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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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