Absolute Tao

talks on the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu

(previously titled Tao: The 3 Treasures, Vol. 1)

by Osho

10 talks given live   June 1975
Pune, India
    Complete English text of Chapter 1, with the
    original Osho English audio discourse on the
    same page. Listen while you read.
    English text of Chapter 1
Audio mp3's – Complete discourses from
Absolute Tao  
(aka Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol. 1).
Osho talks in English
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Discourse 2
Ordinariness   1:37:18
Discourse 3
On the Character of Tao   1:59:45
Discourse 4
Emptiness  1:34:53
Discourse 5
On the Danger of Overweening Success
1:26:52
Discourse 6
There Is No Meaning   1:15:36
Discourse 7
On the Utility of Not-Being  1:07:52
Discourse 8
Witnessing  1:17:29
Discourse 9
On the Wise Ones of Old   1:37:07
Discourse 10
Wisdom and Understanding   1:29:14
Discourse 1
On the Absolute Tao  1:47:35
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    THE WORLD OF LAO TZU is totally different
    from the worlds of philosophy, religion, ethics.
    It is not even a way of life.

    Lao Tzu is not teaching something – he is that
    something. He is not a preacher, he is a
    presence. He has no doctrine for you – he
    has only himself to offer and share.

    Had he been a philosopher, things would
    have been easy – you could have understood
    him. He is a mystery because he is not a
    philosophy. He is not even an anti-philosophy,
    because both depend on logic.

    He is absurd.

    Philosophies depend on logic, anti-
    philosophies also depend on logic – so the
    anti-philosophies are also nothing but
    philosophies.

    Nagarjuna, a great anti-philosopher, is still a
    philosopher. He talks, he argues, he
    discusses in the same way as any
    philosopher. He discusses against philosophy,
    argues against philosophy, but the argument
    is the same.

    And logic is a whore...

                                                – Osho
                                         Absolute Tao, ch. 3