OSHO Active Meditations

If you want to live a more fulfilled life, first you will want to know your potential, who you really are.� Meditation�is the route to that knowing. It is the methodology of the science of awareness.

The beauty of the inner science is that it enables whoever wants to explore and to experiment within, to do so alone. This eliminates dependence on an outer authority, the need to be affiliated with any organization and the obligation to accept a certain ideology. Once you understand the steps, you walk the walk in your own, individual way.

Many of the traditional meditative techniques require one to sit still in order to be silent. Firstly, it is an inner stillness that is valuable, and the outer stillness is only in support of that inner stillness. And secondly, for most of us, the accumulated stress in our bodymind makes inner or outer stillness very difficult.

That's why OSHO Active Meditations�have been scientifically designed by Osho, over a long period of experimentation. They enable us to consciously express, experience, and release repressed feelings and emotions and to bring the body back to a relaxed harmony – and then the journey inwards can begin.�

"By meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly, slowly it becomes your very flavor…."� Osho

• OSHO Dynamic Meditation ^®

This meditation is a fast, intense and thorough way to break old, ingrained patterns in the bodymind that keep one imprisoned in the past, and to experience the freedom, the witnessing, silence and peace that are hidden behind those prison walls.

The meditation is meant to be done in the early morning, when “the whole of nature becomes alive, the night has gone, the sun is coming up and everything becomes conscious and alert.”

You can do this meditation alone, but to start with it can be helpful to do it with other people. It is an individual experience, so remain oblivious of others around you. Wear loose, comfortable clothing.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Dynamic Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Kundalini Meditation ^®

This meditation 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 rocklike 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 upward into silence. It is a highly effective way of unwinding and letting go at the end of the day.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Kundalini Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation ^®

Nadabrahma is the humming meditation – through humming and hand movements, conflicting parts of you start falling in tune, and you bring harmony to your whole being. Then, with body and mind totally together, you “slip out of their hold” and become a witness to both. This watching from the outside is what brings peace, silence and bliss.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Nataraj Meditation ^®

Nataraj is the energy of dance. This is dance as a meditation, where all inner division disappears and a subtle, relaxed awareness remains.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Nataraj Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Devavani Meditation™

In this meditation a gentle, unfamiliar language moves and speaks through the meditator, who becomes an empty vessel.
It deeply relaxes the mind and creates inner peace. It can be done at any time of the day. If done last thing at night, it also creates a profound sleep.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Devavani Meditation music, which energetically supports the first stage and which marks the beginning and end of the other stages.

• OSHO Gourishankar Meditation™

Osho says that if the breathing is done correctly in the first stage of this meditation, the carbon dioxide formed in the bloodstream will make you feel as high as Gourishankar, Mt. Everest. This “high” is carried into the subsequent stages of soft gazing, soft and spontaneous movement, and silent stillness.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Gourishankar Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Mandala Meditation™

Every circle contains a center. In the first three stages of this energetic and powerful technique, centering is the aim, through the creation of a circle of energy. Then, in the fourth stage, the relaxation.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Mandala Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Whirling Meditation ^®

Whirling is an ancient Sufi technique. While your whole body is moving, you become aware of your very being, the watcher at the center, which is unmoving. You learn to be an unidentified witness at the center of the cyclone.
Whirling is best done on an empty stomach and wearing loose clothing.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Whirling Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Prayer Meditation™

In this meditation you can experience prayer as an energy phenomenon, not a devotion to God but a merging, an opening. This merging with energy is prayer. It changes you. A new élan, a new life will start penetrating you.
It is best to do the meditation at night, in a darkened room, and going to sleep immediately afterward; or it can be done in the morning, but it must then be followed by fifteen minutes rest. This rest is necessary, otherwise you will feel as if you are drunk, in a stupor.

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Prayer Meditation music, which energetically supports it.

• OSHO Chakra Breathing Meditation™

This active meditation uses deep, rapid breathing and body movement to open and bring awareness, vitality and silence to each of the seven chakras and thus into your life.
The accompanying music and bells energetically support the process and indicate the beginning of each stage. The meditation is best done on an empty stomach.

All chakras lie deep within, rather than on the surface of the body. The following “map” is used to indicate their approximate locations:
� � � 1. base chakra: the sex center, lower pelvis
� � � 2. sacral chakra: just below the navel
� � � 3. solar plexus chakra: above the navel, below the breastbone
� � � 4. heart chakra: the middle of the chest
� � � 5. throat chakra: the throat
� � � 6. third eye chakra: between the eyebrows
� � � 7. crown chakra: top of the head

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Chakra Breathing Meditation music

• OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation™

This meditation uses vocal sounds to open and harmonize the chakras or energy centers while bringing awareness to them. It can bring you into a deep, peaceful, inner silence either through making your own vocal sounds, or by just listening to the music and feeling the sounds within you.
The meditation can be done at any time of the day.

All chakras lie deep within, rather than on the surface of the body. The following “map” is used to indicate their approximate locations:
� � � 1.�base chakra: the sex center, lower pelvis
� � � 2. sacral chakra: just below the navel
� � � 3. solar plexus chakra:� above the navel, below the breastbone
� � � 4. heart chakra: the middle of the chest
� � � 5. throat chakra: the throat
� � � 6. third eye chakra: between the eyebrows
� � � 7. crown chakra: top of the head

The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO Chakra Sounds Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO No-Dimensions Meditation™

This active centering meditation is based on Sufi techniques, further developed and expanded by Osho. Using the breath and a series of coordinated body movements followed by whirling, your energy becomes centered in the hara, the “life energy” center below the navel. From there you can watch the mind and experience awareness and wholeness – the body moving in all directions, the center unmoving.

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The meditation is to be done with its specific OSHO No-Dimensions Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Mahamudra Meditation™

This meditation is a meeting between you and the cosmos, between you and the whole of existence. It helps you to merge, melt and let-go on the deepest level possible.
There are two stages, with no precise timing for each. The format given below is one that works well to start with. You can do this meditation any time during the day or just before you go to sleep. If you choose to do it during the day, make sure you have some free time afterward before resuming your normal activities.

The meditation can be done with its specific OSHO Mahamudra Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Heart Meditation™

In this meditation, based on a small fragment from Atisha, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, you allow all the suffering – of yourself and of all the beings in the world – to ride on your incoming breath and reach your heart. The heart can do miracles, it immediately transforms the energy. You drink in misery, and it is transformed into blissfulness. Then, on your outgoing breath you pour that blissfulness into the whole existence.
The meditation has no fixed format; the format given below is one that works well to start with and you can adapt it as you like later on.

This meditation can be done with specific OSHO Heart Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the stages.

• OSHO Laughter Meditation™

This meditation helps you to start enjoying the small things of life – childlike, liquid, mirrorlike. The first stage is of giggling and laughing, in the second stage you earth yourself; energized by this, your dance in the last stage will have a different quality.

The meditation can be done with its specific OSHO Laughter Meditation recording, which indicates and energetically supports the different stages.

• OSHO Golden Light Meditation™

This is a simple method of transforming your energy and leading it upward.
It is best done at least twice a day, for twenty minutes each: in the morning just before getting out of bed and in the evening just before going to sleep.

The meditation can be done with its specific OSHO Golden Light Meditation music, which energetically supports it.

• OSHO Gibberish Meditation™

Gibberish is one of the most scientific ways to clean your mind. This is a cathartic technique which encourages expressive sounds and body movements, followed by a deep merging or a silent relaxation.

• The OSHO Evening Meeting

The Evening Meeting is the time when everyone can dance and celebrate and then sit silently.