Meditation: The Art of Inner Ecstasy

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There is a confusing number of meditation techniques: Zen techniques, Tantra techniques, Yoga Techniques en Sufi techniques to name but a few. Yet no technique is meditation. It is merely an attempt te create a situation in which mediation can happen spontaneously. Meditation is not a doing. It is a happening, an allowing.
notes
This is the only publication of this book under this title. All other publications and editions, both from Rajneesh Foundation and other publishers are under the title Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy. The type-page is the almost the same as that of the first edition of Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy, except for the mix-up mentioned with the "ERRATA", below.
Colophon page:
With the exception of chapter 3, chapter 8, and the section on techniques devised by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the material in this book originally appeared in Dynamics of Meditation, published by Jeevan Jagriti Kendra (now known as the Rajneesh Foundation). It is published here with their kind permission.
Chapter 3 originally appeared in Sannyas 3 No 1 (January-February 1974), under the title "Modern Man and His Neurosis". It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the publisher, Neo-Sannyas International.
Chapter 8 is an excerpt from a discourse titled "The Occult Mysteries of Initation" that originally appeared in the book I Am the Gate.
The material from Dynamics of Meditation is mixed to form completely new chapters, extensively edited, parts have been left out.
Ch. 3 is the "Text of an interview with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh by Ma Yoga Bhasha of New York, U.S.A., on January 20, 1973, Bombay, India." It has about half of that interview.
Ch. 8 is from 1971-06-10, I Am the Gate ch.7. It contains about half of that text.
time period of Osho's original talks/writings
From 1970 : timeline
number of discourses/chapters
19 in 3 parts plus introduction (table of contents below)


editions

Meditation: The Art of Inner Ecstasy

Year of publication : 1977
Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation
ISBN : (None)
Number of pages : 248
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes : Second edition Rajneesh Foundation 1977. Copyright © 1976 by Rajneesh Foundation.
(The first edition is the 1976 Harper Colophon Books edition under the title Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy.)
Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi
Edited by Ma Satya Bharti
Foreword: Ma Satya Bharti
Introduction: Meditation, The Art of Celebration: anonymus, but is Osho speaking, source unknown.
Printed by Graphic Unit, Kurla, Bombay
Printed in India. Stamped "For Sale in India Only"
Sticker after the Contents: ERRATA Page 156 Follows Page 139, Page 140 Follows Page 155.
  • Pages IV - V.

    Pages IV - V.

  • Pages XXII - 1.

    Pages XXII - 1.

  • Pages 2 - 3.

    Pages 2 - 3.

  • table of contents

    Foreword … vii
    Introduction: Meditation: The Art of Celebration … xi
    PART I. DYNAMICS OF MEDITATION
    1. Yoga: The Growth of Consciousness … 3
    2. Non-Doing Through Doing … 16
    3. Chaotic Meditation … 26
    4. … or, Silent Meditation … 38
    5. Moving Deeply into the Known … 48
    6. Kundalini: The Awakening of the Life Force … 63
    7. Enlightenment: An Endless Beginning … 89
    8. Initiation to a Master : The Ultimate Technique … 100
    9. Sannyas: Dying to the Past … 109
    10. Total Desire : The Path to Desirelessness … 122
    PART II. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
    11. What is the Soul? … 143
    12. LSD and Meditation … 152
    13. Intuition : A Non-Explanation … 157
    14. Consciousness, Witnessing and Awareness … 164
    15. The Difference between Satori and Samadhi … 168
    16. Sexual Energy and the Awakening of the Kundalini … 179
    17. The Manifestations of Prana in the Seven Bodies … 184
    PART III. THE TECHNIQUES
    18. Traditional Techniques … 201
    19. Techniques Devised by Bhagwan Shree … 232
    An Invitation … 249
    About the Author … 250