Customer Reviews
Love, Freedom and Aloneness - By: , 24 Jan 2006 
This is a beautiful book. Osho is an amazing teacher & his words flow effortlessly to the heart. If you are struggling with love, striving for freedom or needing strenghthin aloneness take a lookin these pages.
A beautiful period now begins of your reading and seeking. - By: stephen Luff, 31 Dec 2003 If you are new to Osho then you arein for the most beautiful period of your reading & seeking. Although this seems a bold statement, I feel it is understated. In this one book one will learn a lifestyle that is natural & flowing. There are no rules, no golden gems of a 10 point plan. What you get is how to balance a lifestyle of meditation & love. The polarities. Aloneness & relationships. To seemlessly dance between the two. The style is very flowing like a conversation. This is no accident. The book is put together from talks that Osho has given. Some 5000 hours of recordings have been taken. If you loved Eckhart Tolle's the power of now & wish for more reading of that quality, you will find Osho books equally as good. I've read the full 6 books of the insight series. All are brilliant. I recommend Sex matters highly as well. Osho Zen & Osho Tao are also brilliant. However, if I was asked to recommend one essential book for someone new to Osho it would be Love, Freedom & Aloneness. It's hard to really review Osho because you are not quite sure what's really going on. Just by reading you feel something is happening. That something is a resounding "A-ha" to it. I've read carlos Castaneda all of them, I've read most of Stuart Wilde's books which I thought could not be surpassed yet Osho has done this with ease. With Osho there is no fighting within. You start with were you are & remove things very gently. He loves to bring a gentleness to the way you treat life & especially yourself. I've never thought of brushing teeth violently. However, when you compare that to brushing teeth gently, you begin to understand how you treat yourself. A small violence, but still it is there. Osho takes you on a journey of Man, politics & religion, he unravels the contradictions & the subtle cunning under-current of our politicians & religious leaders. He cannot unravel the mystery of life, he embraces the mystery & uncertainty. What I have noticed when reading is the fluidity of the words, sentences & chapters. You know that there is no-one there. Osho stepped aside many years ago. The words are straight from the great unknown, without filters, pure & brilliant. He was a truely brilliant, intelligent man & yet highly evolvedin his spirituality or religiousness[notin the sense that we normally associate with this word. Uncluttered with religious dogma.] as he liked to often use. Once you read his biography you will come to know why you perhaps have not heard much about this man. What he has to sayin his books, if understood & applied, will make each person a tower of immortal strength that no force on earth will be able to control. That's why the man was banned from so many developed countries towards the end of his life. His words are all there to lead you to becoming enlightened without an intermediatory. This would be a state of such peace tranquility & blissfulness, that the thought of becoming enlightened doesn't scare me any more.
