Thursday, May 4, 2017

OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION, IMPORTANCE OF ACTIVE MEDITATION



OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION


Osho Kundalini Meditation is a popular evening practice. Includes loosening the body, dancing, witnessing and resting stages. Stressful living and unexpressed emotions can effect our ability to live joyfully and relate to others. It is an individual experience so you should remain oblivious of others around you. If possible, keep your eyes closed throughout, or you can use a blindfold. It is best to have an empty stomach and wear loose, comfortable clothing.


Osho’s message brings the timeless wisdom of the East to bear on the urgent questions facing the modern world. Osho developed his unique active meditation techniques for modern men and women, who, he said, are so burdened with traditions of the past and anxieties of modern day living, that they must go through a deep cleansing process before they can begin to discover the thought-free relaxed state of meditation. His insights are a total discontinuity with the past and go beyond any particular religion, tradition or doctrine and are purely based on his own experiences.
They are published in numerous books, and an autobiography about his work Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic is available in several languages. (see link below)


Osho Active Meditations are scientifically designed to effectively release these tensions which block the natural flow of energies in our bodies, allowing us to become more peaceful and relaxed. These Active Meditations combine all certain activities like shaking, dancing, jumping, humming and others to lead into silence and meditation. Music is used as a background for all these meditations.

Osho Kundalini Meditation is one of Osho’s most popular and potent meditation techniques. It involves shaking, dancing, sitting silently and relaxing. A final stage of 15 minutes of silence completes the meditation and a gong signals the end. 


This “sister meditation” to the OSHO Dynamic is best done at sunset or in the late afternoon. Being fully immersed in the shaking and dancing of the first two stages helps to “melt” the rock-like being, wherever the energy flow has been repressed and blocked. Then that energy can flow, dance and be transformed into bliss and joy. The last two stages enable all this energy to flow vertically, to move upwards into silence. It is a highly effective way of unwinding and letting go at the end of the day.

Osho on How to Shake:

"If you are doing the Kundalini Meditation, allow the shaking – don't do it! Stand silently, feel it coming, and when your body starts a little trembling, help it, but don't do it! Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it, but don't will it.

"If you force, it will become an exercise, a bodily physical exercise. Then the shaking will be there, but just on the surface. It will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stonelike, rocklike within. You will remain the manipulator, the doer, and the body will only be following. The body is not the question, you are the question.

"When I say shake, I mean your solidity, your rocklike being should shake to the very foundations, so it becomes liquid, fluid, melts, flows. And when the rocklike being becomes liquid your body will follow. Then there is no shaker, only shaking; then nobody is doing it, it is simply happening. Then the doer is not.

"Enjoy it, but don't will it. And remember, whenever you will a thing you cannot enjoy it. They are reverse, opposites; they never meet. If you will a thing you cannot enjoy it, if you enjoy it you cannot will it." Osho

Instructions:

The meditation is one hour long, with four stages.

First Stage: 15 minutes



Be loose and let your whole body shake, feeling the energies moving up from your feet. Let go everywhere and become the shaking. Your eyes may be open or closed.

Second Stage: 15 minutes


Dance ...  any way you feel, and let the whole body move as it wishes. Again, your eyes can be open or closed.

Third Stage: 15 minutes


Close your eyes and be still, sitting or standing, observing, witnessing, whatever is happening inside and out.

Fourth Stage: 15 minutes


Keeping your eyes closed, lie down and be still.




A complete CD download includes also the silent stage with one of the tracks being mostly silence with a signal at the end – this is part of the experience. Osho Kundalini Meditation is a gentle yet effective way to release all the accumulated stress of your day, leaving you refreshed and mellow.


“Allow the shaking; don’t do it. Stand silently, feel it coming and when your body starts tumbling, help it but don’t do it. Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it, but don’t will it.” ~Osho




Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic

Osho: Living Dangerously- Ordinary Enlightenment for Extraordinary Times (Masters of Wisdom)

Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global

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