OSHO Meditation In-depth: Inventory of Audio quote texts

01 (Devavani) When the Unconscious Speaks 01:14

02 (Dynamic) Osho Leading Dynamic 09:58
03 (Dynamic) Pain – We Have Done Much Violence to Our Bodies 03:40
04 (Golden Light) – long version 07:24
05 (Golden Light) – short version 03:57
06 (Kundalini) Allow the Shaking, Don’t Do It! 01:43
06a (Kundalini etc) Osho, How Did You Discover Kundalini? 01:20
07 (Nataraj) Forget the Dancer, the Center of the Ego 03:31
08 (Nataraj) And Then the Dancing Has Also Disappeared 00:36
09 (OSHO Zen) I Understand Zen to Be… 03:07
10 (Vipassana) Living Totally It Follows You like a Shadow 03:26
11 (Vipassana) …And When I Say Watch 01:15
12 (Whirling) This Sufi Whirling Is One of the Most Forceful 08:10
13 (Whirling) You Have to Whirl Just like Small Children 01:08
13a (Whirling) Become an Energy Whirlpool 00:24
14 (Whirling) Don’t Stop by Yourself, Don’t Play Tricks 00:58
15 (Whirling) When You Fall Down… 00:38
16 Look upon a Bowl (bad quality) 05:08
17 Absorb the Senses in the Heart (bad quality) 03:42
18 Listening to the Waves, Become the Waves 01:42
19 Concentration and Meditation 03:54
20 “Meditation” and “Meditation Techniques” 04:02
21 Meditation Is Not a Technique, Really 03:01
22 You Have Invented Some Techniques – How to Choose? 08:40
23 The Three Essentials: Relaxation, Watching, No Judgment 02:59
24 Meditation and Time of Day: Alert, Half-alert, Unalert 09:09
25 After Each Meditation, Celebrating with Compassion 01:14
26 Help People Throw Repressions, Guide Has to Be a Meditator 02:12
27 It Is Good to Help Others 02:44
28 Can You Create Meditation Courses if Not Awakened? 04:45

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01 (Devavani) When the Unconscious Speaks 01:14
When the unconscious speaks, the unconscious knows no language. It is a very, very old method. It
comes from the Old Testament. In those days it was called glossolalia, and a few churches in
America still use it. They call it “speaking in tongues.” And it is a wonderful method, one of the most
deep and penetrating into the unconscious. Start by la, la, la, and then anything that comes, go on.
Just for the first day you will feel it a little difficult. Once it comes, you know the knack of it. Then, for
fifteen minutes, use the language that is coming to you, and use it as a language; in fact, you are
talking in it. This will relax the conscious so deeply...
Osho: Yoga: The Mystery beyond Mind, #6

02 (Dynamic) Osho Leading Dynamic 09:58

03 (Dynamic) Pain – We Have Done Much Violence to Our Bodies 03:40

We have done much violence to our bodies. So in this chaotic meditation I am forcing your bodies to
be alive again. Many blocks will be broken; many settled things will become unsettled again; many
systems will become liquid again. There will be pain, but welcome it. It is a blessing and you will come
over it. Continue! There is no need to think what to do. You simply continue the meditation. I have
seen hundreds and hundreds of people passing through the same process. Within a few days the
pain is gone. And when the pain is gone, you will have a subtle joy around your body.
You cannot have it right now because the pain is there. You may know it or you may not know it but
the pain is there all over your body. You have simply become unconscious about it because it has
always been with you. Whatsoever is always there, you become unconscious about. Through
meditation you will become conscious and then the mind will say, "Don't do this; the whole body is
aching." Do not listen to the mind. Simply go on doing it.
Within a certain period the pain will be thrown out. And when the pain is thrown out, when your body
has again become receptive and there is no block, no poisons around it, you will always have a subtle
feeling of joy wrapped around you. Whatsoever you are doing or not doing, you will always feel a
subtle vibration of joy around your body.
Really, joy only means that your body is in a symphony, nothing else – that your body is in a musical
rhythm, nothing else. Joy is not pleasure; pleasure has to be derived from something else. Joy is just
to be yourself – alive, fully vibrant, vital. A feeling of a subtle music around your body and within your
body, a symphony -- that is joy. You can be joyful when your body is flowing, when it is a riverlike
flow.
It will come but you will have to pass through suffering, through pain. That is part of your destiny
because you have created it. But it goes. If you do not stop in the middle, it goes. If you stop in the
middle, then the old settlement will be there again. Within four or five days you will feel okay – just the
old, as you have always been. Be aware of that okay-ness.
Osho: The Supreme Doctrine #5

04 (Golden Light) – long version 07:24

I will suggest a small method to you that will be of immense help. It has been used by Taoists down
the ages. It is given only from the Masters to the disciples, that’s why it has not been written in the
books. But now the time has come that it should be given, because now millions of people are
working on their spiritual search through books. Masters are not so available either.
This is a simple method of transforming your energy and leading it upward. And always remember,
Taoist methods are very simple, so don’t think, “How can such a simple thing be of such great
importance?” Practice it, experiment with it and you will know.
The process is:
At least twice a day – the best times are early in the morning, just before you get out of your bed. The
moment you feel you are alert, awake, do it for twenty minutes. Do it first thing in the morning! – don’t
get out of the bed. Do it there, then and there, immediately! – because when you are coming out of
sleep you are very very delicate, receptive. When you are coming out of sleep you are very fresh, and
the impact will go very deep.
When you are just coming out of your sleep you are less in the mind than ever. Hence some gaps are
there through which the method will penetrate into your innermost core. And early in the morning,
when you are awakening, and when the whole earth is awakening, there is a great tide of awakening
energy all over the world. Use that tide, don’t miss that opportunity.
All ancient religions used to pray early in the morning when the sun rose, because the rising of the
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sun is the rising of all the energies in existence. In that moment you can simply ride on the rising
energy wave; it will be easier. By the evening it will be difficult, energies will be falling back. Then you
will be fighting against the current, in the morning you will be going with the current.
So the best time to begin is in the early morning, immediately, just when you are half-asleep, half-
awake. And the process is so simple. It needs no posture, no yogasana, no bath is needed, nothing.
You simply lie down, as you are lying down in your bed, on your back. Keep your eyes closed.
When you breathe in, just visualize great light entering from your head into your body, as if a sun has
risen just close to your head – golden light pouring into your head. You are just hollow and the golden
light is pouring into your head, and going, going, going, deep, deep, and going out through your toes.
When you breathe in, do it with this visualization.
And when you breathe out, visualize another thing: darkness entering through your toes, a great dark
river entering through your toes, coming up, and going out through the head. Do slow, deep breathing
so you can visualize. Go very slowly. And just out of sleep you can have very deep and slow breaths
because the body is rested, relaxed.
Let me repeat: breathing in, let golden light come into you through your head, because it is there that
the Golden Flower is waiting. That golden light will help. It will cleanse your whole body and will make
it absolutely full of creativity. This is male energy.
Then when you exhale, let darkness, the darkest you can conceive, like a dark night, river-like, come
from your toes upward – this is feminine energy: it will soothe you, it will make you receptive, it will
calm you, it will give you rest – and let it go out of the head. Then inhale again, and golden light
enters in.
Do it for twenty minutes, early in the morning.
And then the second best time is when you are going back to sleep, in the night.
Lie down on the bed, relax for a few minutes. When you start feeling that now you are wavering
between sleep and waking, just in that middle, start the process again, and continue for twenty
minutes. If you fall asleep doing it, it is the best, because the impact will remain in the subconscious
and will go on working.
And after a three-month period you will be surprised: the energy that was constantly gathering at the
muladhar, at the lowest, the sex center, is no more gathering there. It is going upward.
Osho: The Secret of Secrets, #29

05 (Golden Light) – short version 03:57

This is a simple method of transforming your energy and leading it upward. And always remember,
Taoist methods are very simple, so don’t think, “How can such a simple thing be of such great
importance?” Practice it, experiment with it and you will know.
The process is:
At least twice a day – the best times are early in the morning, just before you get out of your bed. The
moment you feel you are alert, awake, do it for twenty minutes. Do it first thing in the morning! – don’t
get out of the bed. Do it there, then and there, immediately! – because when you are coming out of
sleep you are very very delicate, receptive. When you are coming out of sleep you are very fresh, and
the impact will go very deep.
When you are just coming out of your sleep you are less in the mind than ever. Hence some gaps are
there through which the method will penetrate into your innermost core. And early in the morning,
when you are awakening, and when the whole earth is awakening, there is a great tide of awakening
energy all over the world. Use that tide, don’t miss that opportunity.
All ancient religions used to pray early in the morning when the sun rose, because the rising of the
sun is the rising of all the energies in existence. In that moment you can simply ride on the rising
energy wave; it will be easier. By the evening it will be difficult, energies will be falling back. Then you
will be fighting against the current, in the morning you will be going with the current.
So the best time to begin is in the early morning, immediately, just when you are half-asleep, half-
awake. And the process is so simple. It needs no posture, no yogasana, no bath is needed, nothing.
Do it for twenty minutes, early in the morning.
And then the second best time is when you are going back to sleep, in the night.
Lie down on the bed, relax for a few minutes. When you start feeling that now you are wavering
between sleep and waking, just in that middle, start the process again, and continue for twenty
minutes. If you fall asleep doing it, it is the best, because the impact will remain in the subconscious
and will go on working.
And after a three-month period you will be surprised: the energy that was constantly gathering at the
muladhar, at the lowest, the sex center, is no more gathering there. It is going upward.
Osho: The Secret of Secrets, #29

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06 (Kundalini) Allow the Shaking, Don’t Do It! 01:43
If you are doing the Kundalini Meditation, allow the shaking, don’t do it! Stand silently, feel it coming
and when your body starts a little trembling, help it, but don’t do it. Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow
it, receive it, welcome it, but don’t will it.
If you force it, it will become an exercise, a physical exercise of the body. Then the shaking will be
there, but just on the surface. It will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stonelike, rocklike within.
You will remain the manipulator, the doer, and the body will just be following. The body is not the
question – you are the question.
When I say shake, I mean your solidity, your rocklike being should shake to the very foundations, so it
becomes liquid, fluid, melts, flows. And when the rocklike being becomes liquid your body will follow.
Then there is no shaker, only shaking; then nobody is doing it, it is simply happening. Then the doer
is not.
Osho: Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing, #2

06a (Kundalini etc) Osho, How Did You Discover Kundalini? 01:20
Sujata has asked, “Osho, I have three questions to ask you. The first question: How did you discover
Kundalini meditation?” – simple, Sujata: Meditating down by the river upon a hill of red ants!
The second: “And Dynamic?” That is even more simple, Sujata; it was almost impossible not to
discover it. I came upon it driving on Indian roads in Indian cars!
The third: “And what about Nadabrahma?” Hm!
Osho: Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen, #7

07 (Nataraj) Forget the Dancer, the Center of the Ego 03:31

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. That is the meditation. Dance so deeply
that you completely forget that you are dancing and begin to feel that you are the dance. The division
must disappear. Then it becomes a meditation. If there is division, then it is an exercise: good,
healthy, but it cannot be said to be spiritual. It is just a simple dance. Dance is good in itself. As far as
it goes, it is good. After it, you will feel fresh, young. But it is not yet meditation. The dancer must go,
until only the dance remains.
So what to do? – dance so totally, because division can exist only if you are not total in it. If you are
standing aside and looking at your own dance, the division will remain: you are the dancer and you
are dancing. Then dancing is just an act, something you are doing. It is not your being. Get involved
totally, be merged in it. Don’t stand aside, don’t be an observer – participate!
Let the dance flow in its own way. Don’t force it. Rather, follow it: don’t force it, allow it to happen. It is
not a doing but a happening.
Remain in the mood of festivity. You are not doing something very serious. You’re just playing,
playing with your life energy, playing with your own bio-energy, allowing your bio-energy to move, to
move in its own way. Just as the wind blows and the river flows, you are flowing and blowing. Feel it.
And be playful. Always remember this word playful. With me, it is very basic. In this country we call
creation God’s leela. We call creation God’s leela, God’s play. Nowhere else in the world does this
concept exist.
Osho: The New Alchemy: To Turn You On, #23

08 (Nataraj) And Then the Dancing Has Also Disappeared 00:36

If you can dance in such a way that only the dance remains and the dancer disappears, one day
suddenly you will see the dancing has also disappeared. And then there is an awareness which is not
of the mind and not of the ego. In fact that awareness cannot be practiced; something else has to be
done as a preparation, and that awareness comes to you. You have just to become available for it.
Osho: Yoga: The Science of the Soul, Vol 8 #10

09 (OSHO Zen) I Understand Zen to Be… 03:07

I understand Zen to be a very simple, innocent, joyful method. There is nothing ascetic in it, nothing
life-negative – no need to renounce the world, no need to become a monk, no need to enter a
monastery. You have to enter into yourself. That can be done anywhere.

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We are doing it in the simplest way possible. And only if Zen becomes as simple as I am trying to
make it, can the contemporary man be interested in it. Otherwise he has so much to do – so many
things to do, so many paths to explore, so many things to distract him.
Zen has to become such a small playful thing, that while you are going to sleep – just before that –
within five minutes you can enter into yourself, and you can remain at the very center of your being
the whole night. Your whole night can become a peaceful, silent awareness. Sleep will be in the body,
but underneath it there will be a current of light from the evening till the morning.
And once you know that even in sleep a certain awareness can be present inside you, then the whole
day, doing all kinds of things, you can remain alert, conscious. Buddhahood has to be a very normal,
ordinary, simple and human affair.
Osho: The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself, #11

10 (Vipassana) Living Totally It Follows You like a Shadow 03:26

Whenever you are total in anything you will feel more watchful, more alert, more awakened, more
fresh, more alive. I am all for life. Your so-called religions are all against life, they are anti-life.
Naturally they have to be as cold as a corpse.
I would like my sannyasins to be living totally and multi-dimensionally, even in small things – bringing
their whole being to a focus. And if you can start living moment to moment in different ways – but
always total – Vipassana will happen to you more easily than you can conceive because you have
never seen anything happening so easily, without effort, on its own accord. You can force yourself to
sit in silence and remain awake. I don’t teach that kind of Vipassana. I teach a Vipassana that follows
you like a shadow, as a by-product of your total living.
Osho: The Transmission of the Lamp, #46

11 (Vipassana) … And When I Say Watch 01:15

When I say watch, don’t try to watch; otherwise you will become tense again and you will start
concentrating on the breath. Simply relax, remain relaxed, loose. And look – because what else can
you do? You are there, nothing to be done, everything accepted, nothing to be denied, rejected, no
struggle, no fight, no conflict, breathing going deep – what can you do? You simply watch.
Remember, simply watch; don’t make an effort to watch. This is what Buddha has called vipassana,
the watching of the breath, awareness of the breath, or satipatthana, remembering, being alert of the
life energy that moves in breath.
Osho: Ancient Music in the Pines, #3

12 (Whirling) This Sufi Whirling Is One of the Most Forceful 08:10

This whirling, Sufi whirling, is one of the most ancient techniques, one of the most forceful. It is so
deep that even a single experience can make you totally different. You have to whirl with open eyes,
just like small children go on twirling, as if your inner being has become a center and your whole body
has become like a wheel, moving – a potter’s wheel, moving. You are in the center, but the whole
body is moving.
Start slowly, clockwise. If somebody feels it is very difficult to move clockwise then move anti-
clockwise, but the rule is to move clockwise. If a few people are left-handed then they may feel it
difficult; they can move anti-clockwise. And almost ten percent of people are left-handed, so if you
find that clockwise you feel uneasy, move anti-clockwise, but start with clockwise, then feel. With
open eyes, start moving.
Music will be there, slow, just to help you. In the beginning move very slowly, don’t go fast, very
slowly, enjoying. And then, by and by, go faster. The first fifteen minutes go slowly, the second fifteen
minutes fast, the third fifteen minutes faster, the fourth fifteen minutes, just completely mad. Then
bring your total energy… Become a whirlpool, an energy whirlpool, lost completely in it: no
witnessing, no effort to observe. Don’t try to see; be the whirlpool, be the whirling. One hour.
In the beginning you may not be able to stand so long, but remember one thing: don’t stop by
yourself, don’t stop the whirling. If you feel it is impossible, the body will fall down automatically, but
don’t you stop. If you fall down in the middle of the hour there is no problem; the process is complete.
But don’t play tricks with yourself, don’t deceive. Don’t think that now you are tired so it is better to
stop. No, don’t make it a decision on your part. If you are tired, how can you go on? You will fall
automatically. So don’t stop yourself; let the whirling itself come to a point where you fall down. When
you fall down, fall down on your stomach, and it will be good if your stomach is in direct touch with the
earth. Now close the eyes. Lie down on the earth as if lying down on the breast of your mother, a

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small child lying down on the breast of the mother. Become completely unconscious – and this
whirling will help.
Whirling gives intoxication to the body. It is a chemical thing, it makes you intoxicated, to be exact.
That’s why sometimes you may feel giddy just like a drunkard. What is happening to the drunkard?
Hidden behind your ears is a sixth sense, the sense of balance. When you take any drink, any
alcoholic thing, any intoxicating drug, it goes directly to the seat of balance in the ear and disturbs it.
That’s why a drunkard cannot walk, feels dizzy.
The same happens in whirling. If you whirl, really, the effect will be the same: you will feel intoxicated,
drunk. But enjoy – this drunkenness is worth something. This being in a drunken state is what Sufis
have been calling ecstasy, masti. In the beginning you may feel giddy, in the beginning sometimes
you may feel nausea, but within two, three days, these feelings will disappear, and by the fourth day
you will feel a new energy in you that you have never known before. Then giddiness will disappear,
and just a smooth feeling of drunkenness will be there. So don’t try to be alert about what is
happening. Let it happen and become one with the happening.
Then fall down on the ground on your stomach. If anybody feels any sort of pain in the navel center
lying down on the ground, then he can turn on the back, otherwise not. If you feel something, a very
deep painful sensation in the stomach, then turn on your back, otherwise not. The navel in contact
with the earth will give you such a blissful feeling – just the same as you once had, but now you have
forgotten: when you were a child lying down on your mother’s breast, completely unaware of any
worry, any anxiety, so one with the mother, your heart beating with her heart, your breath in tune with
her breath. The same will happen with the earth, because the earth is the mother. That’s why Hindus
call the earth the mother and the sky the father. Be rooted in it. Feel a merger as if you have
dissolved. The body has become one with the earth; the form is no longer there. Only the earth
exists; you are not there. This is what I mean when I say break the cup completely: forget that you
are. The earth is, dissolve into it.
Osho: A Bird on the Wing, #1

13 (Whirling) You Have to Whirl Just like Small Children 01:08

This whirling, Sufi whirling, is one of the most ancient techniques, one of the most forceful. It is so
deep that even a single experience can make you totally different. You have to whirl with open eyes,
just like small children go on twirling, as if your inner being has become a center and your whole body
has become like a wheel, moving – a potter’s wheel, moving. You are in the center, but the whole
body is moving.
Osho: A Bird on the Wing. #1

13a (Whirling) Become an Energy Whirlpool 00:24

Become a whirlpool, an energy whirlpool, lost completely in it: no witnessing, no effort to observe.
Don’t try to see; be the whirlpool, be the whirling.

14 (Whirling) Don’t Stop by Yourself, Don’t Play Tricks 00:58

In the beginning you may not be able to stand so long, but remember one thing: don’t stop by
yourself, don’t stop the whirling. If you feel it is impossible, the body will fall down automatically, but
don’t you stop. If you fall down in the middle of the hour there is no problem; the process is complete.
But don’t play tricks with yourself, don’t deceive. Don’t think that now you are tired so it is better to
stop. No, don’t make it a decision on your part. If you are tired, how can you go on? You will fall
automatically. So don’t stop yourself; let the whirling itself come to a point where you fall down.
Osho: A Bird on the Wing. #1

15 (Whirling) When You Fall Down… 00:38

When you fall down, fall down on your stomach, and it will be good if your stomach is in direct touch
with the earth. Now close the eyes. Lie down on the earth as if lying down on the breast of your
mother, a small child lying down on the breast of the mother. Become completely unconscious – and
this whirling will help.
Osho: A Bird on the Wing. #1

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16 Look upon a Bowl 05:08
Look upon a bowl without seeing the sides or the material. In a few moments become aware.

Look at anything. A bowl or any object will do, but look with a different quality.

Look upon a bowl without seeing the sides or the material.

Look upon any object, but with these two conditions... Do not look at the sides, look at the object as a
whole. Ordinarily, we look at parts. It may not be done so consciously, but we look at parts. If I look at
you, first I see your face, then your torso, and then your whole body. Look at an object as a whole; do
not divide it in parts. Why? Because when you divide something in parts, the eyes have an
opportunity to move from one part to another. Look at a thing as a whole. You can do it.
I can look at all of you in two ways. I can look from this side and then move. I can look at A, then at B,
then I look at C and go on moving. When I look at A, B and C, I am not present – or just present on
the fringe, but not focused. When I look at B, I am leaving A. When I look at C, A has been completely
lost; he has gone out of my focus. I can look at this group in this manner, but I can look at the whole
group without dividing it into individuals, into units, taking it as a whole.
Try it. First look at a thing moving from one fragment to another. Then suddenly look at this thing as a
whole; do not divide it. When you look at a thing as a whole, the eyes have no need to move. In order
not to give any opportunity for movement, this has been made a condition: look at an object totally,
taken as a whole. And secondly, without seeing the material. If the bowl is of wood, do not see the
wood: just see the bowl, the form. Do not see the substance.
It may be of gold, it may be of silver – observe it. Do not look at the material of which it is made, just
look at the form. The first thing is to look at it as a whole. Secondly, look at it as a form, not as a
substance. Why? Because substance is the material part, form is the spiritual part, and you are to
move from the material to the non-material. It will be helpful.
Try it. You can try it with anyone. Some man or some woman is standing: look, and take the man or
woman wholly into your look, totally into it. It will be a weird feeling in the beginning because you are
not habituated this way, but it is very beautiful in the end. And then, do not think about whether the
body is beautiful or not, white or black, man or woman. Do not think; just look at the form. Forget the
substance and just look at the form.
In a few moments become aware. Go on looking at the form as a whole. Do not allow the eyes any
movement. Do not start thinking about the material. What will happen? You will suddenly become
aware of your self.
Osho: The Book of Secrets #21

17 Absorb the Senses in the Heart 03:42

You are listening to music. Do not listen to it from the head. Just forget your head and feel that you
are headless, there is no head at all. It is good to have a picture of yourself without the head in your
bedroom. Concentrate on it; you are without the head, do not allow the head to come in. While
listening to music, listen to it from the heart. Feel the music coming to your heart; let your heart
vibrate with it. Let your senses be joined to the heart, not to the head. Try this with all the senses, and
feel more and more that every sense goes into the heart and dissolves into it.

Blessed One, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the lotus.

The heart is the lotus. Every sense is just the opening of the lotus, the petals of the lotus. Try to relate
your senses to the heart first. Secondly, always think that every sense goes deep down into the heart
and becomes absorbed in it. When these two things become established, only then will your senses
begin to help you. They will lead you to the heart, and your heart will become a lotus.
This lotus of the heart will give you a centering. Once you know the center of the heart, it is very easy
to fall down into the navel center, very easy. This sutra does not even mention this – there is no need.
If you are really absorbed in the heart totally, and reason has stopped working, then you will fall
down. From the heart, the door is opened toward the navel. Only from the head is it difficult to go
toward the navel. Or if you are between the two, between the heart and the head, then too it is difficult
to go to the navel. Once you are absorbed in the navel, you have suddenly fallen beyond the heart.
You have fallen into the navel center which is the basic one – the original.
Osho: The Book of Secrets #11

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18 Listening to the Waves, Become the Waves 01:42
How can you defeat the ocean? You can only defeat the waves.
Once you have dropped the ego, you have dropped all defeat, all failure, all frustration. Carry the ego
and you are doomed to failure. Carry the ego and you will remain weak. Drop the ego and infinite
strength starts flowing through you. By dropping the ego you become a river, you start flowing, you
start melting, you start streaming – you become alive.
All life is of the whole. If you are trying to live on your own, you are simply being stupid. It is as if a
leaf on a tree is trying to live on its own – not only that, but fighting the tree, fighting other leaves,
fighting the roots, thinking that those are all inimical to him. We are just leaves on a tree, a great tree
– call it “existence,” or “the whole,” or you name it – but we are small leaves on an infinite tree of life.
There is no need to fight.
The only way to come home is to surrender.
Osho: A Sudden Clash of Thunder, #5

19 Concentration and Meditation 03:54

Even a meditation can be wrong. People have a wrong notion that all meditations are right. It is not
so. Meditations can be wrong. For example, any meditation that leads you deep into concentration is
wrong, it will not result in compassion. You will become more and more closed rather than becoming
open. If you narrow down your consciousness, if you concentrate on something and you exclude the
whole of existence and become one-pointed, it will create more and more tension in you. Hence the
word attention: it means a tension. Concentration, the very sound of the word, gives you a feeling of
tenseness.
Concentration has its uses, but it is not meditation. In scientific work, in scientific research, in the
science lab, you need concentration. You have to concentrate on one problem and exclude
everything else – so much so that you almost become unmindful of the remaining world.
That goes on happening to scientists: they become one-pointed and their whole mind becomes
narrow. Of course, a narrow mind has its use: it becomes more penetrating, it becomes like a sharp
needle, it hits exactly the right point – but it misses the great life that surrounds you.
A buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow
down his consciousness, on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes
totally available to existence. Watch: existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic
noise is simultaneous, the train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees; in this moment, the
whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on
– it is tremendously rich.
Concentration makes you one-pointed at a very great cost: ninety-nine percent of life is discarded.
Osho: Ancient Music in the Pines, #3

20 “Meditation” and “Meditation Techniques” 04:02

Remind yourself again and again, that whatsoever you practice will be a part of the mind, the small
mind, the outer periphery, and you have to go beyond it. How to go beyond it? Practice, nothing is
wrong in it, but be alert; meditate, but be alert – because in the final meaning of the term, meditation
is witnessing.
All techniques can be helpful but they are not exactly meditation, they are just a groping in the dark.
Suddenly one day, doing something, you will become a witness. Doing a meditation like the Dynamic,
or Kundalini or Whirling, suddenly one day the meditation will go on but you will not be identified. You
will sit silently behind, you will watch it – that day meditation has happened; that day technique is no
more a hindrance, no more a help. You can enjoy it if you like, like an exercise, it gives a certain
vitality, but there is no need now – the real meditation has happened.
Meditation is witnessing. To meditate means to become a witness. Meditation is not a technique at
all. This will be very confusing to you because I go on giving you techniques. In the ultimate sense
meditation is not a technique; meditation is an understanding, awareness. But you need techniques
because that final understanding is very far away from you; deep hidden in you, but still very far away
from you. Right this moment you can attain it, but you will not attain it, because your moment goes
on, your mind goes on. This very moment it is possible and yet impossible. Techniques will bridge the
gap, they are just to bridge the gap.
So in the beginning techniques are meditations; in the end you will laugh, techniques are not
meditation. Meditation is a totally different quality of being, it has nothing to do with anything. But it
will happen only in the end....

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21 Meditation Is Not a Technique, Really 03:01

The inner journey is of innocence, not of knowledge; certainly not of science, absolutely not of
technology. It is more of love, innocence, silence. Meditation is not really a technique, but because
you cannot understand anything other than technique, I have to talk in terms of technique; otherwise,
meditation is not a technique at all. Meditation is nothing that you do. Meditation is something that you
fall in, just like love. Meditation is something in which you can be, but you cannot do it, doing ceases.
How can there be a technology for non-doing? Technology is relevant to doing: you have to do
something. Meditation is not something that you do. It is only when your doer has gone and you are
totally relaxed, not doing anything, in a deep let-go, rest, that there is meditation. Then meditation
flowers, it is the flowering of your being. It has nothing to do with becoming. It is not an achievement,
it is not an improvement; it is just being that which you already are. What technique is needed?
People are foolish; that’s why techniques have to be talked about. If you understand, nothing is
needed. Just being silent and just being yourself, not moving in any direction, not moving at all, and
you will see the benediction, the meditation. When this meditation has become such a spontaneous
flow that you need not even sit in a certain posture for it, that you need not find a small corner in the
house where nobody disturbs you; when it is also there in the marketplace: talking, walking, doing,
eating, it is there; when it is always there, even when you are asleep – you go on feeling it, it goes on
like breathing, or the beating of the heart – that’s what Kabir calls sahaj samadhi, spontaneous
ecstasy. It needs no technique; it needs only spontaneity, it needs only naturalness, it needs only
simplicity.
Any methods which exist without love, are dangerous. And in this again it is very difficult to make a
distinction, because the same method can be used with love, and then it is meaningful; and the same
method can be used without love, and it becomes dangerous. And it is very difficult to see from the
outside whether the method is being used with love or without love.
Osho: The Path of Love, #2

22 You Have Invented Some Techniques – How to Choose? 08:40

Osho, You have invented some techniques, meditation techniques, and you say that in India there
are 112 techniques of meditation. So how to choose what is useful?
They are all useful. One can just go through all 112 techniques – which one can do 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 them 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 “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 you
have reached to the exact 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 – 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 ago for a totally different kind of mankind, a different kind of
culture, different kind of people. The modern man, the contemporary man, has some differences –
over ten thousand years it is absolutely inevitable.
For example, the Dynamic Meditation is not amongst those 112. It is absolutely necessary for the
modern man, although 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.
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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.
Osho: The Last Testament, vol. 3, #21

23 The Three Essentials: Relaxation, Watching, No Judgment 02:59

Meditation has a few essential things in it, whatever the method. But those few essentials are
necessary in every method.
The first is a relaxed state: no fight with the mind, no control of the mind, no concentration.
Second, just watching with a relaxed awareness whatever is going on, without any interference…just
watching the mind, silently, without any judgment, any evaluation. These are the three things:
relaxation, watching, no judgment.
Slowly, slowly a great silence descends over you. All movement within you ceases. You are, but there
is no sense of “I am”…just a pure space.
There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation; I have talked on all those methods. They
differ in their constitution, but the fundamentals remain the same: relaxation, watchfulness, a non-
judgmental attitude.
Osho: The Great Zen Master Ta Hui, #14

24 Meditation and Time of Day: Alert, Half-alert, Unalert 09:09

This camp is going to be different in many ways. Tonight I start a completely new phase of my work.
You are fortunate to be here because you will be witnesses to a new type of inner work. I must
explain it to you because tomorrow morning the journey starts.
You will be doing meditation three times. In the morning, Dynamic Meditation; in the afternoon, Kirtan;
and in the night a new meditation will be introduced: Sufi dervish dancing. All these three meditations
are fragments of one whole.
The first meditation, which you will do in the morning, is related to the rising sun. It is a morning
meditation. When the sleep is broken the whole of nature becomes alive. The night has gone, the
darkness is no more, the sun is coming up, and everything becomes conscious and alert. So this first
meditation is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware, whatsoever
you do. The first step, breathing; the second step, catharsis; the third step, the mantra, the
mahamantra, Hoo.
Remain a witness. Don’t get lost. It is easy to get lost. While you are breathing you can forget: you
can become one with the breathing so much that you can forget the witness. But then you miss the
point. Breathe as fast, as deep as possible, bring your total energy to it, but still remain a witness.
Observe what is happening as if you are just a spectator, as if the whole thing is happening to
somebody else, as if the whole thing is happening in the body and the consciousness is just centered
and looking. This witnessing has to be carried in all the three steps. And when everything stops, and
in the fourth step you have become completely inactive, frozen, then this alertness will come to its
peak.
In the afternoon meditation, Kirtan – dancing, singing – another inner work has to be done. In the
morning you have to be fully conscious; in the afternoon meditation you have to be half conscious,
half unconscious. It is a noontide meditation – when you are alert but you feel sleepy. It is just like a
man who is under the influence of some intoxicant. He walks, but cannot walk rightly; he knows
where he is going, but everything is dim. He is conscious and not conscious. He knows he has taken
alcohol, he knows his feet are wavering, but he knows this half-asleep, half-awake. So in the
afternoon meditation remember this: act as if you are intoxicated, drunk, ecstatic. Sometimes you will
forget yourself completely like a drunkard; sometimes you will remember, but don’t try to be
conscious like in the morning. No. Move with the day: half-half in the noon. Then you are in tune with
nature.
In the night, just the opposite of the morning – be completely unconscious; don’t bother at all. The
night has come, the sun has set, now everything is moving into unconsciousness. Move into
unconsciousness. This whirling, Sufi whirling, is one of the most ancient techniques, one of the most
forceful. It is so deep that even a single experience can make you totally different. You have to whirl
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your whole body has become like a wheel, moving – a potter’s wheel, moving. Don’t try to be alert
about what is happening. Let it happen and become one with the happening.
In the morning, alert; in the afternoon, half alert, half unalert; in the night, completely unalert. The
circle is complete.
Only no-mind on your part is needed and everything is ready. Just be alert not to think much. The
remaining time between these three meditations, remain more and more silent, don’t talk. If you want
to do something, laugh, dance – do something intense and physical but not mental. Go for a long
walk, go jogging in the grounds, jump under the sun, lie down on the earth, look at the sky, enjoy, but
don’t allow the mind to function much. Laugh, cry, weep, but don’t think.
If you can be without thinking for these three meditations and the time between them, then after three,
four days you will feel suddenly a burden has disappeared. The heart has become light, the body
weightless and you are ready to take a jump into the unknown.
Osho: excerpted from A Bird on the Wing, #1

25 After Each Meditation, Celebrating with Compassion 01:14

Buddha used to say to his disciples, “After each meditation be compassionate immediately because
when you meditate, love grows, the heart becomes full. After each meditation, feel compassion for
the whole world so that you share your love and you release the energy into the atmosphere and that
energy can be used by others.”
I would also like to say that to you: After each meditation, when you are celebrating, have
compassion. Just feel that your energy should go and help people in whatsoever ways they need it.
Just release it. You will be unburdened, you will feel very relaxed, you will feel very calm and quiet,
and the vibrations that you have released will help many. Always end your meditations with
compassion.
Osho: A Sudden Clash of Thunder, #8

26 Help People Throw Repressions, Guide Has to Be a Meditator 02:12

Two things to be remembered. First, people have to be helped so that they can throw off their
repressions unconditionally. Nobody will condemn them. If they want to shriek and shout and scream,
they have to be allowed. If they want to jump and run, they have to be allowed. If they want to dance,
they have to be allowed. If they want to go almost crazy, they have to be allowed. And this is the
beauty of it: when a person goes crazy on his own he is not crazy, deep down he always remains in
control. A tremendous control arises and he becomes unburdened.
When a person has become unburdened then the second step: Vipassana, zazen-type silent
methods. Just tell them to sit silently, “If thoughts come, watch. Don't fight with thoughts. They will
come less if the person has really been cathartic. Not so many thoughts will come, the traffic will be
very, very slow. Sometimes a thought will pass and again there will be a gap. Ordinarily your mind is
always in a rush hour. You will be more silent. Thoughts will come and go; you need not be worried.
Just watch. You have nothing to be worried about – good or bad, no judgment is needed. Just be a
watcher.”
Such small instructions… A guide is needed who will give the instructions and if people bring
problems he can solve their problems. This guide has to be a meditator himself, otherwise he will not
be able to help. It is not that he knows about meditation and can be of help, no. It is not that he has
read about meditation and can be of help, no. He will have to be a meditator.
Osho: Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 2 #8

27 It Is Good to Help Others 02:44

It is good to help others, because there is nobody really who is other. Helping others, you are helping
yourself because we are parts of each other, members of one another. We are joined together. If I
help you to be happy, I become happy. If I help you to be miserable, I become miserable. Our life is
together here; it is a togetherness; we are not separate. On the periphery we may be separate; at the
center we are one.
Nothing to be worried about. If you have the feeling that you enjoy sharing whatsoever you have
understood, howsoever little it is, if you have the feeling that you enjoy, you feel blissful, you feel
joyful – and no ego arises out of it.... Let that be the criterion: if ego arises out of it, then you are not
helping others, and you are destroying yourself meanwhile. If no ego arises – you simply feel
peaceful and silent and happy that you shared something with somebody, a grace descends on you –
then you are perfectly right. Then go on the housetops and shout. When you have, share it.

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And there is no need to wait, that when you have the whole of it, then you will share it. Then you will
not have the whole, ever. Share it, and you will get more. Give it, and you will get more.
But remember only one thing: the ego should not enter in. The moment you see ego arising, the
moment you see you are feeling great, superior to others, holier than others, then something is going
wrong. Then it is better to wait. You are not to wait for the whole of God to happen to you, but you are
to wait for the whole of the ego to go. Osho: The First Principle #10

28 Can You Create Meditation Courses if Not Awakened? 04:45

Osho, How is it possible to create meditation courses if somebody is not awakened to lead those
meditation courses?
It is not much of a problem. Even a man who has no cancer himself can be an expert in cancer
surgery. You don’t ask the surgeon, “Do you have any personal experience? Have you gone through
cancer surgery?” No, he has just expertise, no experience, but his expertise can be used to give you
an experience.
So it is not a question. If somebody has gone into meditation it is tremendously helpful to help others,
because they will bring many problems, and if you have no experience it will be difficult for you to
solve their problems. But you can make it clean and clear to them, “I have not experienced anything
but I know the whole method. I can teach you the method, you can try it.”
The method can be taught even through a tape recorder, a cassette. Not even a man is needed, just
a cassette can be played and people can meditate accordingly. Of course, the cassette will not be
able to answer your questions, but in fact there is no need to answer any questions. If you continue to
meditate, those questions disappear by themselves.
So it is not an absolute necessity that only a man who knows meditation existentially can be a
teacher.
Teachers and masters are different things. The teacher is one who technically is an expert, who
knows the method but has no experience. The master is one who has the experience, who can even
create methods, who can change old methods, who can make new methods, who can answer your
questions. To have a master is a benediction, but that is difficult: many will have to be satisfied with
teachers. But even through a teacher you can become a master.
Osho: The Last Testament, vol. 3, #21

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