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Part VI : Dynamic Meditation evolves
(There are 112 basic techniques of meditation.) I have developed
my own techniques other than the 112, because I saw that for the
modern man there are a few problems which are not covered in those
112 techniques. They were written perhaps ten thousand years ago
for a totally different kind of mankind, a different kind of culture,
different kind of people. The modern man, the contemporary man,
has some differences - over ten thousand years it is absolutely
unavoidable.
For example, the Dynamic Meditation is not amongst those 112.
It is absolutely necessary for the modern man, although it may
not have been at that time. If people are innocent there is no
need for Dynamic Meditation. But if people are repressed, psychologically
are carrying a lot of burden, then they need catharsis. So Dynamic
Meditation is just to help them clean the place. And then they
can use any method from the 112. It will not be difficult. If
they, right now, directly try, they will fail.
I have seen many people trying directly - reaching nowhere,
because they are so full of garbage that first it has to be emptied
out.
Dynamic Meditation is of immense help. All the techniques that
I have developed are for the contemporary man, and doing these
techniques he will be clean, unburdened, simple, innocent. Perhaps
there will be no need to try those techniques. But just for curiosity's
sake you can try one of the techniques, and you will be surprised
how quickly you enter into its very innermost core.
So first thing is something cathartic, which is absolutely necessary
for the contemporary man. And then those silent methods can be
used. last319
In the September 1971 Meditation Camp, Osho changes the third
stage of dynamic meditation from 'Who am I?" to shouting
'Hoo Hoo Hoo'
Now we will get ready for the meditation. Take note of a few
things which I could not pass on to you last night. There are
two or three hints to be given to you and then we will sit for
the meditation.
Last night I said to you about sense-conservance for seven days.
The least you use your senses the better. If you do not use them
at all, the best. Keep your eyes closed for most of the time;
keep your mouth shut for most of the time; keep you ears closed
for most of the time. Devote these seven days completely to meditation.
Do not keep any other options for this period. Do not go even
for a walk; do not go even for sight seeing….
Pay full attention to sense-conservance. Do not let even an
iota of energy be wasted, then so much energy will be accumulated
in seven days that we will use it. Seating you on that very energy
we will send you on the inner journey.
Take minimum food, because most of our energy is spent in digesting
the food. Take minimum of it, take only that much that you do
not even notice that you have taken food in. Take this as the
guideline that after eating you do not feel that you have taken
food in - eat only that much.
So, not too much of your energy to go into digesting food. Remember,
whenever food is being digested, all your energy from the head
moves to the stomach. This is why one feels sleepy after eating.
Here we are going to do meditation, wherein all the energies have
to be taken towards the head, because it is there where the door
has to open. So, minimum amount of food - keep this in mind.
The third point. Do not be miserly to hold even an iota of your
energy from pulling it into the meditation experiment. Many times
it happens that you applied all your energy but withheld just
a fraction of it, then all that you applied goes waste because
of that little fraction that you withheld. The question is not
that of how much energy you applied, the question is whether you
applied all of it or not….
So, the third thing is: Put your total energy.
The meditation that will be done have in the mornings has three
stages of doing to it and the fourth stage is of relaxation.
You will blindfold yourself, put earplugs into your ears and for
the first ten minutes you will breath so deeply and intensely
that the energy in your whole body is awakened through the hit
of this breathing. The breathing is to be used like a hammer to
hit within. No system to it, just inhaling fast and deep and exhaling
fast and deep. For ten minutes, to ride fast with the breathing:
In, out, in, out…. In ten minutes, this breathing will awaken
the body electricity in every cell of your body.
When the body electricity will awaken, then in the second stage
all kind of movements will begin in your body. Somebody will begin
to dance, somebody` will jump, somebody will shout, weep, somebody
will laugh. Let all this happen totally for ten minutes. Dance,
sing, weep, shout - forget the whole world. If for ten minutes
you did all this with full intensity, you will suddenly find that
you are separate from your body. The Paramhansa that is sitting
within you will start watching that it's the body that is dancing,
laughing, jumping.
In the third stage, last time we were repeating the phrase 'Who
am I', 'Who am I', this time we will be saying only: 'Hoo', 'Hoo',….
A deep sound of 'Hoo' - a fast and deep hit. In the phrase
'Who am I', the mind begins to think, hence drop it. There is
no possibility of thinking in 'Hoo', 'Hoo'. It is not a word,
it is only a sound. It is a sound just as 'Om' is a sound. The
hit of the sound 'Hoo' will go deep within you reaching up to
below your navel. If you will make the right hit, it will reach
up to down below your navel, and from there will arise currents
of energy running towards the head. So, in the third stage, 'Hoo',
'Hoo' for ten minutes.
In all the three stages you have to go completely mad.
In the fourth stage, the moment I say 'Be quiet', you have to
go absolutely quiet. Do not wait even for a moment then. Then
even if your mind says, even if you are enjoying the action, yet
you have to stop. Then you have to stop completely and for ten
minutes lie down on the earth like a corpse. Simply lie down like
a corpse, be dead for ten minutes. During these ten minutes, if
death could come to you even for a moment, through that very door
will the divine enter you.
This is the experiment we are going to do now.
In the afternoon, we will come here and do kirtan for half an
hour and then for thirty minutes we will go into complete silence.
About our night meditation, I will give information at the night
time itself. thousd02
By October 1972 Osho has changed the fourth stage of Dynamic
Meditation to a 'Stop' or 'freeze', in whatever position one is
in, and remaining in it for 10 minutes.
This fourth step is the meditation; the first three steps are
just preparations. The fourth step is just like Zen. You are not
doing anything. No effort. Just waiting silently.
But it takes time. At least three weeks are needed to get the
feel of the technique, and three months are needed before you
can begin to move in a different world. But the time it will take
is not fixed. It differs from individual to individual. If your
intensity is very great, then even in three days it can happen.
quest03
You ask: Will You please indicate something about the fifth stage
in active meditation.
Nothing can be said about it; that is why I never talk about it.
The fourth is the last - the fifth will happen but nothing
can be said about it. There is no need either. The fifth is not
a state, it is your being. The first four are states, steps, but
the fifth is not a state, it is not a step. It is your own being,
it is your nature. But nothing can be said about it. If you come
to the fourth the fifth will happen to you, that much is certain.
If you can come to a total silence in the fourth, then the fifth
will happen. It is a growth of your silence.
But nothing can be said about it - or whatsoever can be said
will be misunderstood….
Once you know how to make this energy flow upward and withinward,
you will reach to higher orgasms, to higher peaks of ecstasy,
than you can ever reach with any woman or any man. An inner meeting
will have started.
The first step is to change your prana, your breathing pattern.
The second stage is to throw your emotions, the suppressed part
of your mind - a catharsis. And the third is to hit your life
energy to move upward. And when the energy starts moving upward,
then you are not to do anything, you are simply to lie down as
if dead.
There is to be no diversion there. The energy simply moves upward
and you are not to do anything. That is why I go on emphasizing
not to move. After the third step when I say "Stop!"
stop completely. Do not do anything at all because anything can
become a diversion and you miss the point. Anything, just a cough
or a sneeze, and you may miss the whole thing because the mind
has become diverted. Then the flow will stop immediately because
your attention has moved.
Do not do anything. You are not going to die! Even if the sneeze
is coming and you do not sneeze for ten minutes, you will not
die. If you feel like coughing, if you feel an irritation in the
throat and you do not do anything, you are not going to die. Do
not be afraid: no one has ever died. Remain dead as far as the
body is concerned so that the energy can move in one flow.
When the energy moves upward you become more and more silent.
Silence is the by-product of energy moving upward and tension
is the by-product of energy moving downward. You will be more
and more in anxiety when energy moves down; you will be more and
more silent, quiet, calm and cool as energy moves upward and inward.
And these words downward and outward are synonymous, and inward
and upward are synonymous. And when you have become silent, that
energy is moving like a flood, it is passing through all the chakras,
all the centers. And when it passes through all the chakras, it
cleanses them, it purifies them, it makes them dynamic, alive,
and the flood goes upward, upward to the last chakra.
Sex is the first chakra, the first center, the lowest - and
we exist at the lowest. That is why we know life only at its minimum.
When the energy flows upward and reaches to the last chakra, to
the sahasrar, energy is at its maximum, life is at its maximum.
Then you feel as if the whole cosmos has become silent: not even
a single sound is there. Everything becomes absolutely silent
when the energy comes to the last chakra.
You know the first chakra; it will be easy to understand through
that. When the energy comes to the sex center, you become absolutely
tense. The whole body is feverish, your every cell is in a fever.
Your temperature goes high, your blood pressure goes high, your
breathing becomes mad. Your whole body is in a temporary delirium - at
the lowest.
Quite the opposite is the case at the last chakra. Your whole
body becomes so cool, so silent, as if it has disappeared. You
cannot feel it. You have become bodiless. And when you are silent
the whole existence is silent because the existence is nothing
but a mirror: it reflects you. In thousands and thousands of mirrors,
it reflects you. When you are silent the whole existence has become
silent.
This is the fourth step and I will not say anything about the
fifth. This is the door - absolute silence. Then you can enter
the temple and you can know it but I cannot say it. And if you
come to know it, you will also not be able to say anything about
it. It is inexpressible. doctrn05
Osho brings a 5-piece conga-drum band to the July 1973 meditation
camp. Later Osho has a musical accompaniment recorded for his
meditations.
You ask: In reference to the meditation techniques based on sounds,
please explain the difference between the chaotic music played
in Your Dynamic Meditation and the rock music of the West.
Your mind is in chaos. That chaos has to be brought out, acted
out. Chaotic music can be helpful, so if you are meditating and
chaotic music is played or chaotic dancing is there around you,
it will help to bring out your chaos. You will flow in it, you
will become unafraid of expression. And this chaotic music will
hit your chaotic mind within and will bring it out. It helps.
Rock, jazz, or other music which is chaotic in a way also helps
something to come out, and that something is repressed sexuality.
I am concerned with all your repressions. Modern music is more
concerned just with your repressed sex, but there is a similarity.
However, I am not concerned only with your repressed sex, I am
concerned with all your repressions - sexual or not sexual…
This state of mind is neurotic. The whole society is ill. That
is why I so much insist on chaotic meditation. Relieve yourself,
act out whatsoever society has forced on you, whatsoever situations
have forced on you. Act them out, relieve yourself of them, go
through a catharsis. The music helps. vbt28
Osho adds a fifth stage of five minutes celebration at the end
of the Dynamic Meditation
You have reaped. You have reaped bliss, you have reaped ecstasy.
Now sow it for others. In the world, you sow first and then you
reap. In the spiritual dimension, everything is just the reverse.
First you reap, and then you sow.
You have reaped what Buddha has sown, what Jesus, Krishna and
Mohammed have sown. They have sown seeds and you have reaped them.
Now, sow seeds for others. And remember well that sowing is just
exhaling. It is part of the whole process. You will remain half,
incomplete, imperfect, unless bliss has started flowing from you
toward everything.
This is a very necessary law. When you become silent, you hear
it. No one else is saying it to you. Your own heart, your own
innermost being, tells you this. This indication, this teaching,
this message is not from without. It is from your own innermost
self…There's no possibility of not obeying it; it is your
own. But if you know it well, it will be easy.
It will be easy if you know that it is part of the process: that
bliss should be distributed and shared; only then will it grow
more. If you don't know this law, your miserliness, your old selfcenteredness
may delay the completion of the process.
It can only be delayed; it cannot be disobeyed forever. But why
delay it? So remember this: whenever you feel any moment of bliss
happening, share it.
That's why my insistence, so much insistence, that after meditation
you must express your bliss; you must celebrate it. You must make
it a point that whatsoever happens to you - allow it to be
shared. Dance and sing. These are just symbolic; they are just
to serve as a continuous remembrance.
When you have gone from here, many things will happen to you if
you continue meditation. But whenever something happens to you,
don't keep it to yourself. Share it. Even if you cannot do anything
else, just smiling, smiling to some stranger, may be enough. Just
taking the hand of some stranger in your hand and feeling the
friend within him will do it. Or sharing anything, just as a token.
Or if there is no one there and you are sitting under a tree,
then dance and feel that you are dancing with the tree. Sing,
and feel that you are singing with the birds. And sooner or later
you will come to understand that when you share, even a tree is
ready to share back with you….
And if a tree can share, why not birds? They are more alive.
Why not animals? They are still more alive. And why not the whole
existence? Sooner or later we will find that even stones share.
Their soul may be hidden very deep, but it is there; and one day
we are going to find out instruments which will give us indications
that even a stone, a rock, has emotions.
So wherever you are, whenever you feel that some ecstatic emotion
has happened to you, dance to its tune, sing to its tune, and
share your happiness in whatsoever way it happens to you, in whatsoever
way you feel to share it. But share it! It will grow more. With
sharing, it grows. With miserliness - with not sharing - it
dies down, it shrinks. Death is a shrinkage. Shrinkage is death.
Life is expansion; allow it to expand. And once you know the
feeling of expansion you will allow it to happen, because it is
your own innermost self dictating. alchem09
This will look strange - that I say don't make meditation
a practice, rather make it a play, a fun. Enjoy it while doing
it, not for any result.
But our minds are very serious, deadly serious. Even if we play,
we make it a serious thing. We make it a work, a duty. Play just
like small children. Play with meditation techniques, and then
much more is possible through them. Don't be serious about them;
take them as fun. But we make everything serious. Even if we are
playing, we make it serious. And with religion we have always
been very serious. Religion has never been fun, that's why the
earth has remained irreligious. Religion must become a fun and
a festivity, a celebration - a celebration of the moment,
enjoying whatsoever you are doing; enjoying so much and so deeply
that mind ceases. vbt52
Osho writes to a friend:
The temple of God is open only to a dancing, singing, happy heart.
A sad heart cannot enter there so avoid sadness; fill your heart
with colour as vivid as a peacock - and for no reason. He
who has reason to be happy is not really happy. Dance and sing - not
for others, not for a reason, just for dancing's sake; sing for
singing's sake; then the whole life becomes divine and only then
becomes prayer. To live so is to be free. teacup03
The final form of Dynamic Meditation is as follows:
First Stage: Ten minutes of deep, fast breathing through the
nose. Let the body be as relaxed as possible; then begin with
deep, fast, chaotic breathing - as deep and as fast as possible.
Go on breathing intensely for ten minutes. Don't stop; be total
in it. If the body wants to move while you are breathing, let
it; cooperate with it completely.
Second Stage: Ten minutes of catharsis, of total cooperation
with any energy that breathing has created. Let the emphasis be
on catharsis and total letting go. Just let whatever is happening
happen: do not suppress anything. If you feel like weeping, weep;
if you feel like dancing, dance. Laugh, shout, scream, jump, shake - whatever
you feel to do, do it! Just be a witness to whatever is happening
within you.
Third Stage: Ten minutes of shouting hoo-hoo-hoo. Raise your
arms above your head and jump up and down as you continue to shout
hoo-hoo. As you jump, land hard on the soles of your feet so that
the sound is forced deep into the sex center. Exhaust yourself
completely.
Fourth Stage: Fifteen minutes of stopping dead, as you are.
Freeze! Whatever position you are in, stop completely.
Fifth Stage: Fifteen minutes of dancing, of celebration, of
thanksgiving for the deep bliss you have experienced. medfre
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