[A sannyasin says: I have so many problems with my mind in every meditation – I can’t stop it!] I understand. Start doing one thing: every day, for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, sit and say whatsoever comes in the mind, loudly, mm? so that not only do you think it, ...

Rumi does not mean anything, it is a name of a place; because he came from Rum he was called Rumi. His message is love, and he belongs to the highest categories of the Buddhas. He was the man who inverted a new method of meditation, whirling. There have been hundreds of devices; Rumi has al...

[A sannyasin says that during a group she began to speak in a language she knew nothing about. She has a fever afterwards. Since the group it has been happening many times to her. Osho tells her to go into it while he checks her energy.] You have stumbled upon a beautiful method of meditati...

Question 5: I have seen many Women having strong Catharsis in Meditation, But never Men. Why? Don’t they need it? They need it more than any woman. But they have been conditioned not to weep, not to cry; from the very childhood a boy is taught not to be sissy, not to be like a girl. If he c...

Dancing is not passive, it is very active. In the end you become movement; the body is forgotten, only movement remains. Really, dancing is a most unearthly thing, a most unearthly art, because it is just rhythm in movement. It is absolutely immaterial so you cannot hold on to it. You can h...

Question 1 Dynamic meditation is very active, very strenuous.can one not go into meditation just by sitting silently? You can go into meditation just by sitting, but then be just sitting; do not do anything else. If you can be just sitting, it becomes meditation. Be completely in the sittin...

"In Buddha's time, such dynamic methods 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...

Why active meditations? Modern man is a very new phenomenon. No traditional method can be used exactly as it exists because modern man never existed before. So, in a way, all traditional methods have become irrelevant. For example, the body has changed so much. It is so drugged that no trad...

Question 5: We are to stand and let the waters settle on their own, why all the Active Meditations? If you can sit, there is no need for meditations. In Japan, for meditation they have the word “zazen”. It means just sitting, doing nothing. If you can sit, not doing anything, this is the ul...

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 meditation...

[A sannyasin, returning to the west, says she fears that the anger which was provoked in the primal group here will surface again with her family particularly her mother – or in self-destructive ways. Osho checks her energy.] Mm mm – it is there and very much. You have just touched the tip ...

Question 1: What is Dynamic Meditation? The first thing to be understood about Dynamic Meditation is that it is a method of creating a situation through tension in which meditation can happen. If your total being is completely tense, the only possibility that remains is relaxation. Ordinari...

Question : Do you recommend any particular discipline besides dynamic meditation? Even to move into an undisciplined life you have to follow some discipline. But you must remain the master; it must not become a slavery. The real thing, the end, is always to be spontaneous As we are, we are ...

[A sannyasin says: I was doing buddhist meditation for two years.... I kept falling asleep!] Mm, that's possible in a buddhist meditation... very possible. That's why zen masters have to keep a staff continuously to hit the disciples, because they are always dozing. The whole method is so s...

Question 3: Last night i heard you say that our energy is based in the 'hara', and that it is expressed through the different chakras in the body. Traditional zen seems to emphasize zazen as the way to come in touch with that energy, whereas you have allowed, even encouraged, your disciples...

If we understand by "meditation" a state of no-thinking, then this state of no- thinking can be created in many ways. One, I talked about: you can use one word, one mantra to deny many many thoughts in the mind - this is one way. But there is a basic difficulty in it, because you will have ...

[A sannyasin asks: I’m a runner and when I run each day I get a feeling very much like when I’m doing dynamic meditation… Can I use it as a meditation?] Yes, use it as much as you can. If you can run then there is no need for any other meditation – it is enough! … Any action in which you ca...