"I want people to be so awake that their whole consciousness goes to the deepest part of their being, and also to the highest peak. A vertical growth, just like a tree grows. Its roots go down into the earth, and its branches spread towards the stars. Its blossoms flower into the sky, its nourishment comes from the deepest part of the earth. It is always balanced; higher the tree goes, the deeper it’s roots.

You cannot have a Cedar of Lebanon, a 400- or 500-year old tree, rising so high in the sky, with small roots—it will fall down immediately. Life needs a balance between the depth and the height; I teach you both simultaneously.

In your entering to the Center in meditation, you are growing your roots deeper into the Cosmos. And bringing the Buddha out from the hidden center is bringing your fragrance, bringing your grace, bringing your ecstasy, higher, where it can blossom into the sky.

Your ecstasy is a movement toward the height, and your meditation is a movement towards the depth, and once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

THAT IS MY WORK: TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE FROM A SAD AFFAIR INTO A CELEBRATION!"

From: Zen Fire, Zen Wind, Chapter 5

Humming is an old Tibetan technique which I learned from Osho, particularly through his Nadabrahma meditation, and I sometimes like to do 10-15 minutes of Humming in groups in the evening as a way of harmonizing the body energies which need relaxation after a “hard days’ work” on the muscular armoring.

HUMMING—excerpted from “The Orange Book”, pp 151-154, 1980

"Humming can be a tremendous help and you can do it whenever…At least once a day, if you can do it twice it will be good. It is such a great inner music that it brings peace to your whole being; then your conflicting parts start falling in tune and by and by a subtle music which you can hear arises in your body.

After three or four months you will just be sitting silently and you can hear a subtle music, a harmony inside, a kind of humming.

Sit in a relaxed position with eyes closed and lips together. Start 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."

For this meditation I usually use the first stage of Osho’s Nadabrahma Meditation (click here to order a copy) as background music. After 10-15 minutes of humming in a circle together with the group, I ring a bell and we simply sit silently for another 5 minutes; then I ring a bell at the end to bring everyone back.

Osho on Cathartic Methods

    “Cathartic methods are modern inventions. In Buddha’s time they were not needed because people were not so repressed. People were natural, people lived primitive lives—uncivilised, spontaneous lives. So Vipassana---vipassana means insight—was given by Buddha directly to people.    
    But now you cannot go into Vipassana directly. And the teachers who go on teaching Vipassana directly don’t belong to this century; they are two thousand years backward. Yes, sometimes they may help one or two persons out of one hundred persons, but that can’t do much.    
    I am introducing cathartic methods, so that first what the civilization has done to you can be undone, so you can become primitive again. From that primitiveness, from primal innocence, insight becomes easily available.”

From: The Orange Book, p. 28

Recently I found my moldy old copy of “The Orange Book: The Meditation Techniques of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh”, first published in 1980. It is packed with all kinds of wonderful techniques, with beautiful explanations and commentaries. I would like to share some of these meditations here, and include Osho’s words about the meditations he created, from this jewel of a book.
 
So let’s come back to ‘square one’ in this issue of the Pulsation Newsletter and feature the Dynamic Meditation.
Dynamic Meditaion is a very powerful tool that we can use at any point in our journey. The benefits of doing Dynamic regularily are many. It loosens the blocks in the body and helps the life energy to flow more fully again. It gives space to unload old emotional baggage and it opens the door to deep insights and understandings.

Let’s not forget the huge benefits that lie hidden in the depths of this revolutionary meditation! Yes, it takes a special effort to get to, and go through, the Dynamic in the early morning. But its deep-cleaning effects on the body/energy systems and the mind, can change the colors of our days!

Here is an article I wrote about how Dynamic meditation and Pulsation complement and support each other:
About Active Meditations, Reich, and the Orgasm Formula >

Since most of you have done the Dynamic Meditation before, and many of you have practiced it for many years, I won't give detailed instructions here, instead follow the links below.
Dynamic Meditation - with video (on Osho California) >
Dynamic Meditation - very detailed, with lots of additional info (On Activemeditation.com) >
 
And now, have fun with this life-transforming meditation!

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 Answering the question, “Is it possible to celebrate misery?”
“This is a wrong attitude that has been given to you—that sadness is wrong. Nothing is wrong with it. It is another polarity of life.
Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both.
A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness, will have depth, but will not have extension. A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together.
To me, life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate; otherwise not. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant—I will celebrate. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: “When I am happy then I will celebrate”, or “When I am unhappy I will not celebrate”.
Celebration is unconditional; I celebrate life. It brings unhappiness—good, I celebrate it. It brings happiness—good, I celebrate it. Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.”

From: Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega v.4 Chap. 10 “The Alchemy of Celebration”

It so often happens in the Winter holiday season that we go “home” or to relatives, parents, or loved ones—loaded not only with presents, but with all sorts of expectations, hopes, and unfulfilled longings from the past. The early darkness and cold weather conspire to bring up our deeper, darker layers of feeling.

• Give space to these sometimes troubling feelings in the safety of a closed space that can be yours for 1 hour.
• Be alone in a room, dimly lit and warm enough. Light a candle…
• Let each stage be either 5 minutes, or 10 or 15. Whatever fits for you at the moment, but four equal stages, totaling  20, 40, or 60 minutes.
• Use suitable music that touches you, for a background. Feel and express whatever needs to be thrown out from your body. Move whatever is energetically stuck inside, especially around the heart, the throat, and the belly.

Stage 1: Standing, Shaking, like in Kundalini Meditation.

Stage 2: Sitting or standing and Laughing out loud for no reason; and if tears are there, cry, weep, grieve for no reason, don’t force, and keep the body moving, let it change; either laughter or tears.

Stage 3: Sitting, Swaying like seaweed in the ocean — hug yourself and/or a pillow; softly say whatever your heart needs to say, to whomever.

Stage 4: Lie down, relax, be still and watchful.

Many of you have heard it before: Pulsation as a hands-on neo-Reichian technique is based on the teachings of Charles Kelley. For those of you who'd like to know more about Kelley and his Radix work, please visit the Kelley-Radix website at  www.kelley-radix.org which offers a lot of insightful information and many very valuable articles for FREE download that are especially recommended for our Pulsation trainees.

The Chakra Breathing Meditation is one of my all-time favorite meditations. It is not one created by Osho, but in the late 80s he gave his stamp of approval to include a new recording of Chakra Breathing in his collection.

There are many benefits from practising Chakra Breathing Meditation, particularly for people who have participated in Pulsation or Tantric Pulsation groups/Trainings. This meditation keeps the body moving and the energy flowing, and it also gives a way to focus your attention inside your own body to feel what happens there when you breathe so intensely.

By breathing deeply and fairly quickly into the chakras, we charge the segments with energy while we move and pulsate that part of the body. This promotes a vertical connection between all the chakras, and offers a taste of inner wholeness as energy flows more easily up and down the spine.

Phase 1: Breathe into the chakras, one by one, starting with the first at the sex center, swinging the pelvis in rhythm with the breath. Move up to the next chakra each time the music moves up a tone, and a bell rings.

While breathing into the chakras:
1) visualize the chakra filling with breath and emptying—pulsating.
2) vibrate a soft sound inside the chakra as you breathe out.
3) breathe, if you can, in the same rhythm as the background music.
4) swing your pelvis backwards with the in-breath, and forwards with the out-breath, letting hands and arms move loosely and rhythmically to support the breathing.

     “The first thing is to learn respect for the body, to unlearn all the nonsense that has been taught to you about the body. Otherwise, you will never turn on, and you will never turn in, and you will never turn beyond. Start from the beginning. The body is your beginning.
    The body has to be purified of many repressions. A great catharsis is needed for the body, a great rechana. The body has become poisoned because you have been against it, you have repressed it in many ways. Your body is existing at the minimum, that’s why you are miserable. Tantra says: Bliss is possible only when you exist at the optimum--never before it. Bliss is possible only when you live intensely. How can you live intensely if you are against the body?
    You are always luke-warm. The fire has cooled down. Down the centuries the fire has been destroyed. The fire has to be rekindled.
    Tantra says: First purify the body—purify it of all repressions. Allow the body energy to flow, remove the blocks. It is very difficult to come across a person who has no blocks, it is very difficult to come across a person whose body is not tight. Loosen this tightness—this tension is blocking your energy; the flow cannot be possible with this tension.”

From: The Tantra Vision, Volume 2, Chapter 7

Last month at the week-long Osho Risk Summer Festival in Denmark, I re-confirmed my deep trust in the alchemy of celebration. Milarepa was there with his band, and I saw, yet again, how dancing, singing, meditating together, playing, laughing, and feasting together creates an energy field that lifts the consciousness of everyone within it, to new heights, towards light.

When I arrived there I was harried, depleted, and nearly - no actually - depressed from traveling so much, and felt in need of a break. “Where”, I asked myself, “am I going to find the juice to lead my events”?

But with no time to think, I jumped into a whirlwind week of Tantric events, singing in the Evening Meeting, Heart Dance, playing in the Cabaret show, parties, incredible food, hugs galore…a veritable love feast!

I saw, within myself as the week progressed, a gradual inner movement towards light, happiness and joy, that welled up naturally. I felt deeply nourished and "simple at heart" in a way that gave me courage to be myself. Now, several weeks later I am still surrounded by the fragrance of meditation and celebration that we all created together at Osho Risk.

Don’t miss your local Osho celebration/festival—feel the love, smell the flowers!
Many Osho Centers have Festivals and Celebrations throughout the year, and in Italy, August Festivals abound.