A primer before your first OSHO Meditation
The primer and orientation to OSHO Meditations has two aspects to it :
1. Meditation Information : The general information specific to OSHO Meditations, their underlying understanding and proper know-how as you unlock your body-mind powerfully. This is new terrain for meditators from other traditions as well, since the methods and unlocking keys and subsequent internal processes are more powerful and direct within just an hour, especially in Active meditations. This body of knowledge serves as the internal guidelines for personal assessments and success.
2. Issues : The topics specific to the issues of the incoming individual to overcome any disturbances / obstacles in their life. This will involve some reading and audio listening from OSHO on specific topics to seek finding balance inspite of contradictions and transcend opposing phenomena. This can be further facilitated by meeting sangha/spiritual friends who can resolve the beginners' incoming obstacles as they sort out their beginnings on finding the right insight and knowledge, to successfully move towards their joy and truth.
An analogy: The destination, en-route stops and vehicle.
Often people suffer from attempting to go to the wrong destination(goals), en-route stops and reaching it in life. Wrong understanding of life that creates wrong goals and en-route planning, causes an immense amount of pain in many peoples lives. Sometimes one is fortunate to know the right understanding and goals due to prior exposure to dharmic thought and culture. Even then the method to get there, the road vehicle, can be toxic internally or full of holes due to an untrained untamed mind. The correct goals (a sane destination) and understanding of life is obtained by listening to Osho's discourses, while a peaceful vehicle for getting there is obtained by learning meditation.
1. Meditation Information : The general information specific to OSHO Meditations, their underlying understanding and proper know-how as you unlock your body-mind powerfully. This is new terrain for meditators from other traditions as well, since the methods and unlocking keys and subsequent internal processes are more powerful and direct within just an hour, especially in Active meditations. This body of knowledge serves as the internal guidelines for personal assessments and success.
2. Issues : The topics specific to the issues of the incoming individual to overcome any disturbances / obstacles in their life. This will involve some reading and audio listening from OSHO on specific topics to seek finding balance inspite of contradictions and transcend opposing phenomena. This can be further facilitated by meeting sangha/spiritual friends who can resolve the beginners' incoming obstacles as they sort out their beginnings on finding the right insight and knowledge, to successfully move towards their joy and truth.
An analogy: The destination, en-route stops and vehicle.
Often people suffer from attempting to go to the wrong destination(goals), en-route stops and reaching it in life. Wrong understanding of life that creates wrong goals and en-route planning, causes an immense amount of pain in many peoples lives. Sometimes one is fortunate to know the right understanding and goals due to prior exposure to dharmic thought and culture. Even then the method to get there, the road vehicle, can be toxic internally or full of holes due to an untrained untamed mind. The correct goals (a sane destination) and understanding of life is obtained by listening to Osho's discourses, while a peaceful vehicle for getting there is obtained by learning meditation.
1. Information: A Beginning to OSHO Meditations
Osho has over a 100 meditation techniques for different types of people and over 250 english discourse series, covering an immense range of topics.
Preliminary Glance
Available from the Site Menu ➻ OSHO Meditation Introduction : Please read and listen to the audio at What is meditation?. Thereafter read the Meditation Introduction, and look over the Active and Lifestyle meditation sections on this website. The specific meditations that appeal to you can be further explored on the internet at osho.com and oshoworld.com . Both sites have distinct and wonderful meditation sections. That would complete a preliminary online introduction on OSHO Meditations.
Introductory Material
However a beginner will require gentle hand-holding and solutions, that will require some detailed explanation, to avoid the failure and the challenges of a starting meditator new to OSHO meditations. The following are must-read OSHO books to develop an internal compass to your path and avoid pitfalls and thereby begin this first aspect of the orientation process.
Preliminary Glance
Available from the Site Menu ➻ OSHO Meditation Introduction : Please read and listen to the audio at What is meditation?. Thereafter read the Meditation Introduction, and look over the Active and Lifestyle meditation sections on this website. The specific meditations that appeal to you can be further explored on the internet at osho.com and oshoworld.com . Both sites have distinct and wonderful meditation sections. That would complete a preliminary online introduction on OSHO Meditations.
Introductory Material
However a beginner will require gentle hand-holding and solutions, that will require some detailed explanation, to avoid the failure and the challenges of a starting meditator new to OSHO meditations. The following are must-read OSHO books to develop an internal compass to your path and avoid pitfalls and thereby begin this first aspect of the orientation process.
Meditation : The First and Last Freedom While the book is a beautiful compendium of meditation techniques, their enormous value for the beginner is in the first few chapters preparing for the meditation and concluding chapters on the challenges for beginning meditators, with a view to developing wisdom to succeed in meditation. It is a must-read before experiencing your first OSHO Meditation
Its a beautiful book that can be placed on your altar, meditation space or bednight stand. If there is only one book you are choosing to buy, buy this one. It is also available as kindle/ebook version for those of us who would like to have it with us all the time. |
The Path of Meditation : A Step by Step Guide to MeditationThis book is OSHO personally guiding the beginners on setting up their life for success in sustaining meditations. These are a collection of talks overflowing with sweetness, tenderness and love from OSHO in a meditation camp that he personally facilitated inspiring us to succeed by proper reorientation of our life. It is a must-read for those who come hoping not just for meditation but transformation of their life, subsequent to their first OSHO Meditation. This is the book you are going to refer to create your checklists and daily/weekly journal logs in the beginning of transforming your daily life.
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Finding your first meditation
We bring different levels of mental and emotional disharmony often in the form of blocks and unintended release and so we need different meditations to tackle it before finding our meditative state. Every potent and real meditation will bring up (surprise!) and release you from some of this mental/emotional confusions. The trick is to find a meditation that you can initially do that puts you in a place of quiet and calm at the end of your meditation, atleast temporarily, conquering the mental/emotional confusion that is churned and removed from you. So Active Meditations are the recommended start, since they often have a powerful healing/cathartic stage built in to the meditation. Within the Active Meditations there are energetically very mild ones, to very powerful healing meditation, that progressively can handle a range of intensity/volume in mental/emotional confusion within a few minutes. So while Nadabhrahma is a mild and extraordinary beautiful Active Meditation, it may not quench overwhelmingly surfacing mental/emotional churn and if so, then Kundalini or Dynamic Meditation (in increasing intensity) would be the right fit for you in the beginning though they require greater effort which brings the greater healing needed to move to tranquility. In some cases (more often seen in the West), an even stronger form of therapeutic healing might be needed in the form of Meditation Therapies, especially, when the participant is working with a well established healing crisis. So in the beginning, you will be embarking on your journey of finding which meditation conquers your emotions completely. And upon finding it, you have found a true friend in Meditation which will nurture your Atman and take you beyond your mental/emotional confusions to the grandeur of your pure inner essence - Sat-Chit-Anand state (Truth-Consciousness-QuietBliss). Best of luck on finding your first meditation, and please feel free to ask older sannyassins for suggestions - they will be happy to help.
We bring different levels of mental and emotional disharmony often in the form of blocks and unintended release and so we need different meditations to tackle it before finding our meditative state. Every potent and real meditation will bring up (surprise!) and release you from some of this mental/emotional confusions. The trick is to find a meditation that you can initially do that puts you in a place of quiet and calm at the end of your meditation, atleast temporarily, conquering the mental/emotional confusion that is churned and removed from you. So Active Meditations are the recommended start, since they often have a powerful healing/cathartic stage built in to the meditation. Within the Active Meditations there are energetically very mild ones, to very powerful healing meditation, that progressively can handle a range of intensity/volume in mental/emotional confusion within a few minutes. So while Nadabhrahma is a mild and extraordinary beautiful Active Meditation, it may not quench overwhelmingly surfacing mental/emotional churn and if so, then Kundalini or Dynamic Meditation (in increasing intensity) would be the right fit for you in the beginning though they require greater effort which brings the greater healing needed to move to tranquility. In some cases (more often seen in the West), an even stronger form of therapeutic healing might be needed in the form of Meditation Therapies, especially, when the participant is working with a well established healing crisis. So in the beginning, you will be embarking on your journey of finding which meditation conquers your emotions completely. And upon finding it, you have found a true friend in Meditation which will nurture your Atman and take you beyond your mental/emotional confusions to the grandeur of your pure inner essence - Sat-Chit-Anand state (Truth-Consciousness-QuietBliss). Best of luck on finding your first meditation, and please feel free to ask older sannyassins for suggestions - they will be happy to help.
2. A Beginning to Wisdom on Life, Issues and Topics
Life's issues since millennia including modernity and change, are humanity's shared problems. A few pioneers of human consciousness have shared insights with us regarding the human problems and how to solve them during times of change. Osho is the greatest master in that respect, during modern times and has spoken in depth on virtually every topic, problem and issue faced by us, in his daily discourses for over 35 years. The gateway to this massive solution-base is through his Listening meditations and books.
Wisdom through Listening Meditations and Books
Listening Meditatons (click for an introduction)
initially de-stress and relaxes you, bestows meditation deeply on the listener, increases your wisdom, and brings joy and clarity to deal with life's issues incredibly all within 1 hour. So make this your daily habit. This precious gift from OSHO is your meditation life-raft. This is the easiest meditation in the world and brings wonderful benefits, and can start before you even step foot into a meditation center. It will keep your hopeful flame for growth alive and strong through even through the toughest times as long as you listen daily for an hour. Just as a real flame, your inner desire for growth is substantially easier to keep alive when it is stoked lovingly and continuously, than when it is snuffed out for a day and attempted to be revived the next. This has greatly benefited every single meditator in the community.
initially de-stress and relaxes you, bestows meditation deeply on the listener, increases your wisdom, and brings joy and clarity to deal with life's issues incredibly all within 1 hour. So make this your daily habit. This precious gift from OSHO is your meditation life-raft. This is the easiest meditation in the world and brings wonderful benefits, and can start before you even step foot into a meditation center. It will keep your hopeful flame for growth alive and strong through even through the toughest times as long as you listen daily for an hour. Just as a real flame, your inner desire for growth is substantially easier to keep alive when it is stoked lovingly and continuously, than when it is snuffed out for a day and attempted to be revived the next. This has greatly benefited every single meditator in the community.
To start listening meditations in your personal time, please look at the following resources:
General Interest Discourses, through Internet Radio
General Interest Discourses, through Internet Radio
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If you are a mobile device user and are topic-neutral, download OSHO Radio apps available in your device store and they will conveniently allow you to listen and meditate anywhere such as in transit. That would complete the preliminary online introduction to accessing topics and resolving issues for bettering life through wisdom.
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Researching specific Life Issues, through Books and Discourse Series
If on the other hand, you have a special interest in particular topics or issues, please go to osho.com and oshoworld.com to find books and audio discourses that delve into your topic choice. Bookmark them in your device for later reference, reading and downloading pdfs. Download topic-related audio discourses as mp3 to your mobile device for ease in Listening Meditations. A tablet makes for effortless reading on your topic of interest. Osho.com in particular publishes topic-based compilations.
Download the high-quality audio files and books below:
A note of caution to beginners : When great masters like OSHO give a perspective on an issue, a beginner will tend to look upon them as dogma whereas They look upon them as leela or play. When the master gives the opposite perspective on the same issues at another time, the beginners may feel inner conflict in reconciling the opposite perspectives due to our perception of issues as dogma and not leela. Beginners are also still developing viveka, harmonious discernment, as a mental faculty, that can see multiple perspectives harmonizing. Another variation of this difficulty may arise, when you hear a provocative perspective from the master, and are unable to see the harmony it has with its opposite perspective. In either of these cases, please feel free to reach out to an experienced Sangha member for quick clarity.
