Most of us live out our lives in the world of
time, in the memories of past and anticipation of future. Only
rarely do we touch the timeless dimension of the present-in
moments of sudden beauty, or a sudden danger, in meeting with
the lover or with the surprise of the unexpected. Very few
people step out of the world of time and mind, its ambitions and
competitiveness, and begin to live in the world of timeless. And
of those who do, only a few have attempted to share their
experience. LaoTzu, Buddha, Bodhidharma, .... or more recently,
George Gurdjieff, Raman Maharshi, J. Krishnamurti- they are
thought by their contemporaries to be eccentrics or mad man;
after their death they are called "Philosophers".
And in time they become legends- not
flesh-and-blood human beings, but perhaps mythological
representations of our collective wish to go beyond the
smallness and trivia, meaninglessness of our everyday life
Osho is one who has discovered the door to
living His life in timeless dimension of the present - He has
called Himself a "true existentialist" - and he has
devoted his life to provoking others to seek the same door, to
step out of the world of past and future and discover for
themselves the world of eternity.
Osho was born in Kuchwada, Madya Prades, India
on December 11, 1931. From His earliest childhood , he was a
rebellious and independent spirit, insisting on experiencing the
truth for Himself rather than acquirng the knowledge and beliefs
given by others.
After His enlightenment at the age of 21, Osho
completed His academic studies and spent several years teaching
philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile, He traveled
throughout India giving talks, challenging orthodox religious
leaders in public debate, questioning traditional beliefs, and
meeting people form all walks of life. He read extensively,
everything he could find to broaden his understanding of the
belief systems and psychology of contemporary man. By the late
1960's Osho had begun to develop his unique Dynamic Mediation
techniques. Modern man, he said, is so burdened with the out-mooded
traditions of and the anxieties of modern-day living that he
must go through deep cleansing process before he can hope to
discover the thoughtless, relaxed state of meditation
In the early 1970's, the first westerners
began to hear of Osho. By 1974, a commune had been established
around Him in Poona, India, and the trickle of visitors from the
West was soon to become a flood. In the course of His work Osho
had spoken on virtually every aspect of development of human
consciousness. He has distilled the essence of what is
significant to the spiritual quest of the contemporary man,
based not on intellectual understanding, but tested against his
own existantial experience.
He belongs to no tradition- "I am a
beginning of a totally new religious consciousness ", he
says. "Please don't connect me with the past-it is not even
worth remembering." His talks to disciples and seeks from
all over the world have been published in more than 600 volumes,
and translated to over 30 languages.
Osho left his body on Jan 19th, 1990
Osho Meditation
"(There are 112 basic techniques of
meditation.) I have developed my own techniques other than the
112, because I saw that for the modern man there are a few
problems which are not covered in those 112 techniques. They
were written perhaps ten thousand years ago for a totally
different kind of mankind, a different kind of culture,
different kind of people. The modern man, the contemporary man,
has some differences--over ten thousand years it is absolutely
unavoidable." -OSHO
Here are some of the Osho Meditation
Techniques
Dynamic Meditation
Kundalini Meditation
Nadabrahma Meditation
Vipassana Meditation
Gourishankar Meditation
Devavani Meditation
Natraj Meditation
No Dimensions Meditation
Mandala Meditation
Charka Sound Meditation
Charka Breathing Meditation
