The Search

Talks on the Ten Bulls of Zen
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Osho talks on the ten paintings that tell the famous Zen story of a farmer in search of his lost bull, providing an allegorical expression of the search for enlightenment.
Osho talks on the ten paintings that tell the famous Zen story of a farmer in search of his lost bull, providing an allegorical expression of the search for enlightenment.

Excerpt from: The Search, Chapter 1
"Kakuan first tried the unconscious language because that is the deepest: he painted these ten bulls. But he felt dissatisfied. Then he wrote ten poems as a supplement, as an appendix. Poetry is mid-way between the unconscious and the conscious: a bridge, a misty land where things are not absolutely in the dark and are not absolutely in the light – just somewhere in the middle. That’s why where prose fails, poetry can indicate. Prose is too superficial; poetry goes deeper. Poetry is more indirect but more meaningful, richer.

"But still Kakuan felt dissatisfied, so he wrote prose commentaries.

"First he wrote the language of the unconscious, the language of painters, sculptors, dreamers; then he wrote the language of the poets, the bridge between the unconscious and the conscious – of all art. And then he wrote the language of logic, reason, Aristotle – the conscious. That’s why I say such an experiment is unique; nobody else has done that. Buddha talked in prose. Meera sang in poetry. Unknown painters and sculptors have done many things – Ajanta, Ellora, the Taj Mahal. But a single person has not done all three things together." Osho
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
love… awareness… enlightened… answer… ego… indifferent… rivers… nagarjuna… aurobindo… bodhidharma
"You?ll learn more about yourself reading one chapter of The Search than you will reading a dozen ordinary books on Zen."

Carol Neiman, author of Afterlife and Miracles
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Publisher OSHO Media International
ISBN 81-72611889
ISBN-13 978-8172611880
Dimensions (size) 165 x 212 mm
Number of Pages 312