You can sit silently or run silently, work silently or play silently, whether you are alone or with others. Then whatever is happening can be a meditative experience. Once we have discovered the “knack” of observing first the body and then the mind, with its thoughts and feelings, then we can take this with us into our daily lives. OSHO Active Meditations – explained in more detail Hence the first steps in meditation are the However, he points out, if we move our bodies “madly” – to express and release our accumulated stress and tensions – then we discover that the center is silent. Osho adds that if they don’t go crazy, it only because they are not doing the silent sitting with sufficient sincerity! His view is supported by many scientific studies confirming the ill-effects people have suffered by going on “silent retreats” and so on. His understanding is that if modern people try to “sit silently” as is widely recommended, they will notice the madness within. Osho represents a revolution in making meditation, mindfulness, awareness, consciousness… in fact the simple proposition of turning up for your own life, available for contemporary people. OSHO Meditations – Revolutionary Approaches for Contemporary People
