When the Shoe Fits: Stories of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu

If you get an Osho book, get this one and Intuition (the companion book to this one). Taoism is very hard to understand the genius of Osho is he makes it simple and everyone can understand.

I never right reviews. To use a cliche, this little book TRANSFORMATIONAL

Be careful - this is Osho's perspective. Lots of sex talk.

I've never failed to read a book based upon Osho's talks that I didn't gain something from and this book is no exception.Osho' perception was impeccable. Buy this. Read this. Digest this.

The first thing I thought while reading this was- it make sense, somehow. It opened my mind to a whole new prespective on life and people.

Anyone in search of truth should read this book...don't miss this treasure of a book...it ls full of wisdom.Read This with an open mind and heart and it may change your life. I can't say enough about osho and his way of articulating the divine.

Keeping this one by my bed for many months now. The perfect tips for restful sleep and dream yoga practice!

Without reading any of his books, I bought several of his books at once thinking he might be another wise man who could enlighten me. Now I am selling all of his books. After a few pages of his book on Buddhism, I just couldn't swallow any more of his superficial and shallow interpretations of the subjects. I forced myself to finish his another book on Taoism. Luckily for me, the book was thin. I thought I should give him another chance, so I picked up his book on Buddhism but once a clown, always a clown.To me, he was just another opportunist riding on the coattails of trends and popular ideas. Even now his books are selling in Thailand and Korea as well. When I saw his books in Bangkok, I was surprised. About a month later when I saw his books in Seoul, Korea, I was shocked. The magnitude of his popularity was beyond me.I am glad that I discovered other worthy authors before running into this clown. Otherwise, I would have thought he was cool. No more Osho for me.As you can tell by now, I didn't read this book. If you want to know what I think about his other books, go to his other books, The Pathless Path and The Buddha said, for my comments.

It`s okay. In the first chapter you can understand it but as you read along, it didn`t make sense to me. Everyone has different views. It does make you think. It`s a good book though.

An excellent book.

Excellent

Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.Osho comments in this book on the teachings of the Taoist Mystic Chuang Tzu. Acceptance, accepting whatsoever is, is the basis of Tao. Taoism teaches us to be natural, spontaneous and effortless. It says: Nature is truth, and there is no other truth than nature; don’t interfere with nature and don’t try to improve upon it.Also be sincere to your inner nature and help others to be sincere to their inner nature.This is the whole message of Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest messages in the world. Chuang Tzu and his old master Lao Tzu are against culture; they are for nature, pure nature.Chuang Tzu was an ordinary man who lived the life of a wanderer. He emphasizes effortlessness. He tells us to be the last, so nobody can push us further back. Also don’t fight with anything and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. He believes in understanding and not in meditation. According to him ego is always attracted magnetically to the difficult, but easy is right. So ego is never attracted towards the right, it is always attracted towards the wrong.Tao says: Don’t be outstanding, drop all that is outstanding; just be ordinary, just be simple.It also says: whatsoever is beautiful in you, hide it, never act it out, whatsoever is truthful in you, valuable, hide it, because whenever a truth is hidden in the heart, it grows like a seed hidden in the earth”. Chuang Tzu is for needs and not for desires. Eat, drink and merry and don’t think is what Chuang Tzu says. He believes neither in God nor in devil; he believes only in life, to him only life exists. Some of Osho’s observations are given below:Whatsoever a politician says, he never means it; whatsoever he means he never says it.When you become old, the whole world seems to be old and dying.How can you conquer nature? How can a wave conquer the ocean? It is patent foolishness.Never ask for respect, because respect is asked for by the ego.Once Ceylon, Sri Lanka, must have been very near to India, otherwise the monkey Hanuman could not have jumped across. There must have been a small river, a stream between the two.Mind is an artificial thing, implanted in you by the society. Osho through his commentary makes Chuang Tzu’s teachings beautiful and lovable.

Reading books like this one I have the feeling he is a prophet who religions forgot to mention or that was deleted from the sacred books. Surely Osho was sent by God or by Existence herself (for people who do not believe that goes is a sentient being) to cure souls, open eyes and heal the sick.