What is OSHO Sammasati?
The aim of OSHO Sammasati is to provide meditative support and other resources for every dimension of living – in health, in illness and in dying.
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The main thing to know is that the main content of the site – Meditation – Health & Ageing – Illness & Pain – Death & Dying – Carers – After Death and the Toolkits can be found via the side menu or under Resources in the top menu. This menu icon is shown on all pages other than the Homepage.
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To learn to meditate
If you are new to meditation, our Meditation section provides an introduction to what meditation is (and isn’t); how to ‘do’ it; tips for the beginner (and for the more experienced); how to choose a method and benefits of meditation.
Our Meditation Toolkit provides a wealth of meditation methods and meditation resources including guidance (some from Osho) about meditating during different phases of life – in health & ageing, in illness & pain, in dying or bereavement and in caring for someone who is seriously ill or dying. We also give suggestions of how to guide someone else in meditation and look at how meditation can be used as a window into dying, thereby making it easier for us to deal with. Audio products, details of meditation workshops and articles on meditation can also be found in the toolkit.
Our Index of Meditations can be searched by feature (e.g. time of day) and by subject (e.g. health, pain, dying) or you can choose to practice our Meditation of the Day.
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To access a wide range of meditations for all circumstances
Our Index of Meditations can be searched by feature (e.g. time of day) and by subject (e.g. health, pain, dying) or you can choose to practice our Meditation of the Day.
In addition to the wealth of meditation methods, Our Meditation Toolkit also provides meditation resources including guidance (some from Osho) about meditating during different phases of life – in health & ageing, in illness & pain, in dying or bereavement and in caring for someone who is seriously ill or dying. We give suggestions of how to guide someone else in meditation and look at how meditation can be used as a window into dying, thereby making it easier for us to deal with. Audio products, details of meditation workshops and articles on meditation can also be found in the toolkit.
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You or a friend are ill or in pain
Our Illness & Pain section looks at meeting challenges and change. It includes Meditations, articles and resources to support you when you or those you are caring for are ill, in pain, unconscious or facing other health challenges or disabilities.
Find meditations to help you or your friend deal with Pain and Illness.
If you are a carer, visit the Supporting the Ill & Dying section and our Carer Toolkit.
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You are dying
See Facing one’s own imminent death – perhaps after receiving a terminal diagnosis. This links to resources at this important phase of your life, including how to respond to the issues that you might be facing, deal with emotional changes and die consciously.
Our Index of Meditations includes Meditations in Dying giving methods for those who are dying – to be practised personally or to be guided in meditation.
Part of the emphasis of this website is the emphasis that we are all dying – that life and death is a continuum. However, when we realise that death is close, we can prepare ourselves and our loved ones mentally, emotionally and spiritually as well as planning the practicalities. See the many resources in our Death & Dying Toolkit.
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Someone you know is dying
Download our Guide to Visiting the Dying
See our Death & Dying Toolkit. This toolkit is primarily for a person who is dying. It has many resources that will also be of help to those caring for someone who is dying. Carers, see our Toolkit for Carers.
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You want to be able to support those who are sick or dying
See Supporting the Ill & Dying. Familiarise yourself with the many resources available, from suggestions when visiting the dying, communication tips, to how to guide someone in meditation, and how to care for yourself as a carer.
This section offers support for
• Carers of the seriously ill or dying
• Family and friends visiting a dying person
• Hospice Volunteers
• Medical & Other Professionals serving the Dying
Download our Guide to Visiting the Dying
See our Carer Toolkit
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You are a professional working with the sick and dying
For hospice volunteers and medical and other professionals serving the dying – our website emphasizes the benefits of supporting people through meditation and sensitive relating, supporting those in the dying process to die peacefully and consciously.
See Supporting the Ill & Dying. Familiarise yourself with the many resources available, from suggestions when visiting the dying, communication tips, to how to guide someone in meditation, and how to care for yourself as a carer.
Download our Guide to Visiting the Dying
See our Carer Toolkit
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You have been bereaved
See After Death. In this section we look at what happens after a death, both immediately and in the following days, weeks and months. We cover the practical aspects and also give some suggestions about dealing with bereavement and grief.
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You are interested in our workshops
See Workshops & Events on Living-dying – a summary of OSHO Sammasati workshops offered internationally. See our Calendar for details and also check out the Testimonials and Photo Gallery.
Workshops are generally facilitated by Maneesha James and Sudheer P. Niet.
Maneesha and Sudheer also offer individual sessions.
If you are interested in organising a workshop with us, please contact Maneesha.
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Other
We’d love to know what brings you to our website – please let us know!
If you are looking for something specific, please check out the suggestions in our Help section.
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You are interested in joining a local workshop or event
See our Calendar for details and also check out our Facilitators, the Testimonials and Photo Gallery.
See Workshops & Events on Living-dying – a summary of OSHO Sammasati workshops offered internationally.
Workshops are generally facilitated by Maneesha James and Sudheer P. Niet.
Maneesha and Sudheer also offer individual sessions.
If you are interested in organising a workshop with us, please contact Maneesha.
If you are interested in becoming an Associate Facilitator and offering introductory events in your country, please contact Maneesha.
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Meditation
The art of being present – in your living-dying. Guidance for those new to meditation, an introduction to the vast range of meditative methods available and a meditation toolkit.
Health and Ageing
Living optimally & caring for your bodymind. Articles on meditation, meditation methods and related resources in our Meditation Toolkit which are most suitable for those in a good state of health.
Illness and Pain
Meeting challenges and change. Meditations, articles and resources to support you when you or those you are caring for are ill, in pain, unconscious or facing other health challenges or disabilities.
Death & Dying
Resources for those wishing to contemplate death whilst in good health, facing one’s own imminent death or being with/caring for another who is in the dying process. Meditations, articles and practicalities.
Supporting the Ill and Dying
Meditations and other resources for those who are caring for or visiting the ill or dying. Includes rapport and other communication skills and guiding someone in meditation.
After Death
For those who have gone, and those who remain. Resources for care & disposal of the body, funerals, celebration of life, dealing with grief & loss.
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view event“A Matter of Life & Death” In Spanish
Online, Global @ 30, May, 2021A one-day workshop that introduces the unique Osho Approach – of awareness and celebration – to dying and its relationship to living and to meditation.
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view event“A Matter of Life & Death” In Spanish
Online, Global @ 30, Jun, 2021A one-day workshop that introduces the unique Osho Approach – of awareness and celebration – to dying and its relationship to living and to meditation.
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view event“A Matter of Life & Death” In Spanish
Online, Global @ 16, Jul, 2021A one-day workshop that introduces the unique Osho Approach – of awareness and celebration – to dying and its relationship to living and to meditation.
My illness gave me the opportunity to think deeply about living and dying and led me this workshop. I wanted to know how to live my life intensely, and through many kinds of meditation my energy has been activated deep within. We had such a great time together — full of meditation in the beautiful nature”....
Tokumi Serizawa, Japan
Meditation Toolkit
This Meditation Toolkit provides an easy way to find all the resources you need to learn or practise meditation and to support others in doing so, whatever the state of health.
Death & Dying Toolkit
This toolkit is primarily for a person who is dying. It has many resources that will also be of help to carers of the dying. Includes meditations for dying, dying consciously, dealing with emotions, body sensations, practical aspects and inspiration.
Carer Toolkit
Resources for carers of the seriously ill or dying:
Primary carers (generally family and friends)
Those working in a voluntary or professional capacity
Occasional visitors to the seriously ill or dying
Primary carers (generally family and friends)
Those working in a voluntary or professional capacity
Occasional visitors to the seriously ill or dying
Osho Bardo App
OSHO Bardo
right-mindfulness in living & dying
A new guided meditation for relaxation and as a meditative preparation for dying
with Maneesha James & Sudheer P. Niet
- Suitable for meditators and those new to meditation
- Use as a regular meditation for relaxed alertness and to know more awareness and joy in our everyday lives
- Suitable for those who do not look to established religions for support when dying
- Use to familiarise yourself with the greatest let go – the letting go of life itself – in preparation for, and at the same time of, death for yourself or in supporting others.
Living, Dying, & the Transcendental and The Gap in the Breath
Publish: 3, Nov, 2020
Two guided meditations with Maneesha James
Two for the Price of One!
On this particular mp3 we’ve made two techniques available because they are very similar. In fact their structure, their length, and the music that accompanies them is exactly the same.
In both during the first stage the meditation is to watch or “witness” from inside the breath coming in and going out. In the second stage, the focus turns from the inhalation and exhalation to the gaps that appear – one at the end of the inhalation before the outbreath starts, and the other at the end of the exhalation before the inbreath starts. In the last stage, the whole cycle is watched: the inhalation, then the gap, the exhalation, and then the gap.
Because both techniques are passive you may find it helpful to dance or do some other form of energetic activity first. Then, once the body-mind has thrown off any restlessness or tension, it is easier to sit still and move into the silence within.
Learn more and buy the download below
Living, Dying & the Transcendental Guided Meditation
Osho Bardo App
Publish: 25, Oct, 2020
OSHO Bardo is now available in an App!
Other languages to follow: Hindi, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Danish, Russian and Mandarin.
For more information, check our page on Osho Bardo
Include Everything In Your Being
Publish: 10, Jul, 2020
“Include Everything in Your Being,” a guided meditation with Maneesha James, enables us to move beyond the confinement of the small mind, the ego, the sense of an individual centre and, instead, to know ourselves as unlimited consciousness. Osho says of this method: “Say, `I am,’ and include everything in it. If you can do this just sitting, wonderful, absolutely new happenings, will happen to you.” We come to know that “we are one with existence. This feeling gives rise to inner joy.” Learn more and buy the download, here
The Light of Love
Publish: 2, Dec, 2019
“The Light of Love” is a 5-step guided meditation with Maneesha James for those of us who have low self-esteem, difficulty loving and accepting ourselves as we are, and in accepting love and loving others, this meditation is an opportunity to undo what we have learnt. It takes the meditator, step by gentle step, through a process of accepting love, allowing ourselves to feel loved, even to embody love, and then to know compassion, to share love.
Learn more and buy the download here.
Guided Audio Meditation
Publish: 6, Aug, 2019
The 4-Step Let Go is a favourite in our workshops and can be very helpful in letting go of all the daily stresses and strains we carry on the physical, emotional and mental levels. Maneesha leads us through a progressive relaxation and into the realisation of who we are…a vast ocean of awareness.
Learn more and buy the download here.
Seasonal Special Offer on our Guided Meditations
Publish: 11, Dec, 2018
If you’re looking for a special gift to support yourself or your loved ones, take a look at our special seasonal offer.
30% OFF until 31 December on our 3 guided audio meditations. Save up to $13
See here for more information.
If buying more than one meditation download, click here to select (or search for Maneesha James on CD Baby)
New guided meditation - Fill the Heart with Peace
Publish: 1, Nov, 2018
We’re happy to announce the release of our latest guided meditation as a mp3 audio download.
This 30-minute guided meditation with Maneesha James leads us into a space of deep relaxation and then to consciously bringing peace into the heart centre. In this way we connect with our source of love, independent of the other. As well, this method provides an effective antidote to fear. When we are relaxed, open and at peace, fear cannot take hold in us. A significant key for all of us.
Learn more and buy it here.
Hindi! First foreign language version of our OSHO Bardo Meditation CD
Publish: 18, Apr, 2018
We’re delighted that the Hindi version of OSHO Bardo, spoken by Devendra and Sarita, has arrived.
As with the original English version, the Hindi OSHO Bardo has been produced as a beautiful package containing the CD and a 28-page colored booklet. It is published by a leading media house of India, Shemaroo Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Buy it here.
'Pain Relief - by tenderly releasing tension' now available
Publish: 4, Apr, 2018
We’re happy to announce that our new guided meditation ‘Pain Relief – by tenderly releasing tension’ is now available for purchase as an mp3 download.
Physical pain is something all of us experience, in varying degrees, at particular times in our lives. And a proportion of us live with chronic pain. We’re confident that our latest audio release, ‘Pain Relief – by tenderly releasing tension’ is a resource that you will want to own. It will also be handy to have for a family member or friend – that person you would love to be able to help in their pain but feel so helpless to do so.
A guided meditation of 36 minutes, through it Maneesha gently guides the listener into a state of deep relaxation, and then to the sensation – bringing awareness to it, and tenderness.
Learn more and buy it here.
Our New Facebook Group
Publish: 8, Jun, 2017
We’ve been pondering on the best way to provide a safe place where people can share their thoughts, feelings and stories, insights and resources on matters relating to the use of meditation in challenging situations. Facebook Groups seem to be the way to go – and we’ve created two. One is open to everyone to join and the other is for those who are interested in facilitating our work and who have participated in our Facilitator Course or our previous Support-Person Trainings.
Join our public group here:
Meditation Matters of Living & Dying – OSHO Sammasati – To join click the link and then on the Join button.
OSHO Bardo CD now available at selected shops and meditation centres worldwide
Publish: 28, Nov, 2016
Check our new list of stockists in India, UK, Denmark, Russia & Australia. Please get in touch if you’d like to be added to the list.
OSHO Bardo Download now available
Publish: 20, Jul, 2016
We are happy to announce the availability of the OSHO Bardo meditative process now as a download, in addition to the CD. Read more about OSHO Bardo here or buy the download instantly here. And remember to download the 28 page booklet (link on the left in CD Baby).
The Netherlands, Siberia, Latvia & Chile just added to our calendar!
Publish: 28, Jun, 2016
We’ve just updated our calendar for 2016 and 2017. Entries feature new workshops and workshops in new places! These include The Netherlands (Leiden and The Hague) and Irkutsk in Siberia this year; Latvia and Chile next year. The latter – the two workshops are just out of Santiago – are hosted by Sanjiva. He’s attended our workshops in the UK and provided the first translated portion of our website – in Spanish.
Check out our Calendar here.
Translations are happening!
Publish: 7, Apr, 2016
Check out our new Translations Index!
We’re excited to announce that our first translations have just gone live. A big thank you to Sanjiva and Priya for starting the Spanish translations.
You can find the Translations Index in the Quick Links on the left of the footer at the end of each page. You can also check the end of website pages in English to see if they have been translated – e.g. see The OSHO Vision.
If you would like to translate additional pages into any language, please contact us.
If you are looking for book resources, those with Amazon links will go to the Amazon store in the country where you are located. You can try it out here Recommended Books on Illness and Pain. We’re still adding additional countries so thanks for your patience.
2016-2017 Calendar Update
Publish: 26, Feb, 2016
We’ve just added our autumn, winter and spring workshops for 2016-17 – including 3 new workshops – OSHO Bardo Event, Exploring the Ultimate Mystery, and the OSHO Sammasati Facilitator Course. Check out our calendar.
OSHO Bardo CD at the Printers
Publish: 17, Jan, 2016
Inspired by the original Bardo Thodol from Tibet and Osho’s recommendation that a contemporary version is created, we have been busy creating the OSHO Bardo. This meditation CD (also available as an mp3 download) can be used to support the transition of dying and can also be used for relaxation and befriending death by those in good health.
It’s been a long time in the making so we’re happy to say it’s finally at the printers and is due for release late February 2016. You can check it out here and make a pre-order.
Our New Website
Publish: 16, Jan, 2016
We’re delighted that after many months of our team planning and preparing behind the scenes, and finding the funds (a huge ‘thank you’ to our sponsor), Phase 1 of our website is now available to you.
As you’ll discover as you look through it, there is a lot of information – in the form of articles, essays, book reviews, video clips, workshop descriptions, jokes, meditation methods and anecdotes, along with short and longer quotations from Osho and others. We’ve given a lot of energy to the aesthetics too so that hanging out with us can also engage you visually. Do send us your feedback! For example, is there a related topic you would like to see addressed? How easy is it for you to navigate around the site?
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