Osho Niranjana Meditation Center

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Why does the modern man need new techniques of meditation ?

"In Buddha's time, dynamic methods of meditation were not needed. People were more simple, more authentic.They lived a more real life. Now, people are living a very repressed life, a very unreal life.When they don't want to smile, they smile.When they want to be angry, they show compassion. People are false, the whole life pattern is false.

People are just acting, not living. Many incomplete experiences go on being collected, piled up inside their minds.

Just sitting directly in silence won't help. The moment you will sit silently, you will see all sorts of things moving inside you; you will feel it almost impossible to be silent.  First throw those things out so you come to a natural state of rest. Real meditation starts only when you are at rest." -OSHO , From the book - The Discipline of Transcendence.

Osho's Active Meditations

Apart from the 108 different techniques of meditation known and practised since the last thousands of years, Osho added his own techniques to suit for the contemporary man , so that we have more than 300 techniques now.

They all involve a beginning stage of activity-- sometimes intense and physical--followed by a period of silence. All of Osho's meditation stages are accompanied by music that has been specially composed to guide the meditatorthrough the different stages. Osho has also recommended different meditations for different times of the day. Here is a list of some of his powerful techniques.

1. Dynamic Meditation
2. Kundalini Meditation
3. Nadabrahma Meditation
4. Nataraj Meditation
5. Chakra Sound Meditation
6. Mystic Rose Meditation
7. Gibberish Meditation
8. No Dimension Meditation
9. Gourishankar Meditation
10. Whirling Meditation

Most of us live out our lives in the world of time, in the memories of past and anticipation of future. Only rarely do we touch the timeless dimension of the present-in moments of sudden beauty, or a sudden danger, in meeting with the lover or with the surprise of the unexpected. Very few people step out of the world of time and mind, its ambitions and competitiveness, and begin to live in the world of timeless. And of those who do, only a few have attempted to share their experience. LaoTzu, Buddha, Bodhidharma, .... or more recently, George Gurdjieff, Raman Maharshi, J. Krishnamurti- they are thought by their contemporaries to be eccentrics or mad man; after their death they are called "Philosophers".

And in time they become legends- not flesh-and-blood human beings, but perhaps mythological representations of our collective wish to go beyond the smallness and trivia, meaninglessness of our everyday life.

Osho is one who has discovered the door to living His life in timeless dimension of the present - He has called Himself a "true existentialist" - and he has devoted his life to provoking others to seek the same door, to step out of the world of past and future and discover for themselves the world of eternity.

Osho was born in Kuchwada, Madya Prades, India on December 11, 1931. From His earliest childhood , he was a rebellious and independent spirit, insisting on experiencing the truth for Himself rather than acquirng the knowledge and beliefs given by others.

After His enlightenment at the age of 21, Osho completed His academic studies and spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile, He traveled throughout India giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate, questioning traditional beliefs, and meeting people form all walks of life. He read extensively, everything he could find to broaden his understanding of the belief systems and psychology of contemporary man. By the late 1960''s Osho had begun to develop his unique Dynamic Mediation techniques. Modern man, he said, is so burdened with the out-mooded traditions of and the anxieties of modern-day living that he must go through deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thoughtless, relaxed state of meditation.

In the early 1970''s, the first westerners began to hear of Osho. By 1974, a commune had been established around Him in Poona, India, and the trickle of visitors from the West was soon to become a flood. In the course of His work Osho had spoken on virtually every aspect of development of human consciousness. He has distilled the essence of what is significant to the spiritual quest of the contemporary man, based not on intellectual understanding, but tested against his own existantial experience.

He belongs to no tradition- "I am a beginning of a totally new religious consciousness ", he says. "Please don''t connect me with the past-it is not even worth remembering." His talks to disciples and seeks from all over the world have been published in more than 600 volumes, and translated to over 30 languages.

Osho left his body on Jan 19th, 1990.