Taoist Ideas in Osho’s Teaching

The teaching of the Neo Hinduism guru Osho Rajneesh represents a variety of ideas drawn from various philosophical and religious concepts of the East and West. Like Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Hinduism Tantra, Taoism is considered as one of the sources of Osho's teachings, which greatly influenced the formation of his views. Osho understood Taoism as a special type of life and culture that reveals and maintains special states of spontaneity and naturalness in a person. These qualities that a modern man has lost, help in achieving spiritual perfection, which guru identifies with a return to the source, the primordial inseparability of man and the World. Taoism also influenced the practical part of Osho’s teaching: methods of meditation based on the concentration, as well as "emptying the heart" method. The Taoist "soft" method of "flowing with the river" also impressed Osho, and, according to his point of view, it also contributes to the return of a person to the original natural state.