Dynamic Meditation

The people who come to me for spiritual guidance are people of a disciplined mind. How can people such as this practice dynamic meditation with its explosive expression of emotions?

Such people cling to discipline, but the primary need of an unstill mind is to be anarchic; only then can it transcend itself. You can ordain discipline, but discipline is an outward conditioning -- the inner being remains the same. There will be anarchy within and discipline without: anarchy remains in the heart while the discipline forms a part of the cultivated personality. So first let tension, confusion, anarchy reach a climax. Then there will be an explosion, and discipline will come as the result. Tell the people who come to you for spiritual guidance about this method. They will feel the change that happens through it themselves, the transformation. Let them practice it as an experiment -- with their unstill minds, with their doubts -- and if something happens through it, then the practice will continue by itself; there will be no need to convince them. The anarchy within…

Osho, in the third stage of Dynamic Meditation, when a lot of energy is put in, nothing remains there but light. Then fear seizes me: “I’m dead!” O Lord, what should be done in that moment?

In that moment, die. Without dying, it won’t do. In that moment, the very attempt to save yourself will bring you back again. In that moment, lose yourself. In that moment say— This is the final longing in my heart! Light the lamp of my life— let anyone dispel the darkness; but if ever the lamp must be extinguished, let it be by your tender hand. This is the final longing in my heart! If by the hand of the Divine your lamp is extinguished, what greater good fortune could there be! But if ever the lamp must be extinguished, let it be by your tender hand— this is the final longing in my heart! The question is: “Beloved Master, in that moment, what should one do?” Nothing should be done. One should silently slip into the ocean. Like a dewdrop sliding off a blade of grass, falling into the…

Question: in hatha yoga there is an exercise in which one tenses every muscle in the body and then releases the tension and becomes relaxed. Is this similar to what happens in dynamic meditation?

You are not aware of the spiritual because you have so much tension in the body, so much tension in the mind. But if you are not tense in the physical and mental realms, you will automatically know the bliss of the spiritual, the relaxation of the spiritual. It comes to you; it has been waiting for you. Your whole attention is so absorbed by the physical and the mental that there is no attention left to divert to the spiritual. Only if the body and the mind are not tense can you delve into the spiritual, can you know the bliss of it. The spiritual is never tense; it cannot be. There is no spiritual tension, only bodily tension, only mental tension. Bodily tension has been created by those who, in the name of religion, have been preaching anti-body attitudes. In the West, Christianity has been emphatically antagonistic toward…

Osho: No, no, not at their expense. Tell them about this method. They themselves will feel it. They will certainly feel the change, the transformation. Let them practise it--just as an experiment with their disturbed mind, their doubts. Let them experiment, just as an experiment. If 'something' happens, then the practice goes by itself. There is no need to convince them. And, the anarchy that is within must be exploded. It should not be stilled or cramped down. It must be expressed in total intensity. The calmness, the serenity, the Nirvana comes not by stilling the mind but by explosion. Then the stillness comes but it is not a cultivated composure. Express what you are, totally. Of course that means madness, because we are mad. So, if you express it, the madness will come out. Even you yourself will feel strange about it, unknown to yourself.