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FIRST STEP:

My system of Dynamic Meditation begins with breathing, because breathing is deeply rooted in us. You may not have observed this, but by changing your breathing you can change a lot. Observe your breathing carefully and you will find that when you are angry, you have one breathing rhythm, and when you are in love, it is completely different. When you relax, you breathe in one way, when you tense up, in another. You cannot be angry and at the same time breathe the way you breathe in a relaxed state. This is impossible.

When you are sexually aroused, your breathing changes. If you prevent him from changing, your sexual arousal will automatically disappear. This means that breathing is deeply connected to the mental state. By changing your breathing, you can change your state of mind. And if you change your state of mind, your breathing will change.

Therefore, I start with breathing and in the first stage of this technique I suggest ten minutes of random breathing. By chaotic breathing I mean deep, rapid, vigorous breathing without any rhythm - drawing air in and pushing out, but drawing in and out as vigorously, deeply and forcefully as possible. Draw the air in, then push it out.

Chaotic movement must create chaos within your suppressed system. In each of your manifestations, you breathe in a very specific way. A child breathes differently than an adult. If you are afraid of the prospect of sexual intercourse, your breathing changes. You will not be able to breathe deeply because the deep breath hits your sexual center. If you are afraid, you cannot breathe deeply. Fear creates shallow breathing.

Chaotic breathing is designed to break all your patterns. Chaotic breathing is designed to destroy what you have turned yourself into. Chaotic breathing creates chaos within you, because as long as there is no chaos, you will not be able to release your repressed emotions. These emotions are now rushing into your body.
You are not the body and mind; you are the body-mind, you are psychosomatic. You are both together. Therefore, all the actions of your body reach the mind, and all the actions of your mind reach the body. Body and mind are two ends of the same organism.

Ten minutes of chaotic breathing is wonderful! But breathing should be chaotic. This is not a type of pranayama, yogic breathing, but using breathing to create chaos, which you need for various reasons.
Deep, rapid breathing brings in more oxygen. The more oxygen in the body; the more alive you become, the more like an animal you become. Animals are alive, but man is half dead, half alive. You have to become an animal, only then can something higher arise in you.

If you are only half alive, nothing can be done with you. Chaotic breathing will make you like an animal: alive, vibrating, energetic - with a lot of oxygen in the blood, with a lot of energy in the cells. The cells of your body will come to life. Oxygenation helps generate bodily electricity - you can call it bioenergy. When there is electricity in the body, you can go deep into yourself or go far beyond your limits. Electricity will help you with this.

The body has its own sources of electricity. If you hit them with increased breathing and more oxygen, they begin to burst into flames. If you really come alive, you cease to be a body. The more alive you are, the more energy fills your system and the less you feel like a physical body. You will perceive yourself more and more as energy and less and less as matter.

In all those cases, when you become more alive, you stop focusing on the body. One of the reasons why sex is so attractive is this: if you become completely involved in the sexual act, in the whole movement, become absolutely alive, then you cease to be the body - you are only energy. Receiving this energy, living it, is absolutely necessary if you want to go beyond your limits.

SECOND STEP

The second step in my Dynamic Meditation technique is catharsis. I challenge you to conscious madness. Whatever comes into your mind, let it happen; contribute to this. No resistance, just a flow of emotions.

If you want to squeal, squeal. Promote squealing. A loud squeal, a real squeal that involves your entire being, has a special, deeply healing power. The squeal frees many things, the squeal heals many diseases. If this screech is real, it will contain your entire being.
So for the next ten minutes (the second stage also lasts ten minutes), allow yourself to express yourself through screaming, dancing, squealing, crying, jumping, laughing - "splashing out" so to speak. In a few days you will feel what it is like.

Perhaps at first you will have to force yourself, make an effort on yourself, even pretend to be. We have become so false that we cannot do anything genuine and true. We are unable to genuinely laugh, scream or scream. All our actions are just a façade, a mask. When you come to this technique, your actions may be forced at first. You may need some effort, a little acting. But don't let that bother you. Continue. Soon you will reach those sources where you have suppressed much of yourself. You will touch these sources, release them and feel that your burden has disappeared. New life will come to you; you will be born again.
This shedding of burdens is the basis without which no meditation is possible. I repeat, I do not mean exceptions; they are not significant for us.

Having taken the second step - throwing everything out of yourself - you will find yourself empty. And by emptiness I mean the following: emptiness from all repression. In this emptiness something can happen. Transformation may occur; meditation can happen.

THIRD STEP

In the third step I use the sound HUU. Many sounds have been used in the past, each of which has a different effect. The Hindus, for example, used the sound aum. You probably know this. But I am not offering you Aum. Aum knocks on the center of the heart, and modern man is not focused on the heart. Aum knocks on the door of a house where there is no one.

Sufis used the sound huu. If you pronounce huu loudly, this sound penetrates deeply into the sexual center. That's why it is used to knock on your inside. When you have become empty, the sound of huu can penetrate deep into you.

The movement of this sound is only possible if you are empty. If you are filled with repression, then nothing will happen. In this case, resorting to mantras or sounds is sometimes even dangerous. Each layer of suppression will change the path of the sound, and eventually something will happen that you never dreamed of, that you did not expect or want. Your mind should be empty; only in this case can you pronounce the mantra.

Therefore, I never offer a mantra without prior preparation. Catharsis must happen first. The Huu mantra should not be used without taking the previous two steps. Without these steps it cannot be used. Only in the third step (lasting ten minutes) can you resort to huu - say it as loudly as possible, put all your energy into it. You knock with this sound into the house of your energy. And if you are empty - and you became empty thanks to the catharsis in the second step - the hoo penetrates deep and hits your sexual center.

The sexual center can be hit in two ways. Firstly, naturally. Whenever you are attracted to a person of the opposite sex, the sexual center is attacked from the outside. This blow is also a subtle vibration. A woman attracted a man, or a man attracted a woman. Why? Why does this happen in a man and why in a woman? They are struck by positive or negative electricity, a subtle vibration. It's actually sound. For example, have you noticed that birds use sound as a sexual signal? Their singing is sexy. They hit each other repeatedly with certain sounds that hit the sexual center.

Subtle vibrations of electricity strike you from the outside. When your sexual center is hit from the outside, your energy rushes outward - to another. After which reproduction, birth, is possible. Someone will be born from you.
Huu hits the same center of energy, only from the inside. And when the sexual center is hit from within, the energy flows inward. This internal flow of energy completely transforms you. You have been transformed: you have given birth to yourself.

You are transformed only when your energy changes direction. One moment it was flowing outward, and now it is flowing inward. One moment it was flowing downwards, but now it is flowing upwards. This upward movement of energy is the famous kundalini. You will feel that it is actually moving along your spine, and the higher it rises, the higher you rise with it. If this energy reaches the brahmarandhra - the last, seventh center located at the top of the head - you will become the highest person.

In the third step, I use huu as a way to raise your energy. The first three steps bring catharsis. They are not yet meditation, only preparation for it, a “running start” for a jump, but not yet a jump.

FOURTH STEP:

The fourth step is a jump. In the fourth step I tell you: “Stop!” When I say “Stop!”, you must freeze. Do absolutely nothing, because any movement can distract you and then everything will go down the drain. Anything - coughing, sneezing - nothing will work out, your mind is distracted. The upward movement of energy will immediately stop because your attention has shifted.
Don't do anything, it won't threaten you with death. Even if you really want to sneeze, but you don’t sneeze for ten minutes, you won’t die from it. Even if you feel like coughing and you feel irritation in your throat, be patient and do nothing, you won’t die either. Let your body freeze so that the energy can rush upward through it in a single stream.

As the energy rushes upward, you become increasingly silent. Silence is a by-product of energy rising upward; tension is a byproduct of energy flowing downward.
Your whole body will become as silent as if it has disappeared. You won't be able to feel it. You have lost your body. And when you are silent, all existence is silent, for existence is a mirror. It reflects you. It reflects you in thousands and thousands of mirrors. When you are silent, the whole existence becomes silent. I will tell you this: in your silence, be simply a witness - continuous attention; don't do anything, remain a witness, remain with yourself; do not generate anything - no movement, no desire, no becoming - just stay here and now, silently witness everything that happens.

This being in the center, being in oneself is possible thanks to the first three steps. Until these three steps are taken, you are unable to remain with yourself. You can talk about it, you can think, dream, but it won’t happen because you are not ready.

The first three steps prepare you to face the moment. They make you conscious. This is meditation. In meditation something happens that is beyond words. Once this happens, you will no longer be the same; this is impossible. This is growth, not just experience. This is growth.

OSHO on catharsis:

Osho talks about some of the reactions that can occur in the body as a result of deep catharsis during Dynamic Meditation.

If you feel pain, be attentive to it and do nothing. Attention is a great sword, it cuts everything. You are simply attentive to pain. For example, you sit silently in the last stage of meditation, without moving, and you feel many problems in your body. You feel that your leg is numb, that your hand itches, you feel that goosebumps are running all over your body. You have looked many times - and there are no goosebumps.

Something is wrong on the inside, not on the outside. What should you do? You feel that your leg is numb - be careful, give it your full attention. Do you feel like your hand is itching? Don't itch. It won't help. Just pay attention to it.

Don't even open your eyes, just be inwardly alert and just wait and watch. After a few seconds, the urge to scratch will disappear. Whatever happens - even if you feel pain, some pain in the stomach or in the head. This happens because in meditation the whole body changes. It changes its chemistry. New things begin to happen, and the whole body is in chaos. Sometimes you will feel your stomach, because in the stomach you have suppressed many emotions and they are all contained there.

Sometimes you will feel something similar to nausea and vomiting. Sometimes you will feel some pain in your head because meditation is a change in the internal structure of your brain. When you go through meditation you are really in chaos. Everything will be settled soon.

But there will also be a time when everything will go wrong. So what should you do? Just look at the pain in your head, watch it. Be an observer. Just forget that you are a doer, and little by little everything will calm down and calm down so beautifully and gloriously that you cannot believe it until you know it. Not only will pain disappear from the head, because the energy that creates pain, if you watch, disappears - the same energy becomes pleasure.

The energy is the same. Pain and pleasure are two dimensions of the same energy. If you can remain silently sitting and attentive to all distractions, all distractions disappear. And when all distractions disappear, you suddenly realize that the whole body has disappeared.

Questions to OSHO: What is Dynamic Meditation?

OSHO ANSWER:

The first thing to understand about Dynamic Meditation is that it is a method of creating a situation through tension in which meditation can occur. If your whole being is completely tense, the only option left for you is relaxation. Usually one cannot simply relax, but if your whole being is at the peak of total tension, then the second step comes automatically, spontaneously: silence is created.

The first three stages of this technique are arranged in a special order in order to achieve maximum tension at all levels of your being. The first level is your physical body. Above it is the prana sharir, the vital body - your second body, the etheric body. Above it is the third, astral body.

Your vital body takes breath as food. Changing the usual norm of oxygen will certainly lead to the fact that the vital body will also change. Deep, rapid breathing for ten minutes in the first stage of the technique is intended to change the entire chemistry of your vital body.

The breathing should be both deep and fast—as deep as possible and as fast as possible. If you cannot do both at the same time, then let your breathing be fast. Rapid breathing acts as a kind of hammer striking your vital body, and something sleeping begins to awaken: the reservoir of your energies is opened. The breath becomes like an electrical current flowing throughout your entire nervous system. Therefore, you must perform the first step as furiously and intensely as possible. You must participate in it totally. Not a single piece of you should be left behind. Your whole being should be in the breath in the first step. You are an anarchist: inhale - exhale. Your whole mind is absorbed in the process - breath goes out, breath comes in. And if you are completely in the process, then thoughts will stop, because not a drop of your energy reaches them. There is no energy left to keep them alive.

Then, when the body's electricity begins to work in you, the second step begins. When bioenergy begins to circulate within you, working through the nervous system, many things become possible for your body. You must freely let go of the body, allowing it to do whatever it wants.

The second step will not only be a stage of letting go, but also a stage of positive cooperation. You have to cooperate with your body, because body language is a symbolic language that, as usual, has been lost. If your body wants to dance, then usually you don't feel the message. Therefore, if in the second stage a weak tendency to dance appears, cooperate with it; only then will you be able to understand your body language.

Whatever happens during this ten-minute second stage, make the most of it. Throughout the technique, nothing should be performed at a level lower than the maximum. You may start dancing, jumping, laughing or crying. Whatever happens to you - and the energy wants to express itself - cooperate with it. In the beginning there will be only a guess, a subtle temptation - so subtle that if you decide to suppress it, it will remain on an unconscious level. You may not even know that you have suppressed it. So if there is even a small hint, a faint flicker, any indication in the mind, then cooperate with it and do everything to the maximum, to the very peak.

Tension occurs only at the extreme point, nothing else. If the dance is not happening at its maximum, then it will not be effective, it will not lead anywhere; people dance so often, but it doesn't lead to anything. Therefore, the dance should occur at its maximum - and not planned, but instinctively or intuitively; your reason and intellect should not interfere.

In the second step, simply become the body, be completely one with it, identify with it - just like in the first stage you became the breath. The moment your activity reaches its maximum, a new, fresh sensation will flow into you. Something will be broken: you will see your body as something separate from you; you will become simply a witness of the body. You should not try to become an observer. You just need to identify with the body completely and allow it to do whatever it wants and move wherever it wants.

The moment the activity reaches its peak - in dancing, in crying, in laughter, in irrationality, in all nonsense - what happens is that you become an observer. From now on you just watch; identification has disappeared, only the witnessing consciousness remains, which comes by itself. You don't have to think about it, it just happens.

This is the second stage of the technique. Only when the first stage is completed totally, completely, can you move to the second. It's like a gearbox in a car: first gear can be changed to second only if first gear has reached its limit, nothing else. And the only opportunity to move from the second speed to the third appears only when the second has reached its maximum. What we deal with in Dynamic Meditation is the speed of the mind. If the physical body, the first speed, is brought to its maximum limit through the breath, then you can move to the second speed. And then the second must be carried out absolutely intensively: involved, devotedly, leaving nothing aside.

If you are practicing Dynamic Meditation for the first time, it will be difficult for the reason that we have suppressed the body so much that it has become natural for us to live according to the pattern of suppression. But this is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in a completely different way. If a child cries, he cries intensely. A child's cry can be enjoyed, but an adult's cry is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful: he has total intensity. But when an adult is angry, it looks ugly: he is not total. And any manifestation of intensity is beautiful. The second stage seems difficult only because we have suppressed so much in the body, but if you cooperate with the body, the forgotten language will come back again. You become a child. And when you become a child again, a new sensation will begin to come to you: you will become weightless - the unsuppressed body becomes weightless.

The moment the body becomes unsuppressed, all the repressions that you have accumulated throughout your life are dropped. This is catharsis. A person who goes through catharsis can never become crazy: it is impossible. And if you persuade a madman to go through catharsis, he can return to normal. The person who has gone through this process goes beyond madness: the potential seed is killed, eradicated, thanks to all this catharsis.

The second step is psychotherapeutic. A person can go deeper into meditation only through catharsis. It must be completely cleansed: all nonsense must be thrown out. Our civilization has taught us to suppress, to keep everything inside. Due to which repressed things enter the unconscious mind and become part of the soul, creating great chaos in the entire being.

Every repressed ghost becomes a potential seed of madness. This cannot be allowed. As man became more civilized, he potentially became closer to madness. The less civilized a person is, the less opportunity he has to go crazy, because he still understands his body language, continues to cooperate with it. His body is not suppressed: his body is the flowering of his essence.

The second stage must be completed completely. You should not be outside the body; you must be in it. When you do something, do it completely: be the action itself, not the doer. This is what I mean when I talk about totality: be an action, a process; don't be an actor. An actor is always out of his game, and never in it. When I love you, I'm completely in it, but when I play being in love, I'm out of the game.

In the second step, so many possibilities will open up... and something different will happen for each individual person. One person will start dancing, the other will start crying. One will strip naked, another will start jumping, and the third will start laughing. Everything is possible.

Move from within, move totally, and then you can move to the third stage.

The third stage is achieved as a result of the first two stages. In the first stage, the body's electricity - or you can call it Kundalini - is awakened. It begins to rotate and move. Only in this case does complete letting go occur with the body, not earlier. Only when the internal movement has begun does it become possible for external movements.

When in the second stage catharsis reaches its peak, its limit, then the third ten-minute stage begins. Begin vigorously shouting the Sufi mantra “Hu!” "Hoo!" "Hoo!" The energy that was awakened through the breath and expressed through catharsis now begins to move inward and upward; the mantra redirects it. Previously the energy moved downwards and outwards; now it begins to move inward and upward. Keep hitting the sound "Hoo!" "Hoo!" "Hoo!" inward until your entire being becomes sound. Completely exhaust yourself; only then can the fourth stage—the stage of meditation—happen. The fourth stage is nothing more than silence and waiting. If during the first three stages you have moved totally, completely, leaving nothing behind, then in the fourth stage you will automatically fall into deep relaxation. The body is exhausted; all repressions are thrown out, all thoughts are thrown out. Now relaxation comes spontaneously - you don’t have to do anything for it to happen. This is the beginning of meditation. A situation has been created: you are not here. Now meditation can happen. You are open, waiting, accepting. And what happens happens.

If all your attempts to meditate have ended in a nervous breakdown, it is because you are unable to pacify your mind and control your thoughts. We invite you to try one of the most famous meditations of the Osho school - dynamic.

Osho Dynamic Meditation Possibilities

The popularity of this technique, developed by the famous spiritual mentor of the last century Osho Rajneesh, lies in the fact that it allows you to achieve amazing results: prevent or alleviate depression, cope with insomnia, improve the circulation of energies and correct defects in the aura. Internal clamps and blockages that go back centuries disappear. At the same time, Osho’s dynamic meditation does not require special preparation and is well suited for those who cannot

Stages of Osho's dynamic meditation

Osho's dynamic meditation can be performed independently, but the greatest effectiveness is achieved when working in a group. Although the founder of the practice, Osho Rajneesh, left this world back in 1990, his followers and students continue to teach the technique to everyone. One of the most famous practitioners today who regularly conducts seminars on dynamic meditation is Osho’s student, Vit Mano.

Let's find out how Osho's dynamic meditation works. It is divided into five stages:

Surrender to the feeling of joy and lightness of life.

In total, Osho's dynamic meditation will take you about an hour. All this time you should keep your eyes closed. It is better if you meditate on an empty stomach. Wear comfortable clothes that do not restrict breathing and movement. You can perform Osho's dynamic meditation both with music (Tibetan, oriental motifs, the sound of rain, etc.) and in silence, and for the best effect, complete the full course of meditation - 21 days. During this time, the cellular memory of resentment and anger will go away.

Music for dynamic meditation.

Duration: 1 hour.

Dynamic Meditation- one of the most powerful transformative techniques created by Osho.

Dynamic meditation is aimed at cleansing your unconscious of limiting attitudes, suppressed emotions, imposed and accumulated by us, mainly in childhood and adolescence. Now we have grown up, all these attitudes have become unnecessary, but we continue to unconsciously follow them and retain the emotional garbage that poisons our energy system.

If you are starting to practice Osho meditation, we recommend that you start practicing it in a group of experienced practitioners and a leader, such as in a meditation studio.

Instructions for dynamic meditation Osho

Dynamic Meditation lasts one hour and consists of five stages. You can do it on your own, but in a group it is much stronger. This is an individual experience, so do not pay attention to others and keep your eyes closed throughout the meditation, preferably using a blindfold. It is best to do meditation on an empty stomach and wearing loose, comfortable clothes.

Breathing – First stage: 10 minutes

Breathe chaotically through your nose, always concentrating on exhaling. The body will take care of the inhalation. The breath should penetrate deeply into the lungs. Breathe as quickly as possible, remembering to remain deep. Do it as fast and as hard as you can - and then even harder until you literally become the breath itself. Use natural body movements to help the energy rise. Feel it rising, but do not let it escape during the entire first stage.

Catharsis – Second stage: 10 minutes

Explode! Throw out everything that is rushing out. Become absolutely crazy. Squeal, scream, jump, cry, shake, dance, sing, laugh, express everything that is. Don't hold anything back, move your whole body. Help yourself get started. Never let your mind interfere with what is happening. Be total.

Collaborate with your body. Listen to what it wants to express and express it totally. Strengthen what is rising and throw it out to the fullest.

XY – Third stage: 10 minutes

Jump with your arms raised, shouting the mantra “Hoo! Hoo! Hu!” as deep as possible. Each time you lower your entire foot, allow the sound to strike deep into your sexual center. Put everything you have into it, exhaust yourself completely.

Stup – Fourth stage: 15 minutes

Stop! Freeze where you are and in the position you find yourself in at that moment. Don't change your body position. Coughing, moving - everything will disrupt the flow of energy, and the effort will be in vain. Be a witness to everything that happens to you.

Dance – Fifth Stage: 15 minutes

Celebrate through dance, express gratitude to everything. Be happy all day long.

Detailed explanation of the practice

Question to Osho: What is Dynamic Meditation?

Osho's answer:

The first thing to understand about Dynamic Meditation is that it is a method of creating a situation through tension in which meditation can occur. If your whole being is completely tense, the only option left for you is relaxation. Usually one cannot simply relax, but if your whole being is at the peak of total tension, then the second step comes automatically, spontaneously: silence is created.

The first three stages of this technique are arranged in a special order in order to achieve maximum tension at all levels of your being. The first level is your physical body. Above it is the prana sharir, the vital body - your second body, the etheric body. Above it is the third, astral body.

Your vital body takes breath as food. Changing the usual norm of oxygen will certainly lead to the fact that the vital body will also change. Deep, rapid breathing for ten minutes in the first stage of the technique is intended to change the entire chemistry of your vital body.

The breathing should be both deep and fast—as deep as possible and as fast as possible. If you cannot do both at the same time, then let your breathing be fast. Rapid breathing acts as a kind of hammer striking your vital body, and something sleeping begins to awaken: the reservoir of your energies is opened. The breath becomes like an electrical current flowing throughout your entire nervous system. Therefore, you must perform the first step as furiously and intensely as possible. You must participate in it totally. Not a single piece of you should be left behind. Your whole being should be in the breath in the first step. You are an anarchist: inhale - exhale. Your whole mind is absorbed in the process - breath goes out, breath comes in. And if you are completely in the process, then thoughts will stop, because not a drop of your energy reaches them. There is no energy left to keep them alive.

Then, when the electricity of the body begins to work in you, the second step begins. When bioenergy begins to circulate within you, working through the nervous system, many things become possible for your body. You must freely let go of the body, allowing it to do whatever it wants.

The second step will not only be a stage of letting go, but also a stage of positive cooperation. You have to cooperate with your body, because body language is a symbolic language that, as usual, has been lost. If your body wants to dance, then usually you don't feel the message. Therefore, if in the second stage a weak tendency to dance appears, cooperate with it; only then will you be able to understand your body language.

Whatever happens during this ten-minute second stage, make the most of it. Throughout the technique, nothing should be performed at a level lower than the maximum. You may start dancing, jumping, laughing or crying. Whatever happens to you - and the energy wants to express itself - cooperate with it. In the beginning there will be only a guess, a subtle temptation - so subtle that if you decide to suppress it, it will remain on an unconscious level. You may not even know that you have suppressed it. So if there is even a small hint, a faint flicker, any indication in the mind, then cooperate with it and do everything to the maximum, to the very peak.

Tension occurs only at the extreme point, nothing else. If the dance is not happening at its maximum, then it will not be effective, it will not lead anywhere; people dance so often, but it doesn't lead to anything. Therefore, the dance should occur at its maximum - and not planned, but instinctively or intuitively; your reason and intellect should not interfere.

In the second step, simply become the body, be completely one with it, identify with it - just like in the first stage you became the breath. The moment your activity reaches its maximum, a new, fresh sensation will flow into you. Something will be broken: you will see your body as something separate from you; you will become simply a witness of the body. You should not try to become an observer. You just need to identify with the body completely and allow it to do whatever it wants and move wherever it wants.

The moment the activity reaches its peak - in dancing, in crying, in laughter, in irrationality, in all nonsense - what happens is that you become an observer. From now on you just watch; identification has disappeared, only the witnessing consciousness remains, which comes by itself. You don't have to think about it, it just happens.

This is the second stage of the technique. Only when the first stage is completed totally, completely, can you move to the second. It's like a gearbox in a car: first gear can be changed to second only if first gear has reached its limit, nothing else. And the only opportunity to move from the second speed to the third appears only when the second has reached its maximum. What we deal with in Dynamic Meditation is the speed of the mind. If the physical body, the first speed, is brought to its maximum limit through the breath, then you can move to the second speed. And then the second must be carried out absolutely intensively: involved, devotedly, leaving nothing aside.

If you are practicing Dynamic Meditation for the first time, it will be difficult for the reason that we have suppressed the body so much that it has become natural for us to live according to the pattern of suppression. But this is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in a completely different way. If a child cries, he cries intensely. A child's cry can be enjoyed, but an adult's cry is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful: he has total intensity. But when an adult is angry, it looks ugly: he is not total. And any manifestation of intensity is beautiful. The second stage seems difficult only because we have suppressed so much in the body, but if you cooperate with the body, the forgotten language will come back again. You become a child. And when you become a child again, a new sensation will begin to come to you: you will become weightless - the unsuppressed body becomes weightless.

The moment the body becomes unsuppressed, all the repressions that you have accumulated throughout your life are dropped. This is catharsis. A person who goes through catharsis can never become crazy: it is impossible. And if you persuade a madman to go through catharsis, he can return to normal. The person who has gone through this process goes beyond madness: the potential seed is killed, eradicated, thanks to all this catharsis.

The second step is psychotherapeutic. A person can go deeper into meditation only through catharsis. It must be completely cleansed: all nonsense must be thrown out. Our civilization has taught us to suppress, to keep everything inside. Due to which repressed things enter the unconscious mind and become part of the soul, creating great chaos in the entire being.

Every repressed ghost becomes a potential seed of madness. This cannot be allowed. As man became more civilized, he potentially became closer to madness. The less civilized a person is, the less opportunity he has to go crazy, because he still understands his body language, continues to cooperate with it. His body is not suppressed: his body is the flowering of his essence.

The second stage must be completed completely. You should not be outside the body; you must be in it. When you do something, do it completely: be the action itself, not the doer. This is what I mean when I talk about totality: be an action, a process; don't be an actor. An actor is always out of his game, and never in it. When I love you, I'm completely in it, but when I play being in love, I'm out of the game.

In the second step, so many possibilities will open up... and something different will happen for each individual person. One person will start dancing, the other will start crying. One will strip naked, another will start jumping, and the third will start laughing. Everything is possible.

Move from within, move totally, and then you can move to the third stage.

The third stage is achieved as a result of the first two stages. In the first stage, the body's electricity - or you can call it Kundalini - is awakened. It begins to rotate and move. Only in this case does complete letting go occur with the body, not earlier. Only when the internal movement has begun does it become possible for external movements.

When in the second stage catharsis reaches its peak, its limit, then the third ten-minute stage begins. Begin vigorously shouting the Sufi mantra “Hu!” "Hoo!" "Hoo!" The energy that was awakened through the breath and expressed through catharsis now begins to move inward and upward; the mantra redirects it. Previously the energy moved downwards and outwards; now it begins to move inward and upward. Keep hitting the sound "Hoo!" "Hoo!" "Hoo!" inward until your entire being becomes sound. Completely exhaust yourself; only then can the fourth stage—the stage of meditation—happen. The fourth stage is nothing more than silence and waiting. If during the first three stages you have moved totally, completely, leaving nothing behind, then in the fourth stage you will automatically fall into deep relaxation. The body is exhausted; all repressions are thrown out, all thoughts are thrown out. Now relaxation comes spontaneously - you don’t have to do anything for it to happen. This is the beginning of meditation. A situation has been created: you are not here. Now meditation can happen. You are open, waiting, accepting. And what happens happens.

Other Osho Quotes on Dynamic Meditation

“This is a meditation in which you must constantly be attentive, aware, no matter what you do. Remain a witness. Don't get lost."

“Breathe as quickly as possible, as deeply as possible. Put all your energy into it, but remain a witness. Observe everything that happens as if you are just a spectator, as if it is all happening to someone else, as if everything is happening in the body and the consciousness is simply centered and observing.”

“This observation needs to be maintained across all three stages. And when everything stops, and in the fourth stage you have become completely frozen, frozen, then awareness will reach its peak.”

One of the most powerful meditation techniques today is Osho's dynamic meditations. They belong to the Indian teacher Osho Rajneesh, the creator of the new sannyas system.

Purpose of dynamic meditation

Osho's dynamic meditations are aimed at cleansing the unconscious person of those limiters and suppressed emotions that are hidden in it. This garbage has been accumulating since childhood, and if it is not cleaned out periodically, it comes out in the form of one pathology or another, greatly interfering with life. Therefore, Osho meditation is a very good way to overcome all internal barriers and start living life to the fullest.

The duration of dynamic meditation is one hour and consists of five consecutive parts. In principle, these Osho meditations can be done at home on your own, but group practice gives a slightly stronger result.

But even if you meditate with someone, it is still only your own experience, so close your eyes and keep them closed throughout the practice so as not to be distracted by anyone. You can use a bandage specifically for this.

As for other conditions, it is advisable to meditate on an empty stomach. It is also recommended to wear loose clothing that does not restrict movement for ease of practice.

Part One: Breathing

The first part of Osho's meditation lasts ten minutes. At this time, you need to breathe through your nose in a chaotic rhythm, concentrating on exhalation. The body will take care of inhalation itself. The air should penetrate as deeply into the lungs as possible. In this case, the breathing rate should be maximum. You need to breathe as quickly as you can, but without neglecting the depth of your breath. Use all your resources to help release energy. You can move if it helps you speed up or deepen your breathing. Finally, you should feel the energy rising within you. At this moment, it is very important to recognize it and bring it under control, not allowing it to come out ahead of time.

Part two: catharsis

The second part of Osho's meditation also lasts ten minutes. At this moment you must “explode” - throw out everything that is so eager to come out. Don't be afraid to seem crazy, don't limit yourself. Do absolutely whatever you want: sing, scream, stomp, dance, squeal, cry, burst into laughter, etc. This is Osho's meditation technique - talking to the body in the language of emotions. It is very important here to be streamlined, not to put internal barriers on yourself and not to constrain yourself. You just need to surrender to the flow of your energy, its flow and do everything that will naturally manifest itself. The most important thing is not to analyze! Critical activity of the mind at this moment is absolutely inappropriate.

Part three: hu

The third stage, like the first two, lasts ten minutes. During it, you need to continuously jump, continuously shouting the syllable-mantra “Hu”. The hands should be raised up, and the sounds should be as deep as possible.

When jumping, you need to completely lower yourself onto your entire foot each time, while feeling how the sound penetrates the sexual center of the body. Here again, you need to use all the resources of body and soul, all your energy, and give your best. Only then does kundalini awaken. Osho's meditations work according to the principle of direct proportionality. That is, you get an effect equivalent to the effort and energy expended.

Part Four: Stop

The fourth stage takes fifteen minutes. As soon as it starts, you need to stop. Freeze in the place and position in which she caught you. The position of the body should not change, because otherwise the flow of energy will be disrupted. You can't even cough, etc. It’s like the children’s game with the rough sea, in which you had to freeze like a statue after the words “Sea figure, freeze.” All these fifteen minutes you are required to do only one thing - observe yourself. You cannot be distracted by extraneous thoughts. Just become aware of yourself and observe.

Part five: dance

The final stage of meditation involves dancing. But it shouldn't be just a dance. At this moment you should feel boundless joy and happiness and dance, showing this joy in gratitude to the entire universe.

This is how Osho recommended this practice. The meditation techniques described by him are different. There are about a hundred of them in total, but it was dynamic meditation that became the most popular among his followers. Now, having described the technique, below we will explain in a little more detail the inner essence of this powerful transformation system.

What is dynamic meditation?

Firstly, as Osho himself said when conducting evening meditations, dynamic practice is a method of creating a situation in which deep meditation can take place due to the tension shown by a person. The principle of operation is that if you strain your body and psyche as much as possible, then you will have nothing left to do except in normal mode, this is difficult to do, which is why meditation is very often so difficult. But if a person’s whole being is on edge, then he automatically falls into the desired meditative state.

This is what the first three parts of meditation serve. They prepare a person by straining him at the level of the physical, etheric and deep breathing leads to a restructuring of the physical body due to a sharp change in the oxygen supply regime. This, in turn, inevitably leads to a change in the etheric body. This is what the first ten minutes of deep, rapid breathing are for.

About the first part

It must be both fast and deep, because at this pace it plays the role of a hammer that knocks on the etheric body, awakening it and the energies sleeping in it. Therefore, on the first step you need to concentrate totally, surrender to it completely. Nothing but breathing should exist for you. You yourself must become the breath.

About the second part

The second step begins when the energy within you begins to bubble. Usually ten minutes of the first stage is enough for this. Now a powerful energy vortex is spinning inside you, and your task is to release it into freedom along with your body. It should be able to do whatever it wants. Under no circumstances should there be any obstacles to this on your part. No shame or embarrassment is strictly allowed. However, this is not just mindless antics. In fact, at this time you have to do important work - communicate with your body. You need to feel it and allow it to express in the symbols of body movements what it wants to convey to you. When surrendering to the will of bodily impulses, it is necessary to be aware of it, to listen to it in its language. This is called dialogue with the body or cooperation with the body.

And don’t forget that everything should happen at the highest possible level of impact. Nothing in dynamic meditation happens half-heartedly. If you do not surrender completely to your body, you will negate the entire effect of the practice. In short, in the second stage you must become the body just as you were the breath in the first stage.

About the third part

The result of the second stage should be an involuntary state of the observer. This is catharsis. It does not need to be achieved; on the contrary, you need to completely identify with your body. But if you give it your all, a moment will inevitably come when you feel that the body is something separate and independent. At this moment, the third stage of practice begins, when you need to start jumping and shouting the syllable “Hu”. Osho borrowed it from Sufism. The essence of the third stage is that the energy now begins to move in a different direction. If before it was directed outward and downward, then at the third stage it begins to flow inward and upward. The shouted mantra provides this redirection, and therefore it must be shouted constantly and with full force, striking oneself inward with the sound. As before, you need to merge with your action, that is, become sound, as before you were body and breath. It is necessary to reach a state of exhaustion, to the extreme point of tension, so that the next, fourth stage can happen, in which you only need to freeze and observe.

About the fourth part

At this time, only your consciousness exists and nothing else. This state occurs involuntarily; you do not need to try to achieve it. The main thing in the third part is not to lose it by a random movement or a thought that suddenly comes to mind. The fourth stage is what dynamic meditation is done in general. The previous three stages serve as preparatory steps for it. When it happens, everything must go away.

Osho had a very high opinion of dynamic meditation. Testimonials from his students and those who continue this practice today also testify to its extreme effectiveness. In large cities, it is carried out regularly in specialized centers with the gathering of many people. But if there is no group of practitioners nearby, it’s not scary: you can practice this technique on your own. As Osho advised, morning meditation is most effective. This fully applies to dynamic meditation. Therefore, for maximum effect, it is better to get up early.

Osho meditation differs from classical techniques, which involve quietly entering a trance while listening to calm music. It is rather an energetic spiritual practice that works through negative blocks in a person’s consciousness.

The Great Teacher, who became famous throughout the world for his special views, practiced many types of meditation, each of which had a specific purpose.

Let's look at several popular techniques that you can do at home without much preparation, and also talk about those that are best done in a group.

Kundalini meditation

This meditation consists of four stages, each of which takes fifteen minutes. Sound accompaniment is required: choose suitable music. It should be calm and peaceful so that you can relax.

How to meditate:

1. First stage (15 minutes). To the sound of music, you should literally “vibrate your body” or simply shake. The movements begin from the tips of the fingers and toes, and then you need to move them to the center of the body. It is better to keep your eyes closed, a suitable position is lying down. At first you will have to concentrate carefully, but by the end of the first stage the movements can become quite voluntary, and the tension in the body will subside
2. Second stage (15 minutes). At this time, your inner kundalini energy awakens, and you should feel it. Expressed in dance. Feel how the energy forces your body to make rhythmic movements to the music, surrender to the power of internal sensations
3. The third stage is complete immobility. Try to completely lose yourself in the music, just lie there and resonate with the sounds of the melody, don’t move at all. Relax and calm down
4. The fourth stage is complete silence. The music stops at this stage, and you follow your breathing and seem to freeze with your body and soul. Not a single thought should enter your mind

What is important: in the first two stages of meditation it is not necessary to close your eyes, but in the last two you should.

This practice helps to achieve balance between body and mind, awaken the body's internal reserves and enter a state of complete harmony.

Dynamic meditation Osho

Dynamic meditation is one of the most popular of all that Osho's followers practice. As a rule, such spiritual practice takes place in a group with several people at once.

It is believed that the energies of each person unite and then powerfully fill all participants in the action.

How does dynamic meditation work:

1. Part one. Breath. For ten minutes you should breathe strictly through your nose, focusing all your attention on the exhalations. Exhale forcefully, powerfully and rhythmically at the fastest possible pace. At this stage, all negative energy is released. You can accompany your breathing with movements if your soul asks
2. Part two. Catharsis. At this stage, you should experience a kind of explosion - all the negativity accumulated over the years will begin to burst out. Don't disturb him - free yourself from everything that interferes. You can shout loudly, sing, dance, stomp your feet, laugh, cry. Each person has his own way. The main thing is not to interfere with this and allow emotions to spill out into the world around you.
3. Part three. Hu. Lasts ten minutes. At this time, you should jump up as high as you can, shouting a short mantra “Hoo!” Do this as strongly and clearly as possible. Keep your arms raised up. Mentally imagine how you are filled with positive energy, it penetrates into the very center of your body
4. Part four. Stop. Lasts fifteen minutes. At the moment the fourth stage begins, you need to stop and freeze in the position in which you find yourself. Do not change your body position so as not to interfere with the flow of energy. Try not to yawn, sneeze or cough; you should not make a single sound. Abstract from thoughts, just look inside yourself and observe the sensations
5. Part five. Dance. Dance as if it is the last time in your life. During the movements, imagine how your body is filled with powerful streams of joy, happiness, harmony, gratitude and positive energy

This concludes the meditation. It is not suitable for every day, unlike the previous one, according to the Kundalini method. Use it when you feel that you have too much negativity, tension, after a series of stresses. Realization: “It’s time!” sooner or later it will come to you on its own, you will feel the need for liberation and want to be filled with energy.

Watch a video with another Osho meditation that can be practiced daily:

States in dynamic meditation

It is especially worth talking about what state you need to concentrate yourself on during Osho’s dynamic practice. Depending on the stages it will differ:

• At the first, you need to imagine that an invisible hammer is breaking the thick shell of negativity that has surrounded your subtle body. This hammer does not destroy, but awakens consciousness, using all its hidden reserves
• On the second, imagine yourself in the center of a huge energy vortex, a powerful clot of negative energy that comes out of your body. Release this whirlwind and let it fly away in an unknown direction.
• On the third, you seem to leave your physical body and become an observer
• On the fourth, you do not feel the physical body at all. You feel like a naked soul, your subconscious, which is not constrained by anything or anyone else

Of course, it is ideal if you do dynamic meditation in a group. But if this is not possible, you can practice it yourself. The main thing is to find a remote place where no one will see you, and where you will not bother anyone with strange dances and loud screams. The ideal option is in nature: in the forest or on the river bank.