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Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

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This book is not really a book by Osho, but more of an extraction of the practical excercies from "The Book of Secrets" by Osho.

If you don't have "The Book of Secrets" get it - its amazing; if you do have it already then this book will be of no use to you, unless you want a summary of "The Book of Secrets" without the good parts.

This book is just a money making racket I think - extracting bits and pieces of Osho's works and putting a fancy title on them. They've already got my cash, hopefully they won't get yours also.

PROPERLY WRITTEN AND EXECUTED. IF YOU LIKE TO TRY MANY FORMS OF MEDITATION THEN THIS IS FOR YOU.

a few weeks ago i just happened to be looking for a book to tell me something about meditation. this was the first one i grabbed off the shelf, and the moment i started to read the back cover i could feel this was the one for me. osho presents methods that are imediately inpacting and easy to understand. he speaks in a language of feeling that everyone can understand. i'm still shocked that whenever i read through a few sentences in this book i'll find myself getting tears in my eyes because i know this is what it's all about. finally acknowledgement. finally appreciation. and it turns out we had it all along

When Osho was asked whether to print this book, he looked at the content and responded, "Yes, publish it. This will be my bible." And so it has proved to be. Allowing so many of people like me to understand the simple, scientific principles of meditation, and with so many different ways to approach it. A jewel.

Osho has ever been known as a Mystic, enlightened master who worldwide created a rebellion for the sake of man's freedom and meditation. Osho said "Meditation is not something new; you have come with it into the world. Mind is something new, meditation is your nature." Meditation is an adventure itself. The book has notes to reader on how to use the book with a followed chapter on What is meditation. Osho has steps to powerful methods of awakening, Osho Meditative Therapies as:
1.Mystic Rose Meditation with his great logic and instructions for laughter and tears
2. The No mind Meditation with instructions to meditate, stages of gibberish or conscious craziness, witnessing and let go.
3. Guidelines for Born Again
4. Dancing as meditation
5. Laughing Meditation
6. Prayer Meditation
7. Dream mastery
Many more various meditative tips making one count the moments of awareness, making things simple as possible and witnessing - Meditation is your Master Card and Osho just instructs on the tricks of mind in this book. Watching with the Third Eye, Rising in Love, Laughter of Zen, Entering into death, Music as Meditation are some interesting reads in this Osho book leading to first and last freedom - Practical guide of Meditation. A good read.

Its hard to utter words about the significance of this book. It is a diamond in an ocean of mud. It is the key to life, if this was a high scool requirenment, the world would be a paradise.No doubt Osho knows what he is talking about, and if it is meditation one in seeking, then this is the book!

So many books on meditation seem so serious, or one-dimensional, pitching a specific point of view or practice that feels like it was designed for saints who don't need meditation in the first place. This one even tells you how to turn smoking into a meditation! A book for "real folks" who want to bring more joy into all aspects of their lives.

I was one of the people who didn't consider themselfs as a spiritual or meditative person. When I got this book a s birthday present I could not stop reading for a moment. There are also beautifull music CD's in the market which help to do these active meditations. A must for every meditator.

This book is perhaps the best introduction to meditation on the market. It takes meditation out the area of religion and all the doo doo associated with it, and puts it right at the center of a science of the inner, exactly where it belongs. For the intelligent individual who doesn't want to be lumbered with yet another belief system, this is their book.

The most complete, the most updated, the most modern book about meditation. A book made for the contemporary man. Forget all what you think you know about meditation, this book brings a fresh and new view on the subject. ...a fresh breeze on a summer day...