Hsin Hsin Ming: The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness

By Osho and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983640092
• ISBN13: 9780983640097
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Osho Media
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

"This book contains the very soul of Zen"

Osho helps me tremedously to build a bridge between „my" chattering mind and the infinite no-mind of Sosan, the Chinese sage. Step by step he unfolds the deeper significance of these Zen sutras. Osho helps with these talks to get to the quintessence of Zen, the path of awareness and meditation. On another occasion Osho says: "If I were to save only two books from the whole world of the mystics, one would be Sosan's Hsin Hsin Ming." This is it! for the simple reason that his book contains all that is. It is penetrating ... directly to your heart. „Each word is golden. I cannot conceive of a single word that could be deleted. It is exactly that which is needed, required, to say the truth."

The Sosan Paradigm

Not exciting, not boring, not happy, not sad, the book does not reveal the art of writing but opens the readers to a new paradigm: The Sosan Paradigm, where "The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today".To read the book and benchmarking it against our lives or our experiences would be foolish, more so to comment on it. The Inner Mind will dictate whether this reading has no effect on the individual or whether The Way, is the scent of everyday's life. Read, do not think, let the words flow into your mind like a river, no beginning, no end, the end of all that is within our inner selves.