Coming Home to Yourself

A Meditator's Guide to Blissful Living

By: Osho

Narrated by: Leslie Howard, Osho

A beautiful collection of mindfulness exercises for grounding, relaxation, and finding inner peace, from legendary spiritual guru Osho

All of us have experienced moments of "coming home"--feeling relaxed, grounded, free of the restlessness that characterizes so much of our everyday lives. These moments can arise in nature or in the depths of an activity we enjoy, alone or together with people we love. They show us that we are exactly where we are supposed to be.

The meditations in Coming Home to Yourself were selected from Osho's hundreds of public talks and intimate conversations. These passages are designed to be a companion on the journey toward transforming our rare moments of "at-home-ness" into an undercurrent that permeates all aspects of our lives. They offer guidance about meditation and specific techniques to try, insights into the habits that keep us tense and conflicted, and what life might look like if we recognize those habits and let them go. Exercises include activating your awareness, opening the heart, learning to relax and concentrate in order to reap the benefits of meditation, and freeing the brain from mental blocks.

Coming Home to Yourself invites the listener to dip into the meditations at any point or read the book in sequence for a true homecoming experience.

This was the most hands on meditation book I have read by Osho yet.

Osho describes many meditation techniques and advice about how to meditate effectively: he then makes it clear that the goal is to always be in a meditative state at all times. The key word here is awareness and Osho then goes into great detail with lots of advice on how to achieve more awareness. Its like a man standing on the side of the road with all the cars passing by, not particularly attached to what cars are passing but aware regardless, he uses this as an example of what is like to have awareness of your thoughts without attachment. This is one of the more practical Osho books. I see this one having more use for the active meditators out there. After the book about meditation ends than a one hour speech comes up all about the mind and meditation. He goes into why in the modern world that having different techniques for different people is important. Some people can achieve better meditative states through running or swimming and others can achieve mediation through sitting with crossed legs. The point was there is more than one way to meditate and the modern world is well served by offering different techniques for different people.