Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Foreword MEDICAL DISCLAIMER Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: ABOUT MEDITATION What is meditation?Witnessing, the spirit of meditation The flowering of meditation The great silence Growing in sensitivity Love, the fragrance of meditation Compassion Abiding joy for no reason at all Intelligence: the ability to respond Aloneness: your self-nature Your real self Part 2: THE SCIENCE OF MEDITATION Methods and Meditations Techniques are helpful Begin with effort These methods are simple First understand the technique The right method will click When to drop the method Suggestions for beginners Enough space The right place Be comfortable Begin with catharsis Guidelines to Freedom The three essentials Be playful Be patient Don’t look for results Appreciate unawareness Machines help, but don’t create meditation You are not your experiences Meditation is a knack Part 3: THE MEDITATIONS THE OSHO ACTIVE MEDITATIONS Why active meditation?Powerful Methods for Awakening An Energy Phenomenon OSHO DYNAMIC MEDITATION: Catharsis and Celebration Remember, remain a witness OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION OSHO NATARAJ MEDITATION OSHO NADABRAHMA MEDITATION Anything Can Be a Meditation Running, Jogging and Swimming Laughing Meditation Gibberish Meditation Smoking Meditation Breath—a Bridge to Meditation Vipassana Throwing things out Opening the Heart From head to heart The heart of peacefulness Atisha’s Heart Meditation Inner Centering Abdullah Finding the real source Center of the cyclone Who am I?OSHO WHIRLING MEDITATION Meditations on Light Golden Light meditation Heart of light Meditations on Darkness Inner darkness Meditations in Sound Aum Devavani The center of sound Finding the Space Within Enter the clear sky Include Everything A meditation for the jet set Watching with the Third Eye OSHO GOURISHANKAR MEDITATION OSHO MANDALA MEDITATION Finding the Witness Touching as a Feather Just Sitting Zazen Just Listening OSHO MEDITATIVE THERAPIES The OSHO MYSTIC ROSE MEDITATION The OSHO NO-MIND MEDITATION OSHO BORN AGAIN OSHO REMINDING YOURSELF OF THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE OF TALKING TO YOUR BODYMIND Part 4: OBSTACLES TO MEDITATION The two difficulties The ego The chattering mind False methods Meditation is not concentration Meditation is not introspection Tricks of the mind Don’t be fooled by experiences Mind can enter again Mind can deceive you Part 5: RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDITATION Only a witness can really dance The goose has never been in The watcher on the hill Where did you leave your bicycle?Just a 180° turn All paths merge on the mountain Celebrating consciousness Count the moments of awareness Make things as simple as possible Witnessing is like sowing seeds Witnessing is enough About the Author Osho International Meditation Resort Appendix: OSHO Active Meditations Music For More Information

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Aum

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Aum ‌ AUM is one of the basic sounds. A-U-M: these three sounds are combined in it. A-U-M are three basic sounds. All sounds are made of them or derived from them; all sounds are combinations of these three sounds. So these three are basic. They are as basic as the claim of physics that the electron, neutron and proton are basic. This has to be deeply understood....

Be comfortable

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Be comfortable ‌ A posture should be such that you can forget your body. What is comfort? When you forget your body, you are comfortable. When you are reminded continuously of the body, you are uncomfortable. So whether you sit in a chair or you sit on the ground, that is not the point. Be comfortable, because if you are not comfortable in the body you cannot long for other blessings which belong to deeper layers: the first layer missed, all other layers closed....

Be patient

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Be patient ‌ Don’t be in a hurry. So often, hurrying causes delay. As you thirst, wait patiently—the deeper the waiting, the sooner it comes. You have sown the seed, now sit in the shade and watch what happens. The seed will break, it will blossom, but you cannot speed the process. Doesn’t everything need time? Work you must, but leave the results to God....

Be playful

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Be playful ‌ Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it; it looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead—those who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration…. These are the qualities of meditation: a really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play....

Begin with catharsis

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Begin with catharsis ‌ I never tell people to begin with just sitting. Begin from where beginning is easy. Otherwise, you will begin to feel many things unnecessarily—things that are not there. If you begin with sitting, you will feel much disturbance inside. The more you try to just sit, the more disturbance will be felt. You will become aware only of your insane mind and nothing else....

Begin with effort

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Begin with effort ‌ Meditation techniques are doings, because you are advised to do something —even to meditate is to do something; even to sit silently is to do something, even to not do anything is a sort of doing. So in a superficial way, all meditation techniques are doings. But in a deeper way they are not, because if you succeed in them, the doing disappears....

Breath---a Bridge to Meditation

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Breath—a Bridge to Meditation ‌ If you can do something with the breath, you will suddenly turn to the present. If you can do something with breath, you will attain to the source of life. If you can do something with breath, you can transcend time and space. If you can do something with breath, you will be in the world and also beyond it....

Celebrating consciousness

< Previous | Contents | Next > Celebrating consciousness‌ After working with the cathartic techniques for a few years, I feel that a deep inner harmony, balance and centering is happening to me. But you said that before entering into the final stage of samadhi, one passes through a great chaos. How do I know if I am finished with the chaotic stage? First, for hundreds of lives you have lived in a chaos....

Center of the cyclone

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Center of the cyclone ‌ When desire grips you, you are disturbed. Of course, that is natural. Desire grips you, then your mind starts wavering and many ripples go on, on the surface. The desire pulls you somewhere into the future; the past pushes you somewhere into the future. You are disturbed: you are not at ease. Desire is, therefore, a ‘dis-ease.’...

Compassion

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌ Compassion ‌ Buddha has defined compassion as ‘love plus meditation.’ When your love is not just a desire for the other, when your love is not only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your love is not that of a beggar but that of an emperor, when your love is not asking for something in return but is ready only to give—to give for the sheer joy of giving—then add meditation to it and the pure fragrance is released, the imprisoned splendor is released....