Next Time You Feel Angry...

By Osho

This small eBook deals with human emotions, specifically here with 'anger'.
This first book in a new series of 'OSHO SOLUTIONS" consists of a single talk by Osho and uses a Zen story as a teaching tool to deepen the readers understanding how to deal with anger. Understanding is totally different approach compared to 'self-help' or 'how-to' models which often try to give outside solutions for an inner problem. Osho brings a clarity to this issue and helps your own inner understanding to solve problems.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Osho Media International
• Release date: Apr 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9780880504263

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 Angry…

transforming anger into compassion

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Next Time You Feel Angry…, by Osho

From a series of OSHO Talks titled: And the Flowers Showered…, #3

This OSHO Talk is complete in itself.

The series And the Flowers Showered…is also available in book and eBook formats.

Published by

OSHO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL

an imprint of

OSHO INTERNATIONAL

www.osho.com/oshointernational

Distributed by Publishers Group Worldwide

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ISBN-13: 978-0-88050-426-3

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 Angry…

A Zen student came to Bankei and said: Master, I have an ungovernable temper – how can I cure it? Show me this temper, said Bankei, it sounds fascinating. I haven’t got it right now, said the student, so I can’t show it to you. Well then, said Bankei, bring it to me when you have it. But I can’t bring it just when I happen to have it, protested the student. It arises unexpectedly, and I would surely lose it before I got it to you. In that case, said Bankei, it cannot be part of your true nature. If it were, you could show it to me at any time. When you were born you did not have it, and your parents did not give it to you – so it must come into you from the outside. I suggest that whenever it gets into you, you beat yourself with a stick until the temper can’t stand it, and runs away.

The true nature is your eternal nature. You cannot have it and not have it, it is not something that comes and goes – it is

Reviews for Next Time You Feel Angry...

[Vladimir Petrovic · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

In a perfect few words Osho conquers his thoughts with yet another of his own accumulated wisdoms. Tao breaths deeply through his mind and words, materializing simplicity at its best. Like water, his words carve the way through Grand Canyon of readers mind. Exquisite display of doing by not doing!