Through an assortment of Zen stories and responses to questions, Osho uses humor to hammer on the idea that the self is all that there is. “A sudden change, a sudden clash of thunder, a discontinuity” and the bondage of the mind is broken.

Osho uses the Tao Te Ching texts as Lao Tzu intended: to ignite the flame of individual awareness and insight. From the seven verses Osho selected to comment on, he moves deeply into his own understanding and burns through every idea we may hold about ourselves until we can see with the same crystal clear light as Lao Tzu.

Osho revitalizes the impact Jesus has on the world. Here is a new way people can understand long-familiar Bible verses, and Jesus, a true revolutionary.

Osho looks at Jesus in a highly original way: Jesus the master working with his disciples, Jesus walking in the marketplace, Jesus the fiery rebel creating troubles for the rabbis in the temple. Here is the man who enjoyed his food, enjoyed his wine, and who very much enjoyed his short life.

Osho is himself a master, and has talked about many great masters. He places Jesus in this context. This volume covers the final days of Jesus on this earth: the Last Supper, the betrayal by his own disciples, his crucifixion, and his resurrection.

The Bauls are wandering mystics who sing and ecstatically dance their love and gratitude to their God. Osho explains that this essential man lives within us all, already dancing, singing, blissful for no reason.

Osho takes the Gospel of Thomas out of their narrower Christian context, and blends their wisdom with the rich threads of Eastern traditions of mysticism, thereby showing the truly universal nature of Jesus′ teachings.