I Teach Religiousness Not Religion
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- Always outspoken and uncompromising, Osho declares that all the organized religions that exist today are dead, they don't move with the times. And dead, they cannot be of help to the alive, questioning, questing individual. Not only are they of no use, but they are positively harmful. Osho exposes the conditioning and enslavement of man by organized religions, and expounds his own vision of true religiousness - the flowering of the individual. He answers fundamental questions such as: Does man need religion? Is the Devil needed for God to exist? Is the concept of God-the-Father a helpful one? What is real prayer? What is the relationship between morality and religion? Why are all religions against sex? What is the connection between religions and AIDS? This book is a challenge for all who consider themselves followers of an orthodox religion.
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- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- 1984 to 1987 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 22 in 2 parts (see table of contents)
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table of contents
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| Part I. Religion: The Methadone for the Masses | |||||
| 1 | Religion - A Right Mess | Satyam Shivam Sundram ~ 13 | |||
| 2 | Belief - The Greatest Fiction | From Unconsciousness to Consciousness ~ 25 | |||
| 3 | The Perfect Couple | The Great Pilgrimage ~ 04 | |||
| 4 | Fantasy of the Phantom Fuehrer | The Invitation ~ 02 | |||
| 5 | God - A Crutch for the Philosophically Crippled | The Rebellious Spirit ~ 15 | |||
| 6 | Guilt - Edged Investments | The Razor's Edge ~ 04 | |||
| 7 | Man, the Mental Mosaic | Beyond Enlightenment ~ 07 | |||
| 8 | Prayer - The Cosmic Complaint Box | The Invitation ~ 22 | |||
| 9 | Conscience - Consolation for the Unconscious | The Razor's Edge ~ 19 | |||
| 10 | If Its Fun, It's Forbidden | From Darkness to Light ~ 24 | |||
| 11 | Celibacy - The Deadly Virtue | Socrates Poisoned Again ~ 09 | |||
| 12 | The Organized Crime Called Religion | The Rebel ~ 13 | |||
| 13 | Catechism for a Calamity | From Ignorance to Innocence ~ 12 (*1) | |||
| Part II. Religiousness: Transformation, Not Renunciation | |||||
| 1 | The Garden of Eden Revisited | The Great Zen Master Ta Hui ~ 32 | |||
| 2 | My Trinity: Life, Love, Laughter | The Invitation ~ 11 | |||
| 3 | The Only Liturgy - Love of Life | The Hidden Splendor ~ 26 | |||
| 4 | The Climate of Meditation - The Flower of Love | The Invitation ~ 30 | |||
| 5 | Laughter - A Glimpse of God | The Invitation ~ 27 | |||
| 6 | Drop the Chains! | The Great Pilgrimage ~ 15 | |||
| 7 | Just a Small Knack | From Unconsciousness to Consciousness ~ 19 | |||
| 8 | Enlightenment Is Your Very Nature | Sat Chit Anand ~ 25 | |||
| 9 | Silence - The Language of Religiousness | The Invitation ~ 14 | |||
(*1) The book incorrectly states the source as "THE RAJNEESH BIBLE, VOLUME 2, Discourse 13". It is actually discourse 12.
