Zen and the Art of Meditation

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In this collection of his discourses on Zen Buddhism, Osho says that if Buddha’s message is rightly understood, there will be meeting of East and West. In Buddha, both can meet. His message is of relaxed attentiveness – you have to be very relaxed and yet alert.Relaxed alertness: These two words look diametrically opposite. They are – because whenever you are relaxed you lose alertness, and whenever you are alert you lose relaxedness. And unless they both happen together you will go on missing Buddha’s message. Buddha wants you to bring these polarities together. It is the highest synthesis of human consciousness: one polarity is relaxedness, another polarity is alertness. In the west, attentiveness has been cultivated. The whole educational mechanism forces you to become more attentive. But it tires you, it drives you neurotic, madness becomes a natural byproduct of it.In the East, people have remained in the relaxed state. But if you are relaxed without being attentive, it becomes lethargy, passivity, dullness. Hence the east has remained poor, unscientific, non-technological, starving. If Buddha’s message is rightly understood, there will be meeting of East and West. In Buddha, both can meet. His message is of relaxed attentiveness – you have to be very relaxed and yet alert. And it is possible. And only this possibility will make you a whole man, a holy man. Otherwise you will remain half and a half man is always miserable. The East is miserable spiritually, the East is miserable materially. And man needs both.
With Buddha, a new age can dawn. And the secret is simple: learn relaxed awareness.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Osho .

Osho was born in Kuchwada, Madhya Pradesh, on 11 December 1931. Rebellious and independent from childhood, he insisted on experiencing the truth for himself rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others. He attained 'enlightenment' at 21 and went on to complete his academic studies. He spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile, he travelled throughout India delivering talks and meeting people from all walks of life. By the 1960s, Osho had begun to develop his unique dynamic meditation techniques. He felt that modern man is so burdened with the archaic traditions of the past as well as the anxieties of modern-day living that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thought-less, relaxed state of meditation. In the early 1970s, the West first began to hear of Osho. By 1974, a commune had been established around him in Pune, and the trickle of visitors from the West soon became a flood. Osho spoke of every aspect of life and on the development of human consciousness. Based on his own existential experience rather than on intellectual understanding, he distilled the essence of what is significant to the spiritual quest of contemporary man. Osho left his body on 19 January 1990. His commune in India continues to attract thousands of international visitors who come to participate in its meditation, therapy and creative programmes or to simply experience being in a 'Buddhafield'. Osho's talks have been published in more than 600 volumes and translated into over thirty languages.