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Nirvana : The Last Nightmare Why does Osho call the desire for nirvana enlightenment the last nightmare? Because he says all desire all hope is the nightmare-and that this hope postpones us from being in the present moment open to life and to what truly is.I will go on singing the beauties of ecstasy but don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to convince you that nirvana has to be achieved. It is not a goal. It cannot be made a goal. It cannot be made an object of desire. It is available. Just look. Have an alert look. Life is tremendously beautiful. It is showering on you from everywhere.Through Zen stories jokes and responses to questions Osho talks on topics such as the nature of desire the disease of comparison man's compulsive need to do being creative with work and the freedom of consciousness-all to give us the wake up call that: Nirvana is not somewhere. It is the whole performance of life. The Heart Of Yoga The practice of Yoga is now being widely embraced by the West in an endless range of evolving formats particularly with added movement components. It is therefore very timely that Osho with his razor-sharp insight respect and compassion for the individual brings a wider understanding of the potential benefits of Yoga for contemporary people in these talks on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Patanjali lived around 400BC and although Yoga was already in existence he was able through his unique combination of logician poet and mystic to present Yoga in a way that could be of help to all. And that continues to be true today. Osho describes Patanjali as a mathematician of the ultimate poetry; a mystic with a scientific mind who analyzes and dissects as if in a lab but his lab is one of the inner being. Patanjali has searched deeply into human energy and devised many techniques; he has found that in order to meditate the body mind and being need to be healthy. His discovery that the body energy becomes whole with the chanting of om the basic sound of existence and his findings of the deep connection between breathing and thinking have been of great importance to generations of meditators. ?The body is your anchor your ship which will lead you to the other shore. The body keeps the treasure the seeds of the divine within you protected.? Osho