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OSHO Active Meditation In-Depth and Facilitating

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OSHO Active Meditations In-Depth and Facilitating

Enjoy deepening your understanding of the OSHO Meditations and learn the skills, gain the confidence, to introduce them to others – with friends, in a spa or meditation center, in your business or other professional setting.

“Before you start doing a technique, be fully alert that you have understood it. Each technique is for bringing about a revolution in you. First try to understand the technique absolutely rightly.” Osho

Your approach to meditation, and your understanding of the key points of each meditation, can make all the difference – in your experience and to the benefits you take away. This is true for yourself, and for the people you are sharing these meditations with.

In these three days, we’ll put a lot of focus on the in-depth content of the OSHO meditations, and on the best way to get the most out of them – deepening your understanding of the meditations you already know and getting to know others that you have not yet explored.

We’ll touch on many relevant points for facilitating these dynamite techniques. The days are informative, experiential, and fun.

Topics include:

What is meditation? Who/what is OSHO?
The unique approach and “climate” around OSHO meditation
The many OSHO Active Meditations in-depth: the science behind each of them, the essence of their steps, the vital points that make all the difference
Short OSHO meditations for your day, and to use while being a facilitator
The role of facilitator, guidelines for facilitating
Grounding, relaxed communication, use of equipment
Presentation practice with supportive feedback
Your own questions and how to respond to meditators’ questions

You will receive the comprehensive Handbook, which includes the instructions for the OSHO meditations, tips for facilitating each meditation, additional supporting texts from Osho about the meditations and about facilitating, and more.

“It will be good for you also. This is my observation, that there are many things that you learn only when you start teaching them. The best way to learn a thing is to teach it.” Osho

Prerequisites: some prior experience of OSHO Active Meditations, interview.

Primal Mirror

on 26/07/2022 31/01/2023 274 Views

How did your parents mirror you in childhood and what is it you had to repress to receive their love? Recognizing when our childhood movie takes over, we can mobilize the adult part inside us and come back to what is natural and healthy.

Looking in the mirror of the past; recognizing the false identifications from childhood

“From childhood we are taught that be a good man. Nobody teaches us to be a true person.” Osho

As children we develop a series of false identities or masks in response to the expectations and projections of those we depend on for survival. Over time these roles become autonomous and start to run our lives. We move between these roles with little or no awareness when we get triggered by external events in our woundedness.

Wounding happens when we are not seen and loved unconditionally as children. The wounded child inside us is a powerful and convincing identification which can keep us stuck in defense mode and, when triggered, we start to act out the same childhood movie from our past.

WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE?

In Primal Mirror we learn to bring in awareness so we can recognize when we are triggered and can step out of the unhealthy identifications from childhood. We start to listen and accept ourselves instead of remaining stuck by criticizing ourselves or blaming others. We begin to heal our wounded inner child by giving it the love and reassurance it needs – from our own adult resources.

You can attend this course when you are newly exploring the concept of the inner child or when you are familiar with your inner child, to reconnect again with this immensely resourceful part inside us.

Reclaiming and healing our inner child allows us to regain the spontaneous joy and wonder of life. It is the essential journey of life to become a child again – healed, whole and awake.

“Watching the mind, being aware of the mind — without choosing any side, choicelessly being aware — that is the secret.” Osho

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

To understand the realm of our inner child.
Learning the difference between the witness, the adult, the wounded child, and the natural, healthy inner child.
What to do when you get identified with your wounded inner child?
How to strengthen the adult part inside you and, by doing so, have the tools to change your present experiences.
Meditative techniques that allow you to move beyond your conditioning into being – into who you are at your very core.

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

A live 3-day residential course starting the evening before
Thursday we start at 16:00. After registration and settling in the venue, we have an OSHO Active Meditation to arrive and unwind from the travel. Dinner will be served and there is time to connect and chill-out with the other participants
Friday, Saturday and Sunday: approximately 12 hours per day with regular breaks including OSHO Dynamic and OSHO Kundalini Meditations
Various techniques to explore issues related to your childhood and how these are influencing your present life
Sharing in the group and Q&A with the facilitator
Osho insights and quotes about early childhood conditioning

Participants may only sign up for the Primal Mirror after completing an application form, which is part of the process and thus confidential. To receive this form, please write to the organizer of the course expressing your interest in the course.
Each participant needs to return this application form to Bela before the start of the course or you will not be able to register for the course.

“Parents, because of their own investment – business, politics, religion, philosophy – are less interested in the potential of the child. They are more interested in how to mold the child so that he fits in their world, becomes respectable in their world, is not an outcast, is not a misfit. All this arises out of good intentions, but the result is not good. It is almost slaughtering the child, destroying, killing him. Most of his potential will always remain only potential. He will never be even aware what treasures he has brought with his life. He will die and those treasures will remain unopened.” Osho.

Inner Child Work Online

on 17/05/2022 31/01/2023 389 Views

How many of us have really been welcomed and raised in the way we were meant to be?
How hard have you tried to adapt to the wishes and expectations placed upon you as a child and in that process losing yourself without feeling love or even no longer feeling a purpose in your life anymore?
Our Inner Child is closely connected to all that is real about us and because of this it makes us feel immensely sensitive and vulnerable when we reconnect again with this part inside us.
This course is a healing process to uncover the layers of hurt that prevents us to be in close connection to our inner child.

Finding your way home again and having a sense of belonging

“This small child will grow up with a personality which others have given to him. And because of this personality, sooner or later a dreadful anxiety and anguish will be born in him – because he is phony. Anguish is born out of phoniness.
Bliss can only be born from truth, from that which is your true nature.” Osho

Our true nature consists of an individual unique set of essential qualities. Qualities like innocence, purity, wonder, trust, playfulness, joy, aliveness, courage, and more.

It is essential for us as adults to reconnect again with our inner child to heal the vacuum, emptiness, sadness, anger, and frustration we experience when we lose the connection with ourselves and life itself.

“In my vision, in a real human society, nothing will be imposed on the child – nothing at all. Not that the child will be left all alone to himself. No, he will be helped, but nothing will be imposed. He will be helped to remain whole; he will be helped to remain rooted in the essence. He will not be forced to shift his consciousness from the essence to the personality. The future education will not be an education in personality, it will be an education in essence.” Osho

In a safe and loving atmosphere, we will invite our inner child to make itself visible again in its true nature and in doing so reconnecting again to our aliveness and spontaneity.

Meditative awareness will support us to distinguish between what is learned behavior and what comes out of our own experienced understanding.

“A real education will make the child more meditative, so he never loses contact with his inner being. There is every possibility to lose because he will be moving with others, he will start imitating others. He will have to learn many things from others. Let him learn, but let him become aware that he is not to become an imitator.

“But that is just what is being done, and has been done down the ages. We teach children to become imitators: “Be like Jesus. Be like Socrates. Be like Buddha.” The child can only be truly himself and nobody else – ever. And whatsoever he will try to become will be false and phony.” Osho

Participants may only sign up for the Inner Child Work Online course after completing an application form, which is part of the process and thus confidential. To receive this form, please write to the organizer of the course expressing your interest in the course.

WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE?
Feeling oneness within oneself brings us closer to meditation which in its turn allows us to feel oneness with that what surrounds us – the existence. Out of this we experience wholeness and wellbeing, we feel at ease and in flow with life itself.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

How to start taking care of this immensely vulnerable part inside us
How to listen and learn to understand the language of our inner child
How to care for our inner child in our day-to-day life
That in meditation we are closest to our childlike nature

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

A LIVE online 2-day course. Saturday and Sunday
Saturday approximately 9 hours online with regular breaks away from the computer screen
Sunday approximately 11 hours online with regular breaks away from the computer screen
Different OSHO Active Meditations
Various loving and playful techniques to explore your inner child
Alone time with your inner child
Group processes and group sharing
Osho quotes and insights about our childhood conditioning
Q&A sessions with facilitator

“If you teach a child meditation you are not indoctrinating him. You don’t say he has to believe anything, you simply invite him to an experiment in no-thought. No-thought is not a doctrine, it is an experience. And children are very, very capable because they are very close to the source. They have just come from God! They still remember something of that mystery. They have just come from the other world, they have not yet forgotten it completely. Sooner or later they will forget, but still the fragrance is around them. That’s why all children look so beautiful, so graceful. Have you ever seen an ugly child?” Osho

OSHO Primal Mirror Online

on 28/12/2021 31/01/2023 1,082 Views

Find the support you need to free yourself from the childhood traumas and conditioning that prevent you from living a free, creative, and authentic life. When we feel and see our conditioning and pain clearly, we become free of it – free to allow who we really are to flourish. We are much greater and more wonderful than we think. A chance to set yourself free!

Breakthrough to the essential you

“When a child is born, he does not bring the ego into the world. The ego is something that he learns, it is not part of genetics.” Osho

Growing up is a process of forming a separate identity in response to our environment. Even at its most benign, the conditioning that helps bring about our sense of identity is based on a falsehood, the illusion of separation. Competition and fear flourish in the soil of this lie, opening us up to exploitation by those who provide us with a sense of safety. The price we pay for this security is to be molded by a series of do’s and don’ts that undermine our self-responsibility and cut us off from our true, spontaneous nature.

“All thoughts are borrowed: they also are given to you by the society; they too have come from others. You have learned them. In reality, you are the untaught that is within you. You are only consciousness, not the thoughts. Thoughts are like waves over you. Just as rubbish floats on the surface of a river, so are thoughts. But you are the river, the stream of consciousness.” Osho

Osho’s guidance is that primal work is specifically designed for those from western cultures with western conditioning.

Participants may only sign up for the Primal Mirror course after completing an application form, which is part of the process and thus confidential. To receive this form, please write to Bela expressing your interest in the course.
Each participant needs to return this application form to the same email address before the start of the course or you will not be able to register for the course.

WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE?

We can succumb to the past, or we can revolt against it, but both reactions keep us trapped. Instead, we can explore our conditioning and, by seeing it clearly in the mirror of consciousness, become free of it – free to allow who we really are to flourish.

We will use self-enquiry techniques such as mirrorwork, expression through drawing and writing, and share our experiences in the group as a whole and in Zoom breakout rooms. This combination of self-enquiry and group sharing will allow you to open up and connect deeply with yourself in a safe and trusting atmosphere.

Your experienced facilitator will help you to clearly see the entangling emotions, beliefs and identifications that are keeping you trapped.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

To understand the realm of your Inner Child
The difference between your Natural Inner Child and your Wounded Inner Child
What to do when you get identified with your Wounded Inner Child
How to strengthen the adult part inside you and, by doing so, have the tools to change your present experiences
Meditative techniques that allow you to move beyond your conditioning into being – into who you are at your very center

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

A LIVE online, 3-day course.
Friday approximately 10 hours online with regular breaks away from the computer screen, including OSHO Kundalini Meditation.
Saturday and Sunday approximately 12 hours online with regular breaks away from the computer screen, including OSHO Dynamic and Kundalini Meditations
Various techniques to explore issues related to your childhood and how these are influencing your present life
Osho insights and quotes about early childhood conditioning
Q&A sessions with your facilitator
OSHO Active Meditations

“As you go on removing the layers… And layer means identification with something you are not. Identification is taking yourself to be what you are not. To break the identification with what you are not, is meditation. Meditation is the key. By and by, only what you really are remains.” Osho

OSHO Opening to Intimacy Online

on 26/11/2021 31/01/2023 509 Views

One of our most powerful longings is for true intimacy. It is also one of our greatest fears.

This fear stems from the idea that we are unacceptable as we are. As we become more loving and accepting of ourselves, the doors to intimacy with others open and we become free to live in love and friendship with our fellow human beings.

An opportunity to connect fearlessly

“If your intimacy is helping you to grow and to become mature, then it is positive and good and healthy, wholesome.” Osho

“Everybody is afraid of intimacy…. The problem becomes more complicated because everybody wants intimacy. Everybody wants intimacy because otherwise you are alone in this universe – without a friend, without a lover, without anybody you can trust, without anybody to whom you can open all your wounds. And the wounds cannot heal unless they are open. The more you hide them, the more dangerous they become.” Osho

To free ourselves from the fear and self-judgment that keep us from experiencing intimacy, first we need to allow ourselves to experience them at a conscious level and then to let go of them. From the space of meditation, we experience a gap that allows us to see clearly that our fears and self-judgments are not who we really are – that they have been imposed from the outside.

We will use gentle non-cathartic methods to support this process including interactive exercises in pairs, introspection, and group sharing.

Osho’s guidance is that Freudian based work, such as this course, is specifically designed for those from western cultures with western conditioning.

Participants may only sign up for the OSHO Opening to Intimacy course after completing an application form, which is part of the process and thus confidential. To receive this form, please write to bela@osho.net expressing your interest in the course.

Each participant needs to return this application form to the same email address before the start of the course or you will not be able to register for the course.

WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE?

“Without intimacy, you are alone here amongst strangers. With intimacy you are surrounded by friends, by people who love you. Intimacy is a great experience. One should not miss it.” Osho

Once we begin to see how we all have similar fears around intimacy we become more playful and light-hearted in our connections with others. We move from the seriousness of the ego to the childlike innocence of the heart. In the innocence of the heart, we do not define ourselves or others, leaving us free to experience the deepest possible intimacy, that of shared meditation. An opportunity to connect in freedom and joy, playfully and innocently.

This course will give you the confidence to be yourself – open to friendship and love.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

To understand the importance of, first of all, relating intimately with yourself
To recognize your parental and social conditioning around intimacy
How to relate openly and authentically
How we all have an Inner Man and an Inner Woman
To recognize and respect your own physical boundaries
To understand the difference between loneliness and aloneness, and to embrace the space of at-oneness as the ultimate intimacy

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

A LIVE online weekend course. Saturday and Sunday. Approximately 7.5 hours a day with breaks
Various techniques to explore your issues related to Intimacy
Group processes and group sharing
Osho quotes and insights about our misunderstandings around Intimacy
Q&A sessions with facilitator
OSHO Active Meditations

“Only a man of meditation can allow intimacy to happen. He has nothing to hide. All that he was afraid somebody might come to know, he himself has dropped it. He has only a silence and a loving heart. Once you have accepted yourself as you are, the fear of intimacy will disappear. You cannot lose respect, you cannot lose your greatness, you cannot lose your ego. You cannot lose your piousness; you cannot lose your saintliness – you have dropped all that yourself. You are just like a small child, utterly innocent.” Osho

Conscious Relating Session

on 28/07/2020 22/08/2022 275 Views

When we abandon our true selves in order to keep the affections of the other, we do so in the expectation of getting something in return. This is a recipe for misunderstanding and resentment.

“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free, they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty.” Osho

From childhood our self-responsibility is usurped and replaced with a sense of responsibility for others and their feelings, and we lose connection with our spontaneous natural being. Our love relationships in later life reflect this, becoming a set of mutual compromises that feed our illusions of security and permanence. This kind of relationship may appear to work well in terms of success in the world, but once the honeymoon is over, the question arises for many “Is this all there is?”

A really alive relating, based on an overflow of being-love is an ongoing expansion of awareness and freedom. Unless we are growing in this way our love will stagnate and become a prison.

By deeply accepting ourselves and the other as we are, we transform the irritations and petty grievances of life into opportunities for growth. We become aware of our own blind spots – the places where we have yet to shine light on our unconscious habits and expectations.

In an atmosphere of trust and acceptance this session will support you to move to a state of presence in the here and now. You will experience the confidence and self-trust this brings and discover ways of communicating that enhance growth and freedom in your relating.

“Love happens only when you are mature. You become capable of loving only when you are a grown-up. When you know that love is not a need but an overflow – being-love or gift-love – then you give without any conditions.” Osho

This session is open to individuals and couples.

OSHO Born Again

on 28/07/2020 01/06/2022 322 Views

This is a one-week process created by Osho to rediscover the beauty of childhood without verbalizing or analyzing our past psychological experiences.

The course includes one hour of allowing yourself to just be a child again, and one hour of silent sitting together as a group.

For the first hour you behave like a child. Just enter your childhood. Whatever you wanted to do, do it – dancing, singing, jumping, crying, weeping – anything at all, in any posture. Nothing is prohibited except touching other people. Don’t touch or harm anyone else in the group.

BECOMING A CHILD AGAIN

Once upon a time we were all real! Just naturally ourselves. When we wanted to laugh, we laughed. When we wanted to cry, we cried. When we were angry, we were angry. We danced and jumped and shrieked with delight. Playfulness was our essence. We lived in innocence, knowing nothing, except what we needed in that moment.

We were very small and needed the love of others, it was our only security. The price for that love was that we started “growing old,” rather than just naturally maturing and “growing up.” The day we became good boys and girls was a catastrophe. We stopped growing – we became artificial, unnatural, serious….

Also, the world around us was so exciting and we wanted to go “out” and discover everything, and so we became so knowledgeable about everything except ourselves. In the process we forgot who we really are, and lost the innate ability of relaxing into not-knowing.

Now is our chance to take ourselves back to that same fork in the road. This time we can consciously choose to take the path of playfulness, innocence, naturalness, laughter… rediscovering our originality, individuality, and freedom. And once we are on the road of authenticity, then finding ourselves, finding our center, finding our own inner joy will happen by itself.

Then follows the hour of just sitting silently. You will be fresher, more innocent, and meditation will become easier.

SITTING IN SILENCE

“You are using awareness without being aware of it, but only about outside things. It is the same awareness that has to be used for the inside traffic. When you close your eyes there is a traffic of thoughts, emotions, dreams, imaginations; all kinds of things start flashing by.

“What you have been doing in the outside world, do exactly the same with the inside world and you will become a witness. And once tasted, the joy of being a witness is so great, so otherworldly that you would like to go more and more in…. From unawareness to awareness is the greatest quantum leap.” Osho

“This great experiment through which we are passing is basically to achieve your lost childhood again. When I say, ‘your lost childhood,’ I mean your innocence, your eyes full of wonder, knowing nothing, having nothing, but yet feeling yourself at the top of the world. Those golden moments of wonder, joy, no tension, no worry, no anxiety, have to be regained, rediscovered. The sage is nothing but the circle that started in your birth coming full way, complete, back to the same point.

“This is your second childhood. You are born again. Your eyes are no longer filled with the dust of knowing. But this not-knowing is a tremendous perceptivity, a great clarity. It does not need to know, because it feels, and feeling is a higher state than knowing. As the clarity becomes more and more transparent, instead of feeling it becomes your being.” Osho

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OSHO Mystic Rose

on 28/07/2020 01/06/2022 436 Views

“I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one.” Osho

Laugh, Cry, and Let the Scars of the Past Be Dissolved in Silence

For 21 days, Laugh for 3 hours a day for 7 days, Cry for 3 hours a day for 7 days, and then Sit Silently, for 3 hours a day for 7 days.

Whenever any experience is not fully lived in the moment, it leaves a residue inside us. It may be a small thing or something really significant but those residues or scars stay in the unconscious blocking our natural ability to flower to our full potential.

Whatever is left in the unconscious remains, waiting for an opportunity to be expressed, accepted, and resolved.

When we allow all our un-laughed laughter, our un-cried tears, and our un-lived silence to be experienced, we can allow whatever is in the unconscious to flow freely and be lived now – and be resolved forever.

The laughter, tears and silence do their work without the need for words, discussion, or analysis as is typical of conventional “therapy.” You just participate with totality and sincerity, and the rest happens by itself.

The OSHO Mystic Rose provides that opportunity.

Details of this 21-day course:

As Osho explains:

For seven days we laugh for no reason at all for three hours each day.

“The first part… for three hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all…. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many layers of dust have gathered upon your being. It will cut them like a sword, in one blow. For seven days continuously, three hours every day… you cannot conceive how much transformation can come to your being.”

“When a man reaches into his innermost being he will find the first layer is of laughter and the second layer is of agony, tears.”

For the second seven days, we cry for no reason at all for three hours a day.

“So for seven days you have to allow yourself to weep, cry, for no reason at all – just the tears are ready to come.”

“The first part removes everything that hinders your laughter – all the inhibitions of past humanity, all the repressions. It cuts them away. It brings a new space within you, but still you have to go a few steps more to reach the temple of your being, because you have suppressed so much sadness, so much despair, so much anxiety, so many tears – they are all there, covering you and destroying your beauty, your grace, your joy.”

The third part is the time for the “Watcher on the Hill,” just watching whatever is happening inside or out.

“And my effort here is to take away all your scars and all your wounds and make you aware that you are just a watcher. A watcher cannot be wounded; no bullet can pass through it, no nuclear bomb can destroy it.”

“Just be a witness. Go on witnessing whatsoever passes in the mind, and the very process of witnessing has the whole secret in it.”

“Then you know that you are just the quality of reflection, that you are a pure consciousness, a witness, that you are a mirror and nothing else, that you are just a watcher, a watcher on the hill.”

“That is freedom. That’s what is called liberation, nirvana. And that man knows what benediction is!”

As Osho further explains:

“Laughter is a great medicine. It is a tremendously powerful therapy. If you can laugh at your own unconscious, the unconscious loses its force. In your very laughter your guilt, your wounds, disappear.”

“I am giving you a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused. And it is going to become worldwide, without any doubt, because its effects will show anybody that the person has become younger, the person has become more loving, the person has become graceful. The person has become more flexible, less fanatic; the person has become more joyful, more a celebrant.

“All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. Laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.”

“My own experience says to me that if you can laugh rightly, in the right moment, it will bring you out of unconsciousness into the open sky, from the darkness to the light. I am introducing laughter as a meditation because nothing makes you so total as laughter; nothing makes you stop your thinking as laughter does. Just for a moment you are no more a mind. Just for a moment you are no more in time. Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole and healed.”

“This is absolutely my meditation.”

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OSHO No-Mind

on 28/07/2020 01/06/2022 285 Views

This is a seven-day course, which includes one hour of Gibberish and one hour of silent sitting together as a group.

“I am dealing with the contemporary man, who is the most restless being that has ever evolved on the earth. But people do become silent; you just have to allow them to throw out their madness, insanity, then they themselves become silent.” Osho

GIBBERISH

In that first hour we have the perfect opportunity to throw out the gibberish of the mind. As Osho explains, “Gibberish is one of the most scientific ways to clean your mind”. And also that:

“To be in the mind is to be out of yourself.
To be out of the mind is to be in your own being.”

“Just go inwards and it is not thousands of miles away. It is only thousands of thoughts away.

“So, it is only a question of reducing the thoughts and the mileage is reduced.
If you don’t have any thoughts, you are in it. You are it.

“You don’t have to go anywhere; you have to simply go on throwing your thoughts.

“That is the purpose of our gibberish before the meditation. Just a time to throw everything, without inhibition. These creatures that you throw out are eating your head continuously, destroying your intelligence. Catch them and throw them out.”

What Is Gibberish?

Just say everything that you ever wanted to say and have not been able to say because of civilization, education, culture, and society. Be very passionate, as if you are talking, as if your whole life is at stake. You are talking nonsense and there is nobody except you, but be passionate, be in a passionate dialogue. Saying anything that is moving in your mind, all kinds of rubbish – throw it out.

And say it in any language you don’t know! Use Chinese if you don’t know Chinese. Use Japanese if you don’t know Japanese. Don’t use German if you know German. Shouting, laughing, crying, making noises … making gestures …. Sounds will come – utter them – and one sound will lead into another. Soon you will be speaking Chinese and Italian and French, languages that you don’t know. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, or significance. For the first time enjoy that freedom – the same as all the birds have.

Do it totally, with great enthusiasm …. Be authentic, honest …. You have to be total. Don’t act or do it automatically like a robot. Be sincere … make it a reality …. So, don’t be partial, don’t be middle-class. Be a first-rate crazy man! Just go crazy without any fear. Don’t spare anything. Don’t sit there like a Buddha; that stage comes later. Remember, the first step in meditation is to forget the whole world and just bring out all your craziness in rubbish, gibberish sounds, gestures …. As you throw it out you will find yourself becoming light, becoming more alive. But be total because once you are freed of it, then there is a possibility of going deeper into silence than you have ever gone.

As Osho describes it:

“Put the conscious off and allow the unconscious to speak….”

“Be very passionate in it, as if you are talking, as if your whole life is at stake. You are talking nonsense and there is nobody except you, but be passionate, be in a passionate dialogue.”

“You have to be authentic about it. It is not for somebody else, it is for the sky. And you cannot deceive the sky.”

“It is one of the most ecstatic meditations ever. As you go into it, get more and more ecstatic with it. If your body starts moving, your hands start moving, gestures happen and you feel like standing up or jumping or dancing, allow it. Let your whole body and being say it. And get deeper and deeper into it – be possessed by it.”

“Out of this will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy within yourself.”

SITTING IN SILENCE

Just be absolutely silent, gather your whole energy inwards, just like you are coming home.

“Now you are ready to go inwards with all your consciousness, with all your life energy. Move towards the center of your being. That is from where you have come and that is where everybody goes back.

“Deeper and deeper … the deeper you go, the more fragrant becomes the air. The deeper you go, suddenly flowers start showering on you. At the deepest point you are the buddha. The buddha means simply witnessing, pure witnessing. Just witness: the body is there, the mind is there, but you are neither.

“You are a separate force which comes from the center, and the center is joined with eternity. It knows no birth, no death. This buddha is your ultimate potential, the very Everest of consciousness. Great is the splendor of this moment.” Osho

Opening to Intimacy

on 28/07/2020 31/01/2023 617 Views

One of our deepest longings is for true intimacy. It is also one of our greatest fears.

The fear of rejection for who we truly are makes us hide behind a mask and living in pretentions. Only when we learn to love ourselves first, can we invite real intimacy with others to happen in our lives.

Learning the difference between relating and a relationship

“It is because of the pain of love, millions of people live a loveless life. They too suffer, and their suffering is futile. To suffer in love is not to suffer in vain. To suffer in love is creative; it takes you to higher levels of consciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste; it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle.” Osho

We learn as children that we are only lovable when we behave in certain ways. Often love is used as an exchange; I only love you when you do what I want you to do. Consequently, we start to hide our true feelings, repress our spontaneous response, and judging our natural self. We learn that being false pays off and we start to live our lives based on lies. Over time we forget how to be open and real. Painfully disconnected from ourselves, we can no longer allow others to come close to us.

Feeling disconnected we confuse aloneness – a state of feeling oneness with the whole – with loneliness. We become demanding on the other for our wellbeing and feeling loved. Instead of relating we create a relationship with set rules entrenched in the same model of substituting an act for love.

We tend to set our boundaries based on the painful intimate experiences we had in the past. We build a wall around us to prevent others coming too close to us. Thus, believing we will not get hurt like this, we live isolated in our well build prison.

“The person who has not known the other in deep love, in intense passion, in utter ecstasy, will not be able to know who he is, because he will not have the mirror to see his own reflection.
Relationship is a mirror, and the purer the love is, the higher the love is, the better the mirror, the cleaner the mirror. But the higher love needs that you should be open. The higher love needs you to be vulnerable. You have to drop your armor; that is painful. You have not to be constantly on guard. You have to drop the calculating mind. You have to risk. You have to live dangerously. The other can hurt you; that is the fear in being vulnerable. The other can reject you; that is the fear in being in love.” Osho

WHY ATTEND THIS COURSE?

In a safe and contained group setting we will explore our wounds, misunderstandings and false believes around intimacy. When we experience that everybody is afraid of intimacy, it invites us to step away from behind our false identity and protective wall.

Realizing that we are all vulnerable and sensitive human beings who were not seen in our lovability just for who we are, makes us less judgmental towards ourselves and others. Learning to love ourselves first will transform our love to an – open hand gesture – instead of clinging or being demanding on others. The other will feel welcomed instead to share in our overflowing heart space and we will mutually acknowledge that love arises from this abundance.

“Love is an open sky. To be in love is to be on the wing. But certainly, the unbounded sky creates fear.” Osho

Opening to Intimacy invites you to take a risk to come out of your comfort zone and playfully meet others just for the joy and fun of getting to know oneself and the other person.

“Love is painful because it creates the way for bliss. Love is painful because it transforms; love is mutation. Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new.” Osho

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

To understand that real intimacy starts with intimately relating with oneself first
To learn how to lovingly take care of what you hide inside you
To recognize your parental and social conditioning around intimacy
To understand how we all have an Inner Man and an Inner Woman
To recognize and respect your own physical boundaries
To understand the difference between loneliness and aloneness
That in meditation we experience the space of at-oneness as the ultimate intimacy

WHAT IS INCLUDED?

A live 3-day course. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Friday: approximately 10 hours with breaks including OSHO Kundalini Meditation
Saturday and Sunday: approximately 12 hours with breaks including OSHO Dynamic and OSHO Kundalini Meditations
Various techniques to explore your issues related to intimacy
Individual introspective exercises
Group processes and group sharing
Osho quotes and insights about our misunderstandings around intimacy
Q&A sessions with facilitator

“Love creates problems. You can avoid those problems by avoiding love. But those are very essential problems! They have to be faced, encountered; they have to be lived and gone through and gone beyond. And to go beyond, the way is through. Love is the only real thing worth doing. All else is secondary. If it helps love, it is good. All else is just a means, love is the end. So whatsoever the pain, go into love.

“If you don’t go into love, as many people have decided, then you are stuck with yourself.

“Hence people are interested in sex, because sex is not risky. It is momentary, you don’t get involved. Love is involvement; it is commitment. It is not momentary. Once it takes roots, it can be forever. It can be a lifelong involvement. Love needs intimacy, and only when you are intimate does the other become a mirror. When you meet sexually with a woman or a man, you have not met at all; in fact, you avoided the soul of the other person. You just used the body and escaped, and the other used your body and escaped. You never became intimate enough to reveal each other’s original faces.” Osho