Zen And The Art Of Living???

I had never heard about the word Zen till my husband uttered that sometime back, but when he briefed about it I learned that Zen is something which was deeply followed and also furthur nurtured by Osho. Then I realized that my father had once discussed about him in my childhood but his name was just out of my mind. It was then I saw a book in my husband's book collections titled "Zen and the art of living". Now coming to the point, three days back I came across a book on interior design and as I was going through the book I found a page titled "Zen And The Art Of Living", as soon as I saw that it kept me wondering why about zen in interiors book? I continued to read a few lines and the only paragraph that was available on the page with lot of lavish designs of living room by very famous interior designers.

It explained why good interiors are essential in the place were we spend most of our quality time with family- the living room. It just left me confused. Philosophically speaking "inner beauty is more important than the outer beauty"! But to conclude the paragraph from that book it said "inner beauty is influenced by the outer world". This was what came to my mind when I read it- PHILOSOPHICALLY: "Art of living is to nurture soul" lets call that "SOUL" but a new version according to the BOOK: "Art of living is to influence Art of living of soul" and let me call this "BODY". So does BODY has something to do with SOUL? Does BODY really affects SOUL or SOUL affects BODY or is it that both has some influence on each other?

PHILOSOPHY tells that SOUL is important and has a great impact on BODY. If u have control over SOUL then BODY is automatically controlled by it. But I thought, is BODY really essential to have a control over SOUL initially? If not then why BUDDHA had to go in deep jungles to attain nirvana far away from BODY to nurture SOUL? Why in puranas, saints and rakshas most of the time went to Himalayas to do thapasya? Was it that they really cared for the BODY that is surroundings? Was that they could never find that peace in normal places were they earlier lived in? Then does this conclude that surroundings really matter? Is life not only about SOUL but also about BODY?

So now, should we really care for our interiors at home? Will it really give a sense of euphoria hence enhancing our mental peace? Well, I think it really does matter but only matter of concern is, it must only be used to nurture our soul and not to show it off to our so called neighbors. 

CLICK ON THE WORD OSHO ABOVE MARKED BLUE COLOUR TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OSHO.

Here's a link to U-tube on bagwan Osho:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D7rWLzloOI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen