Benifits of Meditation

In this section, some benifts of meditations are discussed.

1) Deep silence:

Meditation takes you in deep silence. And this silence brings you truth, love and thousand of wishes. This silence is a music that you have never heard before. It is a smell that was never known to you and it is a light that can be seen only through your internal eye. In this internal world of silence, there isn't any noise. No words can reach there, but you can reach there. It is your peace zone, the eternal silence.

2) Development of sensitivity:

Meditation gives you sensitivity. And this sensitivity creates your new friends. You become friendliness with trees, birds, animals, hill, river and ocean. More your friendliness increases, more your life will become rich.

3) Love: The smell of meditation:

If you meditate, then sooner or later, love will be generated inside you. Similarly, love will make you meditative, if your love is in right direction. So first meditate, because meditation gives birth to love. Meditation is a flower, let it gloom. And from that flower, you will feel the smell of love coming from it

4) Contious joy without reason:

If you are enjoying and that enjoy has reason, then your enjoy won't last longer. For example, if you pass the exam, you enjoy and that has reason. Next time when you fail, you lost your joy.

But When you meditate, that brings joy which does not have reason. And nobody can destroy your joy. No matter what happens, this joy will always remain with you.

5) Talent: The ability to reply:

Meditation makes you free from prison. It frees you from all the prisons made by soceity, politician and religious leader. When you are free, you will know your talent that was hidden because of society. You will become a talented person. And that talent will help you not to return to same prison again.

6) Knowing your actual form:

Meditation makes you consciousness about your actual form. It is the form that you were, when you were born. Meditation makes you know who actually you are.

Bipassana Meditation

Bipassana meditation is that meditation technique which have benifit many people than any other meditation. This meditation is so simple that even a small child can do it. Bipassana can be done by three methods

First method:

To become conscious about own body, mind and heart. When you walk, then walk with conscious. When you wave your hand, then wave with conscious, knowing that you are waving your hand. If you wave without consciousness, then you are doing with just like a machine.

Second method:

To become conscious about breath. When you inhale, your stomach expand and when you exhale, your stomach contract. So be conscious, when your stomach contract and expand.

Third method:

To become conscious as soon as your breath enters your nasal cavity. Experience the touch of breath at your nasal cavity during both inhaling and exhaling.

Direction for Bipassana Meditation:

Sitting:

Find the place where you could sit with relax for 40-60 minutes. Head and back bone must be straight, eye must be closed and breathing must be simple. Be stationary as much as possible, unless it is very much necessary to change your position.

While sitting, observe the contraction and expansion of stomach while breathing. This is not technique of concentration. So if any thing disturbs, or any other thought arises, stop the observation and give attention to that disturbance or thought unless it is possible ot return to your observation.

The process of observing is important. What you are observing is not important. So whatever arises, don't get attached with it. Questions and problems can be observed as miracles which could be enjoyed.

Walking:

Feel the touch of feet on earth. You can move in a circle or move to and fro for certain distance. Eye must be lowered so that you could see only certain distance ahead. While walking, your whole attention must be at your contact of your feet with earth. If any other thoughts arise, remove your attention from your feet and give attention to that thoughts. Then again return to your feet. You can walk up to 20 and 30 minutes.

Laughing Buddha of Japan

There was a laughing Buddha in Japan. His name was Hotei. His whole message was just to laugh. He used to roam from one palce to another and from one market to another. He used to stand at the middle of the market and used to laugh - this was his speech or discourse.

His laugh was very hypnotic. It was a real laugh which used to touch and vibrate whole stomach. He used to lay down on the ground while laughing. People gathered around also used to start to laugh. Then laugh used to spread and there used to be waves of storm of laughter. Whole village used to be filled with laughter.

People used to watch his way, that when Hotei would arrive their village, because he used to come with extra ordinary joy and pray. He never spoke even a word. Whenever someone asked him about enlightenment, then he used to laugh. When someone asked him about the truth, then he used to laugh. To laugh was only his one message.

Laughter is a Meditation

You have laughed many times. But have you observed what really happen within you when you laugh? Your process of thoughts stop. When you are laughing you cannot think.. Thinking and laughing process cannot go together. This thoughtless situation during laughter can be used as a beautiful tool for meditation.

Direction for laughter meditation:
. Every morning when you wake up, before opening your eyes, stretch your body like a cat.
. After 3 or 4 minutes, just closing your eyes, start to laugh. Continue the process of laughing for 4 or 5 minutes.
. For initial period, this should be done with efforts. But later the sound of lauhter produced by your effort will start to generate your original and natural lauhter.
. Lost yourself in a laugh.
. It may take many days for this event to be happened. But sooner, this process will be simple and your whole day will become different.

Laugh and learn

One man fell down from ladder and his leg was broken. He had his leg plastered and he was told not to move up and down through ladder for 3 or 4 months. After 3 or 4 months, he went to doctor and asked, " Now can I move up and down through through ladder?"
Doctor said, "Of course! You can."
Man said, "Thank you doctor. How much it have been difficult for me moving up and down through pipes for four months."
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Once a person came to stay in a village. People used to call him a doctor. One day, one old man came to him to know exacrly what type of doctor he was. So he asked, "Which doctor are you?"
The man replied, "I am doctor of philosophy."
The old man said, "I have never saw patient with such desease and I have never listened about it."
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A man was coming out from his house when his wife shouted, "Do you forget what day is today?"
The man knew well that today was their 25th marriage anniversary. So he replied, "I remember very well, dear."
Wife shouted, "Then how are we celebrating this day?"
"I don't know." The man scratched his head for while and said, "On this special occasions, why don't we be silent for 2 minutes?"

Born Again Meditation

Every body says childhood is a golden life. Everybody want to return to the childhood. Then who is stopping you. Receive your childhood again. This meditaion will give a chance to receive a childhood again.
You can perform this meditation for eight days. In these days toy have to throw your personality. You have to remove your mask. This is difficult. Your personality is your prison. Without removing it, you will not know your actual form. Remove it. It is painful. But only after that you will re-born. Because there isn’t any birth without pain. So if you really want to born again, then you have to take the risk.
The instructions from Osho for this meditation are as follow:

Step I:
Behave like child for first one hour. Enter inside your childhood. Whatever you want, do it. Dance, sing, shout, jump or cry- whatever and however you like. Do not touch each other if you are doing this meditation in group. Do not harm other.

Step II:
Be silent for second one hour. You will become more fresh and more simple and meditation will become simple for you.

For seven days, two hours each day:
Decide that you will be as innocent as when you were born, just like a small baby, who doesn’t know any thing or explain anything. If you are able to become small child, then many things are possible. Those seems to be impossible will also become possible.

Centralization Meditation

This is another meditation technique of Bigyan Bhairav Tantra. The process says:

Whenever feeling arises for or against any person, do not blame that person, but be centralized.

The main summary of this meditation is that whenever you feel love or hate or any feelings for or against any person, then you are the source of this feelings.

In ordinary case, when you love someone, you think he/she is the source of your love. You project your love to that person. But that is not true. Actually, you are the source of that love.

So whenever such feelings come, be always centralized. Always remember that you are the source. Instead of giving attention to your feelings, give attention to the source. When feeling of hate arises, instead of going after your hate, try to go to that point from where hate is arising. Do not search person who is subject of your hate. Go inside and towards your centre. Make your love or whatever feelings as tools for a journey towards source. Go to source, that is your centre.

It is easier to go toward source at that time when you are dynamically experiencing such feeling. After going inside, you will reach one calm point. Then completely different dimension or completely different world will start to open in front of you.

No Mind Meditation

Applying this technique for first seven days is enough to experience its effect. Instructions for this meditation are as follow:

Step I (40 minutes):
You may sit down or stand up and close your eye. Start to spell the irrelevant words. You can make sound anyway you like. But you should not use those words which you know. Inside you, whatever is needed to be expressed, allow to express it. Take out everything from inside. Be completely mad, but with consciousness.
Allow your body whatever it wants- cry, shout, jump, run etc. But do not rest.

Step II:Witnessing(40 minutes):
Sit down with complete silent and with relax. Collect your energy and allow your thoughts to go far and far away. Allow yourself to be in silence and peace at your centre. You can sit down on floor or chair, but your head and back bone must be straight, body is relaxed, eye is closed and breathing is simple.
Be conscious and be completely at present moment. Whatever happen, just witness it. Thoughts will try to go either in future or in past. You just try to watch it from a little distance- do not make decision or do not be trapped in thoughts. Just be stationary at present moment witnessing. Witnessing is the process of meditaton.

Step III: Let Go(40 minutes):
After witnessing, allow your body to fall on the floor without any effort or control. Continue witnessing while lying down. Be conscious that you are neither body normind, you are something different from both of them. As you start to go deeper and deeper, slowly you will reach at your centre.

Kundalini Meditation

In Sanskrit, Kundalini means cosmic This is very helpful in dynamic meditation. The instructions for Kundalini meditation are as follow:

Step I(15 minutes):

Relax your body and allow your body to shiver or shake. Feel the energy flowing in feet and feel it is flowing upwards. Leave your control in every way and there will be only shaking of your body. Eye may be closed or it maybe opened.

Step II(15 minutes):
Dance, the way you like. Give motion to your body the way it wants.

Step III(15 minutes):

Close your eye and sit silently and without motion. Witness, whatever happen inside or outside.

Step IV(15 minutes):
With closing your eyes, lay down on the floor and remain silent and motionless.

When you do Kundalini meditation, just allow body to vibrate. Do not shake it by your effort. When your body start a little bit, just help it, but do not do by yourself. Take a joy of it, welcome it, but do not wish it.

Dyanamic Meditation

This is the modern meditation technique given by Guru Osho. The instructions for Dynamic meditation are as follow:

Step I(10 minutes):

Take a breath with speed and then leave it out. Taking breath and leaving it- give stress on both of them and make the process chaos. Breathing must be deep and in a speed. Do it with complete and with much energy as possible. But do not make your body in tension and you must be sure that your neck and shoulder are relaxed. Continue breathing unless you become a breath. Breathing must be in chaos, without any previously made rules. Once your energy stars flowing, then it also starts giving motion to your body. Allow your body to be in motion, Make them help to create more energy. Make your hand and body naturally to be in motion so that it helps to awaken your energy. Experience the increasing energy. In this step, don’t slow your motion and keep continuing the exercise.

Step II(10 minutes):

Scan your body. Give your body freedom, so that it will express whatever it wants. Make it explode. Whatever it wants to throw outside, make it happen. Be mad completely. Sing, shout, laugh, cry, run, shake, dance, move hands and legs, and give motion to your body in every direction. Whatever happen, don’t make your mind to interrupt it. Remember that your body is in completely motion.

Step II(10 minutes):

Relaxing your shoulders and neck, lift your hand completely upwards with stretching. Then lifting your hand upwards, start jumping by shouting ‘HU! HU! HU! HU!’. The shouting must be maximum deeper. When you come down while jumping, sole of feet shall touch the floor softly, and at this time the loud sound of ‘HU’ must injure deeply your sex-centre. Do this step with full of force, not any energy should be left.

Step IV(15 minutes):

Stop! Wherever you are, stop completely. Do not manage your body anyway. Even a little bit of cough or motion will spoil your all hard work you have done till now. Whatever happen, just watch it.

Step V(15 minues):

Celebrate! Express your internal gratefulness with music and dance.

Breathing Meditation

Following are some breathing meditation techniques from Bigyan Bhairav Tantra based on Osho’s Discourses:

Process I
Just after your breath enters and just before your breath exit, Be conscious between these two points.

When your breath comes inside, observe it. And moment when your breath is just about outside, one part of thousands of this moment, the breath stops. And when your breath go outside and there is also the moment when breath stops. And again breath comes inside.

When you are able to become conscious at this moment, or when you are able to observe this moment properly, then you will be able to know the truth.

In Buddhism, this process is known as ‘ANAPANSATI YOGA’. Buddha says be conscious about your breathing. When your breath enters, you also enter inside with your breath, and when your breath exits, you also come outside with your breath.

One can practice this meditation for one hour each day. Once you will be familiar with this process, then there will be no any problem.

Process II
When breath moves upwards from down and when it moves downwards from up, one can be enlightened through these two turning points.

When your breath turns, you are not attached with breath. At this moment you will be able to know who you are and what is to be. You will be able to know who is inside this body and who is the master of the body.

Process III
When your inhaling breath and exhaling breath vanishes with each other, touch the energy less and energy full centre at this moment.

When breath turns outside after entering inside, then there is a moment of vanishing. Breath neither enters nor exits. Breath is motionless. You are nearer to the centre. This vanishing point of inhaled and exhaled breath is your centre.

Just watch when your breath enters inside, then observe where does it go. And when your breath exits, observe where does it comes out from. It goes to centre and comes out from centre. Just touch this centre.

Bigyan Bhairav Tantra: An Ancient Book on Meditation.

Bigayn Bhairav Tantra is an ancient Hindu book written around 5000 years ago. Book consist of 112 meditation techniques. Most of the ancient Hindu books are written on the basis of conversation between Guru and his disciples. Disciples ask questions and Guru reply them. But Bigyan Bhairav Tantra is only the Hindu book, that is based on conversation between two lovers, Lord Shiva and Lord Parvati(Lord Shiva’s wife). The book begins with questions asked by Lord Parvati-

Oh! Lord Shiva, what is your truth?
What is this world with full of miracles?
What is its seed?
What is the centre point of this world cycle?
It has got form but what is this life beyond that form?
How can we completely enter inside it going beyond country and time, name and forms?
Please ends my doubts.

In reply Lord Shiva does not give answers to these questions but tells 112 meditation techniques. Only going through any one of the 112 meditation techniques, one could get answers of above questions. To decide which of the meditation techniques is suitable for you, one should got proper meditation instructor or Guru in near by meditation centre. Because only proper Guru could give you best meditation technique suitable for you.

The brief description about these 112 meditation techniques could be found on Tantra Sutra(Part I-V) by OSHO, Rebel Publication House PVT. LTD. 50 Koregaun Park, Pune.

Misconcepts about Meditation

Most thinks meditation is concentration of mind. Meditation is not concentration of mind. There are uses of concentration, but that is not meditation. Concentration is necessary for your study, resea in scientific lab etc. But concentration will limit you to a certain area and you will out of 99% of your life. Then even sound of the birds will disturb you. Kids playing or barking dog in the street will irritate you.

In fact meditation is not concentration, it is a relaxation. More you become relaxed, more you will find yourself opened. You will start feeling flowing and suddenly whole existence start entering inside you. Now you are no more solid as stone. You are opened from all sides.
Relaxation means getting yourself into such situation in which you are not doing anything. Because whenever you are doing something, stress will continue. Meditation is a situation of not doing anything. You are just relaxed and you are experiencing the joy of being relaxed.

Meditation is not self- research. Self research means to think about self. But meditation has nothing to do with thinking. Meditation is to become conscious about self. Difference seems to be narrow, But there is a vast difference.

Western psychology stresses on self research and eastern psychology stresses on self consciousness. In self research, when you get angry, you start thinking about your anger. What is the reason of anger? Or you started deciding weather anger is good or bad. You start to define that you are angry because of situation. But your complete consciousness is focussed on your anger and not yourself.

Eastern psychology says to become conscious. Don't try to research on your anger. Just watch it, and watch with full of consciousness. Actually if you start thinking, it will disturb you against watching your anger. Don't thimk at all, just be in a situatuon of thoughtlessness and just watch it.

Beauty of this is when you are just able to watch your anger, the anger will vanish. So whenever you are angry, just watch it, then this watching will start to become more and more deeper.

What is Meditation?

There is only one miracle in this world and that is meditation-Lord Buddha.

Meditation is mission, the biggest mission in which person can come out of mind. Meditation is just to be, without doing anything. Meditation is not a process and not a thought. It is just you are. It is a joy. Where does this joy come from when you are not doing anything? This does not come from anywhere or it comes from everywhere. This is without reason, because this existence is made from that element which is called joy.

When you are not doing anything, neither from body and nor from mind, When your every action is empty, and there is only you, yourself- that is meditation. You cannot do it, you cannot exercise it, you can just understand it.

Main point of meditation is that to learn how to become 'watcher'( one who watches)

One crow is giving sound and you are listening it. Here are two things- object and subject. Can you become the watcher that can watch the one who is watching both of them? – The crow and the listener- and again someone else who is watching both of them. This is one straight and simple event.

Meditation is not a process attached with any religion. You cannot learn it. It is a development of your complete life. It is a creation that comes out of your complete life.