Books I Have Loved

Having read more than 150,000 of the world's greatest books on every conceivable subject, Osho shares the fragrance of some of his favorites in these spontaneous and intimate talks. From the very first book, Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, to the last entry, The Book, by Alan Watts, he takes us on a journey of discovery, sampling gifts from authors we have known along with some surprises from mystics and poets never heard of before. Not only are we offered a tantalizing reading list, but an insight into the dimension of enlightened consciousness.

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The books mentioned by Osho in these transcripts are :

Chapter 1

• Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Book of Mirdad
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• The Parables of Chuang Tzu
• The Sermon on the Mount
• Bhagavad-Gita
• Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
• The One Thousand Songs of Milarepa

Chapter 2

• The Book (of the Sufis)
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• The Book of Lieh Tzu
• Dialogue on Socrates by Plato
• The Notes of the Disciples of Bodhidarma
• The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
• Masnavi by Jalaluddin Rumi
• The Isa Upanishad
• All and Everything by George Gurdjieff
• In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Chapter 3

• Hsin Hsin Ming by Sosan
• Tertium Organum by P. D. Ouspensky
• Geet Govinda
• Samayasar by Kundkunda
• The First and the Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
• The Book of Huang Po (The Teachings of Huang Po)
• The Book of Hui Hi
• The Song of Solomon

Chapter 4

• The Fragments of Heraclitus
• The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
• The Royal Song of Saraha
• Tilopa's Song of Mahamudra
• Zen and Japanese Culture by D. T. Suzuki
• Let Go by Hubert Benoit
• Ramakrishna's Parables
• The Fables of Aesop
• Nagarjuna's Mula Madhyamika Karika
• The Book of Marpa

Chapter 5

• Brahma Sutras by Badrayana
• Bhakti Sutras by Narada
• Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
• The Songs of Kabir
• The Secret Doctrine by Madame Blavatsky
• The Songs of Meera
• The Songs of Sahajo
• The Book of Rabiya-al-Adabiya
• The Songs of Nanak
• Vivek Chudamani by Shankaracharya
• The Koran - Hazrat Mohammed

Chapter 6

• The Dhammapada - Gautam the Buddha
• Jaina Sutras - Mahavira
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Declarations of Al-Hillaj Mansoor
• The Fragments of Mahakashyapa
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• The Stories of Baal Shem
• The Songs of Farid
• Vigyana Bhairava Tantra - Shiva
• Tatva Sutra by Uma Swati
• The Songs of Naropa

Chapter 7

• The Poetry of Malukdas
• Guru Grantha Sahib (the book of the Sikhs)
• The Light on the Path by Mabel Collins
• The Songs of Lalla
• The Verses of the mystic Gorakh-Nath
• The Supreme Doctrine by Hubert Benoit
• Shiva Sutra
• The Songs of Gaurang
• The Songs of Dadu
• The Statements of Sarmad

Chapter 8

• The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
• A New Model of the Universe by P. D. Ouspensky
• The Statements of Sanai
• The Fragments of Dionysius
• At the Feet of the Master by Jiddhu Krishnamurti
• The Fragments of Junnaid
• God Speaks by Meher Baba
• Maxims for a Revolutionary by George Bernard Shaw
• The Teachings of Hui Neng ("Do not think; be.")
• The Jokes of Mulla Nasruddin

Chapter 9

• The Destiny of the Mind by Haas
• The Sayings of Eckhart
• The Sayings of Boehme
• The Sufis by Idries Shah
• The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
• The Sayings of Rinzai
• The Lectures of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• All of the books by Hazrat Ali Khan
• Jesus, the Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran
• The Madman by Kahlil Gibran

Chapter 10

• Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre
• Time and Being by Martin Heidegger
• Tractatus Logico Philisophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Vimalkirti Nirdesh Sutra
• Commentaries on Living by J. Krishnamurti
• Commentaries by Maurice Nicoll
• Our Life with Gurdjieff by Hartmann
• Shree Pasha by Ramanuja
• The Future Psychology of Man by P.D. Ouspensky
• The Book of Bahauddin

Chapter 11

• The Outsider by Colin Wilson
• The Analects by Confusius
• The Garden of the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• The Voice of the Master by Kahlil Gibran
• Who am I by Maharshi Ramana
• The Mind of India by Moorehead and Radhakrishnan
• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• The Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
• The Spiritual Sayings by Kahlil Gibran
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Chapter 12

• Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber
• I and Thou by Martin Buber
• Das Kapital by Karl Marx (Osho: "Do not read it.")
• Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
• Meetings with Remarkable Men by Gurdjieff
• The Grantha (written by an anonymous disciple of Kabir)
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Marcel
• The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Songs of Dayabai

Chapter 13

• Lust for Life by Irving Stone
• The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
• Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
• Notes on Jesus by Thomas
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Mother by Maxim Gorky
• Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
• The Phoenix by D.H. Lawrence
• Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious by D.H. Lawrence
• Light of Asia by Arnold
• Bijak, Kabir's selection of songs
• One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
• The I Ching
• Nadi Ke Dvip (Islands of a River) by Sacchidanand Vatsayana

Chapter 14

• The Art of Living by Lin Yutang
• The Wisdom of China by Lin Yutang
• The Talmud
• Shunya Svabhava by Taran Taran
• Siddhi Svabhava by Taran Taran
• Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Psychosynthesis by Assagioli
• Prose Poems by Kahlil Gibran
• Thoughts and Meditations by Kahlil Gibran

Chapter 15

• My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi
• Confessions by Saint Augustine
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Art of Tantra by Ajit Mukherjee
• The Tantra Paintings by Ajit Mukherjee
• Bhaj Govindam moodh mate by Adi Shankaracharya
• Philosophical Papers by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Zen Flesh Zen Bones - Paul Reps
• Zen Buddhism by Christmas Humphries
• The Songs of Chandidas

Chapter 16

• Shiva Puri Baba by Bennett
• Listen Little Man by Wilhelm Reich
• Principia Mathematica by Bertrand Russell and Whitehead
• Poetics by Aristotle
• Three Pillars of Zen by Ross
• The Gospel of Ramakrishna by M
• The collected works of Ramatirtha
• Principa Ethica by G.E. Moore
• The Songs of Rahim (Rahim Khan Khana)
• Divan by Mirza Ghalib
• The Book by Alan Watts

notes

Later published as 168 Books to Change Your Life

Dictated. According to Sw Devageet, all audio tapes were destroyed on Osho's request.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

from 1982 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

16

editions

	Books I Have Loved In memory of Alan Watts Year of publication : 1985 Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation International, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA ISBN 0-88050-716-0 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 247 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : First edition July 1985, 10,000 copies. Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Published by Ma Anand Sheela Editing: Sw Devaraj, Sw Devageet Editing assistant: Ma Deva Ashu Design: Ma Deva Sandipa Direction: Ma Yoga Pratima Introduction: Sw Anand Madyapa
	Books I Have Loved Year of publication : 1998 Publisher : Rebel Publishing House, India ISBN 81-7261-102-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 257 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : Second edition 1998. Copyright © 1985 Osho International Foundation. Editors: Sambuddha Swami Devaraj, M.D., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P., M.M., D.Phil.M.(RIMU), Acharya; Mahasattva Swami Devageet, B.D.S., M.M., D.Phil.M.(RIMU), Acharya Assistant editor: Bodhisattvaa Ma Deva Ashu, M.M.(RIMU), Acharya Design: Sw Bhaven Typesetting: Ma Bodhi Taruna, Sw Bhaven Production: Ma Deva Harito Photography: Osho Photo Services Printing: Thomson Press (India) Ltd. Introduction Swami Devageet, Osho's dentist. See discussion.
	Books I Have Loved Year of publication : 2000 Publisher : Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd ISBN 81-7261-102-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 256 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : Reprint
	Books I Have Loved Year of publication : 2003 Publisher : Tao Publishing Pvt. Ltd ISBN 81-7261-102-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 256 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : Reprint
	Books I Have Loved Year of publication : 2005 Publisher : Osho Media International ISBN 81-7261-102-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 242 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes :
	Books I Have Loved Year of publication : 2007 Publisher : Osho Media International ISBN 81-7261-102-1 (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 256 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes :