Number of words – 47 One of the famous German thinkers, Count Kesselring, has written that health is irreligious. Illness has a religiousness about it, because an ill person is sad. Desireless not because he has become desireless, but because he is weak. Excerpted from ‘Zen: It’s History & Teaching’ by Osho

Number of words – 211 Hindus, Mohammedans, Christians and Jews have created a difficult situation for millions of people. They have been giving people the idea that redemption will be given to you by a messenger; All you have to do is to believe and wait. Jesus will redeem you or Mohammed, or Krishna. What … Read more

Number of words – 58 Buddha was to give a talk one day. Thousands of disciplines had come from miles around. The Buddha appeared. He was holding a flower. Time passed, but Buddha said nothing. He just looked at the flower. The crowd grew restless, but Mahakashaya who could resist himself no longer, laughed. Excerpted … Read more

Number of words – 110 A great and philosophical official, Riko, once asked the strange Zen Master, Nansen to explain to him the koan of the Goose in the bottle. “If a man puts a Gosling into a bottle,” Said Rikon, “and feeds him until he is full grown, how can the man get the … Read more

Number of words – 154 The Safari had stuck camp in dangerous territory and to protect themselves from wild animals they built a high wall around the camp. To be quite sure they dug a deep ditch around the fence. One evening, a member of the group who was a Professor of Philosophy and a … Read more

Number of words – 124 A great and philosophical official Riko once asked the strange Zen Master, Hansen to explain to him the Koan of the Goose in the bottle. “If a man puts a Gosling into a bottle,” Said Rikon, “and feeds him until he is full grown, how can the man get the … Read more

Number of words – 143 The Safari had stuck camp in dangerous territory and to protect themselves from wild animals the Builder hi friends around the camp to be quite sure they dug a deep ditch around the fence one evening a members of the group who was professor of a philosophy and a world … Read more

Number of words – 97 Imagine the scene. In a small Indian village a mystic is sitting with his disciples. They are sitting there is tremendous silence. It is a satsang. The disciples are drinking in the presence of the master and along comes an atheist, a scholar and well-known logician and he says, “I … Read more

Number of words – 782 After studying reams of data about each of the more than 500 shooting incidents we worked with civic leaders to come up with ways to identify at risk children before they got shot. For each shooting, we asked where did it happen? At what time? In what sort of area … Read more

Number of words – 345 Gelb knew that Opera and other Arts organization worldwide were watching their costs rise more rapidly than the ticket prices. Raising ticket prices further could impact affordability to the general public. So the opera was doomed to do the clichéd: trim administrative and other costs in various ways and increase … Read more