OUTER WORLD OPENS THE PATH TO INNER WORLD.''OSHO''

ZORBA THE BUDDHA

Zorba the Buddha is a man who embraces and celebrates both the outer , material world , as well as the inner world of spirituality , transcendance and freedom.

Zorba the Greek is a character from a novel , by Nikos Kazantzakis, who lived his life to the maximum, enjoys eating and drinking wine , playing music and celebrated and danced for hours on the beach, under the stars.

Gautama the Buddha explored the depth of his inner world with awareness and discovered the light and the deathless nature of his being .

Previously, many of those on the inner, spiritual journey , have been conditioned to deny the outer , material world . The body has been denied and many cases treated as if it is something sinfull. This has led to life-negating attitudes and guilt complexes around sex and basic pleasures of life.

On the other hand, the materialists of the West , have advanced in many ways technologically and scientifically, but have no understanding or knowledge of the inner world , meditation, and consciousness.

Osho’s understanding of what he called ‘the new man and women’ , is the meeting of East and West, of Zorba and Buddha, living in harmony with nature and celebrating this earth , embracing technology , and outer science as well as the inner science, meditation , bliss, love, transcendance and enlightenment.

Osho felt that if seekers are allowed to enjoy the outer life fully and totally , it will become easier to turn inside when the time comes , towards the inner light 

“I would like this man Zorba to be alive in everybody, because it is your natural inheritance. But you should not stop at Zorba.

Zorba is only the beginning. Sooner or later, if you allow your Zorba full expression, you are bound to think of something better, higher, greater. It will not come out of thinking; it will come out of your experiences – because those small experiences will become boring.

Buddha himself had come to be Buddha because he had lived the life of a Zorba.”

“The Zorba loves singing, playing on his musical instruments, dancing. Buddha will make it perfect, absolute. Even silence will become a song, even stones will become sermons, and whatever you touch will become a musical instrument because your hands will now have the magic of the whole existence; they will have the grace, the beauty, the poetry...”