OSHO Meditations – Revolutionary Approaches for Contemporary People
OSHO Meditations – Revolutionary Approaches for Contemporary People
Osho represents a revolution in making meditation, mindfulness, awareness, consciousness… in fact the simple proposition of turning up for your own life, available for contemporary people.
His understanding is that if modern people try to “sit silently” as is widely recommended, they will notice the madness within. His view is supported by many scientific studies confirming the ill-effects people have suffered by going on “silent retreats” and so on. Osho adds that if they don’t go crazy, it only because they are not doing the silent sitting with sufficient sincerity!
However, he points out, if we move our bodies “madly” – to express and release our accumulated stress and tensions – then we discover that the center is silent.
Hence the first steps in meditation are the OSHO Active Meditations – explained in more detail here – and the OSHO Evening Meeting. Once we have discovered the “knack” of observing first the body and then the mind, with its thoughts and feelings, then we can take this with us into our daily lives. Then whatever is happening can be a meditative experience. You can sit silently or run silently, work silently or play silently, whether you are alone or with others. It is in your hands.
Just as we all already know how to stand by the side of the road and watch the traffic flow past, meditation is just taking that same ability we all have and applying it to the traffic on the inside.
In fact Osho explains:
“A meditator needs no personal guidance. A meditator, on the contrary, needs only one thing: the atmosphere of meditation. He needs other meditators; he needs to be surrounded by other meditators. Because whatever goes on happening within us is not only within us, it affects people who are close by. In this communion people are at different stages of meditation. To meditate with these people, just to sit silently with these people, and you will be pulled more and more towards your own intrinsic potentiality.”
It is exactly that atmosphere you will find at the OSHO International Meditation Resort. And if you find you are stuck because of some personal psychological issue, there are courses, sessions and classes offered by the OSHO Multiversity to help you dissolve whatever is blocking your meditation.
More useful links:
What is meditation? And what it is not
Frequently Asked Questions about Meditation (FAQs)
The OSHO International Meditation Resort