Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

Osho always has awesome ideas and insights into the nature of mind and reality, and this book is no exception.I must admit it starts a little slow, and with my short attention span I found it slightly boring in the beginning chapters. As the book got going however it felt like one profound insight after another. His simple method of writing is pleasant and makes it easily understandable, I didn't find myself re reading pages very often like you often have to in spiritual and psychology books.Anyone looking for a good book on insight into the mental "mechanics" behind our fears, or anyone that loves psychology you will find this interesting. For those out there looking for a self help or book with "methods" this is not for you though. There is no methods of enlightenment or practice in here.Cheers!

This is probably one of my top 3 favorite books of all time along with Models and Psycho cybernetics. Osho has a way with words that is able to impact the audience like no other. We've all listened to motivational speeches addressing fear, but Osho talks about the aspects that others haven't even touched before. A great lesson that I've learned is that living freely and courageously means following your heart. At times it could lead to you to grand adventures, but at the same time, it could also lead down to scary roads too. These days many people are living by their mind too much. The mind is a great instrument, but it's always calculating and analyzing, which causes people to suffer from analysis paralysis. The best way to live a happy and fullfilling life is to follow your heart and take a leap of faith!

Osho was prolific - and I'm only starting to delve into his huge canon of work. The Joy of Living Dangerously may be one of the best books written on individuality. What makes Osho compelling is his ability to create a picture for the reader - strong examples, compelling arguments and reasoning (for lack of better terms since Osho isn't "arguing" his point) which will enlighten and illuminate any reader.The book is ideal for anyone who feels stuck in life; a relationship; etc - sure, many wise authors will offer views that may overlap with what you read here. But the real reason to get this is for Osho's effortless ease of writing - his simplicity and straightforward style is hard to better and makes this enjoyable if thought provoking to read. I had some "a-ha" moments and I'm sure you will too.

Osho takes you from the realm of conformity in life as its been taught to us; blend in, be like everyone else, dress properly, choose the right friends and so on.....to a new way of thinking. He is leading the reader down the path to enlightenment, one that is difficult to comprehend and likely impossible for us to achieve. Although I do not agree with everything he says, I do believe the we all live in fear of the unknown and primarily death. Courage, who couldn't do with a little more of that....self confidence...patience ...love...understanding and a little less of worrying about what people think of us and conforming whether we like it or not. A very freeing idea to just be yourself, but not quite as easy as it sounds.

This book deserves more than five stars. You can open any page in this marvellous book, and you will find something insightful, something joyously quotable. Osho, I am deeply grateful to you.Starting with what is courage which is going into the unknown in spite of all the fears, Osho exhorts you to revel in insecurity. I just opened the book and I got the "Foreword" page, and on the top Osho says:"Don't call it uncertainty -- call it wonder.Don't call it insecurity -- call it freedom"In the chapter on "The Courage of Love" Osho asserts rightly that there is no higher religion than love. I agree with this totally. Unless you drop all the "isms", you are not capable of pure love. "Love is a rare flowering and it can happen only when there is no fear, never before". I can go on and on, but it is better you find it for yourself through reading this fine book. It will transform you.Love and best wishes.

I like the book because I love reading Osho books. This is the 6th or 7th book I've gotten of his teachings and they have had a positive impact on how I look at life and the direction I'm heading in.There is however something weird on the first 15 to 20 pages of the one I just bought. It made my highlighter ink disappear... I thought I was crazy but, nah. It really disappeared. Not sure if something spilled on it but it's pretty weird.

Using other doctrines’ phrases and buzzwords as if they’re his. Full of wrong terminology and misuse of fancy words to sound spiritual, deep or philosophical. Overall is okay give it a try.

I gave this book five stars.Osho did a great job explaining the definition of courage. I thought courage and bravery go together, but osho says that bravery is a coward upside down because people try to repress it. Osho says courage is accepting fear and still face it head on, to become fearless. Osho talks about about risk taking, like whenever there a opportunity go for it, don't let your mind try to stop you. He also says they the greatest fear of all people is other people opinions and when you stop caring about what other people think you become a lion. Osho has some more wisdom but I'm not going to give them away, you have to read them yourself. This book is going to help me because I'm going to take risk, face my fears, stop caring about what people think, and lived dangerously.