Back of the Book
Everyone is searching for happiness, says Osho, but because they are looking in the wrong direction –outside – no one ever really finds it. Real happiness, bliss, can only be found inside. It can be reached by6 learning the “Knack” of dis-identifying with the mind. \n \nThis book on the ancient wisdom of the Shiva Sutras explains how to do this. \n \nThese sutras will challenge and disturb people’s ideas about how life can be lives, but they also reveal how bliss is already hidden within the states we all experience daily: waking dreaming and sleeping. \n \nOsho shows how to dis-identify from the desires and attachments of the mind that trap everyone during this life, and pull them into the next. “The beginning of being human happens only when we get out of this circle called mind.” \n \nOsho is a revolution, inspiring millions of people worldwide with his approach to the science of inner transformation. Yet in his own words, he says, “I am nobody, I don’t belong to any nation, I don’t belong to any political party. I am simply an individual, the way existence created me.” \n \nHis books and audiobooks are international bestsellers and cover an extraordinary range of topics form the wisdom of the world’s mystics to intensely personal questions about the inner search. \n \n
About the Book
“Misery is a tension, happiness also is a tension. There is excitement in both. Bliss is a non-excited state of mind; there is light there, but no heat. There is dance there, but no excitement. There is a silent, serene dance without any sound. This dance is in emptiness: it causes no fatigue, it is not of the body. Both happiness and misery belong to the body, but bliss belongs to your being; it is a different dance altogether.” \n \n
Contents
| Preface | vii | |
| 1 | Your Desires Are Your Hell | 1 |
| 2 | The Art of Dis-identification | 39 |
| 3 | The First Step: A Sense of Wonder | 75 |
| 4 | Deepening the Mantra of Meditation | 111 |
| 5 | Conquering Your Attachments | 149 |
| 6 | Mastering the Mind | 179 |
| 7 | Trust Is the Door | 215 |
| 8 | The Mysterious Fourth State | 249 |
| 9 | Hell Is Outside, Heaven Is Inside | 279 |
| 10 | Om: The Taste of Bliss | 311 |
| About the Author | 344 | |
| Osho International Meditation Resort | 346 | |
| More Osho Books | 348 | |
| For More Information | 349 |