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.
Newcomers to Meditation
If you have never meditated before or are still quite new to it, read our meditation articles (links to them are below) that explain what meditation is (and isn’t!) See also our suggestions about how to get started and the benefits you can experience.
What is Meditation?
Some definitions; characteristics by which the state of meditation can be recognised. Meditation as our essential nature.
The Role of the Mind
About the nature of the mind and how, when you approach it rightly, rather than getting in the way of your finding inner peace, the mind can actually help you meditate.
Thinking, Mindfulness and Consciousness
Explains the difference, and it’s a significant one, between ‘being mindful, aware or conscious of’ and ‘thinking about.’
Choosing a Meditation Method
Ways to find a method that works for you.
Special Points
Why the need for active meditations and the importance of being total in meditation but not pushing yourself.
The Benefits of Meditation
Some of the many physical, psychological and spiritual benefits of meditation.
Getting Started with Meditation
We look at some basic aspects to consider when you are starting out (or in!), including when and where to meditate.
Recommended Meditations
This site offers a wealth of different meditations all developed or recommended by Osho. These methods can be used effectively regardless of whether you have any connection with Osho. They are compatible with whatever your religious or other beliefs.
Access the Index of Meditations. It provides a brief view of each meditation and the best time to practise it. For ease of access the methods are placed in categories and feature guidance:
- Meditations in Health and Ageing
- Meditations for Pain Management
- Meditations in Illness
- Methods for the Dying Process – both for those actively dying and those exploring how to die consciously whilst healthy
- Guided Meditations – techniques for guiding others in meditation; and audio recordings to download or purchase. See also How to Guide Someone in Meditation.
We are regularly adding to the list of meditations, so do check back for new ones.
In addition to the above index of meditations, see the Meditation of the Day section on the homepage and other pages randomly featuring methods – perfect for those who like to be spontaneous (or who can’t decide!).
Osho on Meditation
Osho on Meditation
A selection of short quotes, discourse excerpts and video clips
Right-mindfulness and Sammasati
If it is not a goal to be attained or something to practise, what exactly is ‘right-mindfulness’?
Meditation as a Window into Dying
Foundational to OSHO Sammasati’s approach is meditation as a way to be more conscious in our dying as well as in our living. In this article we explore some of the ways in which meditation and dying are similar.
Meditation Resources
Music to Meditate/Die By
Some general guidelines and specific suggestions
Products:
Osho Bardo
This new CD (available in a limited edition) by Maneesha James & Sudheer P. Niet can be pre-ordered. It will also be available as a download.
Tuning into the Moment
CD by Maneesha James with music by Sambodhi Prem. This guided meditation is created specifically for those new to meditation.
Free Guided Meditations
Short audios & videos with Maneesha & Sudheer
Meditation Chairs & Other Accessories
Maneesha's recommendations
Meditation Workshops & Sessions
with Maneesha James & Sudheer P.Niet
The Everyday Meditator
Through practising a range of meditative techniques you’ll learn how to relax quickly and easily, remain centred, aware, loving & joyful regardless of external circumstances. Features several short method and those that can be instantly incorporated into your everyday routine.
Squeeze the Juice of Life
This workshop provides a variety of meditative methods that can help us find those inner resources that enable us to live more consciously, more joyfully, more lovingly and with a greater appreciation of each moment. The various techniques create not only a recipe for living but also the best preparation for dying – without regrets and the anguish of an unfulfilled life.
Meditation for Busy People
Many of us know we need meditation in our busy, stressful lives, but in a typical day we just don’t have the time or energy for an hour of meditation. Happily, there are many methods that don’t need a special time but which can be directly incorporated into whatever we are doing enabling you to bring the essence of meditation into your everyday living.
Meditation & Dying Workshops
Introductory events and a series of longer, meditation-based workshops to support us in dying without fear, and to help others to do the same.
Individual sessions with Maneesha & Sudheer
Meditation counselling sessions available, also via Skype
Guiding Someone in Meditation
How to Lead a Guided Meditation
Suggestions that even a non-meditator can use to guide another in meditation, whether they are healthy, ill or dying.
Which Meditation Method is Best as a Guided Meditation?
Some suggestions and considerations
Leading a Guided Meditation for Someone who is Ill or Dying
Some additional considerations including the person’s physical and mental state and the hospice or hospital environment; meditation as a rehearsal for dying, and for the last hour and minutes of a person’s dying.
Articles on Meditation by Maneesha James
Meditation and Resilience
Meditation as key to building or maintaining your emotional integrity and strength – in everyday life and in trying situations.
Emotional Ecology
A series of articles relating to the emotions: Finding calm – Allowing the feeling – To fight or flow – Positive thinking vs vigilant realism – Choiceless awareness
Managing Emotions with Meditation
Accept it, express it, mobilise it, unfreeze it and watch it – are among some meditative approaches to support you in being with whatever feeling you have.
Meditation in Precarious Times
Moving into the vertical reality gives us an entirely new perspective on situations outside us and the changing experience inside too.
Meditation in the Workplace
We look at how to retain a meditative state even with the challenges often presented by the working environment.
