Joshu: The Lion's Roar

"A hair's breadth of difference - and what happens?" Joshu is asked. There is no intellectual answer to the Koans of Zen, no approximate answer and no amount of intellect to be applied: "Heaven and earth are far away." Only by authenticity can we rise in consciousness. And as this Lion's Roar of Joshu resounds through almost twelve centuries, so is its message more urgent. Through these symbolic Zen dialogues and the existential language of Haikus, Osho urges his reader not to be lukewarm, but single-pointed in the search for our authenticity. This book is full of clues... hints and pointers how to "begin" as Osho puts it - how to bring this search into our everyday lives, and in very simple ways how to begin meditating.

notes

Part of the seven-volume set The Present Day Awakened One Speaks on the Ancient Masters of Zen

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Oct 15, 1988 to Oct 22, 1988 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

8

editions

Joshu: The Lion's Roar Year of publication : 1989 Publisher : The Rebel Publishing House, Germany ISBN 3-89338-068-X (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 185 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First edition. Copyright © Neo-Sannyas International. Size : 208 x 146 x 19 mm Author as Osho Rajneesh Editing by Ma Deva Sarito Typesetting by Ma Prem Arya Design by Sw Dhyan Jayadip B.A. Cover photograph by Sw Anand Prashanta Endpaper photographs by Sw Nivajata Cover painting and drawings by Ma Anand Meera (Kasué Hashimoto), B.F.A. (Musashino Art University, Tokio) Production by Sw Prem Visarjan In loving gratitude to Osho Rajneesh, Rajneesh Foundation Australia Talks given to the Rajneesh International University of Mysticism in Gautama the Buddha Auditorium, Poona, India Printing by Mohndruck, Gütersloh, West Germany Introduction: Sw Prem Sushil, Poona, 1989