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Part VII : Darshan: Osho gives Personal Meditations
sannyasin, whose child has died, says she feels a sense of emptiness
in her stomach. Osho suggests she fill the emptiness with meditation,
with god…
Do one small exercise from tonight, mm? Sit—the way you
are sitting is okay (she is sitting with her legs folded under
her). Just sit this way and first start feeling that emptiness
in the stomach, mm?
Then start feeling that it is coming up; that emptiness like
a vacuum is coming up, a bubble of vacuum is coming up. Slowly,
slowly, feel it and bring it up, and let it come to the crown
of the head. Then suddenly feel that when it comes to the crown
of the head, the crown opens and there is a hole. From that hole
feel that the emptiness is going out.
And when you feel this hole has come into your imagination,
exhale deeply, and with the exhalation feel that you are exhaling
from the hole also—not only from the nose and the mouth,
but from the hole also. And with that air and exhalation feel
that the emptiness is being-taken out, thrown out.
When you inhale, feel that a great light is entering from the
hole and you are inhaling light, streams of light…just like
foam, light is going into you. When you exhale, feel emptiness
going out; when you inhale, feel light coming in. Do this for
at least ten to fifteen minutes and then go to sleep. Do it for
one month and then you tell me how you are feeling.
That emptiness will disappear and instead of emptiness you will
start feeling full of light. You will start feeling that not only
is the light inside, but that it surrounds your body. And that
light will change many things. It will bring a radiance, a joy,
a quality of dance around you. thisis12
A sannyasin asks: When I am working in the town, by the end of
the week I feel very tired. Sometimes I can't even stand. What
can I do?
I understand. Do one thing. Every night before you go to sleep,
just sit in the bed and imagine an aura around your body, just
six inches away from your body, the same shape as the body, surrounding
you, protecting you. It will become a shield. Just do it for four,
five minutes, and then, still feeling it, go to sleep. Fall into
sleep imagining that aura like a blanket around you which protects
you so that no tension can enter from the outside, no thought
can enter from the outside; no outside vibrations can enter you.
Just feeling that aura, fall asleep.
This has to be done the last thing at night. After it, simply
go to sleep so the feeling continues in your unconscious. That
is the whole thing. The whole mechanism is that you start by consciously
imagining, then you start falling asleep. By and by when you are
on the threshold of sleep, a little imagination continues, lingers
on. You fall asleep but that little imagination enters the unconscious.
That becomes a tremendous force and energy.
I don't see that the problem is within you. The problem is coming
from the outside. You don't have a protective aura. It happens
to many people, because we don't know how to protect ourselves
from others. Others are not only there—they are broadcasting
their being continuously in subtle vibrations. If a tense person
passes by you, he is simply throwing arrows of tension all around—not
particularly addressed to you; he is simply throwing. And he is
unconscious; he is not doing it to anybody knowingly. He has to
throw it because he is too burdened. He will go mad if he doesn't
throw it. It is not that he has decided to throw it. It is overflowing.
It is too much and he cannot contain it, so it goes on overflowing.
Somebody passes by you and he goes on throwing something at
you. If you are receptive and you don't have a protective aura….
And meditation makes one receptive, very receptive, so when you
are alone, it is good; when you are surrounded by meditative people,
very good. But when you are in the world, in the marketplace,
and people are not meditative but are very tense, anxious, have
a thousand and one strains on their mind, then you just start
getting them.
And you are vulnerable; meditation makes one very soft, so whatsoever
comes, enters. After meditation one has to create a protective
aura. Sometimes it happens automatically, sometimes it doesn't.
It is not happening automatically to you, so you have to work
for it. It will be coming within three months. Any time between
three weeks and three months, you will start feeling very very
powerful. So in the night, fall asleep thinking this way.
In the morning the first thought has to be again this. The moment
you remember that now sleep is gone, don't open your eyes. Just
feel your aura all over the body protecting you. Do it for four,
five minutes again, and then get up. When you are taking your
bath and your tea, go on remembering it. Then in the daytime also
whenever you feel you have time—sitting in a car or a train,
or in the office doing nothing—just again relax into it.
For a single moment feel it again.
Between three weeks and three months you will start feeling
it almost like a solid thing. It will surround you and you will
be able to feel that you can now pass amidst a crowd and you will
remain unaffected, untouched. dance24
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