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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho)
Firstly this dude looks almost like the Original Dude - Lao Tzu, check out the beard!
Osho formerly known as Bhagwan Rajaneesh was a radical and rebellious dude who redefined 20th century spiritual thought. He was a former professor of philosophy and is said to have read over 200,000 volumes mostly on philosophy, religion, psychology and science. From authors and sources as diverse as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Book of Mirdad, Lao Tzu, Hahlil Gibran, D R Susuki, Herman Hess, Jean Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Samuel Beckett, Karl Marx, Turgenev, Herbert Marcuse, The Vedas, Upanishads, Kabir, Bhagavad Gita, Buddha and Aristotle.
He claimed that the greatest values in life are (in no specific order) awareness, love, meditation and laughter. His speeches usually are a no holds barred dissertations shining with intellectual conclusion frequently peppered with outrageous statements and offensive jokes. His speeches are collected into several books translated into 55 languages. One of his book called ?Sex and super consciousness? earned him the title ?Sex Guru?. Even under intense public pressure, he refused to change the title of his book,
He said, in Tantra everything is holy, nothing is unholy, and all repressive sexual morality was self-defeating, since one could not transcend sex without experiencing it thoroughly and consciously. Never in the history of mankind has religious dude so boldly and casually talked about sex. About himself he said I have never been a celibate. If people think so it is their foolishness. I have always loved women ? and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become gray so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty. (...brutally honest dude?.totally)
He said that enlightenment is everyone's natural state, but that one is distracted from realizing it ? particularly by the human activity of thought, as well as by emotional ties to societal expectations, and consequent fears and inhibitions. He renounced the path of the society and the family. About his speeches he said that the only thing he was serious about in his discourses were the jokes ? they were the main thing, and everything else was spiritual gossip. Osho defined meditation as that which happens when you are in a state of not-doing. And that is the question: how to do that non-doing? If you ask how, you have missed the point, because -how- means doing. ... You will have to understand that no doing is going to help. In that very understanding, non-doing happens - Pure Dudeism.
I honestly cannot believe that nobody has responding to this post in any way or form. Osho was one of the wisest modern day Zen and overall religious scholars in the world. His books are what pulled me into Zen so resolutely, and I highly recommend ANY of his texts, as he has documented the history and attitudes of such in such a pleasing way that it could almost be considered otherworldly.
If you've heard, listened to, and read the man, you'd understand that he is the very ESSENCE of what it means to be a Dude. If he were still alive today, I'm sure he would have been tickled pink by our far out religious community.
Make this person a Dude, if not for his sake, then for the sake of all our fellow Dudeist Brothers, so they might be enlightened by his sage words.
The Dude Abides,
Duder Bodhi
DUDE. YOU STOLE MY DUDE.
GODDAMIT.
I already nominated osho in the spirtualism section.
sheesh dude.