Nirvana: The Last Nightmare

"There are a thousand and one poisons, but nothing like idealism -- it is the most poisonous of all poisons. Of course, the most subtle: it kills you, but kills you in such a way that you never become aware of it. It kills you with a style. The ways of idealism are very cunning. Rarely a person becomes aware that he has been committing suicide through it. Once you become aware, you become religious.

Religion is not any ideology... " - Osho, first words of ch.1.

notes

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time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Feb 11, 1976 to Feb 20, 1976 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

10   (see table of contents)

editions

	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Year of publication : 1976 Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation ISBN 0-88050-101-4 (Not all books have ISBN) (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 278 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First edition December 1976. © Copyright 1976 Rajneesh Foundation. Size : 219 x 144 x 23 mm Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi Compilation and editor: Ma Yoga Pratima Design: Sw Anand Yatri Photography: Sw Shivamurti; Sw Krishna Bharti Printed in India by K.P. Puthran at Tata Press Limited, Bombay 400 025. Photoset in ITC Souvenir. Introduction: Sw Chaitanya Kabir Inside cover front. Pages X - XI.
	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Talks on Zen Year of publication : 1981 Publisher : Wisdom Garden Books ISBN 0-914794-37-X (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 278 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Talks on Zen Anecdotes Year of publication : 2006 Publisher : Tao Publishing ISBN 81-7261-200-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 288 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes :
	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Year of publication : 2006 Publisher : Fusion Books ISBN 81-89182-55-2 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 296 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : Edition notes :
	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Talks on Zen Year of publication : 2008 Publisher : Fusion Books (Diamond Publishing) ISBN 8189182552 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 290 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes :
	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Learning to Trust in Life Zen Parables as a Medium to Teach Relaxation Year of publication : 2012 Publisher : Osho Media International ISBN 978-0-9836400-1-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 203 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : Reprint edition. Distributed by Publishers Group Worldwide Osho comments in this work on excerpts from: Material on p.121 is from Zen Buddhism: An Introduction to Zen, copyright © 1959 Peter Pauper Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission. Zen: Poems, Prayers, Sermons, Anecdotes, Intervieuws, 2nd edition, Selected and translated by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikernoto. Reprinted with the permission of Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio.
	Nirvana: The Last Nightmare Learning to Trust in Life Zen Parables as a Medium to Teach Relaxation Year of publication : 2014 Publisher : Tao Publishing ISBN 9788172612009 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 288 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes :

table of contents

editions 1976.12, Fusion-2006* chapter titles		discourses
		event	location	duration	media
1	Mastered by Zen	11 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 44min	audio
2	The Ultimate Nightmare	12 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 40min	audio
3	Players of a Game	13 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 33min	audio
4	The Drunken Dancer	14 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 44min	audio
5	Killing the Buddha	15 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 19min	audio
6	Taking the Risk	16 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 36min	audio
7	Fingers at the Moon*	17 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 36min	audio
8	Collecting Seashells	18 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 28min	audio
9	Dead with Dignity	19 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 36min	audio
10	Living in Nirvana	20 Feb 1976 am	Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona	1h 25min	audio

* Edition Fusion-2006 has the same ch.-titles except for ch.7 - "The Infinite Journey".