Next Time You Feel Suicidal?: instead, live and celebrate your life in your own way

By Osho

Based in a deep understanding Osho responds to a very personal question related to issues of suicide. "In this neurotic world, if you are sane, sensitive, intelligent, either you have to go mad, or you have to commit suicide or you have to become a meditator, a seeker." This new book from the series "OSHO Solutions" is a sample how difficult appearing issues which usually create a kind of helplessness in people can be turned around to an incredible opportunity for personal growth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Osho Media International
• Release date: Apr 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9780880504294

Osho

Osho is one of the most provocative and inspiring spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, the influence of his teachings continues to grow, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world. He is the author of many books, including Love, Freedom, Aloneness; The Book of Secrets; and Innocence, Knowledge, and Wonder.

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Next Time You Feel Suicidal…

instead, live and celebrate

your life in your own way

OSHO

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Next Time You Feel Suicidal…, by Osho

From a series of OSHO Talks titled: The Heart Sutra, #4

This OSHO Talk is complete in itself.

The series The Heart Sutra is available in book and audio format.

Next Time You Feel Suicidal…is also available as an audio recording, spoken by Osho.

Published by

OSHO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL

an imprint of

OSHO INTERNATIONAL

www.osho.com/oshointernational

ISBN-13: 978-0-88050-429-4

Introduction

The title of this little book might give you the idea that you have found another self-help or how to book. This is far from the case. Instead, the Osho insights provided here open a door where all questions of how to dissolve into a direct experience of your own hidden reality.

We reduce everything into a how. There is a great how-to-ism all over the world, and every person, particularly the modern contemporary mind, has become a how-to-er: how to do this, how to do that, how to grow rich, how to be successful, how to influence people and win friends, how to meditate, even how to love. The day is not far off when some stupid guy is going to ask how to breathe.

It is not a question of how at all. Don’t reduce life into technology. Life reduced into technology loses all flavor of joy.

Osho: The Book of Wisdom, #18

Some of the ideas you encounter here may at first surprise or even shock you. They may go against your beliefs or they may trigger recognition of truths that you feel you have always known but perhaps never expressed.

Whatever the case, relax into new levels of understanding that grow as you come closer and closer to the truth of your own being.

No, this is not a how to book. It is a flame that can be used to light the hidden corners of your own unique individuality.

The editor

Next Time You Feel Suicidal…

The first question:

Osho,

I come from a family where there are four suicides on the maternal side, including my grandmother. How does this affect one’s death? What helps to overcome this perversion of death which runs as a theme through the family?

The phenomenon of death is one of the most mysterious and so is the phenomenon of suicide. Don’t decide from the surface what suicide is. It can be many things. My own understanding is that people who commit suicide are the most sensitive people in the world, very intelligent. Because of their sensitivity, because of their intelligence, they find it difficult to cope with this neurotic world.

The society is neurotic. It exists on neurotic foundations. Its whole history is a history of madness, of violence, war, destruction. Somebody says, My country is the greatest country in the world – now this is neurosis. Somebody says, My religion is the greatest and the highest religion in the world – now this is neurosis. And this neurosis has gone to the very blood and to the bones, and people have become very, very dull, insensitive. They had