OSHO meditation y celebration

emotional wellness weekend

19 -21 de octubre 2007

we will share meditation, celebration, music and silence.

we will explore and experience many of the active meditations that OSHO designed for the “modern man” and meditations out of the book of secrets.

if you want to live a more fulfilled life, first you will want to know your potential, who you really are. meditation is the route to that knowing. it is the methodology of the science of awareness.

the beauty of the inner science is that it enables whoever wants to explore and to experiment within, to do so alone. this eliminates dependence on an outer authority, the need to be affiliated with any organization and the obligation to accept a certain ideology. once you understand the steps, you walk the walk in your own, individual way.

osho active meditations have been scientifically designed by OSHO over a period of time to enable us to consciously express and experience repressed feelings and emotions, and learn the knack of watching our habitual patterns in a new way. (from www.osho.com )

what is meditation ...

there are many different, even contradictory ideas, about what meditation is. primary to the Osho approach is the need for the meditator to understand the nature of the mind, rather than fight with it.

most of us most of the time are run by, dominated by our thoughts or feelings. it follows that we tend to think we are those thoughts and feeling. meditation is the state of simply being, just pure experiencing, with no interference from the body or mind. It's a natural state but one which we have forgotten how to access.

the word meditation is also used for what is, more accurately, a meditation method. meditative methods, techniques or devices are means by which to create an inner ambience that facilitates disconnecting from the bodymind so one can simply be. while initially it is helpful to put time aside to practice a structured meditation method, there are many techniques that are practiced within the context of one's everyday life - at work, at leisure, alone and with others.

methods are needed only until the state of meditation - of relaxed awareness, of consciousness and centering - has become not just a passing experience but as intrinsic to one as, say, breathing.

(from www.osho.com)

why meditate...

meditation is a way of settling in oneself, at the innermost core of your being. Once you have found the center of your existence, you will have found both your roots and your wings.

the roots are in existence, making you a more integrated human being, an individual. and the wings are in the fragrance that is released by being in contact with existence. the fragrance consists of freedom, love, compassion, authenticity, sincerity, a sense of humor, and a tremendous feeling of blissfulness.

the roots make you an individual, and the wings give you the freedom to love, to be creative, to share unconditionally the joy that you have found. the roots and wings come together. they are two sides of one experience, and that experience is finding the center of your being.

we are continuously moving on the circumference, always somewhere else far away from our own being, always directed towards others. When all this is dropped, when all objects are dropped, when you close your eyes to all that is not you -even your mind, your heartbeats are left far behind - only a silence remains.

in this silence you will settle slowly into the center of your being, and then the roots will grow on their own accord, and the wings too. You need not worry about them. you cannot do anything about them. They come on their own.

you simply fulfill one condition: that is, to be at home - and the whole existence becomes a bliss to you, a benediction.
Osho: The Osho Upanishad, #9

the inner revolution brings freedom and the only way to make oneself go through the inner revolution is meditation. meditation simply means learning to forget all that you have learned. it is a process of deconditioning, a process of dehypnosis.

the society has burdened everybody with thousands of thoughts. meditation simply helps you to come you of that world of thoughts, into a state of silence. It is a process of cleaning your slate completely, it is emptying all that has been forced and stuffed inside you.

once you are empty, spacious, silent, clean, the revolution has happened, the sun has risen; then you live in its light! And to live in the light of your inner sun is to live rightly. in fact that is the only way to live. others are only dying, just dying slowly, moving in a queue goes on becoming shorter and shorter every moment, and any moment you may be the first in the queue. in fact everybody is trying to be first in the queue; a great desire to be the first everywhere.

the ordinary life is only called life - it is not. It is only so-called life. It is a process of gradual death or to be more accurate, a process of gradual suicide.

the moment you become silent and aware and clear and your inner sky is full of delight, you know the first taste of true life. One can call it god, one can call it enlightenment, one can call it liberation; the experience of truth, love, freedom, bliss - different names but the phenomenon is the same.
Osho: Nirvana Now or Never, #14

some common misconceptions about meditation:

meditation is not…

1) only for people who are on a spiritual search.
the benefits of meditation are manifold. chief among them are the ability to relax and to be aware without effort. useful tools for just about everyone!

2) a practice to gain "peace of mind."
peace of mind is a contradiction in terms. by its very nature the mind is a chronic commentator. what you can discover through meditation is the knack of finding the distance between yourself and the commentary, so that the mind, with its constant circus of thoughts and emotions, no longer intrudes on your inherent state of silence.

3) a mental discipline or effort to control or "tame" the mind, to become more mindful.
meditation is neither a mental effort nor an attempt to control the mind. effort and control involve tension, and tension is antithetical to the state of meditation. besides, there is no need to control the mind, only to understand it and how it works. the meditator does not need to tame his mind, to become more mindful, but to grow more in consciousness.

4) focusing, concentrating or contemplating.
focusing, like concentrating is a narrowing of awareness. you concentrate on one object to the exclusion of everything else. by contrast, meditation is all-inclusive, your consciousness is expanded. the contemplator is focused on an object - perhaps a religious object, a photograph or on an inspiring aphorism. the meditator is simply aware, but not of anything in particular.

5) a new experience.
not necessarily - sportsmen know this space, which they refer to as "the zone." artists know it - through singing, painting, playing music. we can know it through gardening, playing with the kids, walking on the beach or making love. even as children we may have had experiences of it. meditation is a natural state and one that you have almost certainly tasted, although perhaps without knowing the name of the flavor.