmann
Shree Pasha by Ramanuja (commentary on Brahman Sutras)
The Future Psychology of Man by P D Ouspensky
The Book of Bahauddin by Bahauddin (the first Sufi mystic)
SESSION 11
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
The Analects of Confucius
The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The voice of h Master by Kahlil Gibran
Who am I? by Maharshi Ramana
The Mind of India by Moorehead and Radhakrishnan
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
The Spiritual Sayings by Kahlil Gibran
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
SESSION 12
Tales of Hassidism by Martin Buber
I and Thou by Martin Buber
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Meetings with Remarkable Men by George Gurdjieff
The Granth (Indian, anonymous and only handwritten)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Myth of Sisyphus by Marcel
The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Songs of Dayabai (Hindi)
SESSION 13
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Notes on Jesus by Thomas
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Mother by Maxim Gorky
Fathers and sons by Turgenev
The Phoenix by D H Lawrence
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious by D H Lawrence
Light of Asia by Arnold
Bijak by Kabir
One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
I Ching (Chinese)
Nadi Ke Dweep by Satchidanand Vatsyayana (Hindi)
SESSION 14
The Art of Living by Lin Yutang (Chinese)
The Wisdom of china by Lin Yutang
The Talmud
Shunya Svabhava by Taran Taran (a Jaina mystic)
Siddhi Svabhava by Taran Taran
Notes from the Underground by Dostoevsky
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwing Wittgenstein
Psyschosynthesis by Assagioli
Prose Poems by Kahlil Gibran
Thoughts and Meditations by Kahlil Gibran
SESSION 15
My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
Confessions by Saint Augustine
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Art of Tantra by Ajit Mukherjee
Bhaj Govindam moodh mate by Adi Shankaracharya
Philosophical Papers by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps
Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphries
The Songs of Chandidas (a Bengali Baul)
SESSION 16
Shiva Puri Baba by Bennett
Listen Little Man by Wilhelm Reich
Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Whitehead
Poetics by Aristotle
Three Pillars of Zen by Ross
The Gospel of Ramakrishna by M (Mahendranath)
Ramateertha’s books
Principia Ethica by G e Moore
The Songs of Rahim (Hindi)
Divan-e-Ghalib by Mirza Ghalib (Urdu)
The Book by Alan Watts