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Meditations for Contemporary People
You have invented some techniques, meditation techniques,
and you say that in India there are a 112 techniques of meditation
So how to choose what is useful?
They are all useful
Just one can go through all 112 techniques
which one can go within half an hour
because each technique consists only of two lines
So just go through them,
and any technique that strikes you
This is what ...
will be suitable to me‚
try it.
Or if you find two, three techniques
then try one by one. Give each a chance.
Out of 112 there must be a technique
more than one
one is absolutely certain,
but my experience is that more than one
will be applicable to every human being.
And the easiest way is just to go through,
read them,
and any technique that suddenly strikes you
that, this is it!
give it a try, at least for twenty-one days.
If it starts working, then forget everything, other techniques
Go on working on it.
It does not matter how many techniques you try
What matters is that you try one technique to its very end,
to its ultimate depth
And if you succeed in one technique
then every other technique becomes very easy.
If the first technique took six months
the other techniques may take just one week
because now exactly you have reached to the point
You know the place, you know the space that meditation creates
This is a different path leading to the same space
And as you try a few other techniques
the time will become less
I have tried all 112 techniques
After trying a dozen techniques, it becomes so easy
at the first time, you reach immediately to the space.
And then I have developed my own techniques other than these 112
because I saw that for the modern man there are a few problems which are not covered
in those 112 techniques
They were written perhaps ten thousand years before
a totally different kind of mankind, a different kind of culture,
different kind of people.
The modern man, the contemporary man, has some differences
In ten thousand years it is absolutely necessary.
For example, the Dynamic Meditation
is not amongst those 112.
It is absolutely necessary for the modern man,
it may not have been at that time.
If people are innocent
there is no need for Dynamic Meditation.
But if people are repressed,
psychologically are carrying a lot of burden
then they need catharsis.
So Dynamic Meditation is just
to help them clean the place.
And then they can use any method from the 112
It will not be difficult.
If they, right now, directly try, they will fail.
I have seen many people trying directly
reaching nowhere
because they are so full of garbage
that first it has to be emptied out.
Dynamic Meditation is of immense help.
All the techniques that I have developed
are for the contemporary man
and doing these techniques he will be clean
unburdened
simple, innocent.
Perhaps there will be no need to try those techniques.
But just for curiosity's sake you can try one of the techniques
and you will be surprised how quickly
you enter into its very innermost core.
So first thing is something cathartic,
which is absolutely necessary for the contemporary man.
And then those silent methods can be used.
from: The Last Testament Vol.3 #19 © OSHO International Foundation 1985, 2006
MEDITATION: The First and Last Freedom, THE BOOK OF SECRETS
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