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Meditation can become a twenty-four hour thing — day in, day out, year in, year out. It can become eternity. It is relaxation itself. It is relaxation. In concentration the mind functions out of a conclusion: you are doing something. Concentration comes out of the past. Intuition deals with the difference between the intellectual, logical mind and the more encompassing realm of spirit.

Logic is how the mind knows reality, intuition is how the spirit experiences reality. Osho's discussion of these matters is wonderfully lucid, occasionally funny, and thoroughly engrossing. All people have a natural capacity for intuition, but often social conditioning and formal education work against it. People are taught to ignore their instincts rather than to understand and use them as a foundation for individual growth and development-and in the process they undermine the very roots of the innate wisdom that is meant to flower into intuition.

In this volume, Osho pinpoints exactly what intuition is and gives guidelines for how to identify its functioning in others and ourselves. In his book, Intution: Knowing Beyond Logic, Osho discusesses the difference between instinct, intellect and intuition. You will enjoy reading it Read this book and you are done. No need to read any other books. The more you are aware of so you get closer to you. When you're in the center is total awareness.

When the degree of awareness is lower, you are closer the periphery. Short book but quite hard for me to go through because I have to pause on every page when I realize something interesting. You have to read with an open-mind though because his style is quite abrasive and confrontational; and a lot of stuffs that he says are symbolic and exaggeration for effect, that's just his style.

But overall, I still think it's a good book. For me there are new insights every few pages. I hate that my reading patterns are so off these days that it's taking me seemingly forever to finish anything, and yet here we are. Reading Osho in itself is actually somewhat meditative; his sentence structure and writing style are very calming to read. This book helped me find the deepest mindfulness or living in the present I have found Maybe it can help you on your journey too! It's not a good first book on these topics, I'd read Eckhart Tolle for that but this takes it deeper I'll read it again soon!

Big fan and I don't say that about just any book, I quit reading two others half way before this one because they were not impactful. If you want to understand the awareness approach as proposed by Buddha and Upanishads, this is a very useful book. It is written in simple and lucid style. Osho adds his usual persuasive perspective to play to seduce the reader to embrace this panacea to life's problems.

There are more than a few moments when I wonder is Osho was misanthropic. Many other moments, absolute guru-ic genius. Every book of Osho is a gem. Otherwise, the torrent and sync based approaches are effectively equivalent as far as reliability, speed or the ability to distribute the information on a P2P basis.

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This is a bit funny. This chapter was commented out because things went to a different place in this document. But, for some strange reason, it was not totally deleted, and now comes the "bang" factor. So, let us look at various things that have to do with awareness, meditation and a state of presence as some call it. Well, this issue just came up today, and when I looked at it, it looked as something short of weird.

Here's the issue:. The thing is that meditation is essentially a state of presence, a total silence in your mind from thinking and analytic processes. So, from this point of view, when you listen to something, you have you as an observer and that which you observe, which is music. But doesn't it imply that you mind is functioning? Because in "PURE" meditation, there is no observer and there is no observed. There is no such separation. Else, you have a thought process, and, willingly or unwillingly, there is a subtle analysis going on, such as recognition of musical patterns, rhythms, tones and so on, which, in turn, means that your mind is still present.

So, how could there be any meditation in this case? On the other hand, you have, for example, Sufi whirling meditation that is conducted on the background of the drum beats. The same you can find in Asian meditations. There is often music present. Or, in India, there is a meditation related to concentration on a light candle. But how could this be the meditation if there is an external stimuli of some kind, which, even though invisibly, triggers the mind processes.

On the other hand, even if you turn the music off or take the candle away, you still have all natural background stimuli, such as environmental sounds, visual things and so on. So, the key point in all this is that it is not the issue of whether there is or there is not some stimuli present, but whether you are separate from it, which means that you do not really "listen", but you merge and become "one" with it, be it music, an image or anything else. For example, in TaiChi meditations, there is no music and there is no image, but there is only a movement.

Yes, music MAY be present, but it is not a required factor. But then again, the same problem. Once you start moving your body, arms and legs, even as gently, as you can manage, still there is stimuli.

Again, it is you, who is a doer and there is that movement of your body, which you "observe". Finally, we cover the issue of the analytic mind versus the perceptive mind. See: Meditation, states of the mind, mind confusion. That gives us a key: the very fact that you are trying to meditate while listening the music, or doing some variation of meditative dancing, does not necessarily imply that there is an analytic or evaluating component of the mind functioning.

The perceptive mind is still functioning. Otherwise, you could not recognize anything, and the very fact of presence of perceptive mind does not imply that there is necessarily a thought process involved. Thus, some use the term "choiceless awareness" to define the state of meditation. Because the choice implies a thought. You can not make a choice without a thought. But a thought means analytic and evaluating mind.

But if analytic mind is functioning, no meditation is possible, by definition. So, the key to recognize whether you are really in meditation or not is that if you sense that you are separate from music, or a visual object, or a body movement, in case of dancing, or even walking, for that matter. You can as well do the "walking meditation", and it is probably one of the most effective of all the known techniques.

Because it is simple, natural and there is nothing to be done in particular, just walking naturally is all it takes. No thinking process is necessary, no evaluation, no comparison, no memory, no projections into the future. All you have to do is to try to walk in the places that are not busy, such as a park, a quiet residential street, a sea shore, a forest or a field. But in ANY case, all sorts of stimuli will still be present, be it in form of the birds singing around or sounds of cars passing by.

The "bottom line" is this: as long as there is a separation between observer and the observed, no meditation is possible. But once you become "one" with the music and are not trying to attentively distinguish or recognize some patterns in it, but simply ARE, are PRESENT, then "you are in a good shape" and you can indeed meditate.

This whole issue came up today in the context of the Fluctuation meditations. Because there was a claim made that you can indeed meditate even while listening to his lecture, that seemed quite illogical today. But that could be clarified in the same manner. You simply become a perceiving process, so no though or analysis arises or is necessary. But indeed, no meditation is possible if there is ANY kind of thought or analysis or comparison or memorization or a projection into the future present.

The words themselves are not that important. No need to worry about those words or try to understand them, because your subconscious mind still records them, and so well, that nearly any words or phrases you have ever heard in your entire life could be in many cases recalled via hypnosis. Because you won't, even if you will in your conscious mind. The purpose of the fluctuation meditation is to show you how your consciousness fluctuates, comes and goes, disturbed by a thought process.

When listening to fluctuation meditation version of the books, adjust the volume in such a way so that you hear music, but not too loud so it interferes with a lecture. If you set volume too low, you will not hear music. But if you set it too high, then music may interfere with listening the voice and your attention may be more with music then with the voice because music is very beautiful and very powerful. If volume is properly adjusted, your consciousness will be pulled-in, just to hear music.

Then you kind of refocus your awareness to listen to the lecture. The ideal balance is when your consciousness fluctuates between the music and the voice. Eventually, you may be able to stay on the foreground and be fully aware of the lecture and yet hear the music at the same time and be fully present in the moment, which is what any meditation is all about - being in the moment without the thought process.

If you can do that, you may consider yourself to be a meditator and issue yourself a certificate, signed by Mahasattva Anand Veeren. Walking meditation is probably one of the most accessible and, at the same time, effective meditations there are. The easiest way to do it is during your daily walk. Basically, it is highly beneficial to allocate at least half an hour a day just for walking, and not merely walking while being busy with your life. Because that kind of walk could easily trigger the mind evaluation processes, analysis and thought, since you are in the middle of "doing something".

Thus, the thought process is pretty much guaranteed to happen. But when you are on your daily walk, for half an hour or so, there is basically nothing to think about. You might be doing your "daily routine" walking to downtown, getting some coffee, looking at some chess players or whatever your "routine" implies. What is very interesting about walking meditation is that it is relatively easy to recognize that you are in fact meditating. Basically, meditation, "silence", awareness or "presence" or "choiceless awareness" or absence of thought process are pretty much the same thing, even thought one may find some pretty subtle distinctions, that are, however, not of much importance, or at least of prime significance.

All of these terms imply the same thing: silence from the analytical processes in your mind, such as judgment, comparison, labeling and classification, or memory associated activity, such as recall of the past, or projections into the future and so on. Basically, the analytical and "reasoning" mind wants to classify everything, so it all reconciles and "fits" into some already made box or compartment in it. Otherwise, it feels at a loss and keeps grinding the information and memories, desperately trying to "fit" it somewhere in its warehouse of already "known" or seen.

Else, the new information challenges the very notion of "I", which is a byproduct of that very mind. So, unless it finds a "solution" for new information, some label to classify it, it will be working tediously, trying to evaluate it, compare it to other things, or fit it with the existing labels inside it and so on. But how do you know that you are meditating and not merely imagining something, or grinding your past or are concerned with the future events and things like that?

Well, it is pretty simple, actually. Simply walk in a moderately busy street where you see people passing by, but not necessarily TOO busy, to the point that you might encounter bumping into people nearly constantly. So, the "trick" is this: when you walk, OBSERVE the faces of the people walking in the opposite direction, so you could see their "nature" and energy they project, consciously or unconsciously, and observe their bodies and the degree of their intensity.

Then simply LOOK at them and see if you can "see" or sense their energy and their emotional state, their mood, the degree of relaxation with which they walk, or the degree of sharpness and aggressiveness with which they walk, and things like that.

You may also observe their body structure, proportions, correspondence of their clothes to the energy they project and many other things like that. It does not really matter from which angle you look at everything. Actually, looking in a neutral way, without any "angle" to it, is probably the most productive way, closest to the state of meditation.

The thing is, in most cases, you will be able to see quite a lot about them, and it is very simple, and, moreover, they can not simply hide it, simply because that is what they ARE, which may be perceived on the energy level directly.

You can easily recognize that they smile, or their faces are tensed or relaxed, or they are in "deep thought", seemingly walking utterly unaware, even of themselves, or their face expresses anger, sorrow, self-pity, joy, self-pride and many other things. The point here is that if you ARE able to sense those things, regardless of whether it was the "right" view or "wrong", then it is pretty much guaranteed that you are AWARE at that moment, even though, again, the definition it is not that clearcut.

There is virtually infinite variety of aspects available. Because if you are walking and are NOT aware or "present", then it is pretty much guaranteed that your analytical thought processes are engaged. The same thing if you catch yourself going through your memory and grinding the past events, doing some comparison of what you see and what you know, either in resentment, or condemnation, or desire for revenge, or some pleasurable or "funny" moments and so on. Now, try not to look into their faces, and especially their eyes, in aggressive or in overly inquiring way.

Because you will be projecting the energy of subtle aggression towards them, or are being "overly curious" about their inner and "private" affairs and so on. If you observe that some of them sense the energy you project by the very fact of looking into their eyes, even in the most neutral manner, and especially if you recognize that they are giving you a look of "what do you want from me", or "get out of my way", or "I am the controller here" type and all sorts of other varieties of "feedback", then it is probably better to switch your look elsewhere.

Else, you might be inviting a conflict or challenge of some sort. Just pretend that you are merely "looking around", but remain watchful at the same time. But they may sense your look and also look at you in a relatively neutral way, but are also interested in you, just like you in them. Then there is no problem.

Because you do not actively project or unduly intrude into their space. You are just looking at them out of mere curiosity and are simply learning all sorts of other aspects, personalities or energy projection kinds, known as "thought forms". But what is interesting here is that when you DO notice that you do recognize or sense their energy or aspects of their clothes, the kind of walk, assertiveness or clumsiness of their walk, then you are likely to be "present", which means aware, which means there is no thought process involved.

At least there is a fair chance of that. One thing to remember is to look without evaluation: "this man is ugly", "that woman looks like a witch", or "that guy looks like a complete bozo", or "what a bull!

But your senses or the "perceptive mind", as I call it, are all functioning, and in fact, might be even better than in many other situations. Because the perceptive mind sharpens in meditation, just because there is no hindrance from the analytic or "reasoning" mind, creating the unnecessary "noise in the information stream" which you perceive.

So, what happens with a little practice is that you will be able, with time, to see their very ESSENCE in terms of energy they project or are identified with in their mind, and once you are beginning to sense it, than you are nearly certainly "in the moment" and what you are doing in fact is the same thing as meditation, or "choiceless awareness" or silence in your mind.

And, with little practice, you will certainly know and recognize that you are in fact in a state of meditation or "presence" or silence. In that state of inner silence, your "perceptive mind" will become open to much more subtle and deeper levels of Being and existence. You may begin to unnoticeably perceive much more subtle energies and aspects of SEEING the very essence from somewhere "out there". In other words, you are switching the level of existence from the gross physical reality to more subtle aspects of Being, that are well "beyond" this world, even though this is not an entirely correct definition.

Because there is no "beyond". It is ALL-inclusive. The most "subtle" level is the level of Light. At that level, many laws of physics simply break and are unable to describe or measure all sorts of things. At the level of Light, the physical domain ends. As the energy gets more dense, we go to the "deeper" or more primitive levels where we begin to experience what is known as "distortions". The more "dense" the energy level, the more distortions of the Prime Essence is there.

The human beings, by the sheer fact of possessing the physical and "tangible" bodies are said to be on the 3rd level of density or Being, just above the 2nd level of animal world. The 1st level is rocks, minerals and so on. The 3rd density is distinguished from the 1st and 2nd in that it provides the mechanisms for being "self-aware" or "self-conscious". The Being becomes "aware of itself". That means that in the state of meditation or "presence" you, and quite tangibly, "shed off" or "shunt out" or "switch off" the "noise" from the pretty gross physical level, and are now open and perceptive to the more subtle or "higher" levels of Being.

In that state, the exchange and intercommunication between the energies from different levels of Existence are available. Not that it is entirely NOT available otherwise, because there are "bleed throughs" or exchanges between the levels available even during the gaps between different thoughts.

Basically, the the process of communication between the levels is available pretty much any time. Except during the moments of "heavy" "identification with Prakriti", or nature, or physically perceivable, one is simply lost and is totally identified with gross physical level. But it does not necessarily mean that the "channels of communication" are totally blocked. Because it is not so. Yes, you might have some glimpses, or nearly instant moments, or "flashes", lasting less then a wink of an eye, but the "channels" of communication are not necessarily totally closed.

Some things still "get through". And I say this because I did verify it to work. It is not just some "pretty theory" "about and about". Actually, this is probably one of my most favorite methods or techniques.

What is interesting about it is that with time you will be able to have the "quick meditation" or "presence" session even while you walk in your house, or get up from a chair and walk to the kitchen. Yes, it may only last a few seconds, before you start "doing" your "next thing" in your Life, but, nevertheless, you can do it ANY time you want. And once you recognize yourself to be in meditation, even for few seconds, that's it.

From then on, it can only increase. Because what took place in effect is that you have recognized your HOME reality. And, from then on, there will be no need to even bother with questions of "who AM I? Because you KNOW "who you are". That is why it has been said:. Finally, keep smile on your face all the time, morning to night, and feel peace and joy in your chest.

With practice, you will be able to do it nearly ANY time you want. Because it is not something "supernatural", "out of this world". It can not be just "drilled" into your head or "concured".

And you can not just "grab" it as something tangible, something that you can "put into your pocket". Nor can it be "achieved". That is why there is a Zen notion of "effortless effort", which might look like some kind of a logical absurd, which it is not.

Well, first of all, it implies that there IS indeed some "effort", just as it is expressed in the New Testament of the Bible:. Looking is a must. Without even looking, what can you expect to "find" and how?

According to what mechanism and what logic? If you don't even "look", then what you have is the equivalent of "I don't care" or "I could care less", which is a DEAD-end. But the very intention creates an impetus.

You may call it "the impetus to BE", the "desire" and interest to be, to explore and so on. So, "look" is a must, even if you are interested in meditation. Looking is a certain kind of projection of inquiring energy. It is like a beam, and it IS, actually. But then there is a problem. If you are TOO aggressive or too "obsessed" with this looking, then there is a chance that you might miss it, even if you found it. Because of certain obsession with the object you are looking for.

So, "on the way of Life", you might be looking for some specific thing, such as joy, love, peace, "understanding", "seeing" or whatever you are looking for. If you are looking for a strawberry, you might not even notice a roaring bear nearby. If you make yourself a GOAL to meditate, it is not likely to happen.

Simply because you are obsessed with pretty primitive IDEAS in your mind about that, which you do not even know, and that is meditation. How can you possibly meditate if you do not even know what it is and "how does one feel" meditating? How can you even recognize it? And, most importantly, how do you know that it is nothing more than a THOUGHT in your mind, a certain desire, based on some book about meditation that you have read, and not something you have ever "experienced", even though the very term of "experience" is inapplicable to meditation.

So, many people, if not the absolute majority of all those that either try to force meditation or even make claims that they are meditating do not realize that it is nothing more than a thought in their mind, a certain idea, and the most ridiculous thing about it is that they really do not know what they are talking about.

You can not just drill the meditation into your mind, nor you can hammer it into your head, like a nail. This is highly complex and multidimensional statement and we are not going to go into it at this time. But there is more in it than meets the eye. But briefly, in passing, first of all, what you can "have" in your hands is pretty gross material things, tangible things.