Three Steps to Awakening

Three Steps to Awakening
Three Steps to Awakening
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Many people today are stressed and anxious, feeling unfulfilled by their work and relationships. In Three Steps to Awakening, Osho describes with immense clarity how to bring a transforming meaningfulness into day-to-day life. With three simple steps, he shows the way to awaken and expand consciousness to the full, and live a life of gratefulness and bliss.

“There are only three steps: freedom of consciousness, simplicity of mind, and emptiness of mind. One who sharpens his freedom, simplicity, and emptiness, will attain enlightenment.”
Osho
Three Steps to Awakening
#1. Freedom of Consciousness
#2. Simplicity of Mind
#3. The Real Answer Is Your Inner Perception
#4. Emptiness of Mind

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In this series, Osho describes with immense clarity how to bring a transforming meaningfulness into day-to-day life. With three simple steps, he shows the way to expand consciousness to the full, and live a life of gratefulness and bliss.

Extract from Chapter 1
     “You never stop and pause to watch what is going on inside. Maybe you have never even sat down for half an hour to observe what is going on inside you. It is going on, and you continue what you are doing; it is going on, and you go on working; it is going on, and you continue to eat; it is going on, and you continue to run your shop; it is going on, you continue to write, you continue to speak; it is going on while I am speaking and you are listening. It is continually going on inside. It goes on continually by itself. Slowly, slowly you have stopped even bothering about what is going on inside you. You continue to do your own thing. That is why you are almost asleep. Inside, the mind is doing one thing, and you are doing something else. You are absent. You are not present toward yourself. You are not awake toward yourself.

     “Someone once asked Mahavira, “What kind of man is wise?”

     Mahavira replied, “One who is awake is wise, and one who is asleep is not wise.” It is a unique statement, a very unique statement − the one who is asleep.

     “All of us are asleep. All of us are completely asleep toward what is going on inside us. Our very interiority is our real being, and we are unaware of it. We are awake to what is going on outside, to what is happening outside. We are awake to what is happening outside; we are asleep toward what is going on inside. That is the suffering of life, and that is the ignorance of life; that is the slavery of life, and that is its bondage.

     We have to awaken to what is going on inside. Someone who is aware of the whole flow of thoughts, sees it, understands it and remains a witness, passes through a very unique experience. He starts to experience that all the thoughts he witnesses without attachment stop coming. All the thoughts he is capable of observing become incapable of coming, and a moment comes when there are no thoughts left. What is left is intelligence.

     “A time comes when there are no thoughts and you are there. What is awakened in you is free intelligence, liberated intelligence. It is that free intelligence that is capable of knowing the truth. A fettered intelligence is incapable of knowing the truth.”
– Osho

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Type    Series of Talks
Publisher    OSHO Media International
ISBN-13    978-81-7261-339-6
Dimensions (size)    5 x 8 inches
Number of Pages    120