Thursday, 16 October 2008
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
MUSIC IS MEDITATION
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.
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.
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
MEDITATION IS NOT CONCENTRATION
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.
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.
Friday, 3 October 2008
STOP MEDITATION
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
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
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
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
Saturday, 30 August 2008
GIGGLE MEDITATION( Meditation for Intellectual people burdened with knowledge)
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 )
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 )
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