Osho Quotes on Active Meditations

 

 

 

Catharsis helps. If you cathart, if you go through chaotic meditations, you throw all these clouds outside, all these darknesses outside, then mindfulness becomes easier. That is my reason why I emphasize first chaotic meditations and then silent meditations. First active meditations, then passive meditations. You can move into passivity only when all that is there like junk has been thrown out. Anger has been thrown out, greed has been thrown out… layer upon layer, these thins are there. But once you have thrown them out, you can easily slip in. There is nothing to hinder.

 

- Osho, "Take It Easy, Vol 1"

 

 

 

Sannyasins should use the time of night more and more for meditation. You can go deeper, and easily, because the winds are blowing that way; you can move with the winds with less effort. In the day you are moving against the winds. In the day active meditations are good; dynamic meditation is good in the day, dancing meditation is good in the day. But in the night vipassana, silent meditations, just sitting and doing nothing, just relaxing because the whole atmosphere is relaxing…. The sun has gone down, the trees have fallen asleep; it is a totally different quality of energy that surrounds you in the night. It is easy to meditate.

 

- Osho, "The Dhammapada - The Way of the Buddha, Vol 11"

 

 

 

Never force it to do something which is not naturally coming to it. Just move very naturally and spontaneously. You will see periods… there is a period when sometimes you will feel very very active; then do the active meditations, dance and sing. Sometimes you will feel very very passive: then just sit silently.

 

- Osho, "The Great Nothing"

 

 

 

My meditations can be of tremendous value to such people, because just telling them to sit silently won’t help. They need something very active that can bring them up from their morose state. They need something very dynamic, like a whirlwind, so that they can be pulled up from their dark holes in which they have settled. They need something wild. Civilised things won’t help much, because in fact it is civilisation that has put them in their dark holes. So civilised measures are of no use at all.

 

- Osho, "God Is Not For Sale"

 

 

 

All the dynamic meditations are preparatory to real meditation. They are just basic requirements to be fulfilled so that the meditation can happen. Don’t treat them as meditations; they are just introductory, just a preface. The real meditation starts only when all activity has ceased — activity of the body and activity of the mind

 

- Osho, "The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol 2"

 

 

 

You are frozen. I would like to melt you and create a flow again. That is why I insist on active meditation. By ‘active’ I only mean that your body must be involved in it. If you simply sit in a buddha posture, you can go on thinking and thinking and thinking; the body is not involved in it. And the body is the world. Through the body you are related to the existence, through body you exist. Your meditation must in some way be deeply rooted in the body; otherwise it will become just a dream floating in the mind, just like clouds without any roots in the earth. I want to push you back to the earth.

 

- Osho, "The Supreme Doctrine"