The Goose Is Out

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The Zen koan, "The goose is out!" captures the whole absurdity of the human condition - how, throughout our lives, we remain voluntarily ignorant of our true nature. In this book, his last responses to disciples' questions before going into silence for three and a half years, Osho penetrates the prejudices and beliefs we have gathered as our protection against the truth.
notes
time period of Osho's original talks/writings
Mar 1, 1981 to Mar 10, 1981 : timeline
number of discourses/chapters
10


editions

The Goose Is Out

Year of publication : 1982
Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation International
ISBN 0-88050-571-0 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 286
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes : First edition July 1982, 10,000 copies. ©Copyright 1982 Rajneesh Foundation International.
Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Published by Ma Anand Sheela
Introduction: Sw Anand Subhuti
This is the last series of discourses given in English by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the enlightened Master, who in the seven years between 1974 and 1981 gave a two-hour discourse every morning to an international audience of disciples and sekers at Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Poona, India.
This final series was delivered in Buddha Hall in March 1981. Shortly afterwards, Bhagwan began the ultimate stage of his work, replacing verbal communication with satsang: a direct, silent heart-to-heart communion between the Master and his disciples.
Many times in his discourses, Bhagwan had said that truth cannot be expressed through words - that it is a special transmission beyond all scriptures. And this is something which all the great Masters down through the ages have observed: that the ultimate truth can never be said, has never been said, will never be said.
(The publication of this book was 15 months into Osho's silent period.)
The back cover ends with the text:
The last lecture series before Bhagwan stopped speaking forever.
This book is a MUST for every sannyasin and lovers of Bhagwan.
Over this, a sticker is glued with the text:
The last lecture series before Bhagwan stopped speaking for an indefinite period.

The Goose Is Out

Responses to Disciples Questions

Year of publication : 1996
Publisher : Rebel Publishing House, India
ISBN 81-7261-014-9 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 248
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H
Edition notes : Second edition March 1996
Editing: Ma Dhyan Sagar, Sw Krishna Prabhu, Sw Anand Sarvo
Design and typesetting: Ma Deva Arpita
Production: Ma Dhyan Sabera, Ma Deva Harito
Cover photo: Sw Divyananda
Calligraphy titels: Sw Advaita Parva
Calligraphy painting: Sw Bhaven
Lettering: Sw Upavan
Endpaper paitings: Sw Satyakarma
Introduction: Sw Krishna Prem

The Goose Is Out

Responses to Disciples Questions

Year of publication : 1998
Publisher : Full Circle / Hind Pocket Books
ISBN 81-7621-018-8 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 233
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes :