Unio Mystica II: Discourses on the Sufi Mystic Hakim Sanai

Unio mystica. This means "the mystic unity." It is the integration, the centering of the soul. You remain centered even in a raging cyclone.

About the Author

Osho defies categorization, reflecting everything from the individual quest for meaning to the most urgent social and political issues facing society today. His books are not written but are transcribed from recordings of extemporaneous talks given over a period of thirty-five years. Osho has been described by the Sunday Times in London as one of the "1000 Makers of the 20th Century" and by Sunday Mid-Day in India as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India.

Osho has a stated aim of helping to create the conditions for the birth of a new kind of human being, characterized as "Zorba the Buddha"- one whose feet are firmly on the ground, yet whose hands can touch the stars. Running like a thread through all aspects of Osho is a vision that encompasses both the timeless wisdom of the East and the highest potential of Western science and technology.

He is synonymous with a revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation and an approach to meditation which specifically addresses the accelerated pace of contemporary life. The unique Osho Active Meditations are designed to allow the release of accumulated stress in the body and mind so that it is easier to be still and experience the though-free state of meditation.

Back of the Book

Osho present his views on war and the political mind. He offers a fresh outlook: a blueprint for cutting the roots of the destructive political mind of man, and creating a human being who wants to celebrate life. "I am trying to create a space for the future to happen."

The story around Hakim Sanai, the 12th Century intrigue of a pointless military expedition, a poet and a mystic, continues from Unio Mystica I. Reading it today, there is a taste of history repeating itself. This time there is an opportunity to listen to and to welcome the aerial viewpoint of a modern mystic.

Osho holds Sanai in high esteem, saying if he were to save only two books from the world of the mystics, one would be from the world of Zen, the path of awareness, Sosan's Hsin Hsin Ming and the other would be Hakim Sanai's Hadiqa because "it is the essential fragrance of the path of love. No other Sufi has been able to reach to such heights of expression and such depths of penetration."

Preface

A man of peace is not a pacifist. A man of peace is simply a pool of silence. He pulsates a new kind of energy into the world; he sings a new song. He lives in a totally new way, his very way of life is that of grace, that of prayer, that of compassion. In whomsoever he touches, he creates more love energy.

The man of peace is creative. He is not against war, because to be against anything is to be at war. He is not against war, he simply understands why war exists. And out of that understanding he becomes peaceful.

Only when there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war disappear.