Learning to Silence the Mind：Wellness Through Meditation-Osho

Contents

Title Page

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1. What Is Meditation?

2. Meditation Is Your Nature

3. Meditation and the Failure of Success

4. Healing the Split Between Body and Soul

5. Meditation Is Life, Not Livelihood

6. Bliss Is the Goal, Meditation Is the Means

7. Everybody Is a Born Mystic

8. Mind Is a Chatterbox

9. Mind Is a Social Phenomenon

10. Mind Thinks—Meditation Knows

11. The Psychology of the Buddhas

12. Self-Awareness, Not Self-Consciousness

13. Osho Active Meditations for Modern Man

14. Responses to Questions from Meditators

• Is it possible to meditate without any technique?

• Why did you have to create new meditation techniques like Osho Kundalini Meditation or Osho Dynamic Meditation?

• When I feel a little more centered and aware than usual, I don’t feel any problems, but when I am not centered all the old problems are back and they look even bigger. Why?

• Western psychologists say that meditation is a subjective phenomenon and therefore not much psychological research is possible. Do you agree?

• J. Krishnamurti says that all yoga practices, all meditation techniques, are just like drugs—they produce chemical change and, hence, the experiences. Please comment.

• Yesterday while sitting in zazen I felt myself get hit with a stick on my head. But at that time nobody had hit me. Is this magicless magic?

• I have too much sexual energy burning within my body. When I dance, sometimes anger comes up, and I feel I am going to kill the whole world. Please explain how to give a creative outlet to this energy.

• Can one be absorbed in doing something with intensity—for instance, your dynamic meditation techniques—and at the same time remain a witness who is separate, apart?

• When I first started meditation, a beautiful, silent, transparent state would arrive from somewhere. Now, nothing comes except a racing mind. What happened?

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