Meditation: The Art of Inner Ecstasy
- 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 (see table of contents)
editions
Meditation: The Art of Inner Ecstasy
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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