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eBook Category: Spiritual/Religion
eBook Description: Osho parses the fascinating and mysterious fragments of prose that have survived from the teachings of "Heraclitus the Obscure," author of the famously wise observation that it is impossible to step twice in the same river. In the process we learn that Heraclitus was no mere intellectual thinker but a man striving to express the inexpressible, and to pass along timeless keys that can enable all of us to view the world we live in with greater clarity and understanding. " What Aristotle only thinks, Heraclitus knows. What Wittgenstein only thinks, Heraclitus experiences."--Osho Heraclitus is one of the greatest Buddhas of the world. In western philosophy his name is not part of the mainstream. The mainstream consists of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Bertrand Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore. Heraclitus is something like an outsider for the simple reason that he is one of the greatest mystics. What Aristotle only thinks, Heraclitus knows. What Wittgenstein only thinks, Heraclitus experiences.

eBook Publisher: Osho International, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2003

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"No one is more qualified to introduce the mystics than Osho, a man who stands out even in their exalted company. He speaks right from his own experience, bringing his mystic predecessors to life, making them his contemporaries."--John Lilly

Heraclitus is really beautiful. Had he been born in India, or in the East, he would have been known as a buddha. But in Greek history, Greek philosophy, he was a stranger, an outsider....Aristotle thought that he was a little eccentric, a little mad--and Aristotle dominates the whole West. If Heraclitus had been accepted, the whole history of the West would have been totally different. But he was not understood at all. He became more and more separate from the main current of Western thinking and the Western mind. Heraclitus was like Gautam Buddha or Lao Tzu or Basho....At the moment when Heraclitus was born,...humanity reached a peak, a moment of transformation....Every twenty-five centuries there comes a peak--and if you can use that moment, you can easily become enlightened. It will not be so easy in other times because at that peak the river itself is flowing in that direction; everything is fluid, nothing is fixed. Twenty-five centuries ago there were born in India, Gautam Buddha, Mahavira the Jaina; in China, Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu; in Iran, Zarathustra; and in Greece, Heraclitus. They are the peaks.... ....Again the moment is coming, we are again in a fluid state: the old is meaningless, the past doesn't have any significance for you, the future is uncertain--the gap is here. And again humanity will achieve a peak, the same peak as there was in Heraclitus' time. And if you are a little aware, you can use this moment--you can simply drop out of the wheel of life.... You are fortunate that you are born in an age when things are again in a state of liquidity. Nothing is certain, all old codes and commandments have become useless. New patterns have not settled in. They will settle soon; man cannot remain forever unsettled, because when you are unsettled there is insecurity. Things will settle again, this moment will not last for ever; it is only for a few years. If you can use it, you can reach a peak which will be very, very difficult to reach in other times. If you miss it, the moment is missed for twenty-five centuries again.