The Mint
BOOK REVIEW
Octavio Navarrete
Stress Management and Yoga
Professor Lina Moyano
Course Date: July 1st-September 9th,2013
INTRODUCTION
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
~Buddha
The present paper is intended to briefly explain Osho’s way of conceiving the mind in one’s life. Osho has been described by The Sunday Times in London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” Sunday Mid-Day (India) has selected Osho as one of the ten people –along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha- who have changed the destiny of India(1).
(1) The Mind : A beautiful servant, a dangerous master ISBN-13:978-0-88050-017-3
SYNOPSIS
Osho does an auscultation of the human mind in connection with meditation. In this book he answers questions like the space of “no-mind”. He says “meditation covers a very long pilgrimage. When I say “meditation is witnessing”, it is the beginning of meditation. And when I say “meditation is no-mind”, it is the completion of the pilgrimage.” Also, he emphasizes that “once a man is in state of “no-mind,” nothing can distract him from his being.”
He clarifies that “no-mind does not mean that you cannot use the mind; it simply means that the mind cannot use you.” What is more he warns us of the use of new technologies, he says “television has brought humanity back to primitive stage –because people are again looking at pictures. There is a danger in the future: it is already apparent that people have stopped reading great literature. Who bothers to read, when you can see the film on the TV? This is a dangerous phenomenon, because there are things that cannot be reproduced in pictures. Great literature can be only partially reproduced in pictures. The danger is that people will slowly start forgetting language
Octavio Navarrete
Stress Management and Yoga
Professor Lina Moyano
Course Date: July 1st-September 9th,2013
INTRODUCTION
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
~Buddha
The present paper is intended to briefly explain Osho’s way of conceiving the mind in one’s life. Osho has been described by The Sunday Times in London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” Sunday Mid-Day (India) has selected Osho as one of the ten people –along with Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha- who have changed the destiny of India(1).
(1) The Mind : A beautiful servant, a dangerous master ISBN-13:978-0-88050-017-3
SYNOPSIS
Osho does an auscultation of the human mind in connection with meditation. In this book he answers questions like the space of “no-mind”. He says “meditation covers a very long pilgrimage. When I say “meditation is witnessing”, it is the beginning of meditation. And when I say “meditation is no-mind”, it is the completion of the pilgrimage.” Also, he emphasizes that “once a man is in state of “no-mind,” nothing can distract him from his being.”
He clarifies that “no-mind does not mean that you cannot use the mind; it simply means that the mind cannot use you.” What is more he warns us of the use of new technologies, he says “television has brought humanity back to primitive stage –because people are again looking at pictures. There is a danger in the future: it is already apparent that people have stopped reading great literature. Who bothers to read, when you can see the film on the TV? This is a dangerous phenomenon, because there are things that cannot be reproduced in pictures. Great literature can be only partially reproduced in pictures. The danger is that people will slowly start forgetting language