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 page-order mix-up mentioned with the "ERRATA", below.

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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: Oct 1970 to Jan 20, 1973 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters: 19 in 3 parts plus introduction (see table of contents)

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