Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Insights for a New Way of Living)

Wake up my Beloved you are dreaming a nightmare and nothing is happening. What I love most about Osho is that he tells us the Truth, he doesn't mince words or try for your adoration, approval or appreciation. I also love his wit and sense of play. In the intro, Osho states that the first step to being Awake is for you to admit that you are asleep, dreaming and not aware of your being, your living, and what you are thinking, feeling and doing. Thank God, someone is being honest with us. Thank goodness, Consciousness is awake and that it has appeared as an Indian Man with a wry smile and twinkle in the eye. His seeming irreverence for traditional belief is sourced in the mere fact Osho is awake and our modern society is deeply asleep, which means that we are aware of everything in our worldly experience except our own Self. Like all true spiritual teachings, Osho is calling for us to become conscious and aware of who we are inside the very core of our appearances as body, mind, emotion, activity and world. He asks us to become a witness to every sense of Being and all the diverse forms of life expression. Know thyself, Osho suggests. See what's going on within your mind. For example, are we re-acting from past conditioning or allowing what is Now to be? If we want to understand our life and self, we must witness this existence. In other words our real understandings come only from being Aware. If we are not aware of ourselves, we simply cannot realize who or what we are. Being self-aware is a step that cannot be skipped if we are to awaken to what is real. Osho shares his insight throughout this book and everything he shares is deeply penetrating and profound. He knows what he talking about simply because his life was all about being conscious and awake in every moment. We cannot help but be more awake if we take this teaching to heart, which is where this life arose in the first place. The title says it all, Awareness, The Key to Living in Balance. When you wake up, you'll find that you are the balancing act in this life. Sundance Burke, Author Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being

In the book "Awareness," Osho is pointing to the ultimate presence that is prior to every thought and every daily activity. The quality to which he is guiding is that of pure awareness. Osho shares that when we wake up, that is to say, when we become conscious, and this awareness is realized, we are then able to live in balance and harmony. His prescription is to be acutely present with all that we are doing and alert to our thoughts as well as their underlying motivations. For when we are attentive to every movement and everything that we are sensing, we have an opportunity to awaken from the dream of form to realize conscious freedom. We are then able to live a meditative life that is filled with unconditional love and true compassion. More than a decade after the death of form, Osho's essential teachings are still reaching seekers of all ages worldwide. Katie Davis, Awake Joy: The Essence of Enlightenment

...that is typical of Osho. Awareness is the heart of all sincere effort, and nobody says it better. This book contains the elixir a confused, mind-addled world needs so very badly. Buy three...one for yourself, and two for friends, and ask them to do the same.

The subject of awareness is the most trascendental, complex and profound in the field of spirituality. Awareness is the real direction of life evolutionary process on this planet. Today,only very few persons in the world can speak with authority about this subject. Osho is one of them. I do not know of others, except Krisnamurti and Gurdjieff in the past. I found Osho the most elocuent, clear and compassionate of all. Thanks to St. Martin Press for giving us this rare gem of practical insight.