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The document lists Osho's favorite books across 16 lists, with the books spanning various spiritual traditions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism and more.

Books from various spiritual traditions like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Sutras of Patanjali and more are mentioned across the different lists.

Many of the books explore themes of mysticism, meditation, spiritual awakening and enlightenment.

Books Osho Had Loved

List #1
1-THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA/Friedrich Nietzsche
2-BROTHERS KARAMAZOV/Fyodor Dostoevsky
3-THE BOOK OF MIRDAD/Mikhail Naimy
4-JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
5-TAO TE CHING/Lao Tzu
6-THE PARABLES OF CHUANG TZU
7-THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT
8-BHAGAVADGITA/Krishna
9-GITANJALI/Rabindranath Tagore
10-THE ONE THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA /Milarepa

List #2
1-THE BOOK of the Sufis
2-THE PROPHET/Kahlil Gibran
3-THE BOOK OF LIEH TZU/Lieh Tzu
4-DIALOGUES OF SOCRATES/ Plato
5-THE NOTES OF THE DISCIPLES OF BODHIDHARMA
6-RUBAIYAT/Omar Khayyam(a Sufi)
7-MASNAVI/Jalaluddin Rumi
8-ISA UPANISHAD
9-ALL AND EVERYTHING/Gurdjieff
10-IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS/P.D. Ouspensky
11-LEAVES OF GRASS/Walt Whitman

List #3
1-HSIN HSIN MING/Sosan(cn)
2-TERTIUM ORGANUM(the third canon of thought)/P.D.
Ouspensky
3-GEET GOVIND(the song of God)/Jaydeva
4-SAMAYASAR(the essence)/Kundkunda(a Jainas)
5-THE FIRST AND LAST FREEDOM/J. Krishnamurti
6-THE BOOK(Teachings) OF HUANG PO/(cn)
7-THE BOOK(Teachings) OF HUI HI/(cn)
8-SONG OF SOLOMON

List #4
1-The FRAGMENTS/Heraclitus
2-The GOLDEN VERSES/Pythagoras
3-THE SONG OF SARAHA/Saraha(Tibet)
4-notes from the songs of Tilopa
5-ZEN AND JAPANESE CULTURE/D.T. Suzuki
6-LET GO/Hubert Benoit(Frenchman)
7-PARABLES/Ramakrishna
8-THE FABLES OF AESOP
9-MULA MADHYAMIKA KARIKA(the essence of the path of the
middle)/Nagarjuna
10-THE BOOK OF MARPA/Marpa(Tibetan mysic)

List #5
1-BRAHMAN SUTRAS/Badrayana
2-BHAKTI SUTRAS/Narada
3-YOGA SUTRAS/Patanjali
4-THE SONGS OF KABIR/Kabir
5-THE SECRET DOCTRINE(ENCYCLOPEDIA
ESOTERICA)/Blavatsky(Theosophy)
6-THE SONGS OF MEERA/Meera
7-THE SONGS OF SAHAJO/Sahajo
8-Rabiya al-Adabiya(Sufi)
9-Songs of Nanak/Nanak(the founder of Sikhism)
10-VIVEK CHUDAMANI(The Crest Jewel of
Awareness)/Shankaracharya
11-KORAN/Hazrat Mohammed
List #6
1-DHAMMAPADA(the path of truth)/Gautama Buddha
2-JIN SUTRAS(The Sutras of the Conqueror)/Mahavira
3-ZORBA THE GREEK/Kazantzakis(Greek)
4-declarations of al-Hillaj Mansoor
5-anecdote of Mahakashyapa?founder of Zen?
6-SIDDHARTHA(the name of Gautama the Buddha)/Hermann
Hesse(Nobel prizewinner)
7-anecodote of Baal Shem Tov(Hassidism founder)
8-songs of Farid(Sufi)
9-VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA/Shiva
10-TATVA SUTRA(the ultimate reality)/Uma Swati
#11-SONG OF NAROPA

List #7
1-Malukdas(Indian)
2-GURU GRANTHA SAHIB(the book of the masters)/(by Sikhs)
3-LIGHT ON THE PATH/Mabel Collins(Theosophist)
4-Songs of Lalla(Kashmiri woman)
5-words of Gorakh(tantric)
6-THE SUPREME DOCTRINE/Hubert Benoit(Frenchman)
7-SHIVA SUTRA(the techniques of all meditations)/Shiva(the
Hindu concept of Ultimate Goodness)
8-message of Gaurang(the white one)
9-Dadu's songs
10-Sarmad(Sufi)

List #8
1-WILL TO POWER/Friedrich Nietzsche
2-A NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE/P.D.Ouspensky
3-statements of Sanai(essence of Sufism)
4-statements of Dionysius(belongs to the great world of the
buddhas)
5-AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER/(J. Krishnamurti)Annie Besant
6-fragments from Junnaid/(Sufi mystic,the master of al-Hillaj
Mansoor)
7-GOD SPEAKS/Meher Baba
8-MAXIMS FOR A REVOLUTIONARY/George Bernard Shaw
9-THE TEACHINGS OF HUI NENG/Hui Neng
10-anecodote/Mulla Nasruddin(He is not a fictitious figure, he
was a Sufi and his grave still exists)

List #9
1-THE DESTINY OF THE MIND/Haas
2-/Eckhart(German)
3-/Boehme(German)
4-THE SUFIS/Idries Shah
5-THE WAY OF ZEN/Alan Watts(American)
6-SAYINGS of Rinzai/Lin Chi(took the flower of Zen away from
China to Japan)
7-lectures by Hazrat Inayat Khan(the man who introduced
Sufism to the West,a musician)
8-Books by Hazrat Vilayat Ali Khan(son of Hazrat Inayat Khan)
9-JESUS, THE SON OF MAN/Kahlil Gibran(Syrian)
10-THE MADMAN/Kahlil Gibran

List #10
1-BEING AND NOTHINGNESS/Jean-Paul Sartre
2-TIME AND BEING/Martin Heidegger
3-TRACTATUS LOGICO PHILOSOPHICUS/Ludwig
Wittgenstein(This book was written when Wittgenstein was
studying under G.E.Moore and Bertrand Russell)
4-NIRDESH SUTRA(guidelines)/Vimalkirti
5-COMMENTARIES ON LIVING/ J.Krishnamurti(his diary)
6-COMMENTARIES/Maurice Nicoll(a disciple of Gurdjieff)
7-OUR LIFE WITH GURDJIEFF/Hartmann(another disciple of
Gurdjieff,playing the piano)
8-SHREE PASHA(a commentary on BRAHMAN
SUTRAS)/Ramanuja(a Hindu mystic)
9-THE FUTURE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAN/P.D. Ouspensky
10-THE BOOK OF BAHAUDDIN(Bahauddin created the tradition
of Sufism)
List #11
1-THE OUTSIDER/Colin Wilson
2-THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
3-THE GARDEN OF THE PROPHET/Kahlil Gibran(reminds me of
Epicurus)
4-THE VOICE OF THE MASTER/Kahlil Gibran
5-WHO AM I?/Maharshi Ramana
6-THE MIND OF INDIA/Moorehead and Radhakrishnan
7-ALICE IN WONDERLAND/Lewis Carroll
8-ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS/Lewis Carroll
9-THE WANDERER(a collection of parables)/Kahlil Gibran
10-THE SPIRITUAL SAYINGS/Kahlil Gibran
11-WAITING FOR GODOT/Samuel Beckett

List #12
1-TALES OF HASSIDISM/Martin Buber(a Jew,What D.T. Suzuki
did for Zen, Buber has done for Hassidism)
2-I AND THOU/Martin Buber
3-DAS KAPITAL/Karl Marx
4-LECTURES ON PSYCHOANALYSIS/Sigmund Freud
5-MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN/Gurdjieff(It is not a
fiction like DON JUAN)
6-THE GRANTHA(tying down the leaves,a small book of
poems)/(a disciple of Kabir)
7-THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO/Karl Marx and Friedrich
8-THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS/Marcel
9-THE HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY/Bertrand Russell
10-THE SONGS OF DAYA(She was a contemporary of Meera
and Sahajo, but she is far more profound than either of them)

List #13
1-LUST FOR LIFE(not just a novel, it is a spiritual book)/Irving
Stone
2-THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY(on Michelangelo)/Irving
Stone
3-RESURRECTION/Leo Tolstoy
4-NOTES ON JESUS(the fifth gospel,has just been found in
Egypt)/Thomas(the body of Thomas is still preserved in Goa)
5-WAR AND PEACE(the whole history of human
consciousness)/Leo Tolstoy
6-THE MOTHER/Maxim Gorky
7-FATHERS AND SONS(should be read by everyone, because
everyone is entangled in some kind of relationship )/Turgenev
8-THE PHOENIX/D.H. Lawrence
9-PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS/D.H.
Lawrence(really a revolutionary, a rebel,far more revolutionary
than Sigmund Freud)
10-LIGHT OF ASIA/Arnold
11-BIJAK(means 'the seed' )/Kabir's selection of songs
12-ONE DIMENSIONAL MAN/Herbert Marcuse
13-I CHING
14-NADI KE DWEEP(ISLANDS OF A RIVER,a Hindi novel,it is a
meditator's novel)/ Satchidanand Vatsyayana

List #14
1-THE ART OF LIVING/Lin Yutang
2-THE WISDOM OF CHINA/Lin Yutang
3-THE TALMUD(a Jewish book)
4-SHUNYA SVABHAVA(The Nature of Emptiness)/Taran
Taran(the founder of a very small section of Jainism)
5-SIDDHI SVABHAVA/Taran Taran
6-NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND/Dostoevsky
7-PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS/Ludwig Wittgenstein
8-PSYCHOSYNTHESIS/Assagioli
9-PROSE POEMS/Kahlil Gibran
10-THOUGHTS AND MEDITATIONS/Kahlil Gibran

List #15
1-MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH/Mahatma Gandhi's
autobiography
2-CONFESSIONS/Saint Augustine
3-ANNA KARENINA/Leo Tolstoy
4-THE ART OF TANTRA/Ajit Mukherjee(Bengali)
5-THE PAINTINGS OF TANTRA/Ajit Mukherjee
6-BHAJ GOVINDAM MOODH MATE(O Idiot....one thousand years
old, and is nothing but a small song)/Adi Shankaracharya
7-PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS/Ludwig Wittgenstein
8-ZEN FLESH, ZEN BONES/Paul Reps(being an American, and
yet, I repeat, and yet getting the full flavor of Zen)
9-ZEN BUDDHISM/Christmas Humphries(a disciple of
D.T.Suzuki)
10-THE SONGS OF CHANDIDAS(a Bengali madman, a
Baul,Baul means a madman)

List #16
1-The book is about an absolutely unknown Indian mystic,
Shivpuri Baba/Bennett(an Englishman,also the first man to
discover Gurdjieff)
2-LISTEN LITTLE MAN/Reich(he must have been possessed by
some unknown spirit,died in jail, condemned, reduced to a
madman)
3-PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA/Bertrand Russell and Whitehead
4-POETICS/Aristotle
5-THREE PILLARS OF ZEN(the most beautiful book written
about Zen)/Ross
6-THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA/Mahendranath(a disciple of
Ramakrishna)
7-Ramateertha's books
8-PRINCIPIA ETHICA/G.E.Moore
9-THE SONGS OF RAHIM/Rahim Khan Khana(of the same
height and same depth as Kabir, Meera, Sahajo or Chaitanya)
10-DIVAN(a collection of poems)/Mirza Ghalib(the greatest
Urdu poet)
11-THE BOOK(his testament, his whole experience with Zen
masters, Zen classics)/Alan Watts(of tremendous
intelligence,also a drunkard)
??Books I have Loved?1982-1985

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