Underlying all meditation techniques, including martial arts, and in fact underlying all great athletic performances, is a quality of being awake and present to the moment. It is a quality that Osho calls awareness. Once we can identify and understand what this quality of awareness is, we have the key to self-mastery in virtually every area of our lives.

Most of us move through our lives like sleepwalkers, never really present in what we are doing, never fully alert to our environment, and not even aware of what motivates us to do and say the things we do. At the same time, we have all experienced moments of awareness, or awakening, to use another term, in extraordinary circumstances. On the road, in a sudden and unexpected accident, time seems to stop and one is suddenly aware of every movement, every sound, every thought. Or in moments that touch us deeply—welcoming a new baby into the world for the first time, or being with someone at the moment of death.

According to Osho, awareness is the key to being self-directed, centered, and free in every aspect of our lives.

This book, as all my other Osho translations, is a part of the Insights for a New Way of Living series which aims to illuminate beliefs and attitudes that prevent us from being our true selves. The books in this series contain an artful mixture of compassion and humor, powerful thoughts, and practical steps that can lead us to live happier, more fulfilling, and liberated lives.

ISBN: 80-89115-75-6
EAN: 9788089115754

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