Aesop's Fables

by "Aesop"
Now Aesop is not really a historical person: he
never existed. Buddha has used all those
parables in his sermons.
                                    
  --Osho
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The accepted history is usually that Aesop was
a Greek slave, c. 600 BCE, but there is no real
solid evidence for this biography. Osho says
the name came originally from
Bodhisattva, a
word used by Buddha for awakened beings that
guide others.

collection of stories originally written in Greek,
and translated into many languages.
A collection of allegorical stories, many involving
animals taking on human attributes, and ending
with a "moral of the story"--used as a childrens
book to teach moral lessons and platitudes in
the western world.
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                                         Osho--Books I Have Loved