Hsin Hsin Ming: The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness (OSHO Classics) Kindle Edition

Can't describe my gratitude to meet Osho's work at this life,........Who are you to worry ?YOU WERE BORN – NOBODY ASKED YOU WHETHER YOU WANTED TO BE BORN OR NOT !Otherwise, you would have been stuck there, for infinity ! – you would not be able to decide whether to be born or not.“He” suddenly threw you in without asking your permission, otherwise you would not be here.And if “He” asks again, about your death – you will be stuck.So, “He” never asks, “He” simply takes you away. “He” knows you well – YOU CAN NOT DECIDE !If “He” comes and asks “When do you want to die?”Will you be able to decide ??Saturday morning ?Sunday ?No !There are only seven days, and you will not be able to decide.“He” has to come without asking you.When life happens without you – birth happens, death happens, love happens, without you – then WHY should you be worried ?Whosoever is the Source, if “He” can give you birth, if “He” can give you death, if “He” can create and uncreate, then let all the worries be HIS !You enjoy while YOU ARE.And if you can enjoy while YOU ARE, suddenly you know: This is the SOURCE.You have touched infinite life !That's all you need to know.

There's nobody like Osho. A true master. If you take his lessons to heart you can experience exactly what he is taking about. But, as he says repeatedly, it is not an intellectual thing. Reading his words is great to point you in the right direction, but then you have to find the way to turn inwards and discover the Truth for yourself. It's right there waiting for you!I love the format of his books, reviewing old texts and translating them into easy-to-understand language. Always interesting and always fruitful. This one focuses on the words of a Zen master, Sosan.

This book is a clear, concise, and easy to read commentary on this very long and important Buddhist sutra Faith in Mind. It is short, sweet, and to the point. I recommend it highly. If you want to read my interpretation on it go to my blog and see what I've said I hope you'll like it. www.unlockthedoortolearning.com

IMHO, this is definitely one of Osho's finest works and I've read nearly all of his books and a few of them many times over. Osho tells a story of a man whom I was unfamiliar with: Sosan. Never heard the name before, which was surprising, because a have a vast history in the study of Eastern thought and practice.This is a beautiful book and it was the title that caught my attention immediately. "The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness". I mean, who *wouldn't* be immediately attracted to this? Osho's way of guiding the reader through the depths of Sosan's teachings are so Osho; meaning - lovingly compassionate, yet sharply truthful. No BS. None. And the sense of calm that comes in the times and spaces between reading the text is indescribable.The book is clearly non-religious - it either fits into any paradigm or shatters it completely, depending on where you're at in your Journey to Understanding. It is simply delicious; you'll either savor every word of it or chuck out it as nonsense.Either way, it will get inside you and begin to work its magic.

Awesome awesome awesome!!! If you are an Osho fan, this is a must read! He waste no time in this book diving right into the conscious and subconscious self. He helps you discover what your driving force is, and where it lays inside of you. The book also touches on how these two ultimately guide and influence your day to day decisions and attitude. If you want to get your mind split open and stitch it back together again from a different angel, this book is for you!!!!

Excelente

Osho breaks it down in a way that any advanced practitioner and young child alike can understand. Both seekers will benefit.

Good read, need more time exploring the books

This is a great book, the most beautifully written book I have ever read, two enlightened masters, one was ancient Chan or Zen master Sosan (Seng Ts'an), and another is contemporary master Osho. You cannot find deeper and more concise teaching about the great Way than this book.The first line is "The great way is not difficult", a great promise which banished the first barrier that prevents many people to embark on the Way to the enlightenment.The more I read, more I feel that the seed of enlightenment is within ourselves and the practice can be carried out in our daily life wherever we live. As long as we persist to practice these two masters' teaching, we will experience the blissful moments as they had experienced. Reading this book is like two masters taking your hands and showing you the Way. You can walk onto it without fear.I strongly recommend this book to those people who want to explore inner being but have no master to guide them.

I have read other books with Zen koans before and I have been practising meditation for years now. I bought this book mostly because I was interested in the commentary to the poems presented at the beginning of each chapter. The author does a good job of explaining the Zen way of thinking (or non-thinking I should say) and I think his understanding goes fairly deeply. However, I would not recommend this book to a novice. Here is why:I find it that the author strides away from Zen many times in this book and mixes the Zen philosophy with Hindu philosophy and with his own opinions *a lot*. There is nothing wrong with that I guess, if you are willing to listen to just another 'mystic' who is selling you 'the better way of living'. I also noticed an advertisement for some sort of retreat meditation camp that belongs to the author or his organisation at the back of them book. I consider this just wrong. In my opinion, commercialism should have nothing to do with a philosophy, especially one like Zen. Moreover, personal opinions like 'Westeners don't enjoy sex' or 'women will always chatter about nonsense when left alone' have nothing to do with Zen (as a philosophy of 'not-two', as the author himself describes it a number of times) and can even be insulting at the same time.So, buy the book and read it for the *relevant* commentary but do not read it if you known nothing about Zen. Because ultimately, there is so much other stuff going on in this book and it's not always easy to tell what's what.

Excellent for anyone wishing to have a deeper understanding of the nature of mind and consciousness. New book, prompt delivery.

An amazing book!:)

this book is magical