OSHO Dynamic Meditation

For the modern man OSHO Dynamic Meditation is a rocket to awareness. It is a simple technique, yet there are layers upon layers to be revealed by the meditator. Osho has spoken on many of those layers. Here is a glimpse of this extraordinary meditation technique.

A rocket to awareness for the modern man

This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware, whatsoever you do. Remain a witness. And when – in the fourth stage – you have become completely inactive, frozen, then this alertness will come to its peak.

1. Breathing chaotically - 10 min

Breathe chaotically through the nose, concentrating always on exhalation. The body will take care of the inhalation. The breath should move deeply into the lungs. Be as fast as you can in your breathing, making sure the breathing stays deep. Do this as fast and as hard as you possibly can – and then a little harder, until you literally become the breathing. Use your natural body movements to help you to build up your energy. Feel it building up, but don’t let go during the first stage.

"Actually, when breathing has reached its full intensity and a gap is created between you and your body, when your sleeping and awakened parts seem to be separate from each other, then you will begin to move to your awakened part. At this stage the body ceases to need oxygen any more. Now it is good that the body goes into sleep, that it becomes inert, as good as dead. Now your life force does not move toward the body, instead it begins to move toward the soul. It is the body that needs oxygen; the soul has no need for oxygen really. Do you follow what I say? The body needs oxygen; and when your life force moves toward the soul, the body needs a minimum amount of oxygen — just enough to keep it alive. It does not need more than the minimum, and it will impede your progress if the body receives more oxygen at this stage."
Osho, In Search of the Miraculous

2. Expressing, going crazy - 10 min

Explode! Express everything that needs to be thrown out. Go totally mad. Scream, shout, cry, jump, shake, dance, sing, laugh; throw yourself around. Hold nothing back; keep your whole body moving. A little acting often helps to get you started. Never allow your mind to interfere with what is happening. Be total, be whole hearted.

"When bioenergy begins revolving in you, working through your nervous system, many things are possible for your body. You must be free to let the body do anything it wants to do."

"This second step will be not only a state of let-go but a state of positive cooperation too. You must cooperate with your body, because the language of the body is a symbolic one that has ordinarily been lost. If your body wants to dance, you cannot feel the message. So if there is a slight tendency toward dancing in the second stage, cooperate with it; only then will you understand the language."

"The moment the activity is at its maximum — dancing, crying, laughing, being irrational, doing any nonsense — then there is a happening: you become a witness. Now you are just watching; there is no identification, just a witnessing consciousness that comes on its own. You don't have to think about it, it just happens."

"You do not have to try to be a witness, you just have to be identified with the body totally and allow the body to do whatever it wants to do and go wherever it wants to go."
Osho, The Great Challenge

3. Jumping, shouting HOO! - 10 min

With raised arms, jump up and down shouting the mantra, “Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!” as deeply as possible. Each time you land on the flats of your feet, let the sound hammer deep into the sex center. Give all you have; exhaust yourself totally.

"Whenever you are total a revolution takes place; a transformation begins in your life. It is then that you reach the boiling point; and only at the boiling point does the water turn into steam. Then you cannot flow downward like water; you can only rise upwards like vapor. Then your direction is not downwards, it is upwards. You have to drop laziness.

People come to me and say that the morning meditation is a bit difficult. Six o'clock is too early. You do not understand what you are saying. If getting up at six in the morning is difficult, it will be much more difficult and painful to step outside the mind. If getting up at six in the morning is so difficult, how will you jump out of the wheel of life? If you are not even prepared to drop the small habit of sleeping late... for a day or two you may feel lazy. But you allow laziness to win over you. It shows that you value your laziness more than meditation."
Osho, The Great Path

4. Jumping into silence - 15 min

Stop! Freeze wherever you are, in whatever position you find yourself. Don’t arrange the body in any way. A cough, a movement – anything will dissipate the energy flow and the effort will be lost. Be a witness to everything that is happening to you.

"The fourth stage is the moment of nondoing. That is what I call dhyana, meditation. The first three stages are only steps; the fourth stage is the door. Then you are. There is nothing to do, neither breathing nor movement nor sound, just silence. The three previous stages must be "done," in a sense, but the fourth stage comes of its own accord. Then something happens that is not your doing. It comes as a grace: you have become a vacuum, an emptiness, and something fills you. Something spiritual pours into you when you are not."
Osho, The Great Challenge

"In this stage be dead, be so relaxed, just like a dead man. You are not to try to be frozen and dead; if you try, then you will get the reverse result. Don't try to be frozen, don't make any effort to be dead; simply relax and be dead."
Osho, The Supreme Doctrine

5. Celebrating, dancing - 15 min

Celebrate through dance, expressing your gratitude towards the whole. Carry your happiness with you throughout the day.

"Meditation is not a work, it is a play. Meditation is not something to be done to achieve some goal — peace, bliss — but something to be enjoyed as an end in itself. The festive dimension is the most important thing to be understood...and we have lost it totally. By festive, I mean the capacity to enjoy, moment to moment, all that comes to you."
Osho, Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy

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Instructions of OSHO Dynamic Meditation, a powerful meditation technique for the modern man. It reduces stress in the body, clears emotions and provides glimpses into silence of body-mind. Finally Dynamic Meditation teaches how to celebrate life: silence in movement