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Active Meditations
"These are not really meditations. You are just getting in tune. It is like... if you have seen Indian classical musicians playing... for half an hour, or sometimes even more, they simply go on fixing their instruments. They will move their knobs, they will make the strings tight or loose, and the drum player will go on checking his drum - whether it is perfect or not. For half an hour they go on doing this. This is not music, this is just preparation.
Kundalini is not really meditation. It is just preparation. You are preparing your instrument. When it is ready, they you stand in silence, then meditation starts. Then you are utterly there. You have woken yourself up by jumping, by dancing, by breathing, by shouting - these are all devices to make you a little more alert than you ordinarly are. Once you are alert, then the waiting. Waiting is meditation. Waiting with full awareness. And then it comes, it descends on you, it surrounds you, it plays around you, it dances around you, it cleanses you, it purifies you, it transforms you."
Osho, Meditation The First and Last Freedom
The dynamic Meditation lasts one hour and is in five stages. It can be done alone, but the energy will be more powerful if it is done in a group. It is an individual experience so you should remain oblivious of others around you and keep your eyes closed throughout, preferably using a blindfold. It is best to have an empty stomach and wear loose, comfortable clothing.
First stage: 10 minutes
Breathe chaotically through the nose, concentrating always on the exhalation. The body will take care of the inhalation. Do this as fast and as hard as you possibly can - and then a little harder, until you literally become the breathing. Use your natural body movements to help you to build up your energy. Feel it building up, but don't let go during the first stage.
Second stage: 10 minutes
Explode! Let go of everything that needs to be thrown out. Go totally mad, scream, shout, cry, jump, shake, dance, sing, laugh, throw yourself around. Hold nothing back, keep your whole body moving. A little acting often helps to get you started. Never allow your mind to interfere with what is happening. Be total.
Third stage: 10 minutes
With raised arms, jump up and down shouting the mantra 'HOO! HOO! HOO!' as deeply as possible. Each time you land, on the flats of your feet, let the sound hammer deep into the sex centre. Give all you have, exhaust yourself totally.
Fourth stage: 15 minutes
Stop! Freeze where you are in whatever position you find yourself. Don't arrange the body in any way. A Cough, a movement, anything will dissipate the energy flow and the effort will be lost. Be a witness to everything that is happening to you.
Fifth stage: 15 minutes
Celebrate and rejoice with music and dance, expressing your gratitude towards the whole. Carry your happiness with you throughout the day.
If your meditation space prevents you from making a noise, you can do this silent alternative: Rather than throwing out the sound, let the catharsis in the second stage take place entirely through bodily movements. In the third stage the sound 'HOO' can be hammered silently inside and the fifth stage can become an expressive dance.
Osho talks about some of the reactions that can happen in the body as a result of the deep catharsis of the Dynamic Meditation.If you feel pain, be attentive to it, don't do anything. Attention is the great sword - it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain.
For example, you are sitting silently in the last part of the meditation, unmoving, and you feel many problems in the body. You feel that the leg is going dead, there is some itching in the hand, you feel that ants are creeping on the body. Many times you have looked and there are no ants. The creeping is inside, not outside. What should you do? You feel the leg is going dead? - be watchful, just give your total attention to it. You feel itching? - don't scratch. That will not help You just give your attention. Don't even open your eyes Just give your attention inwardly, and just wait and watch. Within second, the itching will have disappeared. Whatsoever happens - even if you feel pain, severe pain in the stomach or in the head. It happens because in meditation the whole body changes. It changes it chemistry. New things start happening and the body in a chaos. Sometimes the stomach will be affected, because in the stomach you have suppressed many emotions, and they are all stirred. Some times you feel like vomiting, nauseous. Sometimes you will feel a severe pain in the head because the meditation is changing the inner structure of your brain. Passing through meditation, you are really in a chaos. Soon, things will settle. But for the time being, everything will be unsettled.
So what are you to do? You simply see the pain in the head, watch it. You be a watcher. You just forget that you are a doer, and by and by, everything will subside, and will subside so beautifully and so gracefully that you cannot believe unless you know it. Not only does the pain disappear from the head - because the energy which was creating pain, if watched disappears - the same energy becomes pleasure. The energy is the same.
Pain or pleasure are two dimensions of the same energy. If you can remain silently sitting and paying attention to distractions, all distractions is appear. And when all distractions disappear, you will suddenly become aware that the whole body has disappeared.
Osho has warned against turning this witnessing approach to pain into another fanaticism. If unpleasant physical symptoms - aches and pains or nausea - persist beyond three or four days of daily meditation, there is no need to be a masochist - seek medical advice. This applies to all Osho's meditation techniques.
Osho Kundalini Meditation lasts for one hour and has four stages, three with music, and the last without. The music has been composed under Osho's direct guidance specially for this particular meditation.
First stage: 15 minutes
Be loose and let your whole body shake, feeling 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.
Third stage: 15 minutes
Close your eyes and be still, sitting or
standing . . . witnessing whatever is happening inside and out.
Fourth stage: 15 minutes
Keep your eyes closed, lie down and be still.
"If you are doing 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, 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, stone like, rock like within; you will remain a manipulator, the doer, and the body will just be following. The body is not the question - you are the question..."
This is a cathartic technique, which encourages expressive body movements. It should be distinguished from the gentle Devavani Meditation.
First stage: 15 minutes
Either alone or in a group, close your eyes and begin to say nonsense sounds - giberrish. Allow yourself to express whatever needs to be expressed withing you. Throw everything out. The mind always thinks in terms of words.
Giberrish helps to break this pattern of continual verbalization. Without suppressing any of your thoughts, you can throw them out - in giberrish. Likewise, let your body be expressive.
Second stage: 15 minutes
Then for fifteen minutes, lie down on your stomach and feel as if you are merging with the Earth. With each exhalation, feel yourself merging with the ground beneath you.
Nadabrahma is an old Tibetan technique which was originally done in the early hours of the morning. It can be done at any time of the day, alone or with others, but have an empty stomach and remain inactive for at least 15 minutes afterwards. The meditation lasts an hour, and there are three stages.
First stage: 30 minutes
Sit in a relaxed position with eyes closed and lips together 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 like it.
Second stage: 15 minutes
The second stage is divided into two 7 1/2 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 movements 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 71/2 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
Sit or lie absolutely quiet and still.
The Master has given a beautiful variation of this technique for couples.
Partners sit facing each other, covered by a bedsheet and holding each ohter's crossed hands. It is best to wear no other clothing. Light the room only by four small candles and burn a particular incense, kept only for this meditation.
Close your eyes and hum together for thirty minutes. After a short while the energies will be felt to meet, merge and unite.
This powerful, cathartic technique creates a circle of energy that results in a natural centering. There are four stages of 15 minutes each.
First stage: 15 minutes
With open eyes run on the spot, starting slowly and gradually, getting faster and faster. Bring your knees up as high as possible. Breathe deeply and evenly. Forget the mind and forget the body. Keep going.Second stage: 15 minutes
Sit with eyes closed and mouth open and loose. Gently rotate your body from the waist, like a reed blowing in the wind. Feel the wind blowing you from side to side, back and forth, around and around. This will bring your awakened energies to the navel center.Third stage: 15 minutes
Lie on your back, open your eyes and, with the head still, rotate them in a clockwise direction. Sweep them fully around in the sockets as if you are following the second hand of a vast clock, but as fast as possible. It is important that the mouth remains open and the jaw relaxed, with the breath soft and even. This will bring -your centered energies to the third eye.Fourth stage: 15 minutes
Close your eyes and be still.
TECHNIQUE OF GAZINGIf you look at the flame for a long time for a few months, pne hour every day, your third eye starts
functioning perfectly. You become more alert, more lightfilled.
The world tratak comes from the root which means tears, so you have to look at the flame until tears start flowing from your eyes. Go on staring, unblinking, and the third eye will start vibrating.The technique of gazing is not concerned really with the object, it is concerned with gazing tself.
Because when you stare without blinking your eyes, you become focussed, and the nature of the mind is to be constatntly moving. If you are really gazing, not moving at all, the mind is bound to be in a difficulty.The nature of mind is to move from one object to another, to move constantly.
If you are gazing at darkness or at light or at something else, if you are really gazing at darkness or at light or at something else, if you are really gazing, the movement of the mind stops.Because if the mind goes on moving, your gaze will not be there; you will go on misssing the object.When the mind has moved somewhere else, you will forget, you will not be able to remember what you were looking at:The object will be there physically, but for you it will have disappeared because you are not there: you have moved in thought.
Gazing means, tratak means, not allowing your consciousness to move. And when you are not alowing the mind to move, in the beginning it struggles hard, but if you go on practising gazing, by and by the mind loses struggling. For moments it stops. And when mind stops there is no mind, because mind can exist only in movement, thinking can exist only in movement. When
there is no movement, thinking disappears, you cannot think, because thinking means movement-moving from one thought to another. It is a process.
If you gaze continuously at one thing, fully aware and alert...because you can gazed through dead eyes, then you can go on thinking-only eyes, dead eyes, not looking. Just with dead men's eyes you can look, but your mind will be moving. That will not be of any help. Gazing means not only your eyes, but your total mind focused through your eyes.
So whatever the object-it depends:if you like light, it is okay, if you can like darkness, good.Whatsoever
the object, deeply it is irrelevant-the question is to stop the mind completely in your gaze, to focus it, so the inner movement, the fidgeting, stops; the inner wavering stops. The deep looking will change you completely. It will become a meditation.
