Tuesday, May 30, 2017

OSHO ENERGY MEDITATION



Imagine : Everything is energy ; and
You will realize that in fact : everything is energy.



Everything , every object that we see or feel  around us is nothing but energy. We ourselves, in our fundamental form are energy.
In this technique we’ll again take the help of imagination. If you have read the technique of death meditation, you must be aware of the power of imagination.


If not then read The Power of imagination


The method : Sit in a comfortable quiet place. Make sure that nobody disturb you during the meditation.
Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths.


Perform the three preliminary things before meditation. (Already described here )


Now imagine….


Imagine that  everything around you is converting into energy. Imagine that  everything which is present in the room is changing into small energy particles.


Imagine it truly. Imagine it as vividly as you can.
Imagine that the whole universe around you along with everything it contains that is all solid, liquids and gaseous objects – is turning into an energy field.


Imagine that  you have been surrounded by an ocean of energy.
Now imagine that your  body itself is disintegrating into small energy particles. Imagine that your entire body with all its organs is changing into energy.


In fact the reality is also like this. If we see the world from an ultra modern super powerful microscope, we’ll find that everything around us is nothing but energy and we all are surrounded by a pool of energy.


At the most basic level, the whole universe is nothing but a huge mass of energy present in different states of matter.
Once you imagine the hidden reality and submerged yourself in the pool of energy, you will find an inner peace of mind. You have come  home.


You will realize that this huge ocean of energy is consist of pure consciousness. The self is present everywhere in this ocean of energy.


Through mere imagination, we can verify the eternal truth of the presence of self in everything.


Remain submerged in this state of oceanic energy for 20-25 minutes. Then imagine that slowly this huge ocean of energy is again coming to its original form ( I mean the worldly perceivable form.) Imagine that everything is regaining its original shape.
Keep sitting silently for sometime.


Then open your eyes slowly and end the meditation.
What you have done is a very simple and powerful meditation technique.  In the next article, I am going to tell you about an excellent booklet on meditation.



  Handbook of Tanpura

VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA BY OSHO

VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA BY OSHO


Devi Asks:


Shiva answering questions of Devi Parvati
O Shiva, what is your reality?
What is this wonder-filled universe?
What constitutes seed?
Who centers the universal wheel?
What is this life beyond form pervading forms?
How may we enter it fully,
above space and time,
names and descriptions?
Let my doubts be cleared!


Osho:


Truth is always here. It is already the case. It is not something to be achieved in the future. You are the truth just here and now, so it is not something which is to be created or something which is to be devised or something which is to be sought. Understand this very clearly; then these techniques will be easy to understand and also to do.


Mind is a mechanism of desiring. Mind is always in desire, always seeking something, asking for something. Always the object is in the future; mind is not concerned with the present at all. In this very moment the mind cannot move — there is no space. The mind needs the future in order to move. It can move either in the past or in the future. It cannot move in the present; there is no space.
The truth is in the present, and mind is always in the future or in the past, so there is no meeting between mind and truth. When the mind is seeking worldly objects it is not so difficult, the problem is not absurd; it can be solved. But when the mind starts seeking the truth the very effort becomes nonsense, because the truth is here and now and the mind is always then and there. There is no meeting.


So understand the first thing: you cannot seek truth. You can find it, but you cannot seek it. The very seeking is the hindrance. The moment you start seeking you have moved away from the present, away from yourself, because you are always in the present. The seeker is always in the present and the seeking is in the future, you are not going to meet whatsoever you are seeking. Lao Tzu says, “Seek not; otherwise you will miss. Seek not and find. Don’t seek and find.”
All these techniques of Shiva’s are simply turning the mind from the future or the past to the present. That which you are seeking is already there, it is the case already. The mind has to be turned from seeking to non-seeking. It is difficult. If you think about it intellectually it is very difficult. How to turn the mind from seeking to non-seeking? — because then the mind makes non-seeking itself the object! Then the mind says, “Don’t seek.”


Then the mind says, “I should not seek.” Then the mind says, “Now non-seeking is my object. Now I desire the state of desirelessness.” The seeking has entered again, the desire has come again through the back door. That is why there are people who are seeking worldly objects, and there are people who think they are seeking non-worldly objects.
All objects are worldly because “seeking” is the world. So you cannot seek anything non-worldly. The moment you seek, it becomes the world. If you are seeking God, your God is part of the world. If you are seeking MOKSHA — liberation — NIRVANA, your liberation is part of the world, your liberation is not something that transcends the world, because seeking is the world, desiring is the world.


So you cannot desire nirvana, you cannot desire non-desire. If you try to understand intellectually, it will become a puzzle. Shiva says nothing about it, he immediately proceeds to give techniques. They are non-intellectual.


He doesn’t say to Devi, “The truth is here. Don’t seek it and you will find it.” He immediately gives techniques. Those techniques are non-intellectual. Do them, and the mind turns. The turning is just a consequence, just a by-product — not an object. The turning is just a by-product.


If you do a technique, your mind will turn from its journey into the future or the past. Suddenly you will find yourself in the present. That is why Buddha has given techniques, Lao Tzu has given techniques, Krishna has given techniques. But they always introduce their techniques with intellectual concepts.
Only Shiva is different.


He immediately gives techniques, and no intellectual understanding, no intellectual introduction, because he knows that the mind is tricky, the most cunning thing possible. It can turn anything into a problem. Non-seeking will become the problem. There are people who come to me who ask how not to desire. They are desiring non-desire.


Somebody has told them, or they have read somewhere, or they have heard spiritual gossip, that if you do not desire you will reach bliss, if you do not desire you will be free, if you do not desire there will be no suffering. Now their minds hanker to attain that state where there is no suffering, so they ask how not to desire. Their minds are playing tricks.


They are still desiring, it is only that now the object has changed. They were desiring money, they were desiring fame, they were desiring prestige, they were desiring power. Now they are desiring non-desire. Only the object has changed, and they remain the same and




They are still desiring, it is only that now the object has changed. They were desiring money, they were desiring fame, they were desiring prestige, they were desiring power. Now they are desiring non-desire. Only the object has changed, and they remain the same and their desiring remains the same. But now the desire has become more deceptive.

Because of this, Shiva proceeds immediately with no introduction whatsoever. He immediately starts talking about techniques. Those techniques, if followed, suddenly turn your mind: it comes to the present. And when the mind comes to the present it stops, it is no more. You cannot be a mind in the present, that is impossible. Just now, if you are here and now, how can you be a mind? Thoughts cease because they cannot move.

The present has no space in which to move; you cannot think. If you are in this very moment, how can you move? Mind stops, you attain to no-mind. So the real thing is how to be here and now. You can try, but effort may prove futile — because if you make it a point to be in the present, then this point has moved into the future. When you ask how to be in the present, again you are asking about the future. This moment is passing in the inquiry, “How to be present?

How to be here and now?” This present moment is passing in the inquiry, and your mind will begin to weave and create dreams in the future: some day you will be in a state of mind where there is no movement, no motive, no seeking, and then there will be bliss — so how to be in the present?
Shiva doesn’t say anything about it, he simply gives a technique. You do it, and suddenly you find you are here and now. And your being here and now is the truth, and your being here and now is the freedom, and your being here and now is the nirvana.

The first nine techniques are concerned with breathing.
So let us understand something about breathing, and then we will proceed to the techniques. We are breathing continuously from the moment of birth to the moment of death. Everything changes between these two points. Everything changes, nothing remains the same, only breathing is a constant thing between birth and death. The child will become a youth; the youth will become old. He will be diseased, his body will become ugly, ill, everything will change. He will be happy, unhappy, in suffering; everything will go on changing. But whatsoever happens between these two points, one must breathe.

Whether happy or unhappy, young or old, successful or unsuccessful — whatsoever you are, it is irrelevant — one thing is certain: between these two points of birth and death you must breathe. Breathing will be a continuous flow; no gap is possible. If even for a single moment you forget to breathe, you will be no more. That is why You are not required to breathe, because then it would be difficult. Someone might forget to breathe for a single moment, and then nothing could be done.
So, really, you are not breathing, because you are not needed. you are fast asleep, and breathing goes on; you are unconscious, and breathing goes on; you are in a deep coma, and breathing goes on. you are not required; breathing is something which goes on in spite of you. It is one of the constant factors in your personality — that is the first thing. It is something which is very essential and basic to life — that is the second thing.

You cannot be alive without breath. So breath and life have become synonymous. Breathing is the mechanism of life, and life is deeply related with breathing. That is why in India we call it PRANA. We have given one word for both — PRANA means the vitality, the aliveness. Your life is your breath. Thirdly, your breath is a bridge between you and your body.

Constantly, breath is bridging you to your body, connecting you, relating you to your body. Not only is the breath a bridge to your body, it is also a bridge between you and the universe. The body is just the universe which has come to you, which is nearer to you. Your body is part of the universe. Everything in the body is part of the universe — every particle, every cell. It is the nearest approach to the universe.

Breath is the bridge. If the bridge is broken, you are no more in the body. If the bridge is broken, you are no more in the universe. You move into some unknown dimension; then you cannot be found in space and time. So, thirdly, breath is also the bridge between you, and space and time. Breath, therefore, becomes very significant — the most significant thing. So the first nine techniques are concerned with breath. If you can do something with the breath, you will suddenly turn to the present.

If you can do something with breath, you will attain to the source of life. If you can do something with breath, you can transcend time and space. If you can do something with breath, you will be in the world and also beyond it. Breath has two points. One is where it touches the body and the universe, and another is where it touches you and that which transcends the universe. We know only one part of the breath. When it moves into the universe, into the body, we know it. But it is always moving from the body to the “no-body,” from the “no-body” to the body.

We do not know the other point. If you become aware of the other point, the other part of the bridge, the other pole of the bridge, suddenly you will be transformed, transplanted into a different dimension. But remember, what Shiva is going to say is not yoga, it is tantra. Yoga also works on breath, but the work of yoga and tantra is basically different.

Yoga tries to systematize breathing. If you systematize your breathing your health will improve. If you systematize your breathing, if you know the secrets of breathing, your life will become longer; you will be more healthy and you will live longer. You will be more strong, more filled with energy, more vital, alive, young, fresh. But tantra is not concerned with that. Tantra is concerned not with any systematization of breath, but with using breath just as a technique to turn inward.

One has not to practice a particular style of breathing, a particular system of breathing or a particular rhythm of breathing — no! One has to take breathing as it is. One has just to become aware of certain points in the breathing. There are certain points, but we are not aware of them. We have been breathing and we will go on breathing — we are born breathing and we will die breathing — but we are not aware of certain points. And this is strange.

Man is searching, probing deep into space. Man is going to the moon; man is trying to reach farther, from earth into space, and man has not yet learned the nearest part of his life. There are certain points in breathing which you have never observed, and those points are the doors — the nearest doors to you from where you can enter into a different world, into a different being, into a different consciousness. But they are very subtle.

To observe a moon is not very difficult. Even to reach the moon is not very difficult; it is a gross journey. You need mechanization, you need technology, you need accumulated information, and then you can reach it. Breathing is the nearest thing to you, and the nearer a thing is, the more difficult it is to perceive it. The nearer it is, the more difficult; the more obvious it is, the more difficult. It is so near to you that again there is no space between you and your breathing. Or, there is such a small space that you will need a very minute observation, only then will you become aware of certain points. These points are the basis of these techniques. So now I will take each technique.




Sunday, May 28, 2017

DEATH MEDITATION, UNDERSTANDING DEATH

Death Meditation : Meet your death before you die actually



The Death meditation technique is one of my favorites meditation techniques. This meditation is not only very easy but also a great rejuvenating yogic exercise for our body. It is a very simple yet very powerful technique which introduce you to your death before you die actually.


There is one fact of life which is universally applicable to all of us :
All of us will die one day.


Death is an absolute realty of life. Everybody who has come, will have to go one day.  However one part of our existence will never die.
When you die….
Your physical body will merge into the chemistry of our planet.
Your mind will cease to exist.


..and each and everything that constitute your personality in this world – your success, your failure, your friends, your enemies, your joy, your sorrows, your ambitions, plans and just about everything which you now consider as your own will lost its relevance.
However… One thing will remain intact. One thing will be there untouched, ‘as it is’ even in death, even after death….. that thing is your real identity, the true foundation of your existence – Self.
In this meditation, you will realized this eternal aspect of your existence – self in you.


For this meditation we’ll use a very important & powerful tool available to mankind. This tool is ‘Imagination’ .


“Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
Do you know what is imagination ? It is nothing but going into a belief so deeply that the belief itself becomes a reality. Many meditation techniques ( particularly those developed in Tibet ) are based on imagination. In the spiritual world the concept of higher reality prevails over the perceivable reality. The boundary between what is real and what is illusion gets so blurred in higher spiritual plane that one has to take the shelter of imagination to understand it .Before telling you about meditation, I want to tell you some more about the power of imagination


Try this small test of your imagination


Here is a small test of your imagination. It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you bring all of your imagination into it.
Do this test by visualizing every step in your mind as vividly as you can .


Lets start…


Imagine ( really imagine ) that you are standing in your kitchen holding an apple that you have just taken out from the refrigerator.
Imagine as vividly as possible….


The apple feels cold in your hand. Look at the outside of it, its red skin. It is a fresh, smooth, spotless and perfectly red apple. Rotate it in your hand and feel its firmness and strength. (visualize this ) Now raise the apple to your nose and smell it. Nothing smells quite like a fresh juicy apple, does it? Now cut the apple into half and smell it. (Imagine it as intensely as you can )


Keep imaging..


The odor is pleasant and fresh. Now bite deeply into apple and let the sweet juicy stuff swirl around in your mouth. Nothing tastes quite sweet like an apple either, does it?


At this point, if you have used your imagination well, your mouth will be watering.


Words “mere” words affected your salivary glands ! Those words that did not even reflect reality, but something you imagined ! When you read those words about the apple you were telling your brain that you had an apple, though you didn’t have it actually.


Your brain took it seriously and said to your salivary glands, “This person is biting an apple. Hurry, wash it away.” the glands obeyed.
Most of us think that the words we use  reflect meanings and that meaning can be good or bad, true or false, powerful or weak. True, but that is only half of it. Words do not just reflect reality, they ‘create’ reality, just like the flow of saliva in the above experiment.


I hope you have now recognized the power of imagination.  We’ll use the same power in Death Meditation. If you have practiced deep relaxation, you must be aware of Shavasana (theCorpse pose), you’ll find it very similar to that. Even if you have not practice it, you will be able to meditate quite easily as this meditation technique is very easy.


Friday, May 26, 2017

MANTRA MEDITATION, THE POWER OF REPETITION SOUND

Mantra Meditation :




The power of repetition of sound
” Just by repeating the name, that which can not be understood Will be understood just by repeating the name that which can not be seen Will be seen”

Mantra repetition is an ancient meditation technique  extensively used in Tibet and India.


Here is a simple explanation of Mantra Meditation:


What actually is a mantra


Mantra repetition simply means  repeating a sentence or group of words that have a phonetic significance . just that’s it.
Mantra  is intrinsically related to sound. Mantra is sound, and sound is reverberating in everything in this universe. When water flows, the gurgling sound it makes, is mantra. When wind blows through the trees, the  rustling sound it produces is mantra.  When we walk on the earth, our footsteps produce sound, and that too is mantra. Within  human beings  there is a self-born, indestructible sound which repeats itself constantly, along with our breathing and this sound is also a mantra.


Sound has enormous power, in fact it has the power to create an entire universe. It is written that God originally manifested as sound.


(In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. New Testament, John1:1-2 )


According to ancient Indian belief  in the beginning there was sound, which  reverberated as Om and from that sound everything came into existence.


Even modern scientist are beginning to recognize as our ancient sages did,  that there exists a vibration which reverberates ceaselessly throughout the cosmos.


When letters and syllables come together, they form words. Both our spiritual and our mundane life are possible only because of words; without language, we can not carry out any of our activities. Each word we use has its own power and produces it own reaction. A mantra is no ordinary combination of letters and syllables, but a living force. The name of God is not different from God. Mantra has been called the sound-body of God: It is God in the form of sound.


In  Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna says,


” Among rituals, I am the ritual of mantra repetition.”
By this he means that while other techniques are means of attaining Him, mantra is his very being. That is why it is so easy to experience God by repeating the mantra. Mantra meditation is the repetition of a group of words which create  sound vibrations that awake the love of God in our hearts and mind.


The influence of mantra: How it affects the meditator
The mantra meditation can completely transform our inner being. Our inner state is created by the thoughts and feelings that continuously arise in us. Outwardly we may appear to have fixed identities-one person may appear to be a lawyer, another an engineer, another a doctor, another a professor. But inside, we are a continually changing mass of consciousness.


When we project the beam of mantra into this fluctuating mass, it stabilizes it and focuses it in one direction, the direction of the self. It helps us to transcend our confusion, our fantasies, and the constant changes of the mind.


Repetition of the name of God causes a kind of earthquake in our inner consciousness. Whatever thoughts arise in our daily life, they are recorded within us and form impression that are difficult  to remove.  But when we repeat the name, all these thoughts and impressions are erased, and the name of God is recorded. At every moment, what we think is what we become.


If the anger arises in the  mind and we identify ourselves with it, we become angry. In the same way, if we continually repeat the mantra with great love and interest, we will become absorbed in God. By its very nature the mantra has the ability to transform our awareness  into an awareness of ourselves as Self which is a part of supreme self God.


How to repeat the mantra : You can repeat the mantra silently or loudly but it should be at the same speed at which you talk. You can also coordinate it with the breathing, repeating it once with the inhalation and once with exhalation. Repeat it very carefully, just as a miser looks after is wealth.


Listen it as you repeat it, and in that way your mind will become permeated with mantra. If you repeat the mantra when you breathe in and breathe out, it will circulate throughout your body, permeating every one of your blood cells. then even the room in which you have been repeating become saturated with it.


It is said, “Mantra is that which protects the one who repeats it.” The power of mantra is beyond your imagination You can understand the meaning of the mantra, but you can not measure its strength. Mantra is the living force of God. Therefore, repeat it with respect.


If you devote even half hour or an hour every day to repeating the mantra, you will function much more effectively in your worldly life, and your heart will be filled with joy. You will begin to experience the self very easily.



http://meditationsplus.blogspot.tw/


Wednesday, May 24, 2017

OSHO GOURISHANKAR MEDITATION


OSHO Gourishankar Meditation



Osho Gourishankar Meditation is a powerful centering technique which works on the third eye. This technique consists of four
stages of 15 minutes each. The first two stages prepare the meditator for the spontaneous experience of the third stage. Osho
has said that if the breathing is done correctly in the first stage, the meditator will feel as if on Gourishankar (Mount Everest).

OSHO Gourishankar Meditation

The meditation lasts one hour and has four stages of 15 minutes each.

Osho says that if the breathing is done correctly in the first stage of this meditation the carbon dioxide formed in the bloodstream will make you feel as high as Gourishankar (Mt. Everest).This “high” is carried into the subsequent stages of soft gazing, soft and spontaneous movement, and silent stillness.

First Stage: 15 minutes

Sit with closed eyes. Inhale deeply through the nose, filling the lungs. Hold the breath for as long as possible; then exhale gently through the mouth, and keep the lungs empty for as long as possible. Continue this breathing cycle throughout this stage.

Second Stage: 15 minutes

Return to normal breathing and with a gentle gaze look at a candle flame or a flashing blue light. Keep your body still.

Note: Those with a neurological disorder such as epilepsy should never use a strobe or flashing light for this meditation. Instead they can do the second stage with a blindfold.

Third Stage: 15 minutes


With closed eyes, stand up and let your body be loose and receptive. The subtle energies will be felt to move the body outside your normal control. Allow this “Latihan” to happen. Don’t you do the moving: let moving happen, gently and gracefully.

Fourth Stage: 15 minutes
  
                                

Lie down with closed eyes, silent and still.

REFERENCE BOOKS AND MEDITATION CDS





Buddha: His Life and Teachings and Impact on Humanity (Pillars of Consciousness)

The Book of Wisdom: The Heart of Tibetan Buddhism. Commentaries on Atisha's Seven Points of Mind Training

Meditations on Zen by Osho (Osho Meditations)


Saturday, May 20, 2017

OSHO CHAKRA SOUND MEDITATION

OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation


In this meditation vocal sounds open, harmonize and bring awareness to the chakras or energy centers. It can bring you into a deep, peaceful, inner silence. You can make your own vocal sounds, or just listen to the music and feel the sounds within you. 

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

* All chakras lie deep within, rather than on the surface of the body. The following “map” is used to indicate their approximate locations:
1. base chakra:    the sex center, lower pelvis
2. sacral chakra:  just below the navel
3. solar plexus chakra:  above the navel, below the breastbone
4. heart chakra:  the middle of the chest
5. throat chakra:  the throat
6. third eye chakra:  between the eyebrows
7. crown chakra:  top of the head


Instructions:

The meditation lasts one hour and has two stages. It ends when you hear three gongs. Keep your eyes closed throughout.


First stage: 45 minutes

Stand, sit comfortably, or lie down, keeping your back straight and your body loose. Breathe into your belly rather than your chest. The sounds should be made with your mouth open and your jaw loose, keeping your mouth open the whole time.

Close your eyes and listen to the music; start with the first chakra and if you wish, start making sounds – in a single tone or varying the tone. While listening to the sound of the music or the sounds that you are making, feel the sounds pulsating in the very center of the chakra. You can use your imagination to get into it, if needed at first – and then feel the inner vibrations of that chakra. 

You will hear the tones change to a higher pitch – now listen and feel sounds in the second chakra, and continue making sounds if you wish. This process continues all the way up to the seventh chakra. With each next chakra, let your sounds become higher in pitch. 

After you have reached the seventh chakra, the tones will go back down through all the chakras, one at a time. As you hear the tones go down, listen and make sounds in each chakra. Feel your body become like a hollow bamboo flute, allowing the sounds to resonate from top to bottom.

At the end of the sequence, you will hear a pause before the next sequence starts. The full sequence up and down is done three times altogether.


Second stage: 15 minutes

Sit or lie down and be silent. Watch whatever is happening within – relaxed, without any judgment, remaining a witness.





Meditation for Busy People: Stress-Beating Strategies for People with No Time to Meditate

The Chakra Book: Energy and Healing Power of the Subtle Body




In Search of the Miraculous: Chakras, Kundalini and the Seven Bodies



Thursday, May 18, 2017

OSHO CHAKRA BREATHING MEDITATION

Chakra Breathing Meditation

This active meditation uses deep, rapid breathing and body movement to open and bring awareness, vitality and silence to each of the seven chakras and into your life.
The meditation is best done on an empty stomach.
Music and bells support the process and signal the beginning of each stage. The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Chakra Breathing Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

* All chakras lie deep within, rather than on the surface of the body. The following “map” is used to indicate their approximate locations:
1. base chakra:    the sex center, lower pelvis
2. sacral chakra:  just below the navel
3. solar plexus chakra:  above the navel, below the breastbone
4. heart chakra:  the middle of the chest
5. throat chakra:  the throat
6. third eye chakra:  between the eyebrows
7. crown chakra:  top of the head


Instructions:


The meditation lasts one hour and has two stages. It ends when you hear three gongs. Keep your eyes closed throughout.
 
First stage: 45 minutes

Stand with your feet a little apart, your body loose and relaxed. With open mouth breathe deeply and rapidly into the first chakra, with equal emphasis on in and out breaths. Keep your attention in the pelvic area, where the first chakra is located. Breathe in a rhythm that feels comfortable and become aware of the feelings and sensations of the chakra.

Each time you hear a bell, move this same deep, rapid breathing up to the next chakra, letting your breathing become more rapid and gentler. You will take about twice as many breaths in the seventh chakra than in the first. 

You can shake, stretch, rotate or move your body and hands as you feel, but your feet stay in one spot. Once you set the breathing and body in motion, the movement will become continuous and effortless. Your awareness remains primarily with the sensations of the chakras.

After breathing in the seventh chakra, you will hear three bells. Now let your breath and awareness turn and fall back down through each chakra, your breath slowing from chakra to chakra. You have about two minutes to reach back to the first chakra. Let the whole chakra spectrum from top to bottom blend into one rainbow of energy.

After this sequence, stand silently for a moment, then start the next sequence. You will complete three full sequences upward and downward.
 
Second stage: 15 minutes

After the third breathing sequence, sit relaxed and in silence. Remain a witness to whatever is happening within, without judgment.







Meditation for Busy People: Stress-Beating Strategies for People with No Time to Meditate

The Chakra Book: Energy and Healing Power of the Subtle Body

In Search of the Miraculous: Chakras, Kundalini and the Seven Bodies



Tuesday, May 16, 2017

OSHO DEVAVANI MEDITATION

OSHO Devavani Meditation
OSHO DEVAVANI MEDITATION


Devavani means the Divine Voice which moves
and speaks through the meditator, who becomes
an empty vessel, a channel. In the Old Testament
it was termed Glossolalia. The eyes are kept
closed throughout the meditation.

The meditation lasts one hour and has four stages of 15 minutes each. Keep your eyes closed throughout.

In this meditation a gentle, unfamiliar language moves and speaks through the meditator, who becomes an empty vessel.

It deeply relaxes the mind and creates inner peace. It can be done at any time of the day. If done last thing at night, it also creates a profound sleep.

First Stage: 15 minutes
Sit quietly, while the music is playing.

Second Stage: 15 minutes
Start making nonsense sounds, for example “la la la” and continue until unfamiliar word-like sounds arise. These sounds need to come from the unfamiliar part of the brain used as a child, before words were learned. Allow a gentle conversational intonation; do not cry or shout, laugh or scream.

Third Stage: 15 minutes
Stand up and continue this unfamiliar language, allowing your body to move softly in harmony with the sound. If your body is relaxed, the subtle energies will create a Latihan – a spontaneous, unstructured movement outside your control.

Fourth Stage: 15 minutes
Lie down. Be silent and still.





MEDITATION IS FOR LIVING JOYFULLY

"Life is purposeless. Don't be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong – it comes out of greed.
"Life is a sheer joy, a playfulness, a fun, a laughter, for no purpose at all. Life is its own end, it has no other end. The moment you understand it, you have understood what meditation is all about. It is living your life joyously, playfully, totally, and with no purpose at the end, with no purpose in view, no purpose there at all. Just like small children playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells and colored stones – for what purpose?
"There is no purpose at all." 


Osho,  Zen: Zest Zip Zap and Zing, Talk #11


If you want to live a more fulfilled life, first you will want to know your potential, who you really are. Meditation is the route to that knowing. It is the methodology of the science of awareness.

The beauty of the inner science is that it enables whoever wants to explore and to experiment within, to do so alone. This eliminates dependence on an outer authority, the need to be affiliated with any organization and the obligation to accept a certain ideology. Once you understand the steps, you walk the walk in your own, individual way.

Many meditative techniques require one to sit still and silent. But for most of us accumulated stress in our bodymind makes that difficult. Before we can hope to access our inner powerhouse of consciousness, we need to let go of our tensions.

Osho Active Meditations have been scientifically designed by Osho over a period of time to enable us to consciously express and experience repressed feelings and emotions, and learn the knack of watching our habitual patterns in a new way.



Reference Books





Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic

Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other


Sunday, May 14, 2017

OSHO WHIRLING MEDITATION

OSHO Whirling Meditation


The meditation is best done on an empty stomach, on bare feet and wearing loose clothing. It lasts one hour and there are two stages, whirling and resting.

Whirling is an ancient Sufi technique. While your whole body is moving you become aware of your very being, the watcher at the center, which is unmoving. You learn to be an unidentified witness at the center of the cyclone.

"Whirling is one of the most ancient techniques, one of the most forceful. It is so deep that even a single experience can make you totally different. Whirl with open eyes, just like small children go on twirling, as if your inner being has become a center and your whole body has become a wheel, moving, a potter’s wheel, moving. You are in the center, but the whole body is moving." Osho
 
First Stage: 45 minutes


The whirling is done on one spot in an anti-clockwise direction, with the right arm held high, palm upwards, and the left arm low, palm downwards. You whirl just like small children go on twirling. People who feel discomfort from whirling anti-clockwise can change to clockwise, changing the position of the arms as well. Let your body be soft and keep your eyes open but unfocused, so that images become blurred and flowing. Remain silent.
For the first 15 minutes, turn slowly. Then gradually build up speed until the whirling takes over and you become a whirlpool of energy – the periphery a storm of movement, the witness at the center silent and still.
When you are whirling so fast that you cannot remain upright, your body will fall by itself. Don’t make the fall a decision on your part and do not try to arrange the landing in advance; if your body is soft you will land softly and the earth will absorb your energy. Once you have fallen, stay there, this is when the second part of the meditation starts for you.
 
Second Stage: 15 minutes


If you have not fallen down by the time the music stops, allow your body to fall to the ground. Immediately roll onto your stomach so that your navel is in contact with the earth. Feel your body blending into the earth, like a small child blends into the mother’s breasts. If anybody feels strong discomfort lying this way, he should lie on his back.
Keep your eyes closed and remain passive and silent.








Sufis: The People of the Path Volume 1

The Silence of the Heart: Talks on Sufi Stories (The Perfect Master Volume 2)

The Way of the Sufi Talks on Sufi Stories by Osho (2007-12-31)

Meditations on Sufism by Osho

Friday, May 12, 2017

OSHO NADABRAHMA MEDITATION , NADABRAHMA MEDITATION FOR COUPLES

WHAT IS NADABRAHMA MEDITATION

NADABRAHMA

An ancient Tibetan Buddhist technique which was originally done in the very early hours of
the morning. It is suggested that it should be done either at night before going to sleep or
during the morning, when it should be followed by at least 15 minutes rest. It can be done
alone with others of even at work. It is good done on an empty stomach with ayes closed
otherwise the inner sound cannot go very deep.



OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation

Nadabrahma is the humming meditation – through humming and hand movements conflicting parts of you start falling in tune, and you bring harmony to your whole being. Then, with body and mind totally together, you “slip out of their hold” and become a witness to both. This watching from the outside is what brings peace, silence and bliss.

“So in Nadabrahma, remember this: let the body and mind be totally together, but remember that you have to become a witness. Get out of them, easily, slowly, from the back door, with no fight, with no struggle.” Osho


Instructions:
The meditation lasts an hour, and there are three stages. Your eyes remain closed throughout.

First Stage: 30 minutes


Sit in a relaxed position with eyes closed and lips together. Start humming, loudly enough to be heard by others and create a vibration throughout your body. You can visualize a hollow tube or an empty vessel, filled only with the vibrations of the humming. A point will come when the humming continues by itself and you become the listener. There is no special breathing and you can alter the pitch or move your body smoothly and slowly if you feel it.

Second Stage: 15 minutes






The second stage is divided into two 7½ minute sections. For the first half move the hands, palms up, in an outward circular motion. Starting at the navel, both hands move forwards and then divide to make two large circles mirroring each other left and right. The movement should be so slow that at times there will appear to be no movement at all. Feel that you are giving energy outwards to the universe.
After 7½ minutes turn the hands, palms down, and start moving them in the opposite direction. Now the hands will come together towards the navel and divide outwards to the sides of the body. Feel that you are taking energy in. As in the first stage, don’t inhibit any soft, slow movements of the rest of your body.

Third Stage: 15 minutes


Now stop the hand movement and just sit relaxed



NADABRAHMA MEDITATION FOR COUPLES

Osho has given a beautiful variation of this technique to couples. Partners sit facing oneanother, holding one another‘s crossed hands. A bedsheet must cover both the bodies and it is
best with no other clothing. The room should be fairly dark with four small candles giving theonly light. A particular incense should be burning which is used only for this meditation.The same incense should be used on each occasion. Facing one another, hands both
crossed and clasped, . the couple should close the ayes and continue humming for 30 minutes.The humming is to be done together. After a minute or two the breathing and humming will
merge in unison and the energies will be felt to meet and unite.


Reference Books


Meditation - The First and Last Freedom: A Practical Guide to Osho Meditations

The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within

The Heart Sutra: Becoming a Buddha through Meditation (OSHO Classics)

Meditation for Busy People: Stress-Beating Strategies for People with No Time to Meditate

EMOTIONS: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear