Dynamic Meditation is a synthesis of: YOGA (breath), PRIMAL THERAPY (emotional release), PHYSICAL FITNESS (jumping), SOUND HEALING (using the mantra ‘hoo’), VIPASSANA (silent witnessing), and BODY MOVEMENT THERAPY (dance).
This meditation has five stages and is done at sunrise, on an empty stomach. Wear loose, comfortable clothing, and keep your eyes closed through the whole meditation.
1st Stage: 10 minutes DEEP CHAOTIC BREATHING
Breathe chaotically through the nose, directing the breath everywhere in the body and using it to awaken areas where the breath does not normally reach. While breathing, always concentrate on the exhalation. The body will take
care of the inhalation itself . 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 build up your energy. Feel it building up, but don't release it during the first stage.
Read Osho’s instructions for this stage below.
2nd Stage: 10 minutes CATHARSIS
Explode! Release everything that needs to be expressed. 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. Don't allow your mind to interfere with what is happening. Read Osho’s instructions for this stage below.
3rd Stage: 10 minutes JUMPING
Jump up and down with arms raised, shouting the sound 'Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!' as deeply as possible. Each time you land, on the flats of your feet, let the sound hammer deep into your first chakra, the sex center. Give all you have, exhaust yourself totally. Read Osho’s instructions for this stage below.
4th Stage: 15 minutes STOP!
Stop and freeze in whatever position you find yourself. Don't adjust the body in any way. A cough, a movement, anything will dissipate the energy flow and the effort accumulated will be lost. Be a witness to everything that is happening to you.
Read Osho’s instructions for this stage below.
5th Stage: 15 minutes DANCE
Celebrate and rejoice with music and dance, expressing your gratitude towards existence for being alive. Carry your happiness with you throughout the day. Read Osho’s instructions for this stage below.
Wearing a Blindfold
"While you are meditating, keep your eyes closed; have on a blindfold, so that you don't become spectators. Otherwise the tendency is there; it is so ingrained. Your whole culture has prepared you to become spectators. So even if meditation is happening to you, and you are moving into energy, suddenly the idea arises, "See what is happening to others" - and you miss. If you open your eyes, a great change has happened: you have fallen from being a participant and you have become a spectator. And this is not a small distance; it is as far away as earth and sky. Then suddenly it is no longer flowing; you are no longer here. If you want to be here, the only way to be here is to be a participant."
- Osho: Sufis: The People of the Path
"You will be surprised how much mental tension disappears when your eyes are kept closed. A lot of mental tension enters through the eyes, and it is eye tension that causes tension in the brain tissues. If the eyes remained undisturbed, calm and relaxed, ninety-nine percent of mental diseases would disappear. So make a conscientious and full use of the device (of keeping your eyes closed throughout)."
- Osho: The Heartbeat of the Absolute
The first meditation, which you will be doing in the morning, is related to the rising sun. It is a morning meditation. When the sleep is broken the whole of nature becomes alive. The night has gone, the darkness is no more, the sun is coming up, and everything becomes conscious and alert. So this first meditation is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware, whatsoever you do. The first step, breathing; the second step, catharsis; the third step, the mantra, the mahamantra: "Hoo."
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. This 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 alertness will come to its peak.
Osho: A Bird on the Wing
The first step is ten minutes chaotic breathing. I say chaotic. No system is to be applied, no pranayama. Just chaotic breathing: breathing in and breathing out. Forget everything else but the breathing. Use breathing as a hammering and breathe so fast, so deep and so chaotically, that you become like a bellows: breathing in, breathing out. This will work miracles. It will help you to release your repressed emotions. Breathing has helped you to repress them, so only through breathing can they be released.
You may not be aware of it, but the more repressed you are, the shallower your breathing will be. A repressed man or woman cannot take deep breaths. He is afraid. His breath cannot go deep down to his navel; it is shallow. He takes it in and throws it out. It never goes to the very roots of his being. He is afraid of the roots. He is afraid of being total, because if he is total then he will have to release his repressions. He will have to act differently; he will not be able to control himself. He will be thrown into the deep river of existence. Existence will control him; he will not be able to control existence. We control our breathing in an effort to be in control. Look at a child. He breathes differently. He is not yet cultured, civilized, that's why. But the whole society is working to cultivate him and, once he becomes aware of the society, his breathing will change.
The breathing changes at a particular moment.
When the child becomes aware of his sex – or the society, his parents, his family makes him aware of his sex or her sex – the breathing changes. The breathing becomes shallow, because deep breathing massages your sex center from within. It excites the sex center; it goes deep down and helps the sex energy to move. Societies, religion, the so-called religions, are all afraid of sex. Families, cultures, civilizations are all afraid of sex. So the child.... Once the child is condemned for his sexuality, he will never again breathe naturally. His breathing will become shallow because if the breath goes deep down, the sex center will be excited. He cannot allow the breathing to go so deep. That's why everyone's breathing is shallow.
So the first step of the technique is just to create the opposite situation to what the society has created. You have to breathe so deeply that the sex center is hit from within, and hit so forcibly that the energy is released from there. The sex center can be hit in two ways. It can be hit from without. When you are attracted to the opposite sex, it is hit from without; then the energy moves outward. If you take a deep breath and hit the center from within, the energy moves within – the same energy. Sex is both. It can move out; it can move in. It can move down; it can move up. Both avenues are there. In one direction or another, the energy has to be released. An inner system exists in which sex energy can move: we have called it kundalini. Kundalini is nothing but sex energy moving within. So for ten minutes you have to fight with civilization, through chaotic breathing! This will do another thing also. It will release your body energy, your body electricity. This is what is known as bioelectricity. Once the bioelectricity is released in the body you can use it as a vehicle to go beyond – to go beyond the body…
We are afraid of the body, so we don't allow it to be really alive. We have made it half dead. If it is half dead, it is controllable. If it is totally alive, it is not controllable. We are afraid of it. The mind is always afraid, and afraid of only one thing: what will happen if the mind is not in control? The mind can control only a dead body or a half–dead body. If the body is fully alive, the mind becomes afraid. The energy is so much that the mind is thrown off. These ten minutes of chaotic breathing will help your body energy to be released. Every cell of your body will become alive and dancing. And when these cells start dancing within, you will also have a feeling of dance yourself. Your whole body will start dancing and jumping. Allow it. This is how one enters into the river of existence. Osho: "The New Alchemy To Turn You On"
2nd Stage
“In the second step, for ten minutes you have to act out all your madnesses.
Don't be shy, because here we have not gathered for that. Don't be afraid of others. Just think that you are alone here. This is a path of loneliness; one has to travel it alone. Many others will be doing the meditation, everyone will be doing it, but you are to be concerned only with yourself. If you are concerned with others you will not move an inch from where you are and your whole time here will be wasted. So don't be concerned with others. Remain absolutely concerned with yourself. Remember you have much madness within you. You already know that; that's why you are so afraid. Release them! If you want to scream, scream. If you want to weep, weep. If you want to jump, jump. If you want to dance, dance. If you just want to be like a child – playing with your body, jumping, dancing, screaming – do it! Do it playfully; don't be serious about it. If you are serious you cannot be totally released. Be playful. Enjoy the madness that is coming out of you. Help it, enjoy it, cooperate with it. If you are really interested in going beyond your madness, this is the way. When the madness is released you will feel unburdened, you will feel weightless. You will feel a subtle newness entering in you, as if your childhood has come back. You are again a child: newborn, fresh.... This freshness is very essential; this innocence is very essential if you are to move further.” Osho: The New Alchemy To Turn You On
“Relax into the second stage, allowing your body the freedom to express whatever has been held back in the past. The body will begin to move, to dance, etc, and soon you will begin to feel that you are something separate from the body. You will see the body weeping, laughing, crying so clearly that you will not be able to identify yourself with the one who is doing all this. You will see yourself jumping, dancing: something is happening mechanically. You will begin to see the body as a separate entity. It is only when the body becomes an automaton that the consciousness feels itself to be separate; until then there is always identification with the body.” - Osho: The Great Challenge
“One thing more.... In the second step, when you are expressing all the suppressed emotions, when you are going completely mad in catharsis, do one thing emphatically: contract your facial muscles and relax. Contract and relax. The rest of your body is not as tense as your face is because your face is the focal point of all suppression. And your face is the most expressive part; that is why the face has become the most suppressive. It is through your face that you express or suppress. In the second step go on expressing through the body, but remember also to make the face tense and relaxed, tense and relaxed. In that way, much suppressed emotion will be released more easily.”
- Osho: The Supreme Doctrine
A Silent Version of 2nd Stage:
“If your meditation space prevents you from making a noise, you can do this silent alternative: Rather than throwing out the sounds, let the catharsis in the second stage take place entirely through bodily movements.” The Orange Book
3rd Stage
“In the third step, we will be using the sound "Hoo!" as a mantra.
You have to say, "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" loudly, forcibly, bringing your total energy to it as if your whole life is at stake. For ten minutes you have to go on screaming, yelling, "Hoo! Hoo!..." What is this "Hoo" going to do? It is going to do two things. When you scream "Hoo!" your total breath is thrown out. The more loudly you scream, the better. Exhale with the sound so that your total breath is let out. This creates a space within you. In that space, sex energy can move upward. The "Hoo" is to help sex energy to move up. When you say "Hoo!" your sex center contracts, the breath goes out, and a space is created within you right near the sex center. In that space, in that emptiness, sex energy can move up. These first three steps are to be done with so much energy and force that nothing is left behind. You are not withholding anything; you are totally in it.” Osho: The New Alchemy To Turn You On
The following is from the time when Osho himself was leading the meditation "camps"....
“This (Dynamic) method is a very intense method. Your hands (are) raised toward the sky. This is just a preparation so that you can meet with the cosmos. You will be jumping so that your energy is active, you are in a vital state, and the meeting can happen. Your energy is flowing upward. While you are standing with your hands raised, jumping, staring at me, feel that your energy is moving up. Jump with the energy that is moving up. You must move a little so that existence can descend into you. You must go at least one step of the way. Then, the divine can come. Only one step from you is enough. In this state – staring at me, jumping, feeling energy moving up as if you have become a tree that is spread out into the sky and you are jumping to meet the sky – you will simultaneously be using the mantra "Hoo!" loudly. "Hoo!" hits, hammers the energy within and kundalini starts arising. In India we have called this energy "kundalini," serpent power. The serpent uncoils. This "Hoo" has many meanings; it is multi-dimensional. Hoo hits the energy that is coiled inside. It actually hits the energy that is coiled in your sex center and the energy begins to move. Jumping, with your hands raised and spread toward the sky, the energy will flow in a fast current. You will feel that current. The more you feel it, the more you are to jump so that you are helping it to move. Go on using the mantra "Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" as a hammering. It is a hammering with sound.
Only at a certain point will you touch existence. It is just as at 100 degrees water becomes vapor, it evaporates. If it is only heated to 90 degrees it may become hot but it will not change into vapor. The heat must reach a certain degree. Only then is there transformation. So half-effort is useless. You will just be wasting energy and moving nowhere. You will just become lukewarm; nothing will happen to you, you will not evaporate. Bring your total energy to it. Don't withhold anything; move completely in it.
Within twenty minutes your energy will become vital and flowing. It will become a current, a fast current moving from the earth toward the sky. You will just be a vibrating part of that current. You will have disappeared; you will only be vibrating energy, jumping and ready to meet the divine, ready for the deep communion that I am talking about.” Osho: The New Alchemy To Turn You On
A Silent Version of 3rd stage:
If your meditation space prevents you from making a noise, you can do this silent alternative: In the third stage the sound "Hoo!" can be hammered silently inside. The Orange Book
4th Stage
“When I feel that you have released your madness and your energy is moving, suddenly I will say, "Stop!" Then you have to stop completely, as you are.
Then don't move, don't do anything. If your hand is raised, if you are in a dancing posture or you are jumping when you hear me calling you to stop, stop then and there. The moment you hear me, feel as if you are no more...as if you have become just a stone, a statue.... Don't move, don't cry. No noise, no movement. Suddenly it is to be as if everyone has become dead. Even if you fall... If you are standing and your posture is such that you cannot remain that way, don't make any adjustments with your body; just let the body fall. But don't help it to fall. Don't make any adjustments; don't change your body in any way.
It is very essential that this stopping be deeply understood, because you can deceive yourself. If your posture is awkward, if you feel it is troublesome, inconvenient, your mind can deceive you. Because I am not there to see it, you think that you can change your posture a little and be comfortable. Then, you have missed the point. Don't do anything. The moment I say, "Stop!" stop all movements. What will happen? In this sudden stop, you will be thrown to the center. Just a moment before, you were moving like a cyclone, in mad activity. Suddenly I say, "Stop!" Everything stops. You are thrown to the center; you become the observer. But you must stop immediately. If you do anything at all, you will miss the moment. For ten minutes you are to remain in this stone-like state.
These ten minutes will be a new experience. You will enter a new space within; something that is beyond you; you have never known it, and even a glimpse of it will fill you with bliss. For these ten minutes – in this stone-like, dead state – you will be really alive for the first time. You will become an observer, a witness of your own body. This witnessing is meditation. In this witnessing you will feel light filling you, bliss entering you and a divine presence everywhere: all around...within, without. But you are just to be a witness of everything – of the light, of bliss, of divine presence – just a witness.” Osho: The New Alchemy To Turn You On
5th Stage
“…You have to dance in an ecstatic mood. All your life energy is to be flowing, laughing, singing. Celebrate life – don't try to fight with it. In celebration you will transcend, and you will become the winner. In the morning meditation what we are doing is cathartic. After you have gone through a catharsis you need to dance, to sing; you need something to sing about! Catharsis is negative; you are just purifying yourself. When you are ready, purified, feel a deep gratitude. Sing and dance, and completely merge yourself in the dancing and singing. The moment the dancer has disappeared and only the dance remains, you have entered. The moment the singer has disappeared and only singing has remained, you have entered…
And remember always, your life energy is wiser than you are. Once you know your life energy and can allow it to lead you, you will come to feel what type of a fool you were before...stupid! You were trying to lead life, you were trying to force life. You were trying to control a greater energy with your mind, with your poor concepts, your mental concepts. You were trying to put a window around the sky. You are just a frame around the whole. Don't be too concerned with it. Be concerned with the life source, the force, the energy that is within you. Through singing and dancing, I hope that the frame will break and you will be able to throw it away so that your life energy will be freed. Once freed, you will have a different quality. That quality is divine; it is not human.” Osho: The New Alchemy To Turn You On
Can you explain what effects the different stages of Dynamic Meditation have on the states of one's body, heart, brain and mind?
They will have many effects. The practice of meditation, the meditation that I teach, will have any number of physiological results. Many physical diseases can disappear, longevity can increase and many chemical changes can take place in the body. Numerous glands of the body that are, at the moment, as good as dead, can be activated. We have no idea what the psychologists now say, even the physiologists say, about anger. When one is angry, they say, a particular kind of poison is released in the body. But up to now they have not been able to know what it is that happens in the case of love. As in anger a special kind of poison is released, so in love a special kind of nectar is released in the body. But because love is a rare phenomenon in our world, a loving man has yet to visit a scientist's lab. That is why the scientist has not been able to detect it. If meditation has its full impact, the body begins to secrete nectar or ambrosia, which symbolizes immortality.
Meditation has really deep chemical effects on the body. Those who go deep into meditation begin to see extraordinary colors, smell uncommon perfumes and hear unheard of sounds. Extraordinary waves of light and sound begin to flow through them. These are all chemical effects of meditation. You will see fantastic colors, such as you have never seen before. In fact, the whole chemistry of the body undergoes a sea change. The body begins to perceive, think and understand things in a different way altogether. All the electric circuits of the body change. Just as a good deal happens at the level of the body, so also a great deal happens at the level of the mind. The possibilities are really great…. - Osho In Search of the Miraculous
After doing Dynamic Meditation will I be able to meditate more deeply as time goes on?
As time goes on, you will begin to have more depth. You will be able to go deeper and deeper, just like a person who is digging a well. He goes on digging with the same implements, with the same speed, with the same method. By and by all the earth is removed and the well goes deeper and deeper and deeper until a moment comes when the waters rush forth. The eternal waters are there; you have only to remove the layers of earth completely. Go on digging in the same way, with the same method, with the same implements. Don't bother about any changes, the layers of earth are the same; just remove them completely. The water is there deep within, waiting for you, the water of the deep unconscious. Between you and your unconscious mind is a layer of earth, a great layer of suppressed vibrations, suppressed thoughts created by you as a barrier against the insecurities and aggression of the unconscious. You yourself have created this barrier, so you have to go on digging.
As time passes you may not feel that you are progressing, because you can feel it only when the water has been reached, only when the inner sources explode. Otherwise you will still be digging the dry earth. And yet it is not the same earth, for what you have dug up and thrown away is no longer there. But there is still more earth that has to be dug up. This digging only concerns you and your meditation; it is not concerned with the explosion itself. The explosion comes as the climax; it comes in a single moment. It explodes in you, you explode with it. It is a happening beyond time. So just go on digging. The job will be boring and monotonous. When there is something to be achieved at each step the work is never boring: you are getting results, so your ambition urges you on so that more and more can be achieved. But up to a certain point in meditation everything is a bore, everything is monotonous. It seems to be the same, although it is not the same. You are going deeper and deeper every moment, but you can never judge what depths you have gone to until the depths explode within you.
When that happens, within that moment you will know that the process is complete. Until then you are just groping in the dark, hoping against hope, while nothing seems to be coming out of it. Then it comes all at once. Depth is not achieved step by step as far as meditation itself is concerned. Either it is there, or it is not. So you will have to be patient with it. And, naturally, with every individual seeker the time it takes will be different. No one knows how much earth you have accumulated between you and your depths. It may be that the layer is very thin and only one attempt will break it open. It may be that the layer is dense and you have spent lives and lives building it up. So it will depend with each individual. But one thing is important: patiencpatience and work without hoping for results. Work without hoping for results means patience. If you long for results, if you hanker after them, then the goal is lost. It is really impatience that asks for a result. But if you go on practicing the meditation technique patiently, that in itself will bring about the change.
Perseverance without any expectation is a great transformation in itself. Even if meditation is not achieved you will change, because to be patient and to do something without asking for results requires great stamina, a great power of endurance. This stamina will gradually gain in strength. Because of the whole layer of suppression that exists between you and your innermost depths, time will be needed before the explosion can happen. If you are not totally patient and strong in your determination, you will not be able to bear the shock of explosion. The explosion of bliss is so intense that it requires a deep capacity to contain it; it requires a strong inner will. A very powerful will is required, so even if the layer between you and your depths is thin it will take time in order for your will to strengthen. A person who can bear to live without results becomes capable of achieving great results; otherwise he is not qualified for the great moment. If bliss comes to you when you are unprepared for it, it will be unbearable. You will go mad and lose your balance forever. It is a great phenomenon, it is a cosmic phenomenon. It is the sea pouring into a drop! You must be prepared for it, and this preparation comes when you labor patiently, ceaselessly. Ask for no results; wait patiently. That is what is really meant by shraddha. It is not faith in any particular thing, it is faith in oneself. It is not belief in somebody else but belief in oneself. As time goes by, you will go deep. This is not because time has passed but because of your patienc because you have persevered in spite of the monotony, expecting no results. With nothing gained, you still kept on going, you still kept on with unflagging zeal. This creates will, and this makes you capable of bearing the explosion when it comes. To be impregnated with the cosmic, a particular maturity is needed - just as a certain maturity is needed for pregnancy. In this spiritual impregnation the cosmic comes to you: it is the rebirth of yourself.
Is it necessary to pass through psychic stages before the explosion into total consciousness happens?
No, it is not necessary to pass through psychic realms. But that does not mean that you will not pass through them. You can pass through them with such speed that you do not notice them or you can pass through them slowly, taking each and every possible step in the psychic world. You have to pass through the psychic realms because they lie between you and your innermost depth between you as you are and you as you will be. But you can pass through them with such jet speed that you never experience them or you can pass through them at a bullock cart's pace. If you want to see the landscape it is better to ride in a bullock cart. There are bullock cart methods and there are jet methods. The method I am talking about, Dynamic Meditation, is a jet method. You will pass through these realms and not know it because you will be going at such great speed. But if you are longing for psychic powers, even unconsciously, then even with a jet method you will behave as if you are in a bullock cart. If you have a keen desire to develop psychic powers then as you pass them you will be caught by them. We have inner longings that we are not even aware of. Our mind is basically power seeking: whether it seeks power in the outer world or the inner, it is always seeking power. One must be careful not to seek power. The psychic realm is there, and if you are seeking powers then you will be caught in them somewhere.
The outer world cannot give you as much power as the inner world; there is a great potential of power within. In fact there is so much atomic energy within a single human body that if it were to explode and release its total energy the whole world and its population could be destroyed. Physicists talk about atomic energy, Yogis talk about psychic energy, but the energy is the same; only the approach is different. Physicists approach through the atoms of the body; Yoga approaches through the atoms of the psyche. These approaches are two poles of the same thing. Yoga approaches from the inner, so the Yogi talks about psychic powers. They are there, but if you seek them you will be caught in them, which will be pathetic, pitiable, because when you reach the psychic you are very near to the cosmic, to absolute bliss. You are near to the flower, but you have shut your hands over it. So one must beware.
In Dynamic Meditation you do not have to become alert to the psychic because it is a jet method: it goes so fast that you will pass the psychic realm without noticing it. But still, because all that we have read and heard is stored and accumulated in our minds, we must be cautious of psychic powers. They are there, but they are not of much significance in themselves. Inner power becomes absolute in the sense that you are not dependent on anybody else. You are the sole master of it so it becomes more egocentric. Outer power has corrupted man, but inner power has corrupted him more. It is not power itself that corrupts, because the divine also is power; rather, it is the seeking, longing ego that corrupts. If we are corrupt, then when power comes our corruption will be exposed. Before that it remains hidden. To be corrupt we need power. So one must beware of inner psychic forces. They exist, but do not look at them. Just pass them by; just be a witness to them. They will be with you, they will work in you, but they will be like shadows: they will follow you. Things will begin to happen around you but you will not be conscious of them; you will not be strengthening your ego through them.
With this method you will pass through psychic planes, but with much speed. All that is between you and your innermost depths will be there, but just as a shadow following you. There will be siddhis, there will be happenings, things will begin to change, but your power will be felt by others, not by you. If someone says that something has happened to him because of you, you will look up and say, "Because of Him, not because of me. I am no one." When Jesus learned from people that they were healed because of his touch, he said, "Not because of me but because of Him. I am no one. I am just a servant, I am just his instrument." Then there will be powers, but they will not be ego-centered: they will be divine-oriented and divine-centered. But you must not be concerned with them. When they come, just pass by and bid them farewell."
–Osho The Great Challenge.
Research on the Benefits of Dynamic Meditation using Kirilian Photography Read
A group of 25 volunteers participated in an experiment which used Kirlian* photography to demonstrate the effects of the Dynamic Meditation on the human energy system. The participants who completed the full 21 days were able to clear their energies in deeper and subtler ways, and moved to a higher level.
12th day: To the left is a Kirlian photograph of the fingers and toes - a high quantity of energy is available and the last blocks are still present but on the way to dissolving: the crisis point is over and meditation is now easier.
21st day: Kirlian photograph of the same person after 21 days of Dynamic Meditation. The blocks have disappeared and the general tone of the radiance is lighter, more refined, demonstrating a shift from quantity to quality. This is felt by the person as a softer, more relaxed state of being.
*Kirlian photographs are taken on an electromagnetic device to determine the energy emissions of the living body (Source: Osho Times, 1996 September/October issue)
Are there particular meditative techniques for the different kinds of energy, for different types of people? - the tamas, the rajas, the sattva types, for example?</
The Dynamic technique is really a very rare phenomenon. It does not belong to any type; it can help all.
For the person of tamas - lethargy, inertia...it will bring him out of his tamas. It will create so much energy in him that the tamas will be broken; if not all, then a part of it. If a man of tamas is ready to do it, it can work wonders because a man of tamas is really not lacking energy. Energy is there but not in an active position, not in an active state. Energy is there fast asleep. The Dynamic Meditation can work as an alarm. It can change inertia into activity; it can make the energy move; it can bring the man of tamas out of tamas.
The second type of man, the rajas type, who is very active, in fact much too active, so active that he cannot find fields where to release his energy; he is, in many ways, a pent-up energy - the Dynamic technique will help him to release, to be unburdened. After doing dynamic techniques he will feel weightless. In life his hectic, continuous obsession with activity will slow down. A part of his obsessive occupation will dissolve. Of course. he will be benefited more than the man of tamas because the man of tamas first has to be made active. He exists at the lowest rung of the ladder; but once he becomes active then everything becomes possible. Once he becomes active he will become the second type; he will be rajas now.
The Dynamic Meditation helps a person of sattva tremendously. He is not in inertia; there is no need to bring his energy up. He is not obsessively active; there is no need of any catharsis for him. He is balanced, purer than the other two, happier than the other two, lighter than the other two. Then how will Dynamic Meditation help him? It will become a celebration for him. It will become just a singing, a dancing, a participation with the whole. He will be benefited the most.
The man of inertia needs more, but he cannot be given more because he is not capable of receiving it. The Dynamic Meditation, at the most, will bring him out of his inertia to the second rung of the ladder; and that too with the condition that he participates. Even that is difficult for him - to decide to participate, to make so much activity.
The second type already exists on the second rung. He already has something in it; he can be helped more. He will be relaxed by the method, unburdened, weightless. Slowly, he will start moving towards the first rung, the highest.
The man of sattva, of purity, innocence, will be helped most. He has much; he can be helped. The law of nature is almost like the banks' : if you don't have money they will not give you. If you need money they will create a thousand and one conditions; if you don't need money they will seek you. If you have enough of your own they are always ready to give you as much as you want.
The law of nature is exactly like that. It gives you more when you don't need; it gives you less when you need. It takes away if you don't have anything, and it gives you in a thousand and one ways if you have something.
The man of tamas has nothing. He is just a lump of earth; he vegetates. The man of rajas is not a lump of earth; he is a fast-moving energy. Much is possible with fast-moving energy. In fact without energy moving nothing is possible. But then his energy becomes madness; it goes to the extreme. Because of too much activity he loses much. Because of too much activity he does not know what to do and what not to do. He goes on doing; he goes on doing contradictory things: with one hand he will do something, with another hand he will undo it. He is almost mad.
Sattva is possible when rajas and tamas are in equilibrium. When you know when to work and when you know when to rest; when you know how to keep the office in the office and not allow it in the home; when you know how to come home and leave the office mind in the office and not bring your files with you - then sattva happens. Sattva is balance; sattva is equilibrium.
For the man who has sattva the dynamic techniques will be tremendously helpful because they will bring into his life not only silence but bliss. He is already silent because balance gives stillness, silence. But silence is a negative phenomenon. Unless it becomes a dancing, a singing, a rejoicing, it is not much. Good as far as it goes, good to be silent, but don't be content with it, because still much is waiting for you.
Of course, the sattva man will be helped much, benefited most, but nothing can be done; that is the nature of law. If you have, more will be given to you; if you don't have, even that which you have will be taken away."
– Osho, Yoga: the Alpha and Omega
Interview with Dr. Frederico Montecucco, director of the Academy for Science, Art, and Consciousness, Italy.
"For the past ten years Italian doctor Federico Montecucco's particular interest has been centered on making the process of human evolution accessible to the scientific mind. He established the "Academy For Science, Art and Consciousness," and set up a community called Villaggio Globale (Global Village) in Bagni Di Lucca in Tuscany, Italy, to create a place for planetary consciousness. Here, working with a group of meditators, he pursues his research. The following is extracted from an interview/article conducted with him....
Can you explain your understanding of how the Osho Dynamic Meditation works on and through the three different brains?</
We have three brains. First is the reptilian brain. This is the most primitive, being related to instinct - to sex, sleep, food, survival, aggression. Psychosomatically it is related to the area and activity of the abdomen. Second is the mammalian brain, the emotional brain. It is psychosomatically related to the area of the chest. Finally there is the mental or human brain - the part through which we can have a virtual picture of external reality. In this virtual, mental world we can create fantasies, heaven and hell. This brain controls and inhibits the mammalian and reptilian brain i.e. emotions and instincts.
Scientists discovered that the three brains don't work together; in fact they are really in a state of schizo-physiology. This is the normal state but not a healthy one. It means that even our body-mind is divided. We revert to a normal state of functioning through meditation. When the brain works as a whole, the different parts of it are in deeper coherence or synchronicity. Osho vision of the "new man" is a human being that has no separation in the body-mind complex because he functions as a unity of consciousness. This means that in him the three brains are no longer working against each other but as a whole.
Dynamic Meditation is one of the most scientific methods to heal and to create integrity between the three parts of the body - the body, mind and heart - and between the three brains.
The first stage of the method, "fire" breathing, works on the reptilian brain, allowing us to break free of the control of the higher brain. So emotions and instincts are freed up.
The second stage, catharsis, works on the mammalian brain, by cleaning the blocked emotions and freeing old mental memories and shocks.
In the third stage, of jumping and hammering the first chakra with sound, you move the energy up to the higher part of the body, and by so doing return to a deep sense of integrity. You can get to a point when you are jumping totally effortlessly for ten minutes... According to the system of acupuncture there are several energy points in the soles of the feet which are very important. We discovered through our machines that by impacting the soles of the feet - as you do in the third stage - you positively impact the brain; hence the significance of landing on the flat of the feet, including the heel.
By the fourth stage - of stopping suddenly and remaining as if frozen - the whole system is already in a deep unity and the energy moves freely through the whole body. You are no longer fragmented but have a fluid being. This is the base from which you can go into the experience of yourself. As Osho has said, all the other stages are preparatory: this is the point at which meditation can be experienced.
Most of the Osho meditations are structured like this. They are incredibly scientific, the inspiration of a genius! As far as I know nothing like this has existed before...something so methodically and scientifically thought through, so condensed into the space of one hour and so contemporary in its structure.
