Osho - The Orange Book: The Meditation Techniques Of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The Orange Book

The Meditation Techniques
of
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Meditation is neither a journey in space nor a journey in time but an instantaneous awakening.

This book is a gift, a treasure trove of meditation techniques devised by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and given to his disciples over the years.

These are methods to play with, to help you to celebrate the exploration into your selves. Unique in their originality and utter simplicity, these meditations reflect Bhagwans understanding and insight into mans essential nature, and provide the world with a synthesis between the Eastern meditative approach and Western psychological techniques.

Dance, shake, gaze into a mirror, beat a pillow, hum, sing anything that will take you beyond the mind

And when all your efforts suddenly drop, meditation is there

the benediction of it, the blessedness of it, the glory of it

copyright 1980 by Rajneesh Foundation

Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi, Rajneesh Foundation, Shree Rajneesh Ashram, 17 Koregaon Park, Poona 411 001, India

First edition December 1980 5,000 copies

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THIS Orange Book is a collection of meditation techniques that Osho has given over the years, together with extracts and quotations from the books of his morning discourses and evening darshans.

Some of the techniques - Vipassana, Nadabrahma, Whirling - have been familiar to meditators of many traditions for centuries; others -Dynamic, Kundalini, Gouri shankar - reflect both the wisdom of these traditions and the findings of contemporary psychology; they are Oshos unique prescription for the needs of modern man. Together, they add up to a rare opportunity for us to exhaust all our efforts to reach the here-and-now and find ourselves.

In Oshos vision, as in the vision of all the Buddhas throughout the ages, it is only when all our efforts have come to an end and all these techniques have become useless that we really become meditators and can see that far-away here-and-now is simply here, now.

Until then, join the dance! Laugh and sing, run, jump and scream, sit and stare, live, love and pray from dawn to darkness with these beautiful meditations. And dont let your daily routine be an excuse for not jumping in and experimenting. The arrangement into sections follows the scheduling of the five main meditations of the monthly meditation camps at the Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Poona, or the times suggested by Osho; but these sections are only suggestions, not rigid categories. It is infinitely better to do the Dynamic Meditation in the evening than not at all. And if work permits you can sing and dance all day long!

Think of meditation as an adventure and this Orange Book as your guide. And when the point is reached that a Master is needed, come, for the source of it all is here.

Swami Anand Veetmoha

M editaton is a state of no-mind. Meditation is a state of pure consciousness with no content. Ordinarily, your consciousness is too full of rubbish, just like a mirror covered with dust. The mind is a constant traffic: thoughts are moving, desires are moving, memories are moving, ambitions are moving - it is a constant traffic! Day in, day out. Even when you are asleep the mind is functioning, it is dreaming. It is still thinking; it is still in worries and anxieties. It is preparing for the next day; an underground preparation is going on.

This is the state of no meditation. Just the opposite is meditation. When there is no traffic and thinking has ceased, no thoughts move, no desire stirs, you are utterly silent - that silence is meditation. And in that silence truth is known, and never otherwise. Meditation is a state of no-mind.

The first thing is to know what meditation is. Everything else follows.

I cannot say to you that you should do meditation, I can only explain to you what it is. If you understand me, you will be in meditation; there is no should to it. If you dont understand me, you will not be in meditation.

And you cannot find meditation through the mind, because mind will perpetuate itself. You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind; by seeing the mind pass, but not getting identified with it, not thinking that I am it.

Meditation is the awareness that I am not the mind. When the awareness goes deeper and deeper in you, slowly slowly, a few moments arrive - moments of silence, moments of pure space, moments of transparency, moments when nothing stirs in you and everything is still. In those still moments you will know who you are, and you will know the mystery of this existence.

A day comes, a day of great blessings, when meditation becomes your natural state.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost. It is a paradise lost, but the paradise can be regained. Look into the childs eyes, look and you will see tremendous silence, innocence. Each child comes with a meditative state, but he has to be initiated into the ways of the society - he has to be taught how to think, how to calculate, how to reason, how to argue; he has to be taught words, language, concepts. And, slowly slowly, he loses contact with his own innocence. He becomes contaminated, polluted by the society. He becomes an efficient mechanism; he is no more a man.