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Namaste and Pranaam

Hello all.

This is an attempt to make you understand what do we mean by when we say the word Meditative Therapies.

First of all I will be open and straightforward in telling you what exactly is a meditation.

Meditation is a state of being completely one with your present situation. Now and here. Without any internal talks. One is empty of the internal talks like a small toddler child who have yet not developed any sense of ‘I’ yet. In moments when we are in such a state, we are in meditation.

It’s is really as simple and straight as that. So all this terminology that one is doing meditation or one wants to do meditation is fundamentally wrong.

ONE CAN BE IN MEDITATION BUT NEVER DO IT.

WHAT ARE THE MEDITATION TECHNIQUES?

Next comes the terminology of meditation techniques.

Meditation techniques means different ways and efforts which will lead you jump from your present state into the meditative state of being totally here and now, without any internal talks, again pure like a toddler child. ( But for some duration of time until the old patterns again take over and you like an elastic come back to your unmeditative state again)

These efforts can be various experiments on breathing, sound, smell, light, various physical activities like dance etc. Basically you sincerely follow some techniques to jump into the state of meditation.

This is called a meditation technique.

So you can never do meditation, you can do some techniques that can help you come to here and now and be in meditation.

Third is the terminology Meditative Therapies. Meditative therapies would mean performing some set of meditation techniques daily and sincerely ranging from 7 days to 21 days or more, that is supposed to bring some alchemical changes in one, transformation in one.

Example: Osho Dynamic Meditation is a 60 minute formatted meditation technique of 5 stages, first of which is fast, deep and chaotic breathing for 10 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of catharsis, 10 minutes of jumping and shouting a mantra “hoo”, 15 minutes of silence, and finally 15 minutes of celebration through dance.

Osho No-Mind is a meditative therapy, it is a seven-day course, which includes one hour of Gibberish and one hour of silent sitting. It also includes Osho Dynamic Meditation at sunrise, Osho Kundalini Meditation at sunset.

Osho meditations and meditative therapies are most evolved and apt for the present generation. And many other big and famous organizations I have found today are only making its people doing pirated versions of the revolutionary Osho Dynamic Meditation. But even those pirated versions are much capable of giving good results.

Having said that meditation techniques are nobody’s personal property . Vigyan Bhairav Tantra is a collection of basic 112 meditation techniques. It’s by the Bhagwan Shiva. It’s like the basic musical notes. All rest ragas are only permutations and combinations of the basic musical notes. All the right meditation techniques are only permutations and combinations of the 112 basic meditation techniques mentioned in the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra.

Let’s also here be clear the word Tantra itself refers to the technique. Just that.

Directly experimenting on any of these 112 techniques is also good. But Osho is a revolutionary in this regard that he has made new meditation techniques from the old basic ones that are more suitable for the chaotic and centerless modern man. So his techniques will give faster result. Provided performed sincerely.

So learn techniques correctly, perform them sincerely in right atmosphere and you will get first the glimpses of being in meditation. And with sustained practice you will have transformation in your very being. So best wishes for your journey. More on this topic I will discuss later.

Hereby, I have tried my best to explain you the best I know out of my search and experience until now. I am myself experimenting on various paths and meditation techniques since age of six. There cannot be any certification for being a meditator or meditation technique teacher. The very experience one gets by working is the only certificate. And you can only verify it by self walking on the path. There is no other way.

Experience itself is the only proof.

You can leave a comment or mail me for any further query.

Thanks for reading this. I hope this was helpful.

~ Garima

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
~ Osho

There are hundreds of methods of meditation, but perhaps Vipassana has a unique status; just the same way as there have been thousands of mystics, but Gautam Buddha has a uniqueness of his own. In many ways he is incomparable. In many ways he has done more for humanity than anybody else. In many ways his search for truth was more sincere, more authentic than anybody else’s. The meaning – the literal meaning – of the word Vipassana is  “to look,” and the metaphorical meaning is “to watch, to witness.”


Gautam Buddha has chosen a meditation that can be called the essential meditation. All other meditations are different forms of witnessing, but witnessing is present in every kind of meditation as an essential part; it cannot be avoided. Buddha has deleted everything else and kept only the essential part – to witness.

When you have become perfectly watchful of your body, mind and heart, then you cannot do anything more, then you have to wait. When perfection is complete on these three steps, the fourth step happens on its own accord as a reward. Suddenly your life force, your witnessing, enters into the very center of your being. You have come home.
Osho, The Rebel

OSHO Vipassana Meditation

Instructions

OSHO Vipassana Meditation has 2 stages & last 60 minutes.
 

First Stage: 45 Minutes – Eyes Closed

Sitting: In this stage seat in a relaxed posture, keeping your eyes closed, remain aware of everything around you. Start watching your breath at the nostril of your nose, the incoming & outgoing of your breath. You can also watch the rise & fall of the belly due to in & out of the breath. At the same time remain aware of the thought, moods & whatever goes on in the mind without any judgement. Let thoughts come & go. Whenever you get lost, gently bring your awareness to your breath or the rise & fall of your belly.

If you would like to change your sitting position or move your body, you can do that with awareness & swift motion. It has to be remembered that it is not a concentration technique but a state of relaxed awareness.

Second Stage: 15 Minutes – Eyes Open

Slow Walking: You will hear a gong beat, in this stage stand up & start walking slow looking only few feet away at a time. While walking watch your feet touching the floor & how one leg is coming after the other. Go on watching the body walking & its sensations. The speed of this walking should be half of your usual speed.

Last night

I begged the Wise One to tell me

the secret of the world.

Gently, gently, he whispered,

“Be quiet,

the secret cannot be spoken,

It is wrapped in silence.”

Rumi

SILENCE is meditation and silence is basic for any religious experience. What is silence? You can create it, you can cultivate it, you can force it, but then it is just superficial, false, pseudo. You can practise it, and you will begin to feel and experience it – but your practice makes it auto-hypnotic. It is not the real silence. Real silence comes only when your mind dissolves: not through any effort, but through understanding; not through any practice, but through an inner awareness.

“STILLNESS IS PRADAKSHINA, THE MOVEMENT AROUND THAT FOR WORSHIP.”

We are filled with sounds, outside and inside. In the outside world it is impossible to create a situation which is silent. Even when we move to a deep forest, there is no silence – only new sounds, natural sounds. At midnight everything stops, but it is not silence – only new sounds, sounds you are not acquainted with. They are more harmonious, of course, more musical, but they are still sounds, not silence.

A modern musician and composer, John Cage, has said many times that silence is impossible. You can have musical sounds, you can have non-musical sounds; you can have sounds you like and sounds you do not like. When you do not like sounds, it becomes noise; when you like noise, it becomes music: but you cannot have silence. Cage said you cannot have silence!

He reports one incident; he thought previously, before this incident, that silence is a possibility, but he had not meditated over it. Once he entered a hall in Harvard University built particularly for some scientific engineering purpose. The hall was absolutely soundproof and echo-proof – absolutely. He entered the hall, but he has an ear so he found sound. He is a great musician, one of the greatest of this century. In that hall he began to hear two sounds: one a high sound, another a low sound.

He said to the engineer-in-charge, “You say this hall is absolutely soundproof; you say it is echo- proof. But I hear two sounds: one high and one low.”

The engineer said, “The high sound is your nervous system working and the low sound is your blood in circulation.”

Cage says, “That day I become absolutely certain that unless I die silence is impossible.”

Silence is impossible in the outside world, and your nervous system is part of the outside, not of the inside; your blood circulation is part of the outside world, not of the inside. The real inside is absolutely silent. If you allow me, I will say that the absolute point of silence is the inside. Sound is outside, silence is inside. “Silence” and “inside” are synonymous. If you move out, then you move in sound. If you move in, then you move in silence. You must reach a point where no-sound is, or as the Zen Masters say, the soundless sound. The Hindu yogis have always called it anahat nada; the uncreated sound of silence.

But one need not use these paradoxical words: it will be easy to understand with simple words.

Outside is sound, inside there is silence, soundlessness. ~ Osho , The Great Alchemy

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Namaskar and Pranaam to everyone visiting here my blog.

My name is Bhakti Garima .

Bhakti means devotion or surrender.I have found it to be the most beautiful state to be in what one can consciously choose to be in.

Ever since a little child I have been very into reading and analyzing Global problems, the deep rooted causes and what I as a human being can do for it and we as a humanity can and should do for it.

Having said that we are but only small specks of dust in this universe. But with hearts in right place and awareness emanating from inside us I am sure we can do much , if not for the whole planet’s healing but atleast for our own healing. And to heal a part is the beginning of healing the whole.

Om Shanti