Meditation:
The Art of Ecstasy
on meditation and meditation techniques

compilation book
(translated from Hindi)

by Osho

excerpts from talks given live   c. 1970
India
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    So if you understand me, man as such is
    schizophrenic, neurotic. So something has to
    be done which releases this neurosis, brings
    your divided parts nearer. The unexpressed
    has to be expressed, and this constant
    repression of your mind, of the conscious
    upon the unconscious, has to be withdrawn.

    All the old meditation techniques do not take
    this into consideration; that is why they have
    been failures. Meditation techniques have
    been in existence for a long time; they have
    been known throughout history, but a
    Buddha, a Jesus, a Mahavira, have all been
    failures. I don’t mean that they themselves
    didn’t realize. They realized, but they were
    exceptions, and exceptions only prove rules.
    Buddha was enlightened, but he couldn’t help
    the greater portion of humanity to be
    enlightened. He was simply an exception....

                                                 – Osho
                Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy, ch. 1
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