DE-STRESS WITH MEDITATION

MIND Is An Extremist

2008-12-10T17:40:00.000-08:00

Your mind exists in extremes. Mind means the excess. Mind is always extremist either you are for or you are against. You can not be simply neutral. Mind can not exist in naturality, it can be here or there because mind needs the opposite, it needs to be opposed to something. If it is not opposed to anything it disappears. Then there is no functioning for it, it can not function.
Try this- in any way become neutral indifferent-suddenly mind has no function. If you are for you can think, if you are against, you can think. If you are neither for nor against, what is left to think?
Buddha says that indifference is the basis of the middle path.Upeksha,indifference- be indifferent to the extremes. A balance happens.
(OSHO)

Present Sir

2008-12-05T06:59:00.000-08:00

Osho: Start doing a very simple method at least six times a day. It takes only half a minute each time so it is three minutes a day. It is the shortest meditation in the world (she laughs). But you have to do it suddenly – that’s the whole point of it.Walking on the street – suddenly you remember. Stop yourself, stop yourself completely, no movement. Just be present for half a minute. Whatsoever the situation, stop completely and just be present to whatsoever is happening. Then start moving again. Six times a day. More you can do but not less. It will bring much opening. It has to be done suddenly.In my childhood when I entered high school, I had a teacher who was a little eccentric about a few things. One was that whenever he took the attendance, he would not allow anybody to say, ’Yes, Sir.’ When he called the names he would insist that we would say, ’Present, Sir.’ And I loved it, because I started meditating. This is what I used to do: when he called my name, I would say, ’Present, Sir,’ and I would be really present. I would forget everything and just stop and be present, pure presence.He became aware by and by that I was doing something else. One day he called me after the class and said. ’What are you doing? You seem to be mysterious. When you say, ”Present, Sir,” what do you do exactly? – because suddenly your face changes, your eyes change, your movements stop, and I have started feeling some energy coming towards me. What are you doing? I feel very pulled,’ he said, ’and sometimes now I have even started remembering you. In my home sometimes I suddenly hear you calling, ”Present, Sir,” and something happens to me. But what are you doing?’If you just become present suddenly, the whole energy changes. The continuity that was going on in the mind stops. And it is so sudden that the mind cannot create a new thought so immediately. It takes time; the mind is stupid. It cannot work without time, so when you do it suddenly.... Gurdjieff used to call this exercise, the ’Stop Exercise’.His disciples would be working – somebody might be digging in the garden, somebody might be cleaning the floor, somebody might be cooking, and suddenly he would shout loudly, ’Stop!’ And everybody had to stop – whatsoever he was doing. If your mouth was open and you were going to say something, it had to remain open; you were not to close it.
If your eyes were open they had to remain open. If you were moving and you had taken one step up, it had to remain there; whether you feel or not, that was not the question. You were not to manage anything; you were simply to stop as you were.It was one of the most beautiful methods that he developed. In that stopping, suddenly the mind stops, and for a single moment there is a clearing. All thoughts disappear – there is emptiness, and in that emptiness there is an opening.So start this – call it ’Present, Sir’ or ’Stop Exercise’ as you like. Anywhere, the moment you remember, just give a jerk to your whole being and stop. Not only you will become aware. Soon you will feel that others have become aware of your energy – that something has happened; something from the unknown is entering you. That will open your closedness.There is something that man can do but there is something that only God can do. Whatsoever you can do, you have done. It is as if a tree has brought buds – that’s all the tree can do. But for the opening of the bud, for the petals to open, it will have to wait for the sun. Then with the sunrise the petals will open. This ’stop’ exercise is to allow the sun to enter you. It is always there but you are so occupied with the mind that the rays of the sun never enter you.So six times or more... and don’t prolong it because after half a minute the old mind will come back and the whole thing will be destroyed!
Source: from Osho Book "God Is Not For Sale, Chapter 14 "
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" YES, YES, YES "

2008-10-21T17:57:00.000-07:00

Make a mantra of "yes". Every night before you go to sleep repeat "yes, yes" and get in tune with it; sway with it, let it come over all of your being from the toe to the head. Let it penetrate. Repeat "yes, yes". Let that be your prayer for ten minutes in the night and then go to sleep. And early in the morning again at least for three minutes sit in your bed. The first thing to do is to repeat " yes" and get into the feel of it. In the day whenever you start feeling negative, just stop on the road anywhere. If you can say loudly "yes, yes", good. Otherwise at least you can say silently "yes, yes".
OSHO

OSHO--- How To Get The Taste Of SILENCE ?

2008-10-17T18:00:00.001-07:00

The following OSHO tips helps one to get the taste of real SILENCE

TALK TELEGRAPHICALLY :
For one day, talk telegraphically. limit yourself to using only absolutely necessary words akin to a talegram, 10 woeds at the most. A telegram is more effective than long letters because in those 10 words the entire message is condensed and has a deep impact.

KEEP MUM WHEN YOU FEEL GOOD:
Whenever you feel very good, keep quiet. Once you express it, you can disturb it. Even to say that you are feeling good is a disturbance because you have already made it the past. You have already started looking at it as an observer, a spectator. You are starting to analyse it and are no more deeply involved in it. There is no need to label it or say that "it is good", because no label can be true to it. The feeling of goodness is so infinite that when you call it good, you have already made it mediocre.

SAYING"I LOVE YOU" MEKES ONE PROFANE:
When you feel love for somebody, to say "i love you" is to make it profane. You have already made it rotten. Tha word corrupts. Just show it by your being. Enjoy it, but don't say anything about it. Once uttered, beautiful and great experiences become trivial.

SILENCE DEEPENS LOVE:
If you can deepen your silence, you can deepen your love without any difficulty, because it is the same process. You can deepen your laughter, you can deepen your vitality. Your life will not become superficial, but something that contains depths. A fundamental law of existence is that you can deepen your experience in any one dimension, you become capable of deepening your experience in other dimensions to the same extent.
OSHO

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2008-10-17T08:41:00.001-07:00

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Osho Meditation( Sit silently and wait )

2008-10-16T17:20:00.000-07:00

Sometimes what happens is that meditation is close by but you are engaged in other things. That still small voice is within you but you are full of noise, engagements, occupations, responsibilities. And meditation comes like a whisper, it doesn't come like a slogan shouting, it comes very silently. It makes no noise. Not even the footsteps are heard. So if you are engaged, it waits and goes
So make it a point, atleast an hour everyday, just to sit silently and wait for it. Don't do anything, just sit silently with closed eyes in great waiting, with a waiting heart, with an open heart. Just waiting, so if something happens then you are ready to receive it, if nothing happens don't feel frustrated. Even sitting for one hour and having nothing happen is good, is relaxing. it calms you down, makes you still, makes you more centered and rooted. but more and more it will come and slowly slowly there will arise an understanding between you and the meditative state; that you wait at a certain hour in a certain room at a certain time, it will come more and more.It is not something that comes from the outside, it comes from your innermost core. But when the inner conscious knows that outer cnscious is waiting for it, there is more possibility of meeting.
Just sit under a tree. The breeze is blowing and the leaves of the tree are rustling. The wind touches you, it moves around you, it passes. But don't allow it just to pass you; allow it to move within you and pass through you. Just close your eyes, and as it is passing through the tree and there is rustling of leaves, feel that you are also like a tree, open,and the wind is blowing through you-- not by your side, but right through you.

God Is Not A Solution But A Problem

2008-10-16T02:45:00.000-07:00

Hahaha----Haha

2008-10-16T02:39:00.000-07:00

Dancing On The Tune Of Nusrat Sahib

2008-10-16T02:35:00.000-07:00

MUSIC IS MEDITATION

2008-10-08T18:33:00.000-07:00

Music is meditation---meditation crystallized in a certain dimension. Meditation is music---music melting into the dimensionless. They are not two.
If you love music, you love it only because around it somehow you feel meditation happening. You are absorbed by it, you become drunk in it. Something of the unknown starts descending around---God starts whispering. Your heart beats in a different rhythm, one in tune with the universe. Suddenly you are in a deep orgasm with the whole. A subtle dance enters into your being, and doors that have remained closed forever starts opening. A new breeze passes through you; dust of the centuries is blown away. you feel as if you have taken a bath, a spirtual bath; you have been under a shower- clean, fresh, virgin.
Music is meditation; meditation is music. These are two doors to approach the same phenomenon.

MEDITATION IS NOT CONCENTRATION

2008-10-07T18:19:00.000-07:00

Meditation is not concentration. In concentration there there is a self concentrating and there is an object being concentrated upon.There is duality. In meditation there is nobody inside and nothing outside.It is not concentration. There is no division division between the in and the out. The in goes on flowing into the out, the out goes on flowing into the in. The demarcation, the boundry, the border, no longer exists. The in is out, the out is in; it is a non-dual consciousness.
Concentration is a dual consciousness; that's why concentration creates tiredness; that's why when you concentrate you feel exhausted. And you cannot concentrate for twenty-four hours, you will have to take holidays to rest. Concentration can never become your nature. Meditation does not tire, meditation does not exhaust you. Meditation can become a twenty- four thing- day in, day out, year in year out. It can become eternity. It is a relaxation itself.
Concentration is an act, a willed act. Meditation is a state of no will, a state of inaction.It is a relaxation. One has simply dropped into one's own being, and that being is the same as being of All. Concentration the mind functions out of a conclusion; you are doing something. Concentration comes out of the past. In meditation there is no conclusion behind it. You are not doing anything in particular, you are simply being. It has no past to it, it is uncontaminated by the past. It has no future to it, it is pure off all future. It is what Lao Tzu has called wei-uu-wei, action through inaction. It is what Zen masters have been saying; Sitting silently doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Remember,"by itself"-nothing is being done. You are not pulling the grass upwards;the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. The state-when you allow life to go on its own way, when you don't want to direct it, when you don't want to give any control to it, when you are not manipulating, when you are not enforcing any discipline on it- that state of pure undiscplined spontaneity, is what meditation is.
Meditation is in the present, pure present. Meditation is immediacy. You cannot meditate you can be in meditation. You cannot be in concentration, but you can concentrate. Concentration is human, meditation is divine.

STOP MEDITATION

2008-10-03T18:37:00.000-07:00

Start doing a very simple method at least six times a day. It takes only half a minute each time so it is three minutes a day. It is the shortest meditation in the world. But you have to do it suddenly- that's is the whole point in it.
Walking on the street- suddenly you remember. Stop yourself, stop yourself completely, no movement. Just be present for half a minute. Whatsoever the situation, stop completely and just be present to whatsoever is happening. Then start moving again. Six times a day. More you can do but not less-it will bring much opening. It has to done suddenly.
If you just become present suddenly, the whole energy changes. The continutity that was going on in the mind stops. And it is so sudden that the mind cannot create a new thought so immediately. It takes time; the mind is stupid.
Anywhere, the moment you remember, just give a jerk to your whole being and stop. Not only will you become aware, soon you will feel that others have become aware of your energy- that something has happened; something from the unknown is entering you.
OSHO

PILLOW-BEATING MEDITATION

2008-10-03T18:08:00.000-07:00

When you feel angry, there is no need to be angry against someone; just be angry. Let it be a meditation. Close the room, sit by yourself, and let the anger come up as much as it can. If you feel like beating, beat a pillow.
Do whatsoever you want to do; the pillow will never object. If you want to kill the pillow, have a knife and kill it. It helps, it helps tremendously. One can never imagine how helpful a pillow can be. Just beat it, bite it, throw it. If you are against somebody in particular, write on the pillow or stick a particular picture on it.
You will feel ridiculous, foolish, but anger is ridiculous; you cannot do anything about it. So let it be and enjoy it like an energy phenomenon. It is an energy phenomenon. If you are not hurting anybody there is nothing wrong in it. When you try this you will see that the idea of hurting somebody by and by diappears.
Make it a daily practice--- just twenty minutes every morning, Then watch the whole day. You will be calmer, because the energy that becomes anger has been thrown out; the energy that becomes a poison is thrown out of the system. Do this for at least two weeks. and after one week you will be surprised to find that whatsoever the situation, anger is not coming. Just give it a try.
OSHO

GIGGLE MEDITATION( Meditation for Intellectual people burdened with knowledge)

2008-08-30T18:47:00.000-07:00

Just sitting silently, create a giggle in the very guts of your being, as if your whole body is giggling, laughing. Start swaying with that laughter; let it spread from the belly to the whole of your body; hands laughing, feet laughing . Go crazily into it for twenty minutes, if it comes uproariously, loudly, allow it, if it comes silently-sometimes silently, sometimes loudly- but twenty minutes of laughing.
Then lie down on the earth or on the floor; spread yourself on the floor, facing the floor, if it is warm and you can be in the garden, on the soil, that will be far better; if it can be done naked that will be even better. Make contact with the earth, the whole body lying down there on the earth, and just feel that the earth is the mother and you are the child. Get lost in the feeling.
Twenty minutes of laughter, then twenty minutes earthing-deep contact with the earth; breath with the earth,feel one with the earth. We come from the earth and one day we will be going back to it. After those twenty minutes of energizing, then dance, because the earth will give you so much energy that your dancing will have a different quality to it. For twenty minutes, just any dance; put music on and dance.
If it is difficult, it is cold, then you can do this inside a room, or when it is sunny do it outside.If it is very cold, cover yourself with a blanket. Find ways and means but continue to do it, and within six to eight months you will see changes happening on their own.
( OSHO )

FEEL THE SILENCE OF THE WOMB

2008-06-23T18:08:00.001-07:00

Let silence become your meditation.Whenever you have time, just collapse in silence & that is exactly what i mean: collapse- as if you are a small child in your mother's womb. Sit this way and then by & by you will start feeling that you want to put your head on the floor. Then put the head on the floor. Take the womb-posture as the child remains curled up in the mother's womb & immediately you will feel the silence is coming, the same silence that was there in the mother's womb. Sitting in your bed, go under the blanket & curl up & remain there utterly still doing nothing.
A few thoughts sometimes will come, let them pass- you be indifferent, not concerned at all; if they come, good; if they don't, good. Don't fight, don't push them away. If you fight you will become disturbed.

LAUGHTER IS RELIGIOUS (OSHO)

2008-06-07T17:52:00.000-07:00

Laughter is as precious as prayer or even more precious than prayer, because the man who cannot laugh cannot pray either. A prayer that does not come out of a joyous heart is already dead.It cannot reach god, it cannot leave the earth, it has no wings. It is like a rock: it will fall back to the earth, it cannot fly into the sky.
Religion has lived without laughter, that's why religion has been a corpse. And you are worshping corpses in your churches and in your temples and in your mosques, you have become worshipers of death. Rather than worshiping life you have been worshiping death.
My approach is totally different- I bring you a new vision. Religion is against laughter, is against love, is against rejoicing, is against celebration. The religious person, the so-called religious person, condemns everything of this world; he lives surrounded by a thousands and one condemnations. He lives in fear, in trembling. He does not live, he only vegetates.
Your so-called saints and mahatmas are not real people, they don't have the guts to be real, they are phony. But you have worshiped them for so long, and you still go on worshiping them. And the reason you worship them is because they are so dead, because they are so serious, because they are so ugly, because their whole approach towards life is so negative. They are anti-life,anti-love, anti-laughter-how can they be for god? It is only through love and laughter and a tremendous joy in life that you start feeling the presence of something that is beyond.

2008-05-30T18:02:00.000-07:00

A RELAXED STILLNESS ( OSHO)
The modern mind is feeling very alienated from god for a simple reason-that never before in history was man in such a hurry as modern man is. Never was man so impatient as modern man is, & that is the barrier: modern man has forgotten how to wait. He wants things instantly, he wants them now. He cannot wait for the spring to come. He cannot wait for the seed to die and grow and become a tree. He has lost all patience.
The is one of the characteristics of the modern man: he has no patience in his heart, and that is making him very ill. Constantly running, rushing and reaching nowhere, because all that the inner soul desires needs waiting, needs time, needs a relaxed stillness-no hurry, no speed, because we are not going anywhere. We are just to be still and silent,herenow,and god comes.

2008-05-29T18:00:00.000-07:00

NOTHING TO WORRY-(osho)
When you were not born,was there any anxiety,any worry,any angst ?
You were not there, there was no problem.You are the problem, the
begining of the problem & then as you grow more & more problems.
Zen masters continously ask the new commers, where have you been
before your father was born ? They are asking you, if you were not,
there was no problem, what is the worry ?

2008-05-28T17:55:00.000-07:00

OSHO'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUE TO DE-STRESS YOURSELF
This is a 60 minutes meditation,for 40 minutes just become negative as negative as you can. close the doors, put pillows around the room, unhook the phone, and tell everybody that you are not to be disturbed for one hour. put a notice on the door saying that for one hour you should be left
totally alone. make light as dim as possible, put on some gloomy music and feel dead. Sit there and feel negative repeat no as mantra.
Imagine scenes of the past when you were very very dull & you wanted to commit sucide & there was no zest of life & exaggerate them. Create the whole situation around you. your mind will distract you. it will say what are you doing? the night is so beautiful & the moon is full. Dont listen to the mind. Tell it that it can come later on but this time you are devoting completely to the negativity. Be religiously negative, cry weep, shout, scream, swear. Whatsoever you feel like but remember one thing, dont become happy.
Dont allow any happiness.If you catch yourself, immediately bring yourself to negativity & start beating the pillows, fighting, with them, jumping.Be nasty.
And you will find it very very difficult to be negative for forty minutes.
This is one of the basic laws of the mind whatsoever you do consciously you can not do, but do it & when you do it consciously, you will feel a separation.You are doing it but still you are a witness. you are not lost in it. A distance arises & that distance is tremendously beautiful. But i am not saying to create that distance. That is a by product you need not worry about it. After forty minutes suddenly jump out of the negativity.
Throw the pillows away, put on the lights, put on some beautiful music & have a dance for twenty minutes. Just say yes. yes.yes let it be your mantra. And then take agood shower. It will uproot all the negativity & it will give you a glimpse of saying yes.

2008-05-25T04:31:00.000-07:00

STRESS IS A DISEASE OF THE MODERN MAN,WHO IS LIVING A HECTIC LIFE. STRESS
UPTO SOME EXTENT IS NEEDED TO GROW IN THIS SOCIETY BUT IF IT EXCEEDS ITS
LIMITS THEN IT BECOMES FATAL.
MEDITATION IS THE NATURAL ANTIDOTE FOR STRESS. MEDITATION LEADES YOU
INWARDS, IT LEADS YOU TO BLISSFUL STATES, TO ECSTASY.
ONE CAN ENJOY THE REAL HAPPINESS WITH MEDITATION
BY FULLY ENJOYING THIS MATERIALISTIC WORLD SIMULTANEOUSLY.

ZORBA THE BUDDHA IS THE REAL MAN. ON THE PERIPHERY HE IS ZORBA AND IN

THE CENTRE HE IS THE BUDDHA.