Osho Active Meditations

"Meditation is not the solution to any particular problem, it solves nothing. It simply helps you out of your mind, the creator of problems. Simply helps you to slide out of mind, like a snake glides out of its old skin. Once you discover that you are not the mind, the great importance happened. Suddenly all the problems become insignificant, they slowly evaporate. You are left with a profound peace, a great silence prevails. This silence is the solution. This peace is the answer. The answer of all answers. "

"Modern man is a very new phenomenon. No traditional method can be used exactly as it exists because modern man never existed before. So in a way, all traditional methods have become irrelevant. For example, the body has changed so much, is so drugged that no traditional method can help. The whole atmosphere is artificial now: the air, the water, the society, the conditions of life. Nothing is natural. You were born in artificiality, you grew it. Therefore, today's traditional methods result in damage. They will have to be changed according to the current situation. Another thing: the quality of mind basically changed. In the days of Patanjali (the most famous commentator Yoga), the center of the human personality was not in the brain, the heart was. Before that, there was not even the heart. Was lower, near the navel. The center was even beyond the navel. Now, the center is in the brain. This is why teachings like those of Krishnamurti attract. No method is needed, no technique is needed, just understanding. But if it's just a verbal understanding, intellectual, nothing changes, nothing is transformed. Again becomes an accumulation of knowledge. Use chaotic methods rather than systematic because a chaotic method is very helpful to push the center of the brain down. The center can not be pushed down through any systematic method because systemization is brainwork. Through a systematic approach, the brain will be strengthened, the more energy is added to it. Through chaotic methods the brain is nullified. It has nothing to do. The method is so chaotic that the center is automatically pushed from the brain to the heart. If you do my method of Dynamic Meditation vigorously, chaotically, not systematically, its center moves to the heart. So there is a catharsis.

A catharsis is needed because your heart is so smothered due to his brain. His brain seized both of his being that he dominates. There is no place for the heart, then the desires of the heart are choked. You never laughed heartily, never lived heartily, never done anything wholeheartedly. The brain always appears to systematize, to make things mathematical and heart is deleted. Therefore, first a chaotic method is needed to push the center of consciousness from the brain to the heart. Therefore catharsis is needed to unburden the heart, to throw off suppressions, to make your heart open. If the heart becomes light and unburdened, then the center of consciousness is pushed still lower, he goes to the navel. The navel is the source of vitality, the seed source from which everything else comes: the body, the mind and everything.

Use this chaotic method very carefully. A systematic approach will not help you now, because the brain uses this as its own instrument. Not only can the singing of bhajans help now, because the heart is so overloaded that it can not flourish into a real corner. Consciousness must be pushed to the source, to the roots. Only then it is possible to transformation. Therefore, use chaotic methods to pull down the consciousness of the brain. When you are in chaos, the brain stops working. For example, if you are driving a car and suddenly someone walks in front of you, you react so suddenly that it can not be a working brain.

The brain takes time. He thinks about what to do and what not to do. Therefore, when there is the possibility of an accident and you step on the brakes, you feel the sensation near your navel, as if her stomach is reacting. Your consciousness is pulled down to the navel due to the accident. If the accident could be calculated before hand, the brain would be able to handle it, but when you get involved in an accident, something unknown happens. Then you realize that your consciousness has moved to the navel. If you ask a Zen monk, "where do you think?" He puts his hands on belly. When Westerners came into contact with Japanese monks first they could not understand. "What nonsense! How can you think from your belly? "But the response of Zen is very significant.

Consciousness can use any center and the center of the body that is closest to the original source is the navel. The brain is far from the original source, so if life energy is going out, the center of consciousness becomes the brain. And if life energy is moving inward, ultimately the navel will become the center. Chaotic methods are needed to push the consciousness to its roots, because only root transformation is possible. Otherwise you will continue verbalizing and no transformation. Just knowing what is right is not enough. You need to turn the roots, otherwise you will not change. When a person knows the right thing and can not do anything about it, it becomes doubly tense. She understands, but can not do anything. Understanding is only meaningful when it comes from the navel of the roots. If you understand from the brain, there is no transformation.

The ultimate can not be known through the brain, because when you're running through the brain you are in conflict with the roots of where you proceed. All your problem is that you have moved away from the navel. You came to the navel and you will die by it. We must return to the roots. But return is difficult, arduous. Traditional methods have an appeal because they are so old and so many people reached through them in the past. They may have become irrelevant to us, but they were not irrelevant to Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali or Krishna. They were significant, helped. The old methods may be meaningless now, but because Buddha achieved through them they have an appeal. The traditionalist feels: "If Buddha achieved through these methods, because they can not reach?" But now we are in a totally different situation.

The whole atmosphere, the whole thought-sphere has changed. Each method is organic to a particular situation for a particular mind for a specific man. The fact that the old methods do not work does not mean that no method is useful. It just means that the methods themselves need to change. As I see it, modern man has changed so much that he needs new methods, new techniques "

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