Hsin Hsin Ming: The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness

Hsin Hsin Ming: The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness
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       "If I were to save only two books from the whole world of the mystics, one would be Sosan's Hsin Hsin Ming," Osho says. "It contains the quintessence of Zen, the path of awareness and meditation. . .the very soul of Zen."

The Hsin Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Sosan is considered to be the first Chinese Zen document. As such, it is extraordinarily straightforward in its message, cutting straight to the point of what Zen practice really means and where it aims to take the practitioner – to a state of thought-free awareness in the present moment, without judgment or attachment: “If you wish to see the truth,” these verses begin, “then hold no opinion for or against… The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.”

Chapter Titles
    #1: The Great Way Is Not Difficult
    #2: The Way Is Perfect
    #3: Stop Talking and Thinking
    #4: To Return to the Root
    #5: The Unity of Emptiness
    #6: Strive to No Goals
    #7: All Dreams Must Cease
    #8: Life in True Faith
    #9: Not Two
    #10: No Yesterday, No Tomorrow, No Today
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Excerpt from: Hsin Hsin Ming: The Zen Understanding of Mind and Consciousness, Capter 9
    "All positive emotions and positive attitudes are dynamos of energy; they create more energy, they never drain you. If you are happy, suddenly the whole world flows toward you with energy, the whole world laughs with you. And people are right in their proverbs if they say: ‘When you laugh, the whole world laughs with you. When you weep, you weep alone.’ It is true, it is absolutely true.

    "When you are positive the whole existence goes on giving you more, because when you are happy the whole existence is happy with you. You are not a burden, you are a flower; you are not a rock, you are a bird. The whole existence feels happy about you.

    "When you are like a rock, sitting dead with your sadness, nursing your sadness, nobody is with you. Nobody can be with you. There simply comes a gap between you and the life. Then whatsoever you are doing, you have to depend on your energy source. It will be dissipated, you are wasting your energy, you are being drained by your own nonsense.

    "But one thing is there, that when you are sad and negative you will feel more ego. When you are happy, blissful, ecstatic, you will not feel the ego. When you are happy and ecstatic there is no I, and the other disappears. You are bridged with existence, not broken apart – you are together." Osho

In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
look... accept... reality... enjoy... center... seed... society... sosan... mahavira... ramakrishna...

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Type    Series of Talks
Publisher    OSHO Media International
ISBN-13    978-0983640097
Dimensions (size)    1.9 x 14.6 x 21.6 cm
Number of Pages    260