The Buddha Said: Meeting the Challenge of Life's Difficulties

Osho, one of the best-known and most provocative spiritual teachers of our time, presents The Sutra of 42 Chapters—a scripture compiled in the first century C.E by a Chinese emperor. Two thousand five hundred years have passed since Buddha delivered the sutras on which this series is based.

Using modern idiom, Osho extracts the kernel of Buddha’s profound insight and understanding and presents his everlasting message to the contemporary listener in a manner that is lucid, straightforward, and humorous. Osho weaves his own unique insights into this profound ancient wisdom and expands its meaning for our time, discusses the need for doubt and argument in the spiritual search, the nature of desire, and the discipline of non-attachment.

As we travel with the Buddha on a path of radical wisdom, we’ll laugh or shake our heads at the folly, the ineptitude, or the goodness of the characters in the stories—and gain knowledge and understanding at the same time.

Osho engages us at every level to help us experience the Buddha’s teachings and take in their timeless truths. A powerful, inspirational gem of a series of talks recorded in an outdoor auditorium with several thousands of people in his audience.

This is an abridged edition of an original series of talks by Osho titled, ""The Discipline of Transcendence"".

1. The Most Excellent Way

2. No Prejudice in the Heart

3. Be Therefore Mindful

4. Living the Dhamma

5. The Truth Beyond Magic

6. The Twenty Difficult Things

7. In Accord with the Way

8. A Light unto Yourself

9. Reflections of Emptiness

10. The Discipline Beyond Discipline

11. Spiritual Enlightenment

12. Always on the Funeral Pyre

13. There Is Nothing Like Lust

14. Become a Driftwood

15. Just Working for Peanuts

16. Away with the Passions!

17. The Eightfold Way

18. Remember the Middle

19. The Discipline of Transcendence

20. The Ten Grounds of the Way

21. Provisions for the Journey

22. Collecting Pebbles on the Seashore of Life

© & ℗1976 Osho International Foundation