Prabhaker

There is difference between accepting a thought and 'witnessing it without judging'. Remember, don’t imagine any negative thing, because if people who have an imaginative capacity imagine negative things, they start happening. If you think that you are going to get ill, you will get ill. If you think that somebody is going to be rude to you, he will be. Your very imagination will create the situation. So if a negative idea comes, immediately change it to a positive thought. Say no to it. Drop it immediately; throw it away.

Through mind we can't experience entire universe.Whatsoever you see is just your projection. And there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in its own world. There are as many worlds as there are individuals in each of the different species. And on an even more minute level of examination, there are as many worlds as there are living organisms. In this one world the number of individual worlds is countless because the number of beings who know, perceive and experience are countless as well. On a lower level than man there are quite a large number of animals whose sense faculties are far inferior to those of men. We know that many of them cannot see or hear. Some cannot taste; some cannot smell. These creatures do not have the total experience of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell that man has. The realm of a man’s experience extends only as far as his senses allow, and it would be sheer ignorance to try to restrict the real world to that which our limited knowledge is able to perceive. Had we been blessed with more senses we would most likely have extended our world of experience still further. This is what the inventions of science have allowed us to do. I only bring this up to illustrate that our knowledge is relative to our capacity to know, to the abilities of our senses to grasp and to understand things. A dreamer. This is what being asleep means: the dreamer is lost in the dreaming.

Jesus said : as for the one who seek, let him continue to seek, until he finds. Mind is lethargic, and whenever you move upwards it is more lethargic. If you move downwards it has much energy, because a downward movement needs no effort. To reach hell no effort is needed, you will reach automatically; don't do anything and you will reach. But if you start moving higher, upwards, then effort will be needed, much effort will be needed. Many times there will come moments when the mind will say, "What are you doing? Why are you making so much effort? Relax, enjoy, rest!" And if you listen to the mind you will be thrown back. Don't listen to the mind! A seeker should persist and go on making efforts until he finds. But the saying looks against Zen -- it has to be understood, it is not -- because Zen masters say, "Be effortless. Don't make any effort, otherwise you will miss. A slight movement and you have already missed. Be at rest, be totally relaxed, in a letgo, as if you are not, and you will attain." They say, "Seek and you will miss, don't seek and you will find." Jesus' saying looks against Zen. It is not, because as you are you cannot be in a total letgo. Even if you try, even if you relax, activity continues. Zen is not for you as you are, Jesus is for you as you are. And if you follow Jesus, a moment will come when Zen will be for you. When will that moment come? When you have exhausted all your effort, when you have done everything that can be done, when you have come to the last peak of your effort. Now nothing can be done, now there is no more to do; you have put all that you could into it, now nothing is being held back, your whole energy has moved into the effort. And it is not now that you stop, but because the whole energy has moved into the effort, there comes a stop, there comes relaxation. It happens, a letgo happens -- you cannot do it.

OSHO KUNDALINI MEDITATION This “sister meditation” to the OSHO Dynamic is best done at sunset or in the late afternoon. Being fully immersed in the shaking and dancing of the first two stages helps to “melt” the rock-like being, wherever the energy flow has been repressed and blocked. Then that energy can flow, dance and be transformed into bliss and joy. The last two stages enable all this energy to flow vertically, to move upwards into silence. It is a highly effective way of unwinding and letting go at the end of the day. Osho on How to Shake: "If you are doing the Kundalini Meditation, allow the shaking – don't do it! Stand silently, feel it coming, and when your body starts a little trembling, help it, but don't do it! Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it, but don't will it. "If you force, it will become an exercise, a bodily physical exercise. Then the shaking will be there, but just on the surface. It will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stonelike, rocklike within. You will remain the manipulator, the doer, and the body will only be following. The body is not the question, you are the question. "When I say shake, I mean your solidity, your rocklike being should shake to the very foundations, so it becomes liquid, fluid, melts, flows. And when the rocklike being becomes liquid your body will follow. Then there is no shaker, only shaking; then nobody is doing it, it is simply happening. Then the doer is not. "Enjoy it, but don't will it. And remember, whenever you will a thing you cannot enjoy it. They are reverse, opposites; they never meet. If you will a thing you cannot enjoy it, if you enjoy it you cannot will it." Osho Instructions: The meditation is one hour long, with four stages. First Stage: 15 minutes Be loose and let your whole body shake, feeling the energies moving up from your feet. Let go everywhere and become the shaking. Your eyes may be open or closed. Second Stage: 15 minutes Dance ... any way you feel, and let the whole body move as it wishes. Again, your eyes can be open or closed. Third Stage: 15 minutes Close your eyes and be still, sitting or standing, observing, witnessing, whatever is happening inside and out. Fourth Stage: 15 minutes Keeping your eyes closed, lie down and be still.

@Shubh_5S Is that you ? I think you're a bit nervous !

Jesus said : Whoever finds interpretation of these sayings will not taste death. Reading interpretation is not going to help , words never interpret. Only experience can interpret, only experience can be interpretation.

Feeling can't be forced, all you can do is act totally with awareness. It will be difficult in the beginning, great patience is needed. When, you are walking on a street: try just to walk; do not do anything else. It looks simple: it is not! It looks as if we are all doing it; it is not so! When you are walking, your mind is doing a thousand other things. Move with every step. Just walk. Buddha has said, ”When you are walking, just walk; when you are eating, just eat; when you are listening, just listen.” Be in the act totally; do not allow your mind to move somewhere else. And this is a wonderful experience because suddenly the present will break in. Whatsoever you are doing, go on doing one thing inside continuously: be aware of yourself doing it. You are eating: be aware of yourself. You are walking: be aware of yourself. You are listening, you are speaking: be aware of yourself. When you are angry, be aware that you are angry. In the very moment that anger is there, be aware that you are angry. This constant remembering of the self creates a subtle energy – a very subtle energy in you. You begin to be a crystallized being.

Just to be ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world, because everybody wants extraordinary life. Nobody wants ordinary life. To live an ordinary life is most extraordinary thing. Very rarely does somebody relax and becomes ordinary. You can be tremendously at ease with yourself. Cleaning the floor, cooking food, washing the clothes, you can be perfectly at ease--because the whole question is of you doing your action totally, it becomes extraordinary.

On your part great patience is needed, and a trust that the whole existence is in support of all those who are trying to grow spiritually. Remain joyous, wait with great love. Everything takes its own time, impatience makes no sense. Patience is the way of existence. The journey is vast, and you cannot be in a hurry. Subjectivity needs long patience, a waiting. It grows, but not in a hurry. It is not a seasonal flower. You cannot get it and within a month it is flowering. It takes time. If you are in a hurry, if you are in haste, you will never know the taste of meditation. It is not the meditation that is taking time, it is your complex mind. It has to be brought down to a rest, to a relaxed state. When the moment is ripe, it happens. It is not your doing, it is a grace. It is experience of almost everyone. Living an unconscious life you can go on changing from one work to another; it is not going to help. Maybe for few days when the work is new and there is excitement you may feel good. You may again project your illusions, you may again start expecting: ”This time it is going to happen. Maybe it has not happened up to now, but this time it is going to happen.” Again you will be frustrated. Every expectation is bound to bring frustration. So people go on changing their jobs, they go on changing their hobbies, they go on changing their wives, their husbands, they go on changing their religions. They go on changing whatsoever they can change – with the hope that this time something is going to happen. But unless you change, nothing is going to happen. Suppose your meditation ripens after twenty years, your time is not wasted, your life will be fulfilling , it will be a rare achievement, who achieves fulfillment in life? People only pretend that everything is fine, their smiles are fake.

You will never experience being enlightened. How can you experience being enlightened? You are the barrier. And enlightenment is not an experience – because there is no experiencer in it. In experience there is division – the experiencer, the experienced. Between the two exists experience. When the experiencer and the experienced are no more separate, they have melted into each other, when the observer has become the observed, when the knower and the known are no more separate.

Ego is a survival measure. If a child is born without the ego, he will die. He cannot survive, it is impossible, because if he feels hunger he will not feel: I am hungry. He will feel there is hunger, but not related to him. The moment hunger is felt, the child feels: I am hungry, he starts crying and making efforts to be fed. The child grows through the growth of his ego.

What we call 'life' is a gradual suicide, only few people are able to know what life is. That's what Jesus says when he says, "Let the dead bury their dead."

The child grows through the growth of his ego ; and ego is a social need, society, nations cannot exist in present shape without ego.

A man fasts , The whole day body suffers, the hunger is there. So, mind creates dream, you are an honored guest in a great feast, now you a go to sleep. In the morning you will be hungry, but at least the dream helped you to rest and relax. There is deep desire in your subconscious mind to meet your father, it creates dream. The dream helps you to rest and relax.

I didn't talked with my father for thirty years, I was his only son, when he died , it was a great shock to me. Then I realized what I have done, all my spiritual ego was destroyed instantly. Had I tried to understand him when he was alive, loved him, I might not be feeling sorry after his death. I was reading books on spirituality, doing meditation techniques since decades, I was thinking I know everything about meditation but meditation happened after death of my father, shock was so much. First time in my life I realized how meditation happens. Whenever somebody like a father or a mother dies, something in you also dies. A father is not just outside; his being overlaps your being. When a father or mother dies, something in you also dies with them. You will never be the same again — a gap will be there. A father cannot be replaced, a mother cannot be replaced. So rather than crying and feeling sorry — because those are tricks of the mind to avoid death... if you look at death directly in the eye without letting emotions interfere, then death becomes meditation. Your father has died — this is a fact. Now, whether you cry or not makes no difference, so what is the point? Death has happened; you cannot undo it. So, rather than wasting time, look deeply into it, and in the death of your father you will see your own death coming. Look into this death; meditate over it without any interference from the emotions. Face it, and that very encounter will give you a deep understanding of life. The further away you are, the more death will become a memory and you will accept it and then it will not be possible to use it. You are still close to it; it is still fresh — the wound has not healed. Before it is healed, use it. And this wound can become a message to the beyond. Meditate and go beyond I say to you that there is only one thing which death cannot destroy, and that is meditation. Everything is vulnerable to death, only meditation is not.

As soon as you systematize breathing, it loses its capacity to create a strange situation for you.It becomes methodical, it becomes part of his habit. Breathing in dynamic meditation is absolutely non-methodical; it is without any rules; it is absurd. It is a way of creating a feeling of strangeness in you - to put you so out of gear, to put you in such utter confusion and chaos that you cannot put it into order again. If you again create an order in this disorder, your mind - which is so clever - will soon accept it and adjust itself with it. Breathing in any methodological manner will again turn into a system. But it will lose all strangeness about it. The breathing in dynamic meditation is non rhythmic and non-methodical. You cannot repeat it today the way you did it yesterday, because it has no method whatsoever. Not only that you cannot repeat your performance of yesterday - even today you can not end it the way you will begin. It will be what it will be. And its only purpose is to see that your mind's conditioning, its habits, its set patterns are loosened. Osho Dynamic Meditation has five stages, each stage has a purpose, dance and yoga do not include benefits of all five stages.

This meditation is a fast, intense and thorough way to break old, ingrained patterns in the bodymind http://www.osho.com/meditate/active-meditations/dynamic-meditation

You are lucky. Freedom is a higher value than love. When you are happy alone, when you can live with yourself, there is no intrinsic necessity to be in relationship. Relationship is a kind of bondage.

It help in releasing only when I live in isolation, when my mind don't accumulate new garbage.

@username 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. It will create depression, you will feel frustrated. You will not feel blissful. If you make a sincere effort to 'just sit,' you may really go insane. Only because people do not really try sincerely does insanity not happen more often.

Success is a by-product; one need not think about it. And if you think about it, you will not get it - that is a condition. Don't think about success, because if you start thinking about success you become divided. Then you are not totally in the work; your real mind is in the future: 'How to succeed?' Your mind has started playing the game of greed, ambition, ego. Never think of success. Success is a natural by-product. If you work really sincerely upon yourself, success will follow you just as your shadow follows you. If you think of success, somewhere deep down there will be a fear also. Who knows whether you are going to make it or not? You may fail. Success takes you into the future, gives you a greed game, an ego projection, ambition, and the fear also gives you a shaking, a trembling - you may fail. The possibility of failure makes you waver. And with this wavering, with this greed, with this ambition, your work will not be quiet. Your work will become a turmoil; you will be working here and looking there. When you move on the road do you look again and again for your shadow - whether it is following you or not? The shadow follows; it is inevitable. So if your work is in the right direction, with the right effort, with the totality of your being, the reward follows automatically.

We have trained our minds for doubt, so those methods that were based on faith have become useless. For the modern mind, they cannot be used. The modern mind only accepts the body and the mind; the spiritual realm is taken as a romantic fallacy. So you cannot begin anything from the spiritual. At the most, you can start from the psychological. All the old methods - if used directly, without catharsis - will not be of much help. If you just watch the mind, it will take a very long time - years. And nothing is certain because you are not simply watching: every day, you are creating more mind. And there is a past accumulation in the mind, so it can go on and on; you can go on and on. Old methods can help somebody who has not much tension in his body, has not much repression in his mind, but now to find such people is very difficult. Now everybody is full of tensions. Woodcutters, fishermen, farmers – for them old methods may be perfectly good, because already their body is doing so much. Modern civilization people are sitting the whole day in their chairs. Bodies were not made for that. Man is basically a hunter. His body was made to work hard – eight hours, twelve hours – and the question of tensions in the body was out of the question. The whole upbringing, the civilization, the education, is suppressive. You have accumulated anger, sex, violence, greed, everything! Now this accumulation is a madness within you. If you begin with any suppressive meditation, for example, with just sitting, you are suppressing all of this, you are not allowing it to be released. So, begin with a catharsis - dynamic meditation.

He was 'fed up', a person with higher consciousness is bound to fed up, otherwise who cares about people were suffering outside of the castle walls and start a quest to understand the nature of reality ?

@Arkandeus No, Why we go on asserting such statements as ”I strongly believe,” ”I am deeply convinced” ? Because deep down you feel that you don’t know, this not-knowing has to be repressed. By strong beliefs you repress this state of not-knowing. Look underneath your convictions and you will always find undercurrents of strong doubts. That’s why believers can change their belief very easily, but they cannot allow the natural doubt to surface. The theist can become an atheist; when he was a theist he was strongly convinced of its truth, and when he becomes an atheist, he is strongly convinced again of the truth of atheism. Soviet Russia before the revolution was one of the most theistic countries in the world. Even India is not so theistic. It was the orthodox stronghold of Christianity, very orthodox. And then, within a few years, within just five to ten years, the whole country changed from a strong conviction of theism to a strong conviction of atheism. What happened? China was one of the most religious countries in the East under Confucius, Lao Tzu, Mencius, Chuang Tzu, Lieh Tzu – the great heritage. And then the impact, the great impact of Buddha and Bodhidharma. Thousands of monasteries, thousands of monks, Taoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and at least five thousand years of traditional up-bringing, yet within ten years after the revolution all that disappeared. Now China is as strongly convinced of atheism as it was convinced of theism. The same people who look so religious will become anti-religious in the same way, with a vengeance, because the doubt is there deep down waiting for the right moment to assert itself. Everybody teaches belief, but doubt is natural. Hence the real Masters of the world... for example, Gautam Buddha, says to his disciples, ”Don’t believe just because I say it is so. Don’t believe just because the holy scriptures say it is so. Don’t believe because the masses believe in a certain thing. Unless you experience, never believe in anything. Go on doubting – go on doubting to the very extreme.” Doubt is a natural, intrinsic quality of your being; it is God-given. Use it, because it has tremendous power in it. It is an instrument to discover truth.

Now,I feel sorry for my parents.When you will grow spiritually to more higher levels you will know, if you were raised in same circumstances as your parents were, you couldn't be a different person , man is a robot, unless he is a meditator. When it becomes you own knowing, you become free from your past.