Love yourself first. In the fifth volume of twelve on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho says that if you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others. Love is a light that dispels the darkness of the ego and makes you a spiritual force.

“Joy is forever; happiness is momentary.” In the sixth of twelve volumes on Buddha’s essential teachings, Osho refutes the idea that Buddha’s way is serious or dry, and reveals the true nature of joy – being neither happy nor unhappy, but peaceful.

How can you know what is right? In the seventh of Osho’s twelve volumes of commentary on Buddha’s essential teachings, he focuses on the concept of “rightness.” The answer is not to be found in anybody’s words, but through meditation.

“We are always trying to look good in the eyes of others…” In the eighth of twelve volumes on the essential teachings of Buddha, Osho challenges the illusion of fitting in with the crowd. Freedom is discovering your individuality, your original face.

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 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.