Meditations for Contemporary People

You have invented some techniques, meditation techniques,

and you say that in India there are a 112 techniques of meditation

So how to choose what is useful?

They are all useful

Just one can go through all 112 techniques

which one can go within half an hour

because each technique consists only of two lines

So just go through them,

and any technique that strikes you

This is what ...

will be suitable to me‚

try it.

Or if you find two, three techniques

then try one by one. Give each a chance.

Out of 112 there must be a technique

more than one

one is absolutely certain,

but my experience is that more than one

will be applicable to every human being.

And the easiest way is just to go through,

read them,

and any technique that suddenly strikes you

that, this is it!

give it a try, at least for twenty-one days.

If it starts working, then forget everything, other techniques

Go on working on it.

It does not matter how many techniques you try

What matters is that you try one technique to its very end,

to its ultimate depth

And if you succeed in one technique

then every other technique becomes very easy.

If the first technique took six months

the other techniques may take just one week

because now exactly you have reached to the point

You know the place, you know the space that meditation creates

This is a different path leading to the same space

And as you try a few other techniques

the time will become less

I have tried all 112 techniques

After trying a dozen techniques, it becomes so easy

at the first time, you reach immediately to the space.

And then I have developed my own techniques other than these 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 before

a totally different kind of mankind, a different kind of culture,

different kind of people.

The modern man, the contemporary man, has some differences

In ten thousand years it is absolutely necessary.

For example, the Dynamic Meditation

is not amongst those 112.

It is absolutely necessary for the modern man,

it may not have been at that time.

If people are innocent

there is no need for Dynamic Meditation.

But if people are repressed,

psychologically are carrying a lot of burden

then they need catharsis.

So Dynamic Meditation is just

to help them clean the place.

And then they can use any method from the 112

It will not be difficult.

If they, right now, directly try, they will fail.

I have seen many people trying directly

reaching nowhere

because they are so full of garbage

that first it has to be emptied out.

Dynamic Meditation is of immense help.

All the techniques that I have developed

are for the contemporary man

and doing these techniques he will be clean

unburdened

simple, innocent.

Perhaps there will be no need to try those techniques.

But just for curiosity's sake you can try one of the techniques

and you will be surprised how quickly

you enter into its very innermost core.

So first thing is something cathartic,

which is absolutely necessary for the contemporary man.

And then those silent methods can be used.

from: The Last Testament Vol.3 #19 © OSHO International Foundation 1985, 2006

MEDITATION: The First and Last Freedom, THE BOOK OF SECRETS

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