Living Tao

talks on Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching

(prev. title: Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol. 2)

by Osho

10 talks given live   June 1975
Pune, India


    Lao Tzu is a paradox. His whole teaching is
    paradoxical, and unless you understand the
    nature of paradox you will not be able to
    understand Lao Tzu.

    What is the nature of paradox? The first thing
    is that it is not logical, it is illogical. On the
    surface you see that two opposites are being
    forced to meet together, two opposites are put
    together.

    Logic is consistency; illogic is paradox. There
    are only two ways to be here in this world: you
    can be here as a logical mind or you can be
    here as a paradoxical life.

    If you can understand the paradox the mind
    disappears because the mind cannot cope with
    it; paradox is a poison to mind, it kills it with
    absolute certainty.

    That's why Lao Tzu uses paradox to kill the
    mind completely. Once the mind is not there
    you have achieved the whole; once the mind is
    not there enlightenment has already happened.

    So for Lao Tzu, to understand paradox is the
    whole process of meditation. That is his way,
    his device to meditate...

                                                   – Osho
                                               Living Tao, ch. 3
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Audio mp3's – Complete discourses from
Living Tao
(aka Tao: The Three Treasures, Vol. 2)
Osho talks in English
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Discourse 2
Choice and Choicelessness  1:22:51
Discourse 3
On the Futility of Contention  1:25:19
Discourse 4
Buddhas and Fools  1:20:28
Discourse 5
On the Qualities of the Taoist   1:21:32
Discourse 6
Discipline and Control  1:37:00
Discourse 7
On the Softest Substance  1:09:25
Discourse 8
In Existence There Is No Question  1:34:56
Discourse 9
On Calm Quietude  1:40:02
Discourse 10
Every Buddha Enriches the Universe
1:22:02
Discourse 1
On Knowing the Eternal Law    1:18:04