Spectrum of Mindfulness

Vasant Dr. Joshi

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The book is the collection of author's writings, basically serve as pointers to a greater clarity and recognition of responsibility?not just for the purpose of an academic discussion but as a state of being -necessary for building a better, a greater understanding. The book focuses on 'Mindfulness', 'Inner Ecology', 'Celebration', and many other subjects.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy of religion

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• Publié par: Diamond Books
• Date de parution: 06 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789352617838
• Langue: English

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Spectrum
of
Mindfulness
Osho insights into inner ecology
 

 
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Spectrum of Mindfulness: Osho insights into inner ecology
By - Dr. Vasant Joshi
Dr. Vasant Joshi (Swami Satya Vedant) Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Ph.D. M.S. University of Baroda, India
After completing his Ph.D. from the M.S. University of Baroda in 1966, Dr. Vasant Joshi left for USA having been admitted for the graduate program in English Literature at University of Wisconsin, Madison. While he was a student at University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshi got an invitation to teach a course on The Cultural and Literary Traditions of India at University of California, Berkeley. Although the course was to be offered for only one year, Dr. Joshi ended up teaching it for four years (1967-1971).
While teaching and researching at Berkeley, Dr. Joshi went through a change in interest and enrolled himself in 1971 for the doctoral program in Education at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1973 he attained his Ph.D. in Education from Michigan.
In America, Dr. Joshi has served on the faculty of University of California, Berkeley, and at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also worked as Director of Institutional Research at City Colleges of Chicago. He was Academic Dean, Professor and Chairman of Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. Thus, Dr. Joshi has been in the academic field for over thirty years in India and in the United States of America. He has traveled worldwide: giving lectures, presenting papers, participating in seminars and conferences and conducting workshops.
While in America, Dr. Joshi came across the revolutionary works of Osho (then known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). He felt so touched by Osho’s insights and his vision that in 1975 from Chicago he arrived in Pune for participating in a ten-day meditation camp. It was at the first auspicious day of this meditation camp that Dr. Vasant Joshi was initiated into neo-sannyas by Osho and was named Swami Satya Vedant. Since that new birth a new dawn arrived in his life and known as Satya Vedant he dedicated himself in contributing to Osho’s worldwide work. Osho appointed him as Chancellor of Osho International Meditation University which Osho later renamed it as Osho Multiversirty.
He has worked as a Visiting Professor/Indian Scholar teaching Eastern Religion and Meditation at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio in USA, 1999-2004.
His recent publications include: Osho: The Luminous Rebel – Life Story of a Maverick Mystic; and, If It Could Happen to Buddha, Why Not You? (His Osho’s biography is translated into German, Chinese, Russian and Japanese languages).
He has translated Osho’s books from Hindi to English, and a wide range of his articles are published in journals, magazines, and newspapers in India, USA, and Australia.
He has held meditation workshops around the world including at the United Nations, The World Bank, the Pentagon, as well as at Dr. Deepak Chopra’s program in San Diego.
In 1993, Dr. Joshi presented at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro a unique ecology project: From Garbage to Zen Garden developed by the Osho International Foundation, Pune.
In July 2010, he travelled to Moscow, Rusisa, and presented Osho’s vision at the All Russia International Adwaita Congress.
Preface
We are living in the age of diminished responsibility. Our actions show a certain lack of being responsible toward our physical body, our psychological state, our interpersonal relations, and toward our natural environment. Gods are not responsible because there is no context – everything is fine in the heaven. Animals are not responsible because there is no consciousness of ‘I Am’ or of ‘ I am-ness’. Animals are essentially programmed by nature.
Only a human being is responsible because he/she lives within a context, one is always in the midst of events, people, actions, situations. One is always on the spot to choose, to decide. And hence, one cannot escape from taking an action and facing its consequences. Moreover, one is conscious of who one is; one knows that one exists although one may be unaware why one exists, but the individual knows that he/she is. The individual is programmed too in a way, and yet, one also has the capacity to change the program, one has that potential to transform.
If the person is stupid enough to hurt oneself and others, one is also capable enough to heal oneself and others. One equally has the potential to heal and make life, what the enlightened mystic Osho calls a “celebration”. Hence, every step of human evolution is a step in greater responsibility. And, being responsible means willingness to face the factuality. This face to face encounter with facts and simultaneously with oneself is what the sages and the Buddhas have identified as “Mindfulness.” With Mindfulness begins the process of mutation, the process of healing. A process, that creates an integrated and a holistic, healthy consciousness.
In the West, “Healing” is a science, a therapy. While in the east, it is an understanding—understanding heals. The Eastern approach is that, the phenomenon of healing begins with taking responsibility. Healing begins with Accountability. Shifting the blame on the devil, fate, parents, establishment, the society and rationalizing one’s unconscious behavior causes the wound to fester. In not shifting the burden of one’s act, one begins to see the whole dynamics, the nature of one’s act/acts, one begins to increase one’s awareness, mindfulness and thus sharpen one’s vision, deepen one’s understanding. In that, one begins to see who one really is, what one does or has been doing, what one ought to do. Each clarity adds to the healing process. And, as the horizon of understanding widens, one grows into being healthy, wholesome, holy.
The collection of various writings contained in this book, basically serve as pointers to a greater clarity and recognition of responsibility—not just for the purpose of an academic discussion but as a state of being – necessary for building a better, a greater understanding. Osho, defines this entire spectrum of understanding and mindfulness as follows:
“But… meditation is meant training the consciousness of each body in mindfulness. Buddha has used this word “mindfulness” for meditation. He says, “Walk, but mindfully; don’t just walk. Eat, but mindfully. Think, but mindfully.”... Osho : Kaivalya Upanishad, 28
Osho’s insights point out that essentially, meditation means: rearranging the mind from chaos to order; from what C.G. Jung calls “psychic anarchy’’ to psychic harmony. For Osho, meditation means: releasing the mental toxins, detoxification of the mind, cleansing, taking an inner bath; working on one’s inner ecology.
I am profoundly grateful to Shree Narender Verma ji, Diamond Pocket Books, for publishing this book with such care and interest.
—Dr. Vasant Joshi Ph.D. University of Michigan, USA M.A., Ph.D., M.S. University of Baroda, India
Contents Author’s Profile Preface Celebration The world in Drought and Osho—The Rainmaker Corruption: The Cancer of the Soul Creative Non Violence: An Evolutionary Perspective Democracy Don’t Let Me Down…Okay? Education for the Future Eighty Four Hours of Wakefulness Gita: The Book of Understanding Globalisation To be in the Moment is to be Happy Hope and the Future India’s Healing and Therapeutic Paradigm: Ayurveda and Yoga Inner Ecology Inner Ecology: The only Way to Building a Healthy Humanity Being Love Being Osho Jainism and Ecology Karma: Meaning and Implication Krishna: The Visionary for the Contemporary Man Krishna Vision: A Paradigm Shift for Management Leading from Ignorance to Empowerment: Osho and Swami Vivekananda Lord Mahavir and the Essence of Non-violence Lust Lifted from Sin to Virtue Managing Knowledge in Quest of the Ultimate I am All the Masters Together Meritocracy Mindfulness My Beloved America—Today… My Experience as a Disciple New Manager for a Wisdom Based Business That’s the Way It is Awareness Freedom Trust Organisational Culture: from Organisation to Organism Osho and My Life The Priest and the Politician Osho: The Trans-Jain Spiritual Superstar of the 20 th Century Meditation: Motion in Rest Peace Poverty in India Questions for Osho World Online Questions for Swami Satya Vedant Reflections on Kabir Religion, Religiousness and Creativity Riots and Violence: An Osho Perspective Sannyas: A Lotus in a Swamp Ancient Wisdom…A Paradigm Shift for Modern Management Religion, Religiousness & Creativity Surrender — Leaving Not a Trace of Oneself Swami Devateerth Bharti Terrorism The Dynamics of Guru-Shishya Relationship Indian Context The Enlightened Mystic: Osho The Feminine, the Ecology, and the Inner Transformation Redefining Feminism The Mystique of Parenthood The Scientist, the Psychologist and the Mystic on War Postscript What Hinduism Means to Me What is Enlightenment? Women can be Free, if Men are Yoga for the Modern Age Youth: Challenges and Opportunities Youth, Politics and Meritocracy Zen: The Path of Enlightenment
Celebration
For Osho, life is all. What else is there, he asks? If one loses life and gains the whole world instead, what has one gained really? And if you gain your life and lose the whole world, nothing is lost.
People think someday, in the future, we are going to be happy, joyful, celebrating. Osho’s vision is that, if you want to be happy, joyful, celebrating, then nothing is lacking. Right now, this very moment, dance; laugh, this very moment. This moment is all there is; celebrate it. Osho says: ‘ People come to me and if I say to them, “Celebrate your life”, they say, “Yes, that’s why we have come here: to learn how to create situations in whi