Saturday, January 2, 2010

Second Osho Meditation

According to Osho, the meditation is a state that goes "beyond the mind," of total presence of self in which to reach knowingly inner silence. He insisted on the fact that meditation can not be explained or described in a comprehensive way, being an experience in which the mind and any logical thinking (hence the language) are transcended. The practice of meditation ... 

... not necessarily include spiritual or religious thoughts, and you can not force it through an act of will, even if it is a discipline, but only let this state of "no mind" that is the look the thing in itself without making judgments of any kind, you spontaneously. This is the mind of the child who looks charmed the wonders of the world is the innocent mind which looks for the first time about the universe and contemplate it. 

Osho is assumed that being in "meditation" is a common and natural condition of man. But, he added, it is very difficult for modern man to achieve this condition using traditional techniques (such as sitting in silence just crossed legs) because he is constantly many "distractions" and external stimuli and the mind is so full of thoughts which run from one side that lost the ability to stand still and dedicate himself to his inner listening. For this reason, identifies some active meditation techniques' whose essential purpose was to calm the mind to create that space of silence and awareness necessary for meditation. 

Some of these preparatory exercises can be found in the treatment of modern Western psychotherapy (pe Gestalt therapy), and consists in the alteration of the breath in gibberish (to speak in an unknown language), in cry or laugh freely, dancing and move the body to attain a state of catharsis, or the collapse of the superstructure and mental liberation from them through emotional explosion. This frees the body and the structure of psycho-energetics of all those emotional blocks which prevent the free expression of self in everyday life. 

The techniques of meditation are called major proposals by Osho Active Meditations (active meditations) and include meditations: "dynamic", "kundalini", "Nadabrahma", "Nataraj." They are based on the following assumptions: 1. design of complete identity between the body and psychic structure (every suppressed emotion or trauma internalized has a counterpart in the physical body), 2. the emotional and social conditions suffered by man since his early childhood, though much rooted in their psycho-physical structure, must be removed, which requires an act of will of the practitioner. 

Osho also re-introduced some traditional techniques of meditation, reducing them to their most essential expression, abstracting them from their rituals and formalism, and retaining the parties most 'therapeutic'. Also supported the theory that the meditative state can be achieved and maintained, with sufficient practice, even through the daily actions.

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