Aspects of Meditation Book 4

Medicine and Meditation

By: Osho

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

This audiobook includes a special original recording from the author's talk, "The Secret of Secrets."

Discover a deeper understanding of meditation through an investigation into the subtle workings of the mind, focusing on questions of health and illness, with Osho's Aspects of Meditation Book 4.

The West has taken to meditation with great enthusiasm. We contemplate. We concentrate. We embrace mindfulness techniques and a multitude of mantras. We have undertaken to “do” meditation.

The Aspects of Meditation series is comprised of brief, precious texts in which Osho shows us the core of meditation is not about sitting silently or chanting a mantra. It is, instead, a question of understanding the subtle workings of the mind. In Book 4, Osho examines health and illness, disease and well-being as outgrowths of our sense of self and connection to our mind.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Essentials

Practical meditation techniques are defined and more.

The previous books were all about the body or the mind but this one defines the Osho technique. The first part of the book was about the mind and how it affects health: this part was somewhat of a slow start but an interesting topic nonetheless. The second part of this book includes the meditation techniques and then he speaks about sexual energy and how humanity is so divided. They want to be holy but they also want to have sex and eat good food. How they reject one part of themselves but put the spiritual part on a pedestal but they actually are not as spiritual as they think because of all the repressed sexual energy that they refuse to even acknowledge. The end of the book contains an extra talk where meditation and prayer are compared. Prayer is held up as a tool to help humans learn love and raise their consciousness. Meditation is shown as a technique that is above prayer and is ultimately the next step in any spiritual practice. The prayer religions stop at this second step and never go to the third step which is looking within and removing layers like an onion to discover the watcher. Out of all the books this one had the most practical advice and it really defined concepts and cemented Osho's advice.