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In Dancing in the Breeze, Osho describes Buddha as the first truly humanistic master, not concerned with God, with any other world, with paradise or hell. Buddha is directly focused on raising man’s awareness in this life and showing, in very scientific, exact words, how man can reach his full potential.

The book begins with Buddha’s eight steps of right living, and contains a discussion of the ten bhumis, the stages of development of a bodhisattva. Osho also talks about the nature of dreaming-both asleep and awake.

‘Mind is the most complex phenomenon on earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from it and learn how to be just a witness.’
In Learning Happiness, Osho explains why Buddha insists that happiness does not have to be created. He says that perhaps the most fundamental truth that Buddha brought to the world is his penetrating insight into the essential nature of happiness. It already exists in the present moment-all that has to be learned is the knack of living in the present.
Osho outlines and clarifies the three steps-Buddha’s carefully defined path to liberation-and talks about the transcendence of moving from sex to spirituality.

In Moving into the Unknown, using Buddha’s teachings as a starting point, Osho looks at the idea of discipline, taking the reader far beyond the conventional use of the worditself. He describes the use of awareness to reveal the natural discipline that comes from listening to oneself.
He also talks about living dangerously and courageously, taking up the challenge of the inner search when you still have the energy to do it. Now is the time, he says, and urges one not to wait.
Full of anecdotes and stories and his irrepressible humour, this inspiring book elucidates Osho’s own experience of enlightenment.

In Finding Your Own Way, Osho describes Buddha as alive, relevant, scientific in insight, and very human. He emphasizes the precise nature of Buddha’s approach to meditation, and describes the stages on the path to enlightenment, and even beyond. Here Buddha is an amazing human being, so far ahead of his time that he is, even now, only just beginning to be understood.
Illuminating Buddha’s teachings, Osho shows how words have the power to change the way we see the world, the way we see religion and, above all, the way we are.