Books I Have Loved

by Osho

talks given live in the dental chair –
c. 1982
Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA
    Complete lists on this website of the 167
    books Osho critiques in Books I Have Loved,
    indexed by 3 methods -- by session, by
    author, and by title. Each book has its own
    separate page link, with a short bit of
    information about it included. View it all here:
    Osho: Books I Have Loved -- The Lists.

    I love very few books; I can count them on my
    fingers....

    THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA will be the first
    on my list.

    THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV is the second.

    Third is THE BOOK OF MIRDAD.

    Fourth is JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL.

    The fifth book is TAO TE CHING by Lao Tzu.

    The sixth is THE PARABLES OF CHUANG TZU.
    He was the most lovable man, and this is the
    most lovable book.

    Seventh is THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT --
    only THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT not the
    whole Bible. The whole Bible is just bullshit
    except THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

    Eighth... is my numbering right? That's good.
    Then you can feel that I am still in my insanity.
    The eighth, BHAGAVADGITA -- the divine song
    of Krishna. By the way 'Christ' is only a
    mispronunciation of 'Krishna' just as 'Zoroaster'
    is of 'Zarathustra'. 'Krishna' means the highest
    state of consciousness, and the song of
    Krishna, the BHAGAVADGITA, reaches to the
    ultimate heights of being.

    Ninth, GITANJALI. It means 'an offering of
    songs'. It is the work of Rabindranath Tagore,
    for which he got the Nobel prize.

    And the tenth is the songs of Milarepa -- THE
    ONE THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA --
    that's how it is called in Tibetan.

    No one spoke.
    The host,
    the guest,
    nor the white chrysanthemum.

    Ahhh!... so beautiful... the white
    chrysanthemum. Aahhh, so beautiful. Words
    are so poor. I cannot describe what is being
    brought to me.

    The white chrysanthemum.
    No one spoke.
    The host,
    the guest,
    the white chrysanthemum.

    Good. Because of this beauty, my ears are
    incapable of even hearing the noise, my eyes
    are filling with tears.
    Tears are the only words the unknown can
    speak,
    the language of silence.

                                           – Osho
                           Books I Have Loved, Session 1
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    Books I Have Loved　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Wo xi'ai de shu

    Chinese traditional:
    我喜愛的書

    Chinese simplified:
    我喜爱的书