Learning Happiness

Osho opens with a view of the mind as the most complex thing on earth, the subtlest flowering of consciousness. To truly understand it, he says, you have to step back and become a witness rather than staying tangled up in it. From there he explains why the Buddha held that happiness does not need to be manufactured. It already exists in the present moment, and what has to be learned is the knack of living there. Osho calls this perhaps the most fundamental truth the Buddha gave the world. The book also sets out the three steps of the Buddha's carefully defined path to liberation, and it discusses the transition from sex to spirituality.