Hsin Hsin Ming

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Understanding our minds and consciousness are topics high on everybody's list of important issues. Science and psychology are delivering every day captivating news of understanding in this area.
In this extraordinary series of talks, Osho lays out a clear understanding of the difference between mind and consciousness, and the role that the brain plays in the two - a difference that Western science has been struggling to define for decades, but that Zen has known for centuries through first-hand experience. Along the way he also sheds light on the differences between meditation as practice and as a state of being, and what choiceless awareness really means in everyday life and relating.
Osho relates to a classic Zen work, Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Sosan [Seng-t’san] which is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document. It is extraordinarily straightforward in its message, cutting straight to the point of where it aims to take the Zen experience - to a state of thought-free awareness in the present moment.
"If I were to save only two books from the whole world of the mystics, one would be Sosan's Hsin Hsin Ming," Osho says. "It contains the quintessence of Zen, the path of awareness and meditation...the very soul of Zen."
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Previously published as The Book of Nothing: Hsin Hsin Ming
Part of the Osho Classics series.
time period of Osho's original talks/writings
Oct 21, 1974 to Oct 30, 1974 : timeline
number of discourses/chapters
10


editions

Hsin Hsin Ming

The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness (cover)
Discourses on the Faith Mind by Sosan

Year of publication : 2014-11
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 978-0-9836400-9-7 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 260
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
Edition notes : Copyright © 1974, 2014 OSHO International foundation.
Size : 216 x 146 x 19 mm
Images and cover design © OSHO International foundation
We gratefully acknowledge the use of excerpts from Hsin Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind by Sengstan, translated from the Chinese by Richard B. Clarke and published by White Pine Press, New York, U.S.A.

Hsin Hsin Ming

The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness (cover)
Discourses on the Faith Mind by Sosan

Year of publication : 2014-11
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 978-0-88050-346-4 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 260
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : E
Edition notes : Copyright © 1974, 2014 OSHO International foundation.
Images and cover design © OSHO International foundation

Hsin Hsin Ming

The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness (cover)

Year of publication : 2018
Publisher : Osho Media International
ISBN 9788172613013 (click ISBN to buy online)
Number of pages : 291
Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H
Edition notes :