Osho meditation allows you to find inner silence and helps to change our usual mode of attention . Find out better.

>   History and Origin of  Osho Meditation

>   The benefits of  Osho meditation

>   Description of the technique

>   Suitable for

>   Where Osho meditation is practiced 

>   Curiosity

History and origin of  Osho meditation

Osho meditation is a natural state of being , a state that has been lost and can be found with great joy. Osho meditation represents a discovery for those who, without distinction, make an attempt, trying to look within themselves. This type of meditation is neither a complicated step nor a mystical practice. 

Born Chandra Mohan Jain, Osho was an internationally renowned Indian philosopher, mystic and spiritual master. Strongly opposed to organized religions and related systems of power. He viewed most religious beliefs as superstitions that concealed the truth about enlightenment. His views had a major impact on Western New Age thinking and the counterculture inherited from the 1960s. 

According to Osho, meditation goes “beyond the mind”, into a stage of total self-presence in which to consciously reach inner silence . He insisted that meditation cannot be explained or described comprehensively, as an experience in which the mind and all logical thoughts (including language) are transcended.

The practice of Osho meditation does not necessarily include spiritual or religious thoughts, and cannot be forced by an act of will, although it is a discipline, but this state of “no-mind” simply needs to manifest itself spontaneously.

This is the mind of the child who gazes spellbound at the wonders of the world; it is the innocent mind that faces the universe for the first time and contemplates it.

 The benefits of  Osho meditation

Most meditation techniques, including Osho meditation , develop around the concept of awareness. More specifically, we talk about awareness training. Awareness is not synonymous with concentration. Being aware means being able to notice what is usually outside our conscious experience. The internal dialogues and the flows of our thoughts keep us away from many experiences and sensations that we end up not being aware of. 

Osho meditation helps to change our usual mode of attention, training us to be more present. An important secondary effect of this process is that Osho meditation allows you to become more empathic , to become more in tune with others.

Also find out how to practice Osho’s active meditations

Description of the technique

For the modern man, it is difficult to reach this condition through traditional meditation techniques (silence, crossed legs, concentration). He continually undergoes various distractions and stimuli from the outside. For this reason, Osho identified some active meditation techniques , aimed at calming the mind to create that space of silence and awareness necessary for meditation.

The main meditation techniques proposed by Osho are called Active Meditations and include the meditations: dynamics, nadabrahma , kundalini and nataraj . 

Dynamic meditation is the best known Osho meditation and consists of five stages. The first three must be practiced wholly, so that no static energy remains in the body, so that the mind will have no food to create thoughts, dreams and imaginations. Once the energy is exhausted, one finds oneself within oneself. The fourth stage is a silent observation, in which one is witnessing oneself. In the fifth stage we celebrate and dance. This meditation should be done early in the morning, necessarily on an empty stomach.

Here is a brief example:

First stage (10 minutes of music): breathe in a chaotic and rapid way, with the nose, without any rhythm. This is to break the mental patterns and prepare to release repressed emotions.

Second stage (10 minutes of music): let off steam with laughter, screams, crying, and body shaking. Whatever comes into the mind, express it totally. 

Third stage (10 minutes of music): jump with raised hands and shout the mantra: ” Hu! Hu! Hu! “. Totally run out of physical strength. 

Fourth stage (15 minutes of silence): Freeze exactly where you are, in whatever position you are. In this arrest, one becomes an observer of one’s body and mind.

Fifth stage (15 minutes of music): celebrate and rejoice to the sound of music, expressing one’s gratitude to the Whole. Carrying the newfound vitality with you throughout the day.

Suitable for

Osho meditation is suitable for the modern man who leads a western lifestyle. Today’s frenetic and fast society does not allow, more often than not, the contemporary individual to be able to stop for a few hours a day to devote himself to his own mental well-being. For Western man to meditate it was necessary that the meditation was overturned, but not radically changed and changed face, showing itself suitable for common life. It was thanks to Osho meditation techniques that the practice of meditation became something totally new, which can include noise and movement, swirling dance or screaming emotions.

Osho suggests experimenting with each meditation technique for three days to find out if it is suitable for each of us. If no change is felt, or if the technique does not seem suitable, another one can be tried. Often, at least in the beginning, we are unable to see ourselves clearly and a meditation exercise that may appear interesting to the mind may turn out to be completely useless. 

Where Osho meditation is practiced 

Osho meditation, like all meditations, can be learned by attending one of the many Osho meditation courses in Italy, at Osho meditation schools and various associations.

On the web, you can also find a lot of information about this technique, such as Osho aphorisms , videos on Osho meditation , mp3s for meditating and Osho meditation books . 

Curiosity

But what does Osho mean? Osho himself has repeatedly explained that his name, the one with which he wanted to be remembered, comes from Oceanico (pronounced osheanic , in English).

The term, coined by the English philosopher William James, is used to indicate the experience of ” dissolving into the ocean of existence “, common to various forms of religious experience. How to define the one who has that life experience? To define it, we use the term “Osho”.