Expand In All Directions

Life is insecurity

Feel yourself
as pervading
all directions, far, near.

“So remember one basic law: life is insecurity. And if you are ready to live in insecurity, only then will you be alive. Insecurity is freedom. If you are ready to be insecure, constantly insecure, you will be free. And freedom is the door to the Divine.”

Instructions for this Book of Secret Meditation

Feeling life is insecurity - 10 mins
Sit with closed eyes. Feel yourself dissolving the walls and boundaries that you have created around you. Allow yourself to feel that life is insecure and unknown, always

Feeling expansion - 10 mins
Standing with eyes still closed, allowing the feeling of expansion to come, moving the arms softly as you feel to. Beginning in t he heart and pervading all directions.

Pervading everywhere - 10 mins
Dancing, swaying in vastness, feeling yourself pervading everywhere.

Being silent - 10 mins
Sit or lie down, silent and still, moving into the inner vastness.

Additional Osho quotes for this meditation:

“Tantra and yoga both think that your narrowness is the problem. Because you have made yourself so narrow, so tightly narrow, you feel always in bondage. The bondage is not coming from anywhere else: the bondage is coming from your narrow mind. And it goes on being narrower and narrower and you are very confined. That confinement gives you the feeling of bondage. You have an infinite soul and an infinite being but that infinite being feels imprisoned. So whatsoever you do, you feel limitations everywhere.

Wherever you move, a point of cul de sac comes. You cannot move beyond it. Everywhere there is a boundary. There is no open sky to fly. But that boundary is created by you -- that boundary is your own creation. You have created it for certain reasons: for security, safety.”

If you want freedom...

“If you want freedom you will have to lose safety, security -- in any case the safety is just illusory, it is not really there. Because death is going to happen -- whatsoever you do, you are going to die. All your safety, security, is just a facade, nothing will help.”

“Whenever you make anything secure, life disappears. Remain insecure, that is the very quality of life itself. Nothing can be done about it. And it is beautiful!”

Beginning in the heart, ending nowhere

“If walls are not there, you will already be feeling yourself pervading everywhere. Then there is no point at where you end. You simply begin in the heart and end nowhere. You have a center and no periphery. The periphery goes on expanding -- on and on. The whole space is surrounded by it. Stars move in it. Earths are born and dissolve. Planets arise and set. The whole cosmos becomes your periphery. In this vastness where will your ego be?”

“Live dangerously and be ready to live in insecurity.”

Osho, excerpted from The Book of Secrets

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In this Book of Secrets Meditation Osho gives a meditation technique to jump out of insecurity. The meditation suggests to expand in all directions by simply expanding the barriers that insecurity pschologically sets. By expanding into the unknown and fears and anxiety fade away.