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Part VII : Whirling Meditation
Osho introduces a new two-hour Whirling Meditation for the evening.
Meditators do this at the nearby Empress Botanical Gardens, as
well as Dynamic meditation each morning. (Whirling continues to
be a much-loved meditation at the present time.)
In the night, just the opposite of the morning - be completely
unconscious; don't bother at all. The night has come, the sun
has set, now everything is moving into unconsciousness. Move into
unconsciousness. This whirling, Sufi whirling, is one of the most
ancient techniques, one of the most forceful. It is so deep that
even a single experience can make you totally different. You have
to whirl with open eyes, just like small children go on twirling,
as if your inner being has become a center and your whole body
has become like a wheel, moving - a potter's wheel, moving.
You are in the center, but the whole body is moving. Start slowly,
clockwise.
If somebody feels it is very difficult to move clockwise then
anti-clockwise, but the rule is to move clockwise. If a few people
are left-handed then they may feel it difficult; they can move
anti-clockwise. And almost ten percent of people are left-handed,
so if you find that clockwise you feel uneasy, move anti-clockwise;
but start with clockwise, then feel. Music will be there, slow,
just to help you. In the beginning move very slowly; don't go
fast, but very slowly, enjoying. And then, by and by, go faster.
The first fifteen minutes, go slowly; the second fifteen minutes,
fast; the third fifteen minutes, faster; the fourth fifteen minutes,
just completely mad. And then your total energy, you, become a
whirlpool, an energy whirlpool, lost completely in it: no witnessing,
no effort to observe. Don't try to see; be the whirlpool, be the
whirling. One hour.
In the beginning you may not be able to stand so long, but remember
one thing, don't stop by yourself, don't stop the whirling. If
you feel it is impossible the body will fall down automatically,
but don't you stop. If you fall down in the middle of the hour
there is no problem; the process is complete. But don't play tricks
with yourself, don't deceive; don't think that now you are tired
so it is better to stop. No, don't make it a decision on your
part. If you are tired, how can you go on? You will fall automatically.
So don't stop yourself; let the whirling itself come to a point
where you fall down. When you fall down, fall down on your stomach;
and it will be good if your stomach is in direct touch with the
earth. Then close the eyes. Lie down on the earth as if lying
down on the breast of your mother, a small child lying down on
the breast of the mother. Become completely unconscious. And this
whirling will help.
Whirling gives intoxication to the body. It is a chemical thing,
it gives you intoxication, to be exact. That's why sometimes you
may feel giddy just like a drunkard. What is happening to the
drunkard? Hidden behind your ears is a sixth sense, the sense
of balance. When you take any drink, any alcoholic thing, any
intoxicating drug, it goes directly to the center of balance in
the ear and disturbs it. That's why a drunkard cannot walk, feels
dizzy. The same happens in whirling. If you whirl, really, the
effect will be the same: you will feel intoxicated, drunk. But
enjoy - this drunkenness is worth something. This being in
a drunken state is what Sufis have been calling ecstasy, masti.
In the beginning you may feel giddy, in the beginning sometimes
you may feel nausea, but within two, three days, these feelings
will disappear and by the fourth day you will feel a new energy
in you that you have never known before. Then giddiness will disappear,
and just a smooth feeling of drunkenness will be there. So don't
try to be alert about what is happening. Let it happen and become
one with the happening.
In the morning, be alert; in the afternoon, half alert, half
unalert; in the night, completely unalert. The circle is complete.
And then fall down on the ground on your stomach. If anybody
feels any sort of pain in the navel center lying down on the ground,
then he can turn on the back, otherwise not. If you feel something,
a very deep painful sensation in the stomach, then turn on your
back, otherwise not. The navel in contact with the earth will
give you such a blissful feeling - just the same as once
you had, but now you have forgotten, when you were a child lying
down on your mother's breast, completely unaware of any worry,
any anxiety, so one with the mother, your heart beating with her
heart, your breath in tune with her breath. The same will happen
with the earth because earth is the mother. That's why Hindus
have been calling earth the mother and sky the father. Be rooted
in it. Feel a merger as if you have dissolved. The body has become
one with the earth; the form is there no more. Only earth exists;
you are not there. This is what I mean when I say break the cup
completely: forget that you are. The earth is, and dissolve in
it.
During the one hour of whirling the music will continue. Many
will fall before the hour but everybody has to fall by the time
the music stops. So if you feel that you are still not in the
state of falling then go faster and faster. After forty-five minutes
go completely mad, so by the time the hour is complete you have
fallen. And the feeling of falling is beautiful, so don't manipulate
it. Fall, and when you have fallen then turn on your stomach,
be merged, close your eyes. This merger has to be there for one
hour.
So the night meditation will be of two hours, from seven o'clock
to nine o'clock. Don't eat anything before it. At nine o'clock
the suggestion will be given to come out of this deep drunkenness,
this ecstasy. Even out of it you may not be able to walk correctly,
but don't be disturbed, enjoy it. Then take your food and go to
sleep. wing01
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