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Osho: The Need for Dynamic Meditation
Meditation was not something
arduous or difficult,
but to the Western mind
or even to the Eastern mind today
which is absolutely overtaken
by the Western ideology,
watching the mind
is not an easy job.
So much garbage and so much crap
has been
forced into the mind
that you go almost crazy just watching it.
It is a film
which begins, but never ends.
You can go on watching day in, day out,
year in, year out
and the mind
is always ready to supply
new
images,
new dreams.
It is because of this
I had
to create
few other devices...
before you could enter into a
silent witnessing meditation like Vipassana.
Dynamic,
Kundalini,
and others...
I have
made devices
to help you cathart,
throw out your
garbage rather than
waste time in watching it.
It can be thrown out
by Latihan --
tremendously beautiful --
but it is not a meditation; it is only a clearance.
It can be done by Dynamic Meditation
even better than by Latihan,
because Latihan has some dangers
which I have
cut out of the meditation.
Sometimes Latihan people go
mad
because they cannot stop Latihan.
It is an Indonesian method
which became immensely successful
in the fifties
in Europe and America.
It never became successful in the East
because in the East,
particularly in Indonesia,
which is a backward country,
there is nothing to cathart.
The man who invented Latihan --
Bapak Subuh --
he called his philosophy 'subud'.
He has taken the word `Subud'
from `Buddha',
it means
`the great awakening'.
But Latihan cannot bring the great awakening.
It became fashionable in the West and then
disappeared completely,
because it created many people
who had to be put
into mental asylums,
for the simple reason that it has no
inbuilt process
to stop.
Once you start Latihan
you are overtaken by the process of catharsis,
and it goes on and on
and you don't know what to do.
You are almost
without any control.
But in Dynamic Meditation
I have divided into different sections.
Latihan has to be done alone;
Dynamic Meditation has to be done under
instruction.
Then once you have learned it
you can do it alone.
Under instruction, after each ten minutes,
the process can be changed.
So you are always in control.
It never becomes so big as to take
all control into its own hands.
These devices are needed
just to clear the rubbish that Christianity has created
and to bring you to a state of naturalness,
simplicity...
And from there
the only way is
witnessing, which is called
by Buddha, Vipassana.
Vipassana means
`looking at'.
It will be good
that if you
are doing Vipassana...
any silent meditation --
don't choose --
then Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential,
because of Christianity...
because Christianity has
poisoned your mind
and that poison has to be taken away, thrown out.
You have to go completely crazy to throw it out;
otherwise that craziness remains inside you,
and it won't allow you
to get
into a silent,
watching, witnessing meditation.
So do some Dynamic Meditation,
do some jogging,
do some running,
swimming
and when you feel utterly tired,
when you feel an intrinsic need to relax,
you are free from Christianity.
Then you can sit silently,
and then you can watch your mind
and it is not much.
You have thrown out almost
ninety-nine percent of it.
Maybe here and there
a few pieces are clinging
because they are very old and have become glued to you...
Just watch them.
Watching is a process of ungluing
those small pieces here and there
hanging in the mind.
Once they also disappear,
you don't have a mind,
you have a vast sky opening.
That is the explosion,
and that explosion will bring you
to sachchidanand,
to truth,
to consciousness,
to bliss.
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