Notes of a Madman
- Osho creates a loosely woven tapestry of vivid, humorous and touching impressions and glimpses giving the feeling we are having a personal meeting with the master. In this deep exploration of the Tibetan mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, he comments on drugs, his love of beauty and danger, relaxation, laughter, the relationship between men and women, and even madness and death. He is just an ordinary human being, like us, he says, but with one exception. His search has ended - he has awakened: "Just to be oneself is true. That is my teaching, just to be yourself; just to be your own purity, without fear, because it will mean different things for different people." A selection of beautiful nature photographs in full color supplements this unforgettable book.
- 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 Nitrous Books series.
- Talks given as dictation in dental sessions in Lao Tzu Grove in Rajneeshpuram.
- For the 1985 edition the thirteen sessions were organized as: Series 1 with sessions 1-7, Series 2 with sessions 1-6. (Those two series might indicate a time-gap.) The 1999 edition has Sessions 1-13.
- See Talk:Glimpses of a Golden Childhood for a discussion of when talks were given. Dates below are a distillation / best guess from that discussion for Madman.
- The backside of the 1985 edition has as text: "The very last words of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh before He went into silence for an indefinite period."
- About the origin of the title, the notetaker Sw Devageet, in Osho: The First Buddha in the Dental Chair p.142, says:
- We pondered and brainstormed, making and discarding titles by the score. Our tiny room was littered with paper. Vivek, who had never liked the idea of the notes from the outset, walked out of our room one day muttering, "Nobody's going to read this book. It's just the bloody notes of a madman."
- Looking at each other, Raj and I quickly wrote her words at the top of our list: Notes of a Madman, as a suggested title for the first volume. Of course Osho chose it.
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- approximately Nov 1981 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 13 (see table of contents)
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table of contents
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| 1 | Series 1, Session 1 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 2 | Series 1, Session 2 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 3 | Series 1, Session 3 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 4 | Series 1, Session 4 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 5 | Series 1, Session 5 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 6 | Series 1, Session 6 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 7 | Series 1, Session 7 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 8 | Series 2, Session 1 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 9 | Series 2, Session 2 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 10 | Series 2, Session 3 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 11 | Series 2, Session 4 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 12 | Series 2, Session 5 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
| 13 | Series 2, Session 6 | Nov 1981 | Lao Tzu Grove, Rajneeshpuram | unknown | none | |||
