OSHO Classics

Hsin Hsin Ming: The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness
Osho

In this extraordinary series of talks, Osho lays out a clear understanding of the difference between mind and consciousness a difference that Western science has been struggling to define for decades, but that Zen has known for centuries through firsthand 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 FaithMind by Sosan [Sengt'san] the third Chinese patriarch of Zen, which is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document. It is extraordinarily straight-forward in its message, cutting straight to the point of what Zen practice really is and where it aims to take the practitioner to a state of thought-free awareness in the present moment, without judgment or attachment.