Osho on Tao

Absolute TAO
Osho brings new life to Lao Tzu's famous Tao Te Ching:

'Tao is totality. Totality is not perfect, it is always imperfect - because it is always alive. Life exists through the tension of the opposites, the meeting of the opposites. If you deny the opposite you can become perfect but you will not be total, you will miss something.
There are three words to be remembered: one is dependence, another is independence, the third is interdependence.

Lao Tzu is just a spokesman of life

Absolute TAO

Tao, The Pathless Path
In his commentaries on five parables from the Lieh Tzu, Osho brings a fresh and contemporary interpretation to the ancient wisdom of Tao. Lieh Tzu was a well-known Taoist master in the fourth century B.C., and his sly critiques of Confucius provide abundant opportunities for the reader to explore the contrasts between the rational and irrational, the male and female, the structured and the spontaneous.
The chapters in this beautiful little paperback are selections from a longer series of talks given under the same name, with an additional chapter of responses to questions. If you feel drawn to the "watercourse way" of Tao, with its approach of let-go and harmony with nature, this is a book you will especially enjoy.

A Taoist parable

When the Shoe Fits
Commentaries on the stories of the Taoist mystic Chuang Tzu

So the first thing to understand about Chuang Tzu before we enter his sutras, is - be natural. Everything unnatural has to be avoided. Don't do anything that is unnatural. Nature is enough - you cannot improve upon it, but the ego says, no, you can improve upon nature -- that is how all culture exists.

Remember, this is one of the greatest mantras:
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten

When the Shoe fits

The Empty Boat
Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu is a rare flowering, because to become nobody is the most difficult, almost impossible, most extraordinary thing in the world.
The extraordinariness starts only when you don't hanker after extraordinariness. Then the journey has started, then a new seed has sprouted.
This is what Chuang Tzu means when he says: A perfect man is like an empty boat.

Many things are implied in it. First, an empty boat is not going anywhere because there is nobody to direct it, nobody to manipulate it, nobody to drive it somewhere. An empty boat is just there, it is not going anywhere. Even if it is moving it is not going anywhere.
When the mind is not there life will remain a movement, but it will not be directed. You will move, you will change, you will be a riverlike flow, but not going anywhere, with no goal in view. A perfect man lives without any purpose; a perfect man moves but without any motive.

If the mind is filled with dreams you cannot see rightly

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