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About: ABC of Enlightenment (Paperback) The ABC of Enlightenment is Osho?s lively - and surprising - dictionary of the inner world. He defines words in basic, contemporary language that addresses the reality of our everyday lives as physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual beings. But The ABC of Englightenment is much more: as Osho defines each word, he offers ways in which readers can experience those words spiritually - often by shocking them out of thinking they already know the definition of a word so they can experience its full meaning more deeply.

Osho reveals the power of the language we use to affect the world around us, and defines the ultimate experience of that world in the immediate, timeless dimension of the present.

Excerpt from ABC of Enlightenment (Paperback) Words are not just words. They have moods, climates of their own. When a word settles inside you, it brings a different climate to your mind, a different approach, a different vision. Call something by a different name and see how things change. So one of the most important things to remember is, if possible, live an experience and don?t fix it by a word, because that will make it narrow.

Say you are sitting outside on a silent evening. The sun has gone and the stars are just coming out. Just be. Don?t even say, ?This is beautiful,? because the moment you say that it is beautiful, it isn?t the same any more. By saying ?beautiful? you are bringing in the past, and all the experiences that you said were beautiful have coloured the word. Your word ?beautiful? contains many experiences of beauty. But this experience is totally new. Life has never been like this before. It will never be again. Why bring in the past? The present is so vast, the past is so narrow. Why look through a hole in the wall when you can come out and look at the whole sky?

So try not to use words, but if you have to, be very choosy about them, because each word has a nuance of its own. Be very poetic about it. Use each word with taste, love, feeling.

There are feeling words and there are intellectual words. Drop intellectual words more and more. Use feeling words. There are political words and there are religious words. Drop political words. These are words which immediately create conflict. The moment you utter them, argument arises. So never use logical, argumentative language. Use the language of affection, of caring, of love, so that no argument arises. If you start acting this way, you will see tremendous changes.

A single word uttered without awareness can create a long chain of misery. But if you are alert, many miseries can be avoided. Just a very small change can make a lot of difference. You should be very, very careful and only use words when absolutely necessary. Avoid contaminated words. Use fresh words, non-controversial words which are not arguments, just expressions of your feelings. If you can become a connoisseur of words, your whole life will be different. Your relationships will be totally different because 99 per cent of a relationship is expressed through words. Gestures are also words. If a word brings misery, anger, conflict, argument, drop it. What is the point of carrying it? It may have created a lot of trouble for you and yet still you blurt it out. Drop it. Replace it with something better.

The best thing is silence. Next best is singing, poetry, love.

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