How do the Academy for Meditation and the Academy for Bringing the Body into One Organic Whole complement each other?

Beloved master, the other day I heard you mention our academy for meditation and our academy for bringing the body into one organic whole. Could you say more about this and how you see these two academies complementing each other?

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Beloved master, what is the difference between rimu -- rajneesh international meditation university -- and rajneesh academy?

The Rajneesh International Meditation University is an educational institution. It teaches you everything about meditation. It makes you knowledgeable about the art of meditation, but it is not existential or experiential. It is educational -- just the way all other universities are. There are universities of different kinds in the world. They give you knowledge about the subject. And the meditation university gives you degrees according to your knowledge, your acquaintance with all the literature about meditation. Let me emphasize: it is about meditation, but it is not meditation. Rajneesh Academy is an existential, experiential institute. It does not give you knowledge about meditation; it gives you the experience of meditation. From the university we can create teachers of meditation, writers, Ph.Ds, scholars, D.Litts. But as far as they themselves are concerned, they have not tasted anything of meditation. There are one hundred and twelve methods of meditation; they were…

And remember that life is already there, manifested. There is nothing hidden in it. In Zen they say that nothing is hidden from the very beginning, but people are trying to find it -- and it is just in front of the eyes. The meaning is here in these trees, in the life of these insects, in this railway engine, in you and me. The meaning is here. [In speaking of T'ai Chi, Osho said... ] The idea is to concentrate on the chi energy in the hara. The effort is to conserve energy that is not available to anyone else, inside a citadel in your being. It is available when you need it and it makes you tremendously powerful. [Osho went on to say that once one had accumulated energy, it then has to be shared.

Meditation is the only phenomenon where there is no possibility of meeting anybody, where you have to go alone, totally alone. Hence only very courageous people can enter into the world of meditation. That's why so few people have ever entered, Why so few people have ever become enlightened. Secondly: when you move inwards you move without any maps. Even if you go to the moon you have a certain map, a certain route. There have been people before you, their footprints are there, there are milestones everywhere. Even in the sea you are not totally lost, in the sky you are not totally lost: you can communicate with people, you can give messages -- even from the moon! You can remain in some kind of relationship; it may be just through radio waves, but you can remain connected.

Osho, in your discourses you strike us hard with one hand, and with the other you give out flowers and fragrance—no, you lavish them! Do you not find it difficult to move through both at once?

A robust seed, a well-prepared field, companions gathered— that is why I put great emphasis on your cultivating both meditation and love. Meditation means: learn to be alone. Love means: create sweetness within relationships. Do not end up only alone, or you will dry up; something very precious in you will die. Something precious dies in the sannyasin who runs off to the forest. Something precious also dies in the person who lives only in the crowd. Both are incomplete. The person who lives in the crowd loses the address of his own home; he cannot return to the temple of his own mind; he gets lost in the crowd and forgets who he is. The one who goes into solitude begins to remember himself, but forgets the other; and without the remembrance of the other, the ego becomes very strong. In one who lives in solitude, the ego becomes…