Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

The book opens with some characteristics of the state of meditation – as a positive experience of silence; an abiding in the seat of conscious, ‘the center of the cyclone’; as a state through which ones sensitivity, and a sense of one’s connection to the world, deepens; as a source of love, compassion, joy, intelligence and awareness.
The second half of the book, ‘The Science of Meditation,’ provides a comprehensive understanding of the significance of meditative methods, including finding the right method and knowing when to drop it.
A panorama of many different techniques is set out in the next section: breath-based methods; techniques on light, on dark, and on sound; methods to create centering, to open the heart, and to find the inner space.
Obstacles to meditation, and insight into the nature of the mind, are discussed and, finally, some of Osho’s responses to seekers’ questions about their meditation practice.