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The Dhammapada is a assortment of sayings of the Gautama the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. This is volume one of the 12-volume group of Osho Talks, where Osho brings Buddha's Dhammapada in to the 21st century, beginning them for a fresh understanding for modern mankind. In alternating chapters, Osho feedback on specific sutras of Buddha and responds to questions from his audience, deepening the understanding of these ageless works. "My communicating on Buddha is not only a commentary: It is creating a bridge. Buddha is one of the main masters who has ever existed on the Earth - matchless, unique." The setting of these talks can be an open-air auditorium at the Osho International Meditation Holiday resort in Pune, India. Osho and his audience take a seat surrounded by trees, and the elements of aspect - the chirping of wild birds, wind flow, and the cracking bamboos as well as the faraway sound of the neighborhood Pune-Mumbai morning teach - are parts of these recordings and present them a really existential flavor. Osho utilizes his penetrating insight and wonderful humor to eliminate the dust of many misunderstandings collected on Buddha's teachings and again stresses meditation over dogma, meditation being Buddha's most significant contribution to the introduction of human consciousness. "Buddha transformed the term meditation. Meditation acquired been something of your brain, and Buddha brought a fresh quality, so totally new, diametrically opposite to the old so this means: He said meditation means circumstances of no brain. It is not concentration; it is not contemplation. It is not thinking; it is not thinking about God. It is not even prayer, because thinking is of the head, intellectual; prayer is mental. That is another area of the head, not very far away from it - some other language employed by another area of the head." Osho Talks are "meditating talks", allowing the listener an event of meditation. "These words of Buddha result from eternal silence. They are able to reach you merely if you receive them in silence."
