The Everyday Meditator: A Practical Guide - Softcover

Osho

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804819769 ISBN 13: 9780804819763

Publisher: Tuttle Pub, 1993

Synopsis

The East has always enjoyed a monopoly on Meditational techniques. But not any more. With the publication of this book the East comes to the West in a lucidly adapted form, fully color illustrated and filled with a soft-seriousness of meditation techniques adapted over thousands of years. Meditation is still a relative stranger to the West in its true essence. We still tend to "think" of it as some sort of contemplation. But true meditation is "not-thinking" and not thinking is an unfamiliar state to the Westerner.
Instead of meditating one hour a day, with this book we can learn to be in a constant state of meditation and sample results which are quite beyond expectations.

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Some Basics
Meditation has a few essential things in it, whatever the method, but those few essentials are necessary in every method. The first is a relaxed state: no fight with the mind, no control of the mind, no concentration. Second, just watch with a relaxed awareness whatever is going on, without any interference - just watching the mind, silently, without any judgment, evaluation. These are the three things: relaxation, watching, no judgment, and slowly, slowly a great silence descends over you. All movement within you ceases. You are, but there is no sense of 'I am' - just a pure space. There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation. I have talked on all those methods. They differ in their constitution, but the fundamentals remain the same: relaxation, watchfulness, a non-judgmental attitude.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804819769
• ISBN 13: 9780804819763
• Binding: Paperback