Compassion is the word associated with Gautama Buddha more than any other. In the ninth of twelve volumes of commentary on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho looks in detail at how to become compassion, the ultimate flowering of meditation.

In the tenth volume of twelve commenting on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho says that wisdom, which he calls knowing, arises from within, from inner silence. Knowledge from others is secondhand; the key to inner direction, knowing, is meditation.

This is a guide book for living an enlightened life. In the eleventh of twelve volumes of commentary on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho comments on Buddha’s advice to his enlightened disciples, interpreting his message for the modern world.

Within every human heart lies the seed of enlightenment. In the last of twelve volumes of commentary on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho says the everybody, following “the law of freedom,” can achieve the ultimate joy, the ultimate truth.

Although Gautama the Buddha spoke for over forty years, he is reported to have said that he never uttered a single word. The Diamond Sutra is one of his mysterious unuttered sutras and is considered by Buddhists to be the most precious.

Osho outlines how Yoga, when followed without austere practices and suppressed attitudes, can help people to become more natural and flowing, making it easier to move into meditation. Referring to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a logician, mystic and poet living in 400 AD, he introduces a form of Yoga evolved from ancient traditions that is of continuing relevance to contemporary life.

Osho introduces Bodhidharma as an outlandish enlightened one. The fragments Osho discusses are taken from notes made by an unknown disciple of Bodhidharma – the disciple asks, and the master responds, simply, bluntly, in his own matchless style.

Step by step, Osho explains what he calls “the central teaching of Patanjali” – a path of eight steps that leads finally to transformation. Osho describes the significance and meaning of each of Patanjali's steps of self-exploration.

Osho comments in depth on the framework of Patanjali’s system of Yoga. In an exploration that goes deeper than either science or religion, he opens a window into the mystery of life.