Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself

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In a culture infatuated with youth, and determined to avoid old age at all costs, this book dares to raise a question that has been all but forgotten in the age of Viagra and cosmetic surgery. What benefits might lie in accepting the aging process as natural, rather than trying to hold on to youth and its pleasures all the way to the grave?
Osho takes us back to the roots of what it means to grow up rather than just to grow old. Both in our relationships with others, and in the fulfillment of our own individual destinies, he reminds us of the pleasures that only true maturity can bring.
He outlines the ten major growth cycles in human life, from the self-centered universe of the pre-schooler to the flowering of wisdom and compassion in old age.
A unique sense of humor runs like a thread through the book, along with a profound compassion and understanding of how easy it is to be distracted from the deeper meaning and purpose of our lives - which is, ultimately, to flower into our own individual uniqueness and maturity with an attitude of celebration and joy.
notes
Part of the Insights for a New Way of Living series.
time period of Osho's original talks/writings
May 10, 1975 to Jul 22, 1988 : timeline
number of discourses/chapters
8 + Forward   (see table of contents)


editions

Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself

Insights for a New Way of Living

Year of publication : 1999
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 0-312-20561-9 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 192
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes : Copyright © 1999 OSHO International Foundation.
Size : 210 x 139 x 15 mm
Book design by Claire Vaccaro
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data BP605.R43 M38 1999 299'-93 21 - dc21 99-032893
Printed in the United States of America.
Foreword unsigned (Osho, The Goose Is Out ch.9 q.2)

Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself

Year of publication : 1999
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 9781429967211 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages :
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : E
Edition notes :

Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself

Insights for a New Way of Living

Year of publication : 2000
Publisher : Griffin (Macmillan)
ISBN 9780312205614 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 192
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes :

table of contents

edition 1999ed.
chapter titles
source of the compilation
Foreword: The Art of Living Beyond Enlightenment ~ 28, q.1 (extract); The First Principle ~ 10, q.7 (extract)
1 Definitions
  • From Ignorance to Innocence
  • Maturity and Aging
  • Maturity of Spirit

2 The Seven-Year Cycles of Life Just Like That ~ 10 (extract)
3 The Mature Relationship
  • Dependence, Independence, Interdependence
  • Needing and Giving, Loving and Having
  • Love and Marrige
  • Parent and Child
  • Love Plus Awareness Equals Being

4 Standing at the Crossroads
  • When Eternity Penetrates Time
  • The Laws of Aging

5 Symptoms
  • The Stranger in the Drawing Room
  • Menopause--It's Not Just a "Girl Thing"
  • The Dirty Old Man
  • Bitterness

6 Transitions
  • From No to Yes
  • Intergation and Centering
  • When Birth and Death Become One
  • Dropping Out of the Game

7 Puzzles
  • Justifiable Homicide
  • Life Without Attitude
  • From Sex to Sensuality

8 An Ongoing Journey From Bondage to Freedom ~ 10, q.2 (extract); From Bondage to Freedom ~ 03, q.4 (extract)