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)
Wednesday 10 December 2008
Friday 5 December 2008
Present Sir
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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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 "
Related Links:Osho Passive Meditations •Osho Active Meditations •Vigyan Bhairav Tantra • Vipassana, Witnessing •Meditation FAQ •Osho Meditation Books • Osho Meditation Stories • Osho Meditation Quotes •Osho Meditative Therapies •
Tuesday 21 October 2008
" YES, YES, YES "
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
Friday 17 October 2008
OSHO--- How To Get The Taste Of SILENCE ?
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
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
Thursday 16 October 2008
Osho Meditation( Sit silently and wait )
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.
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.
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