Osho Dhyan Kendra
Osho Satyadeep Dhyan Kendra
Address 32,Jodhpurkunj Society
Ramdevnagar Char Rasta
Satellite Road Ahamedabad-380015
Gujarat India
Phone: +91-9824051299
or: +91-79-26869094
“Osho does not teach any religion and does not belong to any
particular religion. What he really teaches is religiousness - the real
fragrance of all the flowers of existence, the Buddhas, the mystics and sages
that this world has known. Osho has given thousands of discourses on all the
well-known and not so known mystics of the world—from Ashtavakra to
Zarathusthra .
Osho is a modern day mystic whose wisdom, clarity and humor have touched the
lives of millions of people around the world. His insights are creating the
conducive atmosphere or ‘ Atma-Sphere ” for the emergence of what he calls the
‘New Man’ or Zorba , the Buddha – the combination of celebration, dance and song
of Zorba and the silence, stillness and meditation of the Buddha, the
meditation of the East and the materialism of the West. Zorba the Buddha is a
totally new human being who is an awakened one, and he is life-affirmative and
free. When someone asked Osho the definition of religion, Osho replied: To be
in romance with life is religion.
Amongst all the Enlightened Ones, Gautama the Buddha is very special to Osho.
He says: “I love Gautama the
Buddha because he represents to me the essential core of religion. He is the
beginner of a totally different kind of religion in the world. He has
propounded not religion but religiousness. And this is a great radical change
in the history of human consciousness.”
“When a Buddha moves the wheel of dharma , it takes two thousand five hundred
years for it to stop completely….” says Osho. “The wheel that Buddha moved has
stopped. The wheel has to be moved again. And that is going to be my and your
life’s work – that wheel has to be moved again. Once it starts revolving it
will again have twenty-five centuries’ life.”
Osho teaches meditation for our inner transformation. Love and compassion are
the natural expression of this transformation. We can meditate with Buddha,
dance with Krishna and celebrate our love with Sufis .”
What is Meditation
"Meditation is a single
lesson of awareness, of no-thought, of spontaneity, of being total in your
action, alert, aware. It is not a technique, it is a knack. Either you get it
or you don't." - Osho
Osho has spoken volumes on the subject of
meditation. Virtually all his talks include the importance of meditation in
everyday life. And despite the fact that he says meditation is not a technique,
he has invented dozens of them, and spoken on dozens more from other traditions.
Ultimately, meditation is an experience
which is not easily described, like the taste of cheese or falling in love --
you have to try it to find out. But for sure anyone interested in meditation
will find something in what Osho has to say about this topic that "clicks"
for them, just like a "knack" -- including his insistence that he can
be helpful to you, but ultimately each individual has to create his path by
walking it.
Meditation is not
concentration
MEDITATION is not concentration. In concentration there is
a self concentrating and there is an object being concentrated upon. There is
duality. In meditation there is nobody inside and nothing outside. It is not
concentration . There is no division between the in and the out. The in goes on
flowing into the out, the out goes on flowing into the in. The demarcation, the
boundary, the border, no longer exists. The in is out, the out is in; it is a
no-dual consciousness.
Concentration is a dual consciousness; that's why concentration creates
tiredness; that's why when you concentrate you feel exhausted. And you cannot
concentrate for twenty-four hours, you will have to take holidays to rest.
Concentration can never become your nature. Meditation does not tire,
meditation does not exahaust you. Meditation can become a twenty-four hour
thing - day in, day out, year in, year out. It can become eternity. It is
relaxation itself.
Concentration is an act, a willed act. Meditation is a state of no will, a
state of inaction. It is relaxation. One has simply dropped into one's own
being, and that being is the same as the being of All. In Concentration the
mind functions out of a conclusion: you are doing something. Concentration
comes out of the past. In meditation there is no conclusion behind it. You are
not doing anything in particular, you are simply being. It has no past to it,
it is pure of all future, It what Lao Tzu has called wei-wu-wei, action through
inaction. It is what Zen masters have been saying: Sitting silently doing
nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Remember, 'by itself -
nothing is being done. You are not pulling the grass upwards; the spring comes
and the grass grows by itself. That state - when you allow life to go on its
own way. When you don't want to give any control to it, when you are not
manipulating, when you are not enforcing any discipline on it - that state of
pure undisciplined spontaneity, is what meditation is.
Meditation is in the present, pure present. Meditation is immediacy. You cannot
meditate, you can be in meditation. You cannot be in concentration, but you can
concentrate. Concentration is human, meditation is divine.
Choosing a Meditation
FROM the very beginning find
something which appeals to you.
Meditation should not be a forced effort.
If it is forced, it is doomed from the very beginning. A forced thing will
never make you natural. There is no need to create unnecessary conflict. This
is to be understood because mind has natural capacity to meditate if you give
it objects which are appealing to it.
If you are body oriented, there are ways
you can reach towards God through the body because the body also belongs to
God. If you feel you are heart oriented, then prayer, If you feel you are
intellect oriented, then meditation .
But my meditations are different in a way.
I have tried to devise methods which can be used by all three types. Much of
the body is used in the, much of the heart and much of the intelligence. All
the three are joined together and they work on different people in a different
way.
Body heart mind - all my meditations move
in the same way. They start from the body, they move through the heart, they
reach to the mind and then they go beyond.
Always remember, whatsoever you enjoy can
go deep in you; only that can go deep in you. Enjoying it simply means it fits
with you. The rhythm of it falls in tune with you: there is a subtle harmony
between you and the method . Once you enjoy a method then don't become greedy;
go into that method as much as you can. You can do it once or, if possible,
twice a day. The more you do it, the more you will enjoy it. Only drop a method
when the joy has disappeared; then its work is finished. Search for another
method. No method can lead you to the very end. On the journey you will have to
change trans many times. A certain method takes you to a certain state. Beyond
that it is of no more use, it is spent.
So two things have to be remembered: when
you are enjoying a method go into it as deeply as possible, but never become
addicted to it because one day you will have to drop it too. If you become too
much addicted to it then it is like a drug; you cannot leave it. You no more
enjoy it - it is giving you anything - but it has become a habit. Then one can
continue it, but one is moving in circles; it cannot lead beyond that.
So let joy be the criterion. If joy is
there continue, to the last bit of joy go on. It has to be squeezed totally. No
juice should be left behind..not even a single drop. And then be capable of
dropping it. Choose some other method that again brings the joy. Many times a
person has to change. It various with different people but it is very rare that
one method will do the whole journey.
There is no need to do many meditations
because you can do confusing things, contradictory things, and the pain will
arise.
Choose two meditations and stick to them.
In fact I would like you to choose one; that would be the best. It is better to
repeat one that suits you, many times. Then it will go deeper and deeper. You
try many things - one day one things, another day another things. And you
invent your own, so you can create many confusions. In the book of Tantra there
are one hundred and twelve meditations, You can go crazy. You are already crazy!
Meditations are not fun. They can
sometimes be dangerous. You are playing with a subtle, a very subtle mechanism
of the mind. Something a small thing that you were not aware you were doing can
become dangerous. So never try to invent, and don't make your own hotch-potch
meditation. Choose two and just try them for a few weeks.
Creating a Space for Mefitation
If you can create a special place -
a small temple or a corner in the home where you can meditate every day - then
don't use that corner for any other purpose, because every purpose has its own
vibration. Use that corner only for meditation and nothing else. Then the
corner will become charged and it will wait for you every day. The corner will
be helpful to you, the milieu will create a particular vibration, a particular
atmosphere in which you can go deeper and deeper more easily. That's the reason
why temples, churches and mosques were created - just to have a place that
existed only for prayer and meditation.
If you can choose a regular hour to
meditate, that's also very helpful because your body, you mind, is a mechanism.
If you take lunch at a particular hour
When I say meditate, I know that through
meditation nobody reaches; but through meditation you reach to the point where
no meditation becomes possible.
Every day, you body starts crying for food
at that time. Sometimes you can even play tricks on it. If you take your lunch
at one o'clock and the clock says that it is now one o'clock, you will be
hungry - even if the clock is not right and it is only eleven or twelve. You
look at the clock, it says one o'clock, and suddenly you feel hunger within.
Your body is a mechanism.
Your mind is also a mechanism. Meditate
every day in the same place, at the same time, and you will create a hunger for
meditation within your body and mind. Every day at that particular time your
body and mind will ask you to go into meditation. It will be helpful. A space
is created in you which will become a hunger, a thirst.
In the beginning it is very good. Unless
you come to the point where meditation has become natural and you can meditate
anywhere, in any place, at any time - up to that moment, use these mechanical
resources of the body and the mind as a help.
It gives you a climate: you put off the
light, you have a certain incense burning in the room, you have certain incense
burning in the room, you have certain clothes a certain height, a certain
softness, you have a certain posture. This all helps but this does not cause
it. If somebody else follows it, this may become a hindrance. One has to find
one's own ritual. A ritual is simply to help you to be at ease and wait. And
when you are at ease and waiting the thing happens; just like sleep, God comes
to you. Just like love, God comes to you. You cannot will it, you cannot force
it.
Be Loose and natural
ONE can be
obsessed with meditation. And obsession is the problem: you were obsessed with
money and now you are obsessed with meditation. Money is not the problem,
obsession is the problem, You were obsessed with the market, now you are
obsessed with God. The market is not the problem but obsession. One should be
loose and natural an not obsessed with anything, neither mind nor meditation.
Only then, unoccupied, unobsessed, when you are simply flowing, the ultimate
happens to you.