What Is Meditation?

notes

"A Collection of forty five Immortal Letters written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to H.H. Ma Veet Sandeh (Alias Dr. Miss Grazia Marchiano, Rome, Italy), President, Neo-Sannyas International, for Europe."

Later published as part of A Cup of Tea

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

14 Apr 1971 to 30 May 1971 ? ** : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

45 (table of contents below)

editions

What Is Meditation? Year of publication : 1971-08 Publisher : Jivan Jagruti Kendra ISBN  : None Number of pages : 58 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : First Edition, August 1971, 3000 copies. Copyright Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Bombay, India. Size : 215 x 143 x 5 mm Author as Acharya Rajneesh Publisher: Ishwarlal N. Shah, Secretary, Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, (LIFE AWAKENING CENTRE), 31 Israil Mohalla, Bhagwan Bhuwan, Masjid Bunder Road, BOMBAY-9 53, Empire Building, 146, Dr. D.N. Road, BOMBAY-1 Editing: Sw Yoga Chinmaya Dedication, signed by Osho: For beloved Veet Sandeh to meditate and TO BE. Printers: Sw Govind Siddarth (Alias Shree Jayendra D. Lashkari), Sel Print, BOMBAY-13 Pages II - III. Pages 4 - 5. Pages 52 - 53.

What Is Meditation? Year of publication : 1973 ** Publisher : Jivan Jagruti Kendra ISBN  : None Number of pages : ? Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : ? Edition notes : Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

table of contents

1. Meditation is the Answer … 7

2. Meditation is a Living Art … 8

3. In the Gap is Meditation … 9

4. Meditation is not thinking but Living … 10

5. Know yourself — as you are … 11

6. Be Aware of Your Masks … 12

7. Ego is Ignorance … 13

8. Life goes on — Eternally Flowing … 14

9. Life is a Sermon … 15

10. Life is not a theory but a Mystery … 16

11. Meditation is Unoccupiedness … 17

12. Humbleness — the Essence of Meditation … 18

13. To Exist Wordlessly is Meditation … 19

14. Be as if You are Not … 20

15. In Awareness there is no self … 21

16. The Vicious Circle of Desire … 22

17. Meditation — with a Jump into the Unknown … 23

18. Witnessing is Meditation … 24

19. Meditation is the Master-Key … 25

20. Life is a play — a Leela … 27

21. Mystery of the Void … 28

22. Accept Insecurity — Blissfully … 29

23. Upside-down-ness of the Life … 30

24. Thinking is Disease … 31

25. Clinging is Mind — the Bondage … 32

26. Illogical and Irrational Jump into the Unknown … 33

27. Meditation means to Live in the Unknown … 34

28. Meditation is the Greatest Art … 35

29. Existence itself is. Life Eternal … 36

30. Existence Exists Beyond Utility … 37

31. Love to be Alone … 38

32. Understanding — not from the Intellect but from the Being … 39

33. No-Mind is the Door to the Divine … 40

34. Crystallization of Being through Awareness … 41

35. Tension and Disease — due to Localization of Consciousness ... 43

36. Meditate on Death ... 44

37. Mind means Duality, Meditation means Oneness ... 45

38. Rest contented with the things — as they are ... 46

39. God is always Here and Now ... 47

40. The Opening of That-Which-Is ... 48

41. Open your Inner Doors and Windows ... 49

42. A Break-through — for Meditation ... 50

43. Meditation requires Understanding — not Effort ... 51

44. Meditation is Beyond Knowledge ... 52

45. What is Meditation? ... 53

* Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: A Glimpse ... 54 **

* Available English books of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ... 57