Osho’s Legacy: Dynamic meditation
Osho has been one of the great truly enlightened masters of the 20th century. One of his great works and legacy for humanity consisted in uniting different meditation techniques into a single practice capable of activating all aspects of the self.
Dynamic meditation synthesizes the most essential of other paths to awakening such as Zen, Sufism, Yoga in a single practice which works all the energetic, psychic and spiritual aspects of the being to convert different methods of meditation in a single experience, achieving a great implosion of energy capable of activating a real no-mind state.
Osho, like other enlightened beings of the past, was greatly misunderstood. Unlike other false spiritual teachers, Osho not only revived and spread meditation throughout the world. His Ahsram, or meditation centers, were places where he put into experimentation and practice different ways of helping sleeping beings to awaken..
The controversy of his actions and vision was simply a reaction of the unconscious masses, at the time, much more puritanical than today. Osho did not care about the opinions or moralities of others, he took his work and pushed it to the limits with the clear and honest intention of creating better and more current methods for the awakening of a society full of repressions, false implanted ideologies and conditioning.
His communal center Rajneeshpuram in Oregon (United States), was the manifestation and creation of a place where all the necessary elements existed to create the right situations for the awakening of consciousness.
His great work in designing an alternative society focused on the awakening of consciousness, created a great disturbance in the Status Quo of the time.
Osho was one of those rare men in history without any fear, committed to his vision and thus touching the heartstrings of the people close to him to make them wake up from their eternal sleep. With no interest in protecting his image and public opinion, nor fearful of the consequences of his actions, Osho was undoubtedly the "Great Socrates" of the 20th century.
That is why he was so misunderstood, it is something that was bound to happen. Like Socrates, Osho was greatly condemned, even envied among his "most faithful followers" full of envy and jealousy towards him.
Osho marked a before and after in the history of enlightened masters. Other cheap pretenders who came after him, like Plato and Aristotle, were cautious, fearful of the reprisals that might befall them.
Osho's Dynamic Meditation: First Stage, Encharing.
Osho's dynamic meditation aims to work on the three main planes of the human being: Body, Mind and Spirit.
1. The Body: Total activation of the physical body through breathing
In the first stage of Osho's dynamic meditation, the focus is on the generation of electro-magnetic energy through deep and rapid breathing. In this case, Osho chose to use the best of Pranayama, a technique used in Yoga to activate the inner energy. In this way, by creating a constant and rapid energy flow, the body is charged with energy as if it were a battery. It is essential that practitioners do the exercises of all phases in a total way, putting their whole being in the act, otherwise, the effectiveness of this practice is not fully effective.
By accumulating energy through this sudden breathing exercise, the body is recharged to the maximum of its capacity. In this way, it creates an ideal and completely natural situation for the second phase to take place without any effort.
The human body is like an energetic battery, with the breathing techniques, an energetic accumulation is achieved, capable of creating an internal implosion of energy to undo all the blockages in the psyche of the practitioner..
Osho's Dynamic Meditation: Second Stage, Catarsis.
After having recharged the physical body through breathing, the energy is released in the psychic body in order to remove all the blockages and repressions that exist in it.
2 The Psyche: The dissolution of all blockages in the psyche through Primal Therapy to cure inner neurosis.
Primal therapy is a phenomenon that exists throughout the animal kingdom, a way to externalize and get rid of any energy blockage that exists inside. When you see a Duck flapping its wings while making sounds, it is using "Primal Therapy". A beautiful, simple and effective mechanism that existence has placed in beings for their physical, energetic and mental health.
Arthur Janov was the psychologist, psychiatrist and therapist who believes that there is an effective therapy to cure the neurosis created by all the traumas in the psyche of people using "the scream" as the main element of externalization of mental blocks.
Osho was a man always in search of new ways, constantly renewing the methods used in the past and also the new ones that progress provided. Without a doubt, this passion for renewal led Osho to incorporate Primal Therapy into his dynamic meditation, always with his own personal touch.
Thus, after the first phase of dynamic meditation and once the physical body is recharged to its maximum energy accumulation capacity, the second phase comes into play.
This massive accumulation of energy reaches the deepest places of the body and mind, at that moment, Primal Therapy comes into play to realise all those traumas that create neurosis in people. In this way, a situation is created in which the patient or practitioner does not have to make an effort on his part for this to happen, it simply happens naturally in a specific space and process for this to happen.
This second phase of dynamic meditation consists of psychotherapy, practitioners let the body express and expel everything that is recorded in its memory without their will intervening. the process, simply observing and witnessing what happens.
The neurosis in the being is generated by traumatic experiences in the past that create conflicts between the body and the mind. These experiences not overcome or understood, are buried in the unconscious of people, making them very difficult to detect for later healing. In a single Primal Therapy practice, it is possible to cure what tens if not hundreds of conventional piscotherapy sessions would have required.
The union and chaining of Pranayama with Primal Therapy make this synthesis of techniques a completely revolutionary and effective combination.
Once the physical, energetic and mental body have been cleansed and released, we move on to the third phase, which consists of raising the energy towards our spiritual center.
When you are no more, then for the first time, you will be.
-Osho
Osho's Dynamic Meditation: Third Stage, Rising.
Once the physical and mental body have been cleansed by the energetic and emotional realization of the previous phases, the third phase begins, which consists of raising the energy from the lowest center to the highest.
3 The Spirit: The raising of energy from the lowest to the highest center.
The third phase is a fusion between Sufi dance and Kundalini Yoga. Once the energetic and psychic body are clean, a new generation of energy begins which, as long as the previous phases have been carried out accordingly, the energy is destined to rise from the lower Chakra centers to the higher one.
In this phase, as in the previous ones, it is extremely important not to actively intervene in the exercise. By this we mean "putting the mind" on the activity. The body is simply "pushed" so that it begins a new exercise and then let ourselves be carried away without losing our center. No effort is necessary, if we put all our spirit into action, it will be the same as launching a spinning top, once the effort has been made to spin it, it will continue its course.
At that time, our presence must be "in the center of the cyclone", where there is peace and serenity. While the body "the periphery of the cyclone" will continue its course by itself, executing the corresponding exercise. There are various ways in which this phase can be done, Osho proposes the mantra "Hoo"!" while practitioners constantly jump while shouting "Hoo!" on the exhalation and only concentrating on exhaling as much as the inhalation will occur naturally.
In this phase is when the preparation of a maximum tension is created, the mind completely unfocused without giving it the possibility of using the energy, because all of it will be in the exercise.
Osho's Dynamic Meditation: Fourth Stage, Silence.
When the rising of the energy reaches its climax, then a sudden stop of the activity is carried out to create a situation of true meditation without any effort.
In this last phase, after creating the internal space and necessary situation, a moment of maximum relaxation occurs. Only then, when the body is completely exhausted, is it possible for a moment of meditation (no-mind) to occur by itself naturally.
In this phase Osho was inspired by Zen and his meditation technique "Za-Zen" which means "sit and do nothing". However, for a person with a mind not prepared for meditation, going directly to practice Za-Zen is enormously arduous, almost impossible to achieve in the first few times, even in the first months or years.
"Sitting and doing nothing" means that the mind and body are completely calm: no thought, no movement, no feeling, not even the use of the imagination to visualize energies or whatever, a moment of absolute "nothingness". ".
Osho, knowing the complexity of reaching the state sought in Za-Zen for an ordinary mind, created with his dynamic meditation, a process that would inevitably create a situation in which the state of meditation occurs effortlessly, that is, without the mind does absolutely nothing.
During this phase, the participants simply drop to the ground suddenly, changing from a situation of absolute tension to a moment of absolute relaxation. A trick inspired by another previous teacher and highly respected by Osho, Gurdjieff.
Gurdjieff, among many techniques, realized that when the body and mind are focused on an action, if the action stops suddenly, then a small meditation space is created, because the mind needs time to readjust.
In the case of dynamic meditation, Osho took this teaching to the limit because if in addition to this "sudden change of situation" the body-mind is completely exhausted, a longer recovery time will be necessary before the readjustment of the mind to the real situation. This is the beautiful, bright space of no mind created by Osho's dynamic meditation.
Osho elaborated a brilliant master process to bring the practitioner into a situation where the silent and meditative state of no-mind occurs. An opportunity to taste a moment of blissfulness, the beginning of the path to awakening.
Final words:
Osho Dynamic Meditation is the most effective meditation technique created to date. Use it as the cornerstone of your own meditation sessions.
In my personal journey towards awakening, I went through different paths, in the search for a true master I came across many false and impostors ones, and perhaps, I let pass by other true ones for whom I was not yet ready to see the truth in them. From Tao, Zen, Tantra, Buddha's teachings to Shamanism among other practices... a Zig-Zag path.
All of them enriched me, in my younger, more immature and unconscious age I was able to absorb little of them. I must say that if it had not been for Osho and his teachings, the level of understanding and subsequent synthesis of the experiences would have had a much lower compression quality and inner growth.
When it comes to meditation techniques, I haven't been able to find a better foundation than "Osho's dynamic meditation". Especially if you want to use an "all in one" meditation. In other cases, with other types of approaches depending on the disciple, other techniques may be more useful because they focus on more specific areas of being.
By using sacred medicine, psilocybin in this case, the impact and effect of dynamic meditation is much greater.
Psilocybin helps to calm the mind and "let go", in this way, by dissolving the grip and control of the Ego, dynamic meditation takes place with fewer blocks in all its phases.
Beloved master, always in our hearts.
Osho is and has been to my growth the greatest and most revolutionary enlightened master to date. I will be forever grateful for his dedication, courage, and work. A master among masters who was completely misunderstood.
In our current times, new situations, challenges and scenarios have unfolded. The basis of the teachings of Osho, are undoubtedly a great contribution. However, the message must be adapted to the current context and concrete lives of people who seek awakening and subsequent self-realization, manifestation of their being in this reality.
I will always recommend Osho as a source of great inspiration and wisdom, yes, you must prevent your mind from taking those teachings as immovable rules, because then you will create a problem in yourself. No rule should be completely fixed, rather dynamic, balance is the basis of spiritual growth. This balance is obtained by understanding the opposite poles and balancing between them, little by little, you will need to "fall less" at the extremes to balance yourself and thus your growth will be exponential and faster.