Life in the 21st century moves at an ever-increasing pace, creating more and more stress for individuals. Just sitting directly in silent meditation is not as easy as it must have been in Buddha's time.
These weekends give us the space and time to explore Active Meditation techniques specifically designed to deal directly with releasing the stress and tensions of contemporary life leaving us feeling alert, refreshed, and energized.
These meditation retreats take place in a beautiful location in nature (30 min from Munich).
These meditation retreats take place in a beautiful location in nature (30 min from Munich).
"Start with meditation, and things will go on growing in you - silence, serenity, blissfulness, sensitivity. And whatever comes out of meditation, try to bring it out in life. Share it, because everything shared grows fast. And when you have reached the point of death, you will know there is no death. You can say goodbye, there is no need for any tears of sadness - maybe tears of joy, but not of sadness."
"Du gebrauchst deine Bewusstheit ohne es
zu merken, jedoch nur in Bezug auf äußere Dinge. Die gleiche Bewusstheit musst du auch auf dein Inneres anwenden. Wenn du deine Augen schließt, zieht da ein ständiger Strom von Gedanken, Gefühlen, Träumen and Vorstellungen an dir vorüber; alle möglichen Dinge tauchen auf.
Wende die gleiche Methode, die du in der äußern Welt anwendest, auch in deiner inneren Welt an, dann wirst du auch hier der Beobachter sein. Und wenn du diese Erfahrung einmal gemacht hast, ist die Freude, ein Beobachter zu sein, so groß, so unbeschreiblich, dass du tiefer und tiefer in diese Erfahrung eintauchen möchtest. Sobald sich eine Gelegenheit bietet, möchtest du mehr und mehr nach innen gehen.
zu merken, jedoch nur in Bezug auf äußere Dinge. Die gleiche Bewusstheit musst du auch auf dein Inneres anwenden. Wenn du deine Augen schließt, zieht da ein ständiger Strom von Gedanken, Gefühlen, Träumen and Vorstellungen an dir vorüber; alle möglichen Dinge tauchen auf.
Wende die gleiche Methode, die du in der äußern Welt anwendest, auch in deiner inneren Welt an, dann wirst du auch hier der Beobachter sein. Und wenn du diese Erfahrung einmal gemacht hast, ist die Freude, ein Beobachter zu sein, so groß, so unbeschreiblich, dass du tiefer und tiefer in diese Erfahrung eintauchen möchtest. Sobald sich eine Gelegenheit bietet, möchtest du mehr und mehr nach innen gehen.
Es ist keine Frage einer bestimmten Körperhaltung, es bedarf auch keines Temples, keiner Kirche oder Synagoge. Wann immer du in einem Bus oder einem Zug sitzt und gerade nichts zu tun hast, schließe einfach deine Augen. Es schütz deine Augen davor, müde zu werden vom Schauen und du hast Zeit, dich selbst zu beobachten. Diese Momente werden zu den schönsten Erfahrung.
Und mit zunehmender Bewusstheit verändert sich langsam deine ganze Persönlichkeit. Der Schritt von Unbewusstheit zu Bewusstheit ist der größte Quantensprung, den es gibt." Osho
Und mit zunehmender Bewusstheit verändert sich langsam deine ganze Persönlichkeit. Der Schritt von Unbewusstheit zu Bewusstheit ist der größte Quantensprung, den es gibt." Osho
CHECK IN
Try to be on time!
To arrange your room, meet friends, discover the bathroom and find your way around.
Try to be on time!
To arrange your room, meet friends, discover the bathroom and find your way around.
DYNAMIC
"This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware. Whatsoever you do, remain a witness."
When the sleep is broken, the whole nature becomes alive; the night has gone, the darkness is no more, the sun is coming up, and everything becomes conscious and alert. This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware, whatsoever you do. Remain a witness. Don't get lost.
It is easy to get lost. While you are breathing you can forget. You can become one with the breathing so much that you can forget the witness. But then you miss the point. Breathe as fast, as deep as possible, bring your total energy to it, but still remain a witness. Observe what is happening, as if you are just a spectator, as if the whole thing is happening to somebody else, as if the whole thing is happening in the body and the consciousness is just centered and looking. A woodcutter, a stone-breaker need not do cathartic meditation - the whole day they are doing it. But for the modern man things have changed.
Witnessing has to be carried in all the three steps. And when everything stops, and in the fourth step you have become completely inactive, frozen, then this alterness will come to its peak.
The dynamic Meditation lasts one hour and is in five stages. It can be done alone, but the energy will be more powerful if it is done in a group. It is an individual experience so you should remain oblivious of others around you and keep your eyes closed throughout, preferably using a blindfold. It is best to have an empty stomach and wear loose, comfortable clothing.
Breathe chaotically through the nose, concentrating always on the exhalation. The body will take care of the inhalation. Do this as fast and as hard as you possibly can - and then a little harder, until you literally become the breathing. Use your natural body movements to help you to build up your energy. Feel it building up, but don't let go during the first stage.
Explode! Let go of everything that needs to be thrown out. Go totally mad, scream, shout, cry, jump, shake, dance, sing, laugh, throw yourself around. Hold nothing back, keep your whole body moving. A little acting often helps to get you started. Never allow your mind to interfere with what is happening. Be total.
With raised arms, jump up and down shouting the mantra 'HOO! HOO! HOO!' as deeply as possible. Each time you land, on the flats of your feet, let the sound hammer deep into the sex centre. Give all you have, exhaust yourself totally.
Stop! Freeze where you are in whatever position you find yourself. Don't arrange the body in any way. A Cough, a movement, anything will dissipate the energy flow and the effort will be lost. Be a witness to everything that is happening to you.
Celebrate and rejoice with music and dance, expressing your gratitude towards the whole. Carry your happiness with you throughout the day.
"This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware. Whatsoever you do, remain a witness."
When the sleep is broken, the whole nature becomes alive; the night has gone, the darkness is no more, the sun is coming up, and everything becomes conscious and alert. This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware, whatsoever you do. Remain a witness. Don't get lost.
It is easy to get lost. While you are breathing you can forget. You can become one with the breathing so much that you can forget the witness. But then you miss the point. Breathe as fast, as deep as possible, bring your total energy to it, but still remain a witness. Observe what is happening, as if you are just a spectator, as if the whole thing is happening to somebody else, as if the whole thing is happening in the body and the consciousness is just centered and looking. A woodcutter, a stone-breaker need not do cathartic meditation - the whole day they are doing it. But for the modern man things have changed.
Witnessing has to be carried in all the three steps. And when everything stops, and in the fourth step you have become completely inactive, frozen, then this alterness will come to its peak.
The dynamic Meditation lasts one hour and is in five stages. It can be done alone, but the energy will be more powerful if it is done in a group. It is an individual experience so you should remain oblivious of others around you and keep your eyes closed throughout, preferably using a blindfold. It is best to have an empty stomach and wear loose, comfortable clothing.
First Stage: 10 minutes.
Breathe chaotically through the nose, concentrating always on the exhalation. The body will take care of the inhalation. Do this as fast and as hard as you possibly can - and then a little harder, until you literally become the breathing. Use your natural body movements to help you to build up your energy. Feel it building up, but don't let go during the first stage.
Second Stage: 10 minutes.
Explode! Let go of everything that needs to be thrown out. Go totally mad, scream, shout, cry, jump, shake, dance, sing, laugh, throw yourself around. Hold nothing back, keep your whole body moving. A little acting often helps to get you started. Never allow your mind to interfere with what is happening. Be total.
Third Stage: 10 minutes.
With raised arms, jump up and down shouting the mantra 'HOO! HOO! HOO!' as deeply as possible. Each time you land, on the flats of your feet, let the sound hammer deep into the sex centre. Give all you have, exhaust yourself totally.
Fourth Stage: 15 minutes.
Stop! Freeze where you are in whatever position you find yourself. Don't arrange the body in any way. A Cough, a movement, anything will dissipate the energy flow and the effort will be lost. Be a witness to everything that is happening to you.
Fifth Stage: 15 minutes.
Celebrate and rejoice with music and dance, expressing your gratitude towards the whole. Carry your happiness with you throughout the day.
SHARING CIRCLE
This is an open space for everyone to share, their joy, their meditation experience, doubts, fears, their silence.
This is an open space for everyone to share, their joy, their meditation experience, doubts, fears, their silence.
KUNDALINI
"...Allow the shaking, don't do it. Stand silently, feel it coming, and when your body starts a little trembling help it - but don't do it. Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it - but don't will it. If you force it, it will become an exercise, a bodily physical exercise. Then the shaking will be there but just on the surface, it will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stone like, rock like within; you will remain a manipulator, the doer, and the body will just be following. The body is not the question - you are the question." - Osho
Be loose and let your whole body shake, feeling energies moving up from your feet. Let go everywhere and become the shaking. Your eyes may be open or closed.
Dance . . . any way you feel, and let the whole body move as it wishes.
Close your eyes and be still, sitting or standing . . . witnessing whatever is happening inside and out.
Keep your eyes closed, lie down and be still.
"...Allow the shaking, don't do it. Stand silently, feel it coming, and when your body starts a little trembling help it - but don't do it. Enjoy it, feel blissful about it, allow it, receive it, welcome it - but don't will it. If you force it, it will become an exercise, a bodily physical exercise. Then the shaking will be there but just on the surface, it will not penetrate you. You will remain solid, stone like, rock like within; you will remain a manipulator, the doer, and the body will just be following. The body is not the question - you are the question." - Osho
First stage: 15 minutes.
Be loose and let your whole body shake, feeling energies moving up from your feet. Let go everywhere and become the shaking. Your eyes may be open or closed.
Second stage: 15 minutes.
Dance . . . any way you feel, and let the whole body move as it wishes.
Third stage: 15 minutes.
Close your eyes and be still, sitting or standing . . . witnessing whatever is happening inside and out.
Fourth stage: 15 minutes.
Keep your eyes closed, lie down and be still.
DEVAVANI
Devavani is the Divine Voice which moves and speaks through the meditator, who becomes an empty vessel, a channel. This meditation is a Latihan of the tongue. It relaxes the conscious mind so deeply that, when done last thing at night, it is sure to be followed by a profound sleep.
"When the unconscious speaks, the unconscious knows no language. It is a very, very old method. It comes from the Old Testament. It was called in those days glossolalia, and a few churches in America still use it. They call it "talking in tongues." And it is a wonderful method, one of the most deep and penetrating into the unconscious. You start with "la, la, la," and then you can go on with anything that comes. Just for the first day you will feel it a little difficult. Once it comes, you know the knack of it. Then for fifteen minutes, use the language that is coming to you, and use it as a language; in fact you are talking in it. These fifteen minutes will relax the conscious mind so deeply, and then you just simply lie down and go to sleep. Your sleep will become deeper. Within weeks you will feel a depth in your sleep, and in the morning you will feel completely fresh."
Devavani meditation lasts for one hour. There are four stages of 15 minutes each. Keep your eyes closed throughout.
Sit quietly, while the music is playing.
Start making nonsense sounds, for example "la la la" and continue until unfamiliar word-like sounds arise. These sounds need to come from the unfamiliar part of the brain used as a child, before words were learned. Allow a gentle conversational intonation; do not cry or shout, laugh or scream.
Stand up and continue to speak, allowing your body to move softly in harmony with the sounds. If your body is relaxed the subtle energies will create a Latihan outside your control.
Lie down. Be silent and still
Devavani is the Divine Voice which moves and speaks through the meditator, who becomes an empty vessel, a channel. This meditation is a Latihan of the tongue. It relaxes the conscious mind so deeply that, when done last thing at night, it is sure to be followed by a profound sleep.
"When the unconscious speaks, the unconscious knows no language. It is a very, very old method. It comes from the Old Testament. It was called in those days glossolalia, and a few churches in America still use it. They call it "talking in tongues." And it is a wonderful method, one of the most deep and penetrating into the unconscious. You start with "la, la, la," and then you can go on with anything that comes. Just for the first day you will feel it a little difficult. Once it comes, you know the knack of it. Then for fifteen minutes, use the language that is coming to you, and use it as a language; in fact you are talking in it. These fifteen minutes will relax the conscious mind so deeply, and then you just simply lie down and go to sleep. Your sleep will become deeper. Within weeks you will feel a depth in your sleep, and in the morning you will feel completely fresh."
Devavani meditation lasts for one hour. There are four stages of 15 minutes each. Keep your eyes closed throughout.
First Stage: 15 minutes
Sit quietly, while the music is playing.
Second Stage: 15 minutes
Start making nonsense sounds, for example "la la la" and continue until unfamiliar word-like sounds arise. These sounds need to come from the unfamiliar part of the brain used as a child, before words were learned. Allow a gentle conversational intonation; do not cry or shout, laugh or scream.
Third Stage: 15 minutes
Stand up and continue to speak, allowing your body to move softly in harmony with the sounds. If your body is relaxed the subtle energies will create a Latihan outside your control.
Fourth Stage: 15 minutes
Lie down. Be silent and still
NADABRAHMA
This is an old Tibetan technique of humming, which creates a healing vibration throughout the body, and a hand movement which centers the energy at the navel. Nadabrahma meditation lasts for one hour and has three stages. It can be done at any time of day, alone or with others, but have an empty stomach and remain inactive for at least 15 minutes afterwards.
Sit in a relaxed position with eyes closed and lips together humming loudly enough to be heard by others and create a vibration throughout your body. You can visualize a hollow tube or an empty vessel, filled only with the vibrations of the humming. A point will come when the humming continues by itself and you become the listener. There is no special breathing and you can alter the pitch or move your body smoothly and slowly if you feel like it.
The second stage is divided into two 7 1/2 minute sections. For the first half, move the hands, palms up, in an outward circular motion. Starting at the navel, both hands move forwards and then divide to make two large circles mirroring each other left and right. The movements should be so slow that at times there will appear to be no movement at all. Feel that you are giving energy outwards to the universe.
After 71/2 minutes turn the hands, palms down, and start moving them in the opposite direction. Now the hands will come together towards the navel and divide outwards to the sides of the body. Feel that you are taking energy in. As in the first stage, don't inhibit any soft, slow movements of the rest of your body.
Sit or lie absolutely quiet and still.
This is an old Tibetan technique of humming, which creates a healing vibration throughout the body, and a hand movement which centers the energy at the navel. Nadabrahma meditation lasts for one hour and has three stages. It can be done at any time of day, alone or with others, but have an empty stomach and remain inactive for at least 15 minutes afterwards.
First stage: 30 minutes
Sit in a relaxed position with eyes closed and lips together humming loudly enough to be heard by others and create a vibration throughout your body. You can visualize a hollow tube or an empty vessel, filled only with the vibrations of the humming. A point will come when the humming continues by itself and you become the listener. There is no special breathing and you can alter the pitch or move your body smoothly and slowly if you feel like it.
Second stage: 15 minutes
The second stage is divided into two 7 1/2 minute sections. For the first half, move the hands, palms up, in an outward circular motion. Starting at the navel, both hands move forwards and then divide to make two large circles mirroring each other left and right. The movements should be so slow that at times there will appear to be no movement at all. Feel that you are giving energy outwards to the universe.
After 71/2 minutes turn the hands, palms down, and start moving them in the opposite direction. Now the hands will come together towards the navel and divide outwards to the sides of the body. Feel that you are taking energy in. As in the first stage, don't inhibit any soft, slow movements of the rest of your body.
Third stage: 15 minutes
Sit or lie absolutely quiet and still.
VIPASSANA
45 min sitting & watching
15 min walking - taking the watching into movement.
BELOVED OSHO,
FOR THE LAST FOUR DAYS I HAVE BEEN TAKING PART IN THE ZAZEN GROUP. WHEN ANGER ARISES, IT IS SO DIFFICULT FOR ME TO WATCH THIS FEELING INSTEAD OF THROWING THIS ANGER ON OTHERS. BELOVED MASTER, WOULD YOU PLEASE SPEAK ABOUT THE ART OF WATCHING?
"Anand Urmila, everything that I have been saying to you consists of the art of watching -- from different dimensions, from different aspects, from different angles. My whole teaching can be reduced to a single word -- watching.
That is the only thing in you which is not part of the mind. That is the only thing in you which does not belong to you, but belongs to existence itself. For example, I can watch my hand; that means I am not the hand. Whatever you can watch you are not. This is a simple arithmetic. The watcher is bound to be separate from the object that he is watching.
You can watch your body from outside, and from inside too. You can close your eyes and you can watch your body from the inside. It will be dark, and it will not be so visible and so clear, but still you can feel many things. You can hear the heart beating. If you are really very silent you can even hear the sound of your blood running. You are not the body.
You can watch your mind. All its thoughts, howsoever fine, are available to your watching. You can see the subtlest expression of the mind. That makes one thing clear -- that you are not the mind either. It is a little more difficult, but not impossible, to watch your feelings -- what the poets call the heart; your emotions, your moods -- which are the subtlest things in your personality. A little sadness, a little joy, or perhaps nothing but an indifference ... But even indifference is a certain attitude. Watching goes on becoming more and more deep.
Beyond your moods there is nothing to watch, but only silence. In that silence a great miracle happens. The energy that has been watching turns upon itself. Hence many old religions have used as a symbol the snake holding its own tail in its mouth. It is a circle ... the mouth and the tail. It has been used in a very ancient school in Tibet, and Madame Blavatsky brought it from there and it became a symbol for the Theosophical movement.
I have met many Theosophists. In the city where I used to live there was a Theosophical lodge; it was one of their big centers. And just before the lodge was the snake taking his tail in his mouth.
The president, who had invited me to speak in their lodge, was taking me inside the lodge. I asked him, "Do you know the meaning of this snake?"
He said, "I have once or twice been puzzled myself -- what is the meaning of this snake? And I have been asking all our Theosophist leaders -- president of the world society, secretary of the world society -- but nobody seems to know the meaning of it. And it is there on all the lodges. It seems everybody has forgotten the meaning."
I said, "If you have forgotten the meaning of this simple symbol, then you have forgotten everything about theology, theosophy, or whatever name you give to it. You have forgotten everything about religion, because this snake represents the ultimate experience of watching. When the energy of watching, just like a snake, turns back to the source, creating a circle, one knows oneself, there is nothing else to know. That's what Socrates was saying to his disciples: `Know thyself, because without knowing thyself you cannot be thyself.'"
Unconscious, you simply think you are. But you don't know who you are, what you are, why you are. Your whole life is lived in unconsciousness."
Osho
New Dawn Ch #25 Q2
45 min sitting & watching
15 min walking - taking the watching into movement.
BELOVED OSHO,
FOR THE LAST FOUR DAYS I HAVE BEEN TAKING PART IN THE ZAZEN GROUP. WHEN ANGER ARISES, IT IS SO DIFFICULT FOR ME TO WATCH THIS FEELING INSTEAD OF THROWING THIS ANGER ON OTHERS. BELOVED MASTER, WOULD YOU PLEASE SPEAK ABOUT THE ART OF WATCHING?
"Anand Urmila, everything that I have been saying to you consists of the art of watching -- from different dimensions, from different aspects, from different angles. My whole teaching can be reduced to a single word -- watching.
That is the only thing in you which is not part of the mind. That is the only thing in you which does not belong to you, but belongs to existence itself. For example, I can watch my hand; that means I am not the hand. Whatever you can watch you are not. This is a simple arithmetic. The watcher is bound to be separate from the object that he is watching.
You can watch your body from outside, and from inside too. You can close your eyes and you can watch your body from the inside. It will be dark, and it will not be so visible and so clear, but still you can feel many things. You can hear the heart beating. If you are really very silent you can even hear the sound of your blood running. You are not the body.
You can watch your mind. All its thoughts, howsoever fine, are available to your watching. You can see the subtlest expression of the mind. That makes one thing clear -- that you are not the mind either. It is a little more difficult, but not impossible, to watch your feelings -- what the poets call the heart; your emotions, your moods -- which are the subtlest things in your personality. A little sadness, a little joy, or perhaps nothing but an indifference ... But even indifference is a certain attitude. Watching goes on becoming more and more deep.
Beyond your moods there is nothing to watch, but only silence. In that silence a great miracle happens. The energy that has been watching turns upon itself. Hence many old religions have used as a symbol the snake holding its own tail in its mouth. It is a circle ... the mouth and the tail. It has been used in a very ancient school in Tibet, and Madame Blavatsky brought it from there and it became a symbol for the Theosophical movement.
I have met many Theosophists. In the city where I used to live there was a Theosophical lodge; it was one of their big centers. And just before the lodge was the snake taking his tail in his mouth.
The president, who had invited me to speak in their lodge, was taking me inside the lodge. I asked him, "Do you know the meaning of this snake?"
He said, "I have once or twice been puzzled myself -- what is the meaning of this snake? And I have been asking all our Theosophist leaders -- president of the world society, secretary of the world society -- but nobody seems to know the meaning of it. And it is there on all the lodges. It seems everybody has forgotten the meaning."
I said, "If you have forgotten the meaning of this simple symbol, then you have forgotten everything about theology, theosophy, or whatever name you give to it. You have forgotten everything about religion, because this snake represents the ultimate experience of watching. When the energy of watching, just like a snake, turns back to the source, creating a circle, one knows oneself, there is nothing else to know. That's what Socrates was saying to his disciples: `Know thyself, because without knowing thyself you cannot be thyself.'"
Unconscious, you simply think you are. But you don't know who you are, what you are, why you are. Your whole life is lived in unconsciousness."
Osho
New Dawn Ch #25 Q2
A little ceremony to welcome in the New Year!
Part I - Meditative Klangreisen durch Sound
Wir werden Klänge entstehen lassen, die wir für unsere Klangreise benutzen. Ähnlich der alten Techniken im BÖN (der tibetischen Religion vor dem Buddhismus) und dem Chanten der Mongolischen Schamanen (Xöömij) werden wir mit bestimmten offenen Vokalen unsere 7 Chakren harmonisieren, aktivieren und ausrichten. Jedes dieser Chakren kann hierbei zum Tor in unsere eigene innere Welt werden. Weiter geht die Reise mit Hilfe der Klänge und wir nehmen die Möglichkeit wahr jenseits der sog. Grenzen unseres physikalischen Körpers zu gelangen.
Wer möchte kann dann immer weiter in die Tiefen des Universum vordringen, Richtung Hunab Kuh dem Zentrum des Universums. Dies ist ein sehr geeigneter Space um sich für Eingebungen und Durchsagen empfänglich zu machen.
Mit Hilfe der Klänge geht die Reise wieder zurück durch die Chakren und wir verlassen den begrenzten Raum unseres physikalischen Körpers und dringen immer Tiefer ein in die Bereiche der Erde (unserer Mutter) Richtung Mittelpunkt der Erde und können uns dem Empfangen der ungeheuren Lebenskraft der Erdenergie öffnen.
Am Ende dieser Reise zentrieren wir uns über die Klänge wieder in unserem physikalischen Körper. Wir nehmen uns die Zeit, diese Reise und die damit entstandenen Bewusstseinserweiterung zu integrieren.
Part II - Meditative Reise durch die Technik des Summens und der gelenkten Aufmerksamkeit
Mit Hilfe dieser speziellen Form des Summens und der gleichzeitigen Anwendung der gelenkten Aufmerksamkeit erschaffen wir uns die Möglichkeit in feinstoffliche Bereiche unseres Körpers vorzudringen. Hier kann jeder Teilnehmer den Körperbereich auswählen, dem er positive Schwingung und heilsame Akzente geben möchte.
Die Aufmerksamkeit liegt dabei mehr auf der pulsierenden Welle des Summens , als auf dem Klang. Dieses Pulsieren und Schwingen ermöglicht es uns von den großen Körperteilen bis hin zu den Tiefen des Körpers und dessen Mikropartikel vorzudringen. Bereiche, die wir sonst nur mit Kräutern, Homöopathie, Medizin oder änlichen feinstofflichen Methoden erreichen können. Wir geben den Neurotransmittern in unseren Körperflüssigkeiten die Information des „Wohlseins“.
Eine sehr einfache und wohltuende Methode.
A LOOKING MEDITATION
A technique to be done with a partner.
You cannot see a person twice, the same person, because nothing is static.
Everything is river-like, flowing, and flowing, and flowing.
Look freshly again, as if for the first time, and you will see the same stranger.
Nothing, nothing has become old; everything is new.
This will give a freshness to your look.
Your eyes will become innocent.
A technique to be done with a partner.
You cannot see a person twice, the same person, because nothing is static.
Everything is river-like, flowing, and flowing, and flowing.
Look freshly again, as if for the first time, and you will see the same stranger.
Nothing, nothing has become old; everything is new.
This will give a freshness to your look.
Your eyes will become innocent.
AN INTERACTIVE MEDITATION IN THE BODY
'Do nought with the body but relax,
Like a hollow Bamboo rest at ease with your body.'
"Tilopa is saying that with the body, the only thing that people are not doing is relaxation, particularly while meditating. Do not do anything else with the body but just relax, put the whole body's wisdom into relaxation.
Relaxation should become the basement of the temple that you are creating, and the mind should be emptied of all thoughts.
And by just being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence."
'Do nought with the body but relax,
Like a hollow Bamboo rest at ease with your body.'
"Tilopa is saying that with the body, the only thing that people are not doing is relaxation, particularly while meditating. Do not do anything else with the body but just relax, put the whole body's wisdom into relaxation.
Relaxation should become the basement of the temple that you are creating, and the mind should be emptied of all thoughts.
And by just being aware, thoughts start disappearing. There is no need to fight. Your awareness is enough to destroy them. And when the mind is empty, the temple is ready. And inside the temple the only god worth placing is silence."
