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description =What's so original about the original man? Only that on finding him within yourself, according to Osho you find everything worth discovering. But he exhorts his audience not to take his word for it but experience it for themselves. Osho traces Zen from its beginnings with Bodhidarma in China through a succession of masters and poets. Seemingly absurd Zen statements and devices are all shown as techniques used in specific situations with different types of seekers to jolt them out of spiritual sleep. These discourses based on anecdotes about masters and their disciples aren't about Zen, they are it. | | description =What's so original about the original man? Only that on finding him within yourself, according to Osho you find everything worth discovering. But he exhorts his audience not to take his word for it but experience it for themselves. Osho traces Zen from its beginnings with Bodhidarma in China through a succession of masters and poets. Seemingly absurd Zen statements and devices are all shown as techniques used in specific situations with different types of seekers to jolt them out of spiritual sleep. These discourses based on anecdotes about masters and their disciples aren't about Zen, they are it. | | ||
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notes =Part of the five-volume set ''[[Zen: All the Colors of the Rainbow]]'' | notes = {{Bookfinder3 | search1 = The_Original_Man.pdf }} | ||
:Part of the five-volume set ''[[Zen: All the Colors of the Rainbow]]'' | |||
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period =Aug 16, 1988 to Aug 25, 1988|year=1988| | period =Aug 16, 1988 to Aug 25, 1988|year=1988| | ||
Revision as of 09:22, 23 May 2017
- What's so original about the original man? Only that on finding him within yourself, according to Osho you find everything worth discovering. But he exhorts his audience not to take his word for it but experience it for themselves. Osho traces Zen from its beginnings with Bodhidarma in China through a succession of masters and poets. Seemingly absurd Zen statements and devices are all shown as techniques used in specific situations with different types of seekers to jolt them out of spiritual sleep. These discourses based on anecdotes about masters and their disciples aren't about Zen, they are it.
- notes
- Read this book as PDF or create a free account at osho.com to read the book online.
- Later published as part of Osho Books on CD-ROM.
- Part of the five-volume set Zen: All the Colors of the Rainbow
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- Aug 16, 1988 to Aug 25, 1988 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 9
editions
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The Original Man
 Cover-front & back.  Endpaper-front.  Pages IV - V.  Pages XIV - 1.  Pages 26 - 27.  Endpaper-back. |
