June 7, 2020

Osho - Meditation The Art of Ecstasy

Moving Deeply into the Known

You cannot seek the divine, it cannot be sought after, because you can seek only that which you know already. Seeking means desiring and you cannot seek something that is unknown. How can you seek something that you have not known at all? The very urge to seek comes only after you have tasted

Dynamic Meditation or, Silent Meditation

Question:

DYNAMIC MEDITATION IS VERY ACTIVE, VERY STRENUOUS.CAN ONE NOT GO
INTO MEDITATION JUST BY SITTING SILENTLY?

You can go into meditation just by sitting, but then be just sitting; do not do anything else. If you can be just sitting, it becomes meditation. Be completely in the sitting;

"Chaotic" Meditation

Question:

IT IS AN INTERESTING COINCIDENCE THAT YOUR MEDITATION TECHNIQUE OF
RELEASE THROUGH INTENSE CHAOTIC BREATHING EVOLVED AT THE SAME TIME THAT
CERTAIN CHAOTIC THERAPY TECHNIQUES WERE HAPPENING IN THE WEST, SUCH AS
R.D.LAING'S THEORY THAT SCHIZOPHRENIA IS NOT SOMETHING TO BE FOUGHT, BUT
SOMETHING TO BE EXPERIENCED VOLUNTARILY.

Non-Doing Through Doing

Non-doing is meditation, but when I say non-doing is meditation I do not mean that you need not do anything. Even to achieve this non-doing, one has to do much. But this doing is not meditation. It is only a stepping stone, only a jumping board. All "doing" is just a jumping board, not meditation.

Osho - Meditation The Art Of Ecstasy

Yoga: the Growth of Consciousness

The evolution of life is to become more and more conscious, but the consciousness is always other oriented: you are conscious of some thing, some object. Yoga means to be evolving in the dimension where there is no object and only consciousness remains. Yoga is the method of evolving toward pure consciousness; not being conscious of something, but being consciousness itself.

Meditation: The Art of Celebration

Concentration is a choice. It excludes all except its object of concentration; it is a narrowing. If you are walking on the street, you will have to narrow your consciousness in order to walk. You cannot ordinarily be aware of all that is happening because if you are aware of everything that is

Meditation will create a situation in which you will come to the unknown; by and by you will be pushed from your habitual, mechanical, robotlike personality. Be courageous: practice Dynamic Meditation vigorously and all else will follow. It will not be your doing, it will be a happening.

Osho - Ma Tzu The Empty Mirror

Moon-face

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

MA TZU WAS ONE DAY TEACHING A MONK. HE DREW A CIRCLE ON THE GROUND AND SAID, "IF YOU ENTER IT, I WILL STRIKE YOU; IF YOU DO NOT ENTER IT, I WILL STRIKE YOU!"

THE MONK ENTERED IT SLIGHTLY, AND MA TZU STRUCK HIM.

THE MONK SAID, "THE MASTER COULD NOT STRIKE ME!"

No ripples

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

ON ONE OCCASION, A MONK CALLED ON MA TZU AND ASKED HIM, "WHO IS THE MAN WHO DOES NOT TAKE ALL DHARMAS AS HIS COMPANIONS?"

MA TZU REPLIED, "I WILL TELL YOU THIS AFTER YOU HAVE SWALLOWED ALL THE WATER IN THE WEST RIVER."

This moment

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

A MONK ONCE DREW FOUR LINES IN FRONT OF MA TZU. THE TOP LINE WAS LONG AND THE REMAINING THREE WERE SHORT. HE THEN DEMANDED OF THE MASTER, "BESIDES SAYING THAT ONE LINE IS LONG AND THE OTHER THREE ARE SHORT, WHAT ELSE COULD YOU SAY?"

To the source

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

YAKUSAN BEGAN HIS BUDDHIST STUDIES IN THE SCHOOL OF VINAYA SO HE WAS WELL-VERSED IN SCRIPTURAL STUDIES AND ASCETICS BY THE TIME HE WAS INTRODUCED TO ZEN. HE BEGAN TO FEEL THAT THESE THINGS WERE NOT YET THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THE

Osho - Ma Tzu The Empty Mirror

The hunter

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

MA TZU WAS NOTED FOR HIS RESOURCEFULNESS IN FINDING EXPEDIENT

MEANS OF WORKING WITH HIS DISCIPLES. THIS IS ILLUSTRATED BY HIS

CONVERSION OF SHIH-KUNG, WHO WAS ORIGINALLY A HUNTER,

LOATHING THE VERY SIGHT OF BUDDHIST MONKS. ONE DAY, AS HE WAS

Like a cow

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

MA TZU HAD THREE OUTSTANDING DISCIPLES WHO ENJOYED A SPECIAL

INTIMACY WITH HIM. THEY WERE NAN-CHUAN, CHIH-TSANG, AND HUI-HAI

(OTHERWISE KNOWN AS HYAKUJO).

ONE EVENING, AS THE THREE DISCIPLES WERE ATTENDING ON THEIR

Twisted nose

OUR BELOVED MASTER,

ONE DAY, AS HYAKUJO WAS VISITING HIS MASTER, MA TZU, A FLOCK OF
WILD GEESE FLEW OVERHEAD. MA TZU ASKED, "WHAT ARE THEY?"

"THEY ARE WILD GEESE, SIR," SAID HYAKUJO.

"WHERE ARE THEY?" ASKED THE MASTER.

"THEY HAVE FLOWN AWAY, SIR," REPLIED HYAKUJO.

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