Ancient Music in the Pines: In Zen, Mind Suddenly Stops
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0984444424 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excerpt. Then you can see clouds a thousand miles away, and then you can hear ancient music in the pines. You cannot have it. After a while, suddenly you will become aware the stream is crystal-clear again.Whenever a desire passes through your mind, the stream becomes muddy. It has always been there but you were not looking in the right direction. Watch indifferently: the stream goes on flowing, the dead leaves will be taken away and the mud cannot be there forever, it will start settling. A mist is created by them and the clarity is lost. Mind is confusion. Don’t try to do anything. Thoughts create clouds around you, they are subtle clouds. It has nothing to do with your doings. If somebody has passed through the stream and the dead leaves have surfaced, the mud has arisen, just patience is needed. You were not interested in only one thing and that was your own being.When energy turns in what Buddha calls paravritti, the co
Today, humanity is caught up in the mad complexity of the mind and there is an urgent need to rediscover simplicity and innocence. Here, the contemporary mystic Osho brings to life the inherent and timeless wisdom of traditional Zen stories, showing that Zen is a way of dissolving philosophical problems, not of solving them — a way of getting rid of philosophy, because philosophy is a sort of neurosis. Zen is for those intelligent enough to understand the limitations of the intellect and ready to recognize the significance of intuition in the world of mysticism.
Much Wisdom Here Steven McGill I'm fairly new to the world of Osho, this being the fifth book of his that I have read. But of all wise teachers that I have read - Krishnamurti, ParamahansaYogananda, and others, Osho stands out for me as being the most enlightening. There is a clarity and directness in his words that cuts through all possible ambiguities and reaches into the core of human existence. All of his books are slow reads, but in a good way, because I fi. An excelent book, its first edition was in 1977 Juan A. T. Fuentes I read the edition of 1977. The book is the same except that chapters 1 and 2 were changed.Because the price and the DVD included I will buy this book again.Really, I can understand ZEN only reading Osho. He is the best.. manuel vertiz said Ancient Music in the Pines. Osho for me is a translator a dictionary of any doubt you may have, his simplicity, his genious mind and wisdom is incredible. This book is beautifull showing you your ying and yang melting toghether to become one, the reality to become one to surrender in silence to listen to the music in the pines, the existence, your inner sound, your god, the truth, to live fully any experience to accept life the way it is, it is Divine everyth