Teaching & Training

Active Meditation

Active meditation is a great way to factor some zen time into a busy day. It’s also the ideal way to meditate if you’re the type of person who can’t sit still for too long. A couple of years ago, I did a Vedic meditation course. It’s an ancient type of meditation that requires you to sit still for 20 minutes, once in the morning and again in the afternoon. It’s highly effective, but I wasn’t able to stick with it in the long run because life got in the way. When I was meditating, however, the benefits were incredible—I was more focused, less overwhelmed by life, work pressure or my inbox groaning under the weight of so many unread emails.
I felt lighter, calmer, and less on edge.Luckily, it’s possible to reach a meditative state when you’re in motion. I know this only too well. I was running the Copenhagen marathon in 2014 and I won’t go into details, but let’s just say from mile two onwards I needed the toilet badly. My tummy wasn’t right and even though a bartender let me use the facilities, I couldn’t shake the need to go as I progressed along the race course. Then, the heavens opened. Every time I ran, I needed to go to the toilet, but walking in heavy rain, sodden through, was miserable. And so I focused on my breath and repeated the mantra just keep going over and over. I was in such a zone that I couldn’t hear the playlist that was blaring in my ears or feel the rain pelting down. I just focused on putting one foot in front of the other, breathing and repeating my mantra.
Of course, we’re not all running marathons with dodgy stomachs, but life can be pretty overwhelming at times and while we don’t all have the time to sit still and meditate, it is possible to be more mindful on the move. I spoke with two meditation experts Adreanna Limbach—senior teacher at NYC meditation studio MNDFL and Karunesh Bodhi, an Osho meditation facilitator—to find out how we can incorporate active mediation into our day to day.

OSHO Kundalini Meditation

This meditation lasts for one hour and has four stages, three with music, and the last without. Kundalini acts like an energetic shower, softly shaking you free of your day and leaving you refreshed and mellow.

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OSHO NADABRAHMA FOR COUPLES

The Master has given a beautiful variation of this technique for couples. Partners sit facing each other, covered by a bedsheet and holding each ohter’s crossed hands. It is best to wear no other clothing. Light the room only by four small candles and burn particular incense, kept only for this meditation. Close your eyes and hum together for thirty minutes. After a short while the energies will be felt to meet, merge and unite.

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OSHO Nataraj Meditation

“Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is the meditation. Dance so deeply that you forget completely that ‘you’ are dancing and begin to feel that you are the dance. The division must disappear; then it becomes a meditation.

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OSHO Whirling Meditation

“Whirling is one of the most ancient techniques, one of the most forceful. It is so deep that even a single experience can make you totally different. Whirl with open eyes, just like small children go on twirling, as if your inner being has become a center and your whole body has become a wheel, moving, a potter’s wheel, moving. You are in the center, but the whole body is moving.” Osho

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Passive Meditation

This also could be called non-mantra meditation. For we don’t force the mind to think a mantra but just let it think whatever it will. However, we have to observe or be aware that it is thinking. But since the mind can only do one thing at a time, either think or be aware, it must flip back and forth between the two states. It thinks, then it remembers or becomes aware that it is thinking; it thinks again, and again it becomes aware, and so on.
A common occurrence, especially for those just beginning to do meditation, is that the mind gets sucked into thinking, and is no longer aware that it is thinking. It begins to daydream, and perhaps even fall asleep. With practice, however, the mind’s balance shifts the other way, from thinking to awareness; and it is possible for some that thinking stops altogether, and the mind reaches the state of no thought.
Passive meditation requires less concentration than active or mantra-directed meditation. For in passive meditation the mind is allowed to pick the subject and go with it, with only the requirement that it must stop on occasion to remember that it is thinking. At times, this won’t be easy, stopping thinking to remember, because the mind is a powerful thinker, even an entertainer. It has the capability of generating or manifesting a spectrum of thoughts, recollections, images and plots, from the wonderful, sublime, loving and humorous to those not so wonderful, sublime, loving and humorous. Therefore, it can bring up strong emotions so much so that frequent breaks are needed to halt the show, and let the mind remember that it is only a show.

Two Passive Techniques

Breath-watching is a method that can be done anywhere, at any time, even if you have only a few minutes available. You can simply watch the rise and fall of your chest or belly as the breath comes in and goes out, or try this version….

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OSHO Full Moon Meditation: Song Of Nature

The full-moon night has a very alchemical impact on the human consciousness. Buddha became enlightened on the full-moon night – not only that, he was born on the same full moon night, he became enlightened on the same full-moon night, he died on the same full moon.

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OSHO Gaurishankar Meditation

This technique, for the night time, consists of four stages of fifteen minutes each. The first two stages are preparation for the spontaneous Latihan of the third stage. If the breathing is done correctly in the first stage, the carbon dioxide formed in the bloodstream will make you feel as high as Gourishankar (Mt. Everest).

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OSHO Everything Converges in Your Being

The ego is the barrier. When you feel you are, you are so much that nothing can enter in you. You are filled with your own self. When you are not, then everything can pass through you. You have become so vast that even the divine can pass through you. The whole existence is now ready to pass through you, because you are ready. So the whole art of religion is how not to be, how to dissolve, how to surrender, how to become an open space.

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OSHO Feel Dont Think

Only the inner silence is yours. No one has given it to you. You were born with it, and you will die with it. Thoughts have been given to you; you have been conditioned to them.

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Finding Your Own Inner Peace

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