VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA VOL1
Entering the inner centering
VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA VOL1
Entering the inner centering
18. LOOK LOVINGLY AT SOME OBJECT. DO NOT GO TO ANOTHER OBJECT. HERE IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT -- THE BLESSING.
19. WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR FEET OR HANDS, SIT ONLY ON THE BUTTOCKS. SUDDENLY,
THE CENTERING.
20. IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY RHYTHMICALLY SWAYING, EXPERIENCE. OR IN A STILL
VEHICLE, BY LETTING YOURSELF SWING IN SLOWING INVISIBLE CIRCLES.
21. PIERCE SOME PART OF YOUR NECTAR-FILLED FORM WITH A PIN, AND GENTLY
ENTER THE PIERCING AND ATTAIN TO THE INNER PURITY.
The human body is a mysterious mechanism. Its working is two-dimensional. In
order to go to the outside, your consciousness goes through the senses to
meet the world, to meet matter. But this is only one dimension of your
body's functions. Your body has another dimension also: it leads you in. If
consciousness goes out, then whatsoever you know is matter; if consciousness
goes in, then whatsoever you know is non-matter.
In reality, there is no division: matter and non-matter are one. But this
reality -- X -- if looked at through the eyes, the senses, appears as
matter. This same reality, the X, looked at from within -- not through the
senses, but through centering -- looks like non-matter. The reality is one,
but you can look at it in two ways. One is through the senses; another is
not through the senses. All these techniques of centering are really to lead
you to a point in yourself where senses are not working, where you go beyond
senses.
Three things have to be understood first before we enter the techniques.
Firstly, when you see through the eyes, the eyes are not seeing: they are
only openings to see. The seer is behind the eyes. That which looks through
the eyes is not the eyes. That is why you can close your eyes and still see
dreams, visions, images. The seer is behind the senses; he moves through the
senses to the world. But if you close your senses, the seer remains within.
If the seer, this consciousness, is centered, suddenly he becomes aware of
himself. And when you are aware of yourself you are aware of the total
existence, because you and existence are not two. But to become aware of
oneself one needs centering. By centering I mean your consciousness not
being divided in many directions, your consciousness not moving anywhere,
remaining in itself... non-moving, rooted, without any direction, just
remaining there: in.
It looks difficult to remain in, because for our minds even this thinking
of how to remain in becomes a going out. We start thinking: the "how" starts
thinking. To think about the in, the inner, is also a thought for us -- and
every thought as such belongs to the outer, never to the inner, because in
the innermost center you are simply consciousness.
Thoughts are like clouds. They have come to you, but they do not belong to
you. Every thought comes from the outside, from without. You cannot produce
a single thought inside, within. Every thought comes from the outside; there
is no possibility of creating a thought within. Thoughts are like clouds
coming to you. So whenever you are thinking, you are not in -- remember. To
be thinking is to be out. So even if you are thinking about the inner, the
soul, the self, you are not in.
All these thoughts about the self, about the inner, about the within, have
come from without; they do not belong to you. To you belongs only simple
consciousness, sky-like, without the clouds.
So what to do? How to gain this simple consciousness inside? Some devices
are used, because directly you cannot do anything. Some devices are needed
through which you are thrown in, thrown to it. This center always needs an
indirect approach; you cannot approach it directly. Understand this clearly,
because this is very basic.
You are playing, and later on you report that it was very blissful, that "I
was feeling very happy, I enjoyed it. A subtle happiness has been left
behind." Someone listens to you. He is also after happiness -- everyone is.
He says, "Then I must play, because if through playing happiness is
achieved, then I must achieve." He plays also, but he is directly concerned
with happiness, with bliss, with enjoyment. Happiness is a by-product. If
you are totally in your play, absorbed, happiness results, but if you are
constantly hankering for happiness nothing happens. The play is the start.
You are listening to music. Someone says, "I feel very blissful." But if
constantly you are directly concerned with bliss, you will not even be able
to listen. That concern, that greed for bliss will become a barrier. Bliss
is a by-product, you cannot grab it directly. It is so delicate a phenomenon
that you have to approach it only indirectly. Do something else and it
happens. You cannot do it directly.
Whatsoever is beautiful, whatsoever is eternal is so delicate that if you
try to grab it directly it is destroyed. That is what is meant by techniques
and devices. These techniques go on telling you to do something. That which
you are doing is not significant; that which results is significant. But
your mind must be concerned with doing, with technique, not with the result.
The result happens -- it is bound to happen. But it always happens
indirectly, so do not be concerned with the result. Be concerned with the
technique. Do it as totally as possible, and forget the result. It happens,
but you can become a barrier to it.
If you are concerned only with the result, then it will never happen. And
then it becomes very strange. People come to me and say, "You said that if
we do meditation this will happen, but we are doing it and this is not
happening." And they are right, but they have forgotten the condition: you
have to forget about the result, only then does it happen.
You have to be in the act totally. The more you are in the act, the sooner
the result happens. But it is always indirect. You cannot be aggressive
about it; you cannot be violent about it. It is such a delicate phenomenon;
it cannot be attacked. It only comes to you while you are engaged somewhere
else so totally that your inner space is vacant. These techniques are all
indirect. There is no direct technique for spiritual happening.
Now the technique -- the sixth technique for centering:
LOOK LOVINGLY ON SOME OBJECT. DO NOT GO ON TO ANOTHER OBJECT. HERE IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT -- THE BLESSING.
I should repeat it: LOOK LOVINGLY ON SOME OBJECT. DO NOT GO ON TO ANOTHER.
Do not move to another object. HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS OBJECT -- THE
BLESSING.
LOOK LOVINGLY ON SOME OBJECT... LOVINGLY is the key. Have you ever looked
lovingly at any object? You may say yes because you do not know what it
means to look lovingly at an object. You may have looked lustfully at an
object -- that is another thing. That is totally different, diametrically
opposite. So first, the difference; try to feel the difference.
A beautiful face, a beautiful body -- you look at it, and you feel that you
are looking at it lovingly. But why are you looking at it? Do you want to
get something out of it? Then it is lust, not love. Do you want to exploit
it? Then it is lust, not love. Then really, you are thinking of how to use
this body, how to possess it, how to make this body an instrument for your
happiness.
Lust means how to use something for your happiness; love means your
happiness is not at all concerned. Really, lust means how to get something
out of it and love means how to give something. They are diametrically
opposite.
If you see a beautiful face and you feel love toward the face, the
immediate feeling in your consciousness will be how to do something to make
this face happy, how to do something to make this man or this woman happy.
The concern is not with yourself, the concern is with the other.
In love the other is important; in lust you are important. In lust you are
thinking how to make the other your instrument; in love you are thinking how
to become an instrument yourself. In lust you are going to sacrifice the
other; in love you are going to sacrifice yourself. Love means giving; lust
means getting. Love is a surrender; lust is an aggression.
What you say is meaningless. Even in lust you talk in terms of love. Your
language is not very meaningful, so do not be deceived. Look within, and
then you will come to understand that you have not once in your life looked
lovingly toward someone or some object.
The second distinction to be made: this sutra says, LOOK LOVINGLY ON SOME
OBJECT. Really, even if you look lovingly at something material, insentient,
the object will become a person. If you look lovingly at it, your love is
the key to transform anything into a person. If you look lovingly at a tree,
the tree becomes a person.
Just the other day I was talking with Vivek, a close disciple, and I told
her that when we move to the new ashram we will name every tree, because
every tree is a person. Have you ever heard of anyone naming a tree? No one
names a tree because no one feels love for it. If the case were otherwise, a
tree would become a person. Then it is not just one in a crowd, it becomes
unique.
You name dogs and cats. When you name a dog and you call it Tiger or
something else, the dog becomes a person. Then it is not just one dog
amongst other dogs, it has a personality; you have created a person.
Whenever you look lovingly at something, it becomes a person.
And the contrary is also true. Whenever you look with lustful eyes toward a
person, the person becomes an object, a thing. That is why lustful eyes are
repulsive -- because no one likes to become a thing. When you look at your
wife with lustful eyes -- or at any other woman, or man, with lustful eyes
-- the other feels hurt. What are you doing really? You are changing a
person, a living person, into a dead instrument. You are thinking of how to
"use," and the person is killed.
That is why lustful eyes are repulsive, ugly. When you look at someone with
love, the other is raised. He becomes unique. Suddenly he becomes a person.
A person cannot be replaced; a thing can be replaced. A `thing' means that
which is replaceable; a `person' means that which cannot be replaced: there
is no possibility of replacing him or her. A person is unique; a thing is
not unique.
Love makes anything unique. That is why without love you never feel like a
person. Unless someone loves you deeply, you never feel that you have any
uniqueness. You are just one in a crowd -- just a number, a datum. You can
be changed.
For example, if you are a clerk in an office or a teacher in a school or a
professor in a university, your professor-hood is replaceable. Another
professor will replace you; he can replace you at any moment because you are
just used there as a professor. You have a functional meaning and
significance.
If you are a clerk, someone else is easily able to do the work. The work
will not wait for you. If you die this moment, the next moment someone will
replace you and the mechanism will continue. You were just a figure --
another figure will do. You were just a utility.
But then someone falls in love with this clerk or this professor. Suddenly
the clerk is no more a clerk; he has become a unique person. If he dies,
then the beloved cannot replace him. He is irreplaceable. Then the whole
world may go on in the same way, but the one who was in love cannot be the
same. This uniqueness, this being a person, happens through love.
This sutra says, LOOK LOVINGLY AT SOME OBJECT. It makes no distinction
between an object and a person. There is no need, because when you look
lovingly anything will become a person. The very look changes, transforms.
You may or may not have observed what happens when you drive a particular
car, say a Fiat. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of Fiats
exactly similar, but your car, if you are in love with it, becomes unique --
a person. It cannot be replaced; a relationship is created. Now you feel
this car as a person. If something goes wrong... a slight sound, and you
feel it. And cars are very temperamental. You know the temper of your car --
when it feels good and when it feels bad. The car becomes, by and by, a
person.
Why? If there is a love relationship, anything becomes a person. If there
is a lust relationship, then a person will become a thing. And this is one
of the most inhuman acts man can do -- to make someone a thing.
LOOK LOVINGLY AT SOME OBJECT... So what is one to do? When you look
lovingly, what are you to do? The first thing: forget yourself. Forget
yourself completely! Look at a flower and forget yourself completely. Let
the flower be; you become completely absent. Feel the flower, and a deep
love will flow from your consciousness toward the flower. And let your
consciousness be filled with only one thought -- how you can help this
flower to flower more, to become more beautiful, to become more blissful.
What can you do?
It is not meaningful whether you can do or not; that is not relevant. The
feeling of what you can do -- this pain, this deep ache over what you can do
to make this flower more beautiful, more alive, more flowering -- is
meaningful. Let this thought reverberate into your whole being. Let every
fiber of your body and mind feel it. You will be transfixed in an ecstasy,
and the flower will become a person.
DO NOT GO ON TO ANOTHER OBJECT... You cannot go. If you are in a love
relationship, you cannot go. If you love someone in this group, then you
forget the whole crowd; only one face remains. Really, you do not see anyone
else, you see only one face. All the others are there, but they are
subliminal -- just on the periphery of your consciousness. They are NOT.
They are just shadows; only one face remains. If you love someone then only
that face remains, so you cannot move.
Do not go to another object, remain with one. Remain with a roseflower or
remain with a beloved's face. Remain there loving, flowing, with just one
heart, with the feeling of, "What can I do to make the loved one happier,
blissful?"
HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT -- THE BLESSING. And when this is the case
you are absent, not concerned with yourself at all, not selfish, not
thinking in terms of your pleasure, your gratification. You have forgotten
yourself completely, and you are just thinking in terms of the other. The
other has become the center of your love; your consciousness is flowing
toward the other. With deep compassion, with a deep feeling of love, you are
thinking, "What can I do to make the loved one blissful?" In this state,
suddenly, HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT -- THE BLESSING. Suddenly, as a
by-product, the blessing comes to you. Suddenly you become centered.
This looks paradoxical because this sutra says to forget yourself
completely, not to be self-centered, to move to the other completely. Buddha
is reported to have said continuously that whenever you are praying, pray
for others -- never for yourself. Otherwise the prayer is just useless.
One man came to Buddha and he said, "I accept your teaching, but only one
thing is very difficult to accept. You say that whenever we do prayer we are
not to think about ourselves, we are not to ask anything about ourselves. We
have to say, `Whatsoever may be the result of my prayer, let that result be
distributed to all. If blessing happens, let it be distributed to all.'"
The man said, "This is okay, but can I make only one exception? Not to my
immediate neighbor -- he is my enemy. Let this blessing be distributed to
all except to my immediate neighbor."
The mind is self-centered, so Buddha said, "Your prayer is useless. Nothing
will come out of it unless you are ready to give all, to distribute all, and
then all will be yours."
In love you are to forget yourself. It looks paradoxical: then when and how
will the centering happen? By being totally concerned with the other, with
the other's happiness, when you forget yourself completely and only the
other remains there, suddenly you are filled with bliss -- the blessing.
Why? Because when you are not concerned with yourself you become vacant,
empty; the inner space is created. When your mind is totally concerned with
the other, you become mindless within. Then there are no thoughts inside.
And then this thought -- "How can I be helpful? How can I create more bliss?
How can the other be more happy?" -- cannot continue any more, because
really, there is nothing you can do. This thought becomes a stop. There is
nothing you can do. What can you do? If you think you can do, you are still
thinking in terms of yourself -- ego.
With the love object one becomes totally helpless -- remember this.
Whenever you love someone you feel totally helpless. That is the agony of
love: one cannot feel what he can do. He wants to do everything, he wants to
give the whole universe to the lover or the beloved -- but what can he do?
If you think that you can do this or that, you are still not in a love
relationship. Love is very helpless, absolutely helpless, and that
helplessness is the beauty, because in that helplessness you are
surrendered.
Love someone and you will feel helpless; hate someone and you can do
something. Love someone and you are absolutely helpless -- because what can
you do? Whatsoever you can do seems insignificant, meaningless; it is never
enough. Nothing can be done. And when one feels that nothing can be done,
one feels that one is helpless. When one wants to do everything and feels
nothing can be done, mind stops. In this helplessness surrender happens. You
are empty. That is why love becomes a deep meditation.
Really, if you love someone, no other meditation is needed. But because no
one loves, one hundred and twelve methods are needed -- and even they may
not be enough.
Someone was here the other day. He was telling me, "It gives me much hope.
I have heard for the first time from you that there are one hundred and
twelve methods. It gives me much hope, but somewhere a depression also comes
into the mind: only one hundred and twelve methods? And if these one hundred
and twelve methods don't work for me, then is there no one hundred and
thirteenth?"
And he is right. He is right! If these one hundred and twelve methods do
not work for you, then there is no go. So as he suggests, a depression also
follows hope. But really, methods are needed because the basic method is
missing. If you can love, no method is needed.
Love itself is the greatest method, but love is difficult -- in a way
impossible. Love means putting yourself out from your consciousness, and in
the same place, where your ego has been in existence, putting someone else.
Replacing yourself by someone else means love -- as if now you are not and
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Jean Paul Sartre says that the other is the hell, and he is right. He is
right because the other creates only hell for you. But he is wrong also
because if the other can be hell, the other can he heaven. If you live
through lust, the other is a hell because then you are trying to kill that
person. You are trying to make that person a thing. Then that person will
also react and will try to make you a thing, and that creates hell.
So every husband and every wife, they are creating hell for each other
because each one is trying to possess the other. Possession is possible only
with things, never with persons. You can only be possessed by a person; you
can never possess a person. A thing can be possessed, but you try to possess
persons. Through that effort persons become things. If I make you into a
thing, you will react. Then I am your enemy. Then you will try to make a
thing out of me -- that creates hell.
You are sitting in your room alone, and then suddenly you become aware that
someone is peeping through the keyhole. Observe minutely what happens. Have
you felt any change? And why do you feel angry about this peeping Tom? He is
not doing anything to you -- just peeping. Why do you feel angry? He has
changed you into a thing. He is observing; he has made you into a thing,
into an object. That gives you an uneasiness.
And the same will happen to him if you come near the keyhole and look
through it. The other will become shattered, shocked. He was a subject just
a moment before: he was the observer and you were the observed. Now suddenly
he has been caught. He has been observed observing you, and now he has
become a thing.
When someone is observing you, suddenly you feel your freedom has been
disturbed, destroyed. That is why, unless you are in love with someone, you
cannot stare. That stare becomes ugly and violent -- unless you are in love.
If you are in love then a stare is a beautiful thing, because your stare is
not changing the other into a thing. Then you can look directly into the
eyes; then you can go deep into the eyes of the other. You are not changing
him into a thing. Rather, through your love your look is making him a
person. That is why only the stares of lovers are beautiful; otherwise
stares are ugly.
Psychologists say there is a time limit. And you all know, observe and you
will come to know, what the time limit is for how long you can stare into
someone's eyes, if he is a stranger. There is a time limit. One moment more,
and the other will become angry. Just a passing look in public can be
pardoned because it seems as if you were just seeing, not looking.
A look is a deep thing. If I just see you when passing, no relationship is
created. Or I am passing and you look at me, just while passing -- no
offense is meant so it is okay. But if you suddenly stand and look at me,
you become an observer. Then your look will disturb me and I will feel
insulted: "What are you doing? I am a person, not a thing. This is not the
way to look."
Because of this, clothes have become so meaningful. Only when you love
someone can you be easily naked, because the moment you are naked your whole
body becomes an object. Someone can look at your whole body, and if he is
not in love with you his eyes will turn your whole body, your whole being,
into an object. But when you are in love with someone you can be naked
without feeling that you are naked. Rather, you would like to be naked,
because you would like this transforming love to transform your whole body
into a person.
Whenever you are turning someone into a thing, that act is immoral. But if
you are filled with love, then in that love-filled moment with any object
this phenomenon, this blessing, is possible. It happens.
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OBJECT -- THE BLESSING. Suddenly you have forgotten
yourself -- the other was there. Then when the right moment comes, when you
are no longer present, absolutely absent, the other will also become absent.
And between the two the blessing happens. That is what lovers feel. That
blessing is also because of an unknown, unconscious meditation.
When two lovers are there, by and by they both become absent. A pure
existence remains -- without any egos, without any conflict... just a
communion. In that communion one feels blissful. It is wrongly inferred that
the other has given that bliss to you. That bliss has come because
unknowingly you have fallen into a deep meditative technique.
You can do it consciously -- and when you do it consciously it goes deeper,
because then you are not obsessed with the object. This is happening every
day. If you love someone, you feel blissful not because of him or her, but
because of love. And why because of love? Because this phenomenon happens --
this sutra happens.
But then you become obsessed. Then you think that because of A, because of
A's proximity, nearness, because of A's love this blessing happens. Then you
think, "I must possess A, because without A being present I may not be able
to get this blessing again." You become jealous. If someone else possesses
A, then he will be blissful and you will feel miserable, so you want to take
away all possibilities of A being possessed by anyone else. A should be
possessed only by you, because you have glimpsed a different world through
him. Then the moment you try to possess, you will destroy the whole beauty
and the whole phenomenon.
When the lover is possessed, love is gone. Then the lover is just a thing.
You can use it, but the blessing will never come again, because that
blessing was coming when the other was a person. The other was made,
created: you created the person in the other, and the other created the
person in you. No one was an object. Both were subjectivities meeting -- two
persons meeting, not one person and one thing.
But the moment you possess, this will become impossible. And mind will try
to possess because mind thinks in terms of greed: "One day bliss has
happened, so it must happen to me every day. So I must possess." But the
bliss happens because there is no possession. And the bliss happens not
because of the other, really, but because of you. Remember this, the bliss
happens because of you. Because you are so absorbed in the other, the bliss
happens.
It can happen with a roseflower, it can happen with a rock, it can happen
with the trees, it can happen with anything. Once you know the situation in
which it happens, it can happen anywhere. If you know that you are not, and
with a deep love your consciousness has moved to the other -- to the trees,
to the sky, to the stars, to anyone; when your total consciousness is
addressed to the other it leaves you, it moves away from you -- in that
absence of the self is the blessing.
The seventh technique:
WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR FEET OR HANDS, SIT ONLY ON BUTTOCKS. SUDDENLY, THE
CENTERING.
This technique has been used by Taoists in China for centuries, and it is a
wonderful technique -- one of the easiest. Try this: WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR
FEET OR HANDS, SIT ONLY ON BUTTOCKS. SUDDENLY, THE CENTERING.
What is to be done? You will need two things. First, a very sensitive body,
which you do not have. You have a dead body; it is just a burden to be
carried -- not sensitive. First you will have to make your body sensitive;
otherwise this technique will not work. So first I will tell you something
about how to make your body sensitive, and particularly your buttocks,
because ordinarily your buttocks are the most insensitive part in your body.
They have to be. They have to be because you are sitting the whole day on
your buttocks. If they are too sensitive, it will be difficult.
So your buttocks are insensitive -- they need to be. Just like the soles of
the feet, they are insensitive. Continuously sitting on them, you never feel
you are sitting on your buttocks. Have you ever felt it before this? Now you
can feel you are sitting on your buttocks, but you have never felt it before
-- and you have been sitting on your buttocks your whole life, never aware.
Their function is such that they cannot be very sensitive.
So first you have to make them sensitive. Try one very easy method... And
this method can be done to any part of the body; then the body will become
sensitive. Just sit on a chair, relaxed, and close your eyes. Feel your left
hand or your right hand -- either one. Feel your left hand. Forget the whole
body and just feel the left hand. The more you feel it, the more the left
hand will become heavy.
Go on feeling the left hand. Forget the whole body, just go on feeling the
left hand as if you are just the left hand. The hand will go on becoming
more and more and more heavy. As it goes on becoming heavy, go on feeling it
becoming more heavy. Then try to feel what is happening in the hand.
Whatever the sensation, note it down: any sensation, any jerk, any slight
movement -- note down in the mind that this is happening. And go on doing it
every day for at least three weeks. At any time during the day, do it for
ten minutes, fifteen minutes. Just feel the left hand and forget the whole
body.
Within three weeks you will feel you have a new left hand, or a new right
hand. It will be so sensitive. And you will become aware of very minute and
delicate sensations in the hand.
When you succeed with the hand, then try with the buttocks. Then try: close
your eyes and feel that only two buttocks exist; you are no more. Let your
whole consciousness go to the buttocks. It is not difficult. If you try, it
is wonderful. And the feeling of aliveness that comes in the body is in
itself very blissful. Then, when you can feel your buttocks and they can
become very sensitive, when you can feel anything happening inside -- a
slight movement, a slight pain or anything -- then you can observe and you
can know. Then your consciousness is joined to the buttocks.
First try it with the hand. Because the hand is very sensitive, it is easy.
Once you gain the confidence that you can sensitize your hand, this
confidence will help you to sensitize your buttocks. Then do this technique.
So you will need at least six weeks before you can enter this technique --
three weeks with your hand and then three weeks with your buttocks, just
making them more and more sensitive.
Lying on the bed, forget the whole body. Just remember that only two
buttocks are left. Feel the touch -- the bedsheet, the coldness or the
slowly coming warmth. Feel it. Lying down in your bathtub, forget the body.
Remember only the buttocks -- feel. Stand against a wall with your buttocks
touching the wall -- feel the coldness of the wall. Stand with your beloved,
with your wife or husband, buttock to buttock -- feel the other through the
buttocks. This is just to "create" your buttocks, to bring them to a
situation where they start feeling.
Then do this technique: WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR FEET OR HANDS... Sit on the
ground. WITHOUT SUPPORT FOR FEET OR HANDS, SIT ONLY ON THE BUTTOCKS. The
Buddha posture will do; PADMASANA will do. Or SIDDHASANA will do, or any
ordinary asana, but it is good not to use your hands. Just remain on the
buttocks; sit only on the buttocks. Then what to do? Just close your eyes.
Feel the buttocks touching the ground. And because the buttocks have become
sensitive, you will feel that one buttock is touching more. You are leaning
on one buttock, and the other is touching less. Then move the leaning to the
other. Immediately move to the other; then come to the first. Go on moving
from one to the other, and then by and by, balance.
Balancing means that both of your buttocks are feeling the same. Your
weight on both of the buttocks is exactly the same. And when your buttocks
are sensitive this will not be difficult, you will feel it. Once both your
buttocks are balanced, SUDDENLY, THE CENTERING. With that balance, suddenly
you will be thrown to your navel center, and you will be centered inside.
You will forget the buttocks, you will forget the body. You will be thrown
to the inner center.
That is why I say centers are not meaningful, but centering is -- whether
it happens at the heart or at the head or at the buttocks, or anywhere. You
have seen buddhas sitting. You may not have imagined that they are balancing
their buttocks. You go to a temple and see Mahavir sitting, Buddha sitting;
you may never have imagined that this sitting is just a balancing on the
buttocks. It is -- and when there is no imbalance, suddenly that balance
gives you the centering.
The eighth technique:
IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY RHYTHMICALLY SWAYING, EXPERIENCE. OR IN A STILL
VEHICLE, BY LETTING YOURSELF SWING IN SLOWING INVISIBLE CIRCLES.
It is the same in a different way. IN A MOVING VEHICLE... You are traveling
in a train or in a bullock cart -- when this technique was developed there
was only the bullock cart. You are moving in a bullock cart on an Indian
road -- even today the road is the same. But when you are moving, your whole
body is moving. Then it is useless.
IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY RHYTHMICALLY SWAYING... Sway rhythmically. Try to
understand; this is very minute. Whenever you are in a bullock cart or in
any vehicle, you are resisting. The bullock cart sways to the left, but you
resist it. You sway to the right in order to balance; otherwise you will
fall down. So you are constantly resisting. Sitting in a bullock cart, you
are fighting its movements. It moves to this side, and you have to move to
that.
That is why when sitting in a train you become tired. You have not been
doing anything. Why do you become so tired? You have been doing much
unknowingly. You were fighting the train continuously; there was resistance.
Do not resist -- this is the first thing. If you want to do this technique,
do not resist. Rather, move with the movements, sway with the movements.
Become part of the bullock cart, do not resist it. Whatsoever the bullock
cart is doing on the road, become part of it. That is why children are never
tired of journeying.
Poonam, a disciple, has just come from London with her two children, and
she was afraid that they may get ill, that they may get tired because of
such a long journey. She became tired, and they came laughing. She became
completely tired when she came here. The moment she entered my room she was
dead tired, and the two children started playing right then and there. An
eighteen-hour-long journey from London to Bombay and they were not a bit
tired. Why? Because they do not know how to resist yet.
So a drunkard can sit in a bullock cart for the whole night, and in the
morning he will be as fresh as ever, but you will not be. It is because a
drunkard cannot resist. He moves with the cart; there is no fight. The
fighting is not there, he is one. IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY RHYTHMICALLY
SWAYING... So do one thing: do not resist. And the second thing, create a
rhythm. Create a rhythm in your movements. Make it a beautiful harmony.
Forget about the road; do not curse the road and the government -- forget
them. Do not curse the bullock and the bullock cart, or the driver -- forget
them. Close your eyes, do not resist. Move rhythmically and create a music
in your movement. Make it as if it is a dance. IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY
RHYTHMICALLY SWAYING, EXPERIENCE. The sutra says the experience will come to
you.
OR IN A STILL VEHICLE... Do not ask where to get a bullock cart; do not
deceive yourself, because the sutra says, OR IN A STILL VEHICLE, BY LETTING
YOURSELF SWING IN SLOWING INVISIBLE CIRCLES. Just sitting here, swing in a
circle. First take a big circle, then go on slowing it... slowing, slowing,
making it smaller and smaller and smaller, until your body is not visibly
moving, but inside you feel a subtle movement.
Start with a bigger circle, with closed eyes. Otherwise, when the body will
stop you will stop. With closed eyes make big circles; just sitting, swing
in a circle. Go on swinging, making the circle smaller and smaller and
smaller. Visibly you will stop; no one will be able to detect that you are
still moving. But inside you will feel a subtle movement. Now the body is
not moving, only the mind. Go on making it slower and slower, and
experience. That will become a centering. In a vehicle, in a moving vehicle,
a non-resisting rhythmical movement will create a centering within you.
Gurdjieff created many dances for such techniques. He was working on this
technique. All the dances he was using in his school were, really, swaying
in circles. All the dances were in circles -- just whirling but remaining
aware inside, by and by making the circles smaller and smaller. A time comes
when the body stops, but the mind inside goes on moving, moving, moving.
If you have been traveling in a train for twenty hours, after you have come
home, after you have left the train, if you close your eyes you will feel
that you are still traveling. Still you are traveling. The body has stopped,
but the mind is still feeling the vehicle. So just do this technique.
Gurdjieff created phenomenal dances, very beautiful. In this century he
worked miracles -- not miracles like Satya Sai Baba. Those are not miracles;
any street magician can do them. But Gurdjieff really created miracles. He
prepared a group of a hundred people for meditative dancing, and he was
showing that dance to an audience in New York for the first time. A hundred
dancers were on the stage whirling. Those who were in the audience, even
their minds began whirling. There were a hundred white-robed dancers just
whirling.
When he indicated with his hand, they would whirl, and the moment he would
say, "Stop," there would be dead silence. That was a stop for the audience,
but not for the dancers -- because the body can stop immediately, but the
mind then takes the movement inside; it goes on and on. It was beautiful
even to look at, because a hundred persons suddenly became dead statues. It
created a sudden shock in the audience also, because a hundred movements --
beautiful movements, rhythmical movements -- suddenly stopped. You would be
looking at them moving, whirling, dancing, and suddenly the dancers stopped.
Then your thought would also stop.
Many in New York felt that it was a weird phenomenon: their thoughts
stopped immediately. But for the dancers, the dance continued inside, and
the inside whirling circles became smaller and smaller until they became
centered.
One day it happened that they were coming just to the edge of the stage,
dancing. It was expected, supposed, that Gurdjieff would stop them just
before they danced down the stage onto the audience. A hundred dancers were
just on the edge of the stage. One step more and they would all fall down
into the hall. The whole hall was expecting that suddenly Gurdjieff would
say stop, but he turned his back to light his cigar. He turned his back to
the dancers to light his cigar, and the whole group of a hundred dancers
fell down from the stage upon the floor -- on a naked stone floor.
The whole audience stood up. They were screaming, shouting, and they were
thinking that many must have broken their bones -- it was such a crash. But
not a single one was hurt; not even a single bruise was there.
They asked Gurdjieff what had happened. No one had been hurt, and the crash
was such that it seemed impossible. The reason was only this: they were
really not in their bodies at that moment. They were slowing down their
inner circling. And when Gurdjieff saw that now they were completely
oblivious of their bodies, he allowed them to fall down.
If you are completely oblivious of your body, there is no resistance. A
bone is broken because of resistance. If you are falling down, you resist:
you go against the pull of gravity. That going against, that resistance, is
the problem -- not gravity. If you can fall down with gravity, if you can
cooperate with it, then no possibility of being hurt will arise.
This sutra: IN A MOVING VEHICLE, BY RHYTHMICALLY SWAYING, EXPERIENCE. OR IN
A STILL VEHICLE, BY LETTING YOURSELF SWING IN SLOWING INVISIBLE CIRCLES. You
can do it. There is no need of a vehicle, just whirl like children do. When
your mind goes crazy, and you feel that now you will fall down, do not stop
-- go on! Even if you fall down, do not worry about it, close your eyes and
whirl. Your mind will get whirled, and you will fall down. When your body
has fallen down, inside, feel! The whirling will continue. And it will come
nearer and nearer and nearer, and suddenly you will be centered.
Children enjoy this very much because they get a great kick. Parents never
allow their children to whirl. It is not good: they should be allowed --
rather, encouraged. And if you can make them aware of inner whirling also,
you can teach them meditation through their whirling. They enjoy it because
they have a bodiless feeling. When they whirl, suddenly children become
aware that their body is whirling but they are not. Inside they feel a
centering which we cannot feel so easily, because their bodies and souls are
still a bit apart; there is a gap.
When you come into your mother's womb, you cannot immediately get totally
in the body; it takes time. When a child is born, then too he is not
absolutely fixed, his soul is not absolutely fixed to the body; there are
gaps. That is why there are many things which he cannot do. His body is
ready to do it, but he cannot do it.
If you have observed, you may have noticed that newly-born children cannot
see with two eyes, they always see with one eye. If you observe, then you
will see that when they observe and see anything, they cannot see with two
eyes. They always look with one eye -- one eye gets bigger. The pupil of one
eye will become bigger, and the other pupil will remain small. The
consciousness of a newborn child is not yet fixed, it is loose. By and by it
will become fixed, and then they will look with two eyes.
They cannot yet feel their own body and others' bodies as different. It is
difficult. They are not yet fixed, but fixation will come, by and by.
Meditation is again trying to create a gap. You have become fixed, solidly
fixed in your body. That is why you feel, "I am the body." If a gap can be
created, then only can you feel that you are not the body but something
beyond the body. Swaying and whirling are helpful. They create the gap.
THE NINTH TECHNIQUE: PIERCE SOME PART OF YOUR NECTAR-FILLED FORM WITH A
PIN, AND GENTLY ENTER THE PIERCING AND ATTAIN TO THE INNER PURITY.
This sutra says, PIERCE SOME PART OF YOUR NECTAR-FILLED FORM... Your body
is not just a body, it is filled with you, and that you is the nectar.
Pierce your body. When you are piercing your body, you are not pierced --
only the body is pierced. But you feel the pierce as if you have been
pierced; that is why you feel pain. If you can become aware that only the
body is pierced, that you are not pierced, instead of pain you will feel
bliss. There is no need to do it with a pin. Many things happen every day;
you can use those situations for meditation. Or you can create a situation.
Some pain is there in your body. Do one thing: forget the whole body, just
concentrate on the part of the body which is painful. And then a strange
thing will be noted. When you concentrate on the part of the body which is
painful, you see that part is shrinking. First you feel that the pain, the
ache, is in your whole leg. When you concentrate, then you feel it is not in
the whole leg. It was exaggerated -- it is just at the knee.
Concentrate more, and you will feel it is not on the whole knee but just on
a pinpoint. Concentrate more on the pinpoint; forget the whole body. Just
close your eyes and go on concentrating in order to find where the pain is.
It will go on shrinking; the area will become smaller and smaller. Then a
moment will come when it will be just a pinpoint. Go on staring at the
pinpoint, and suddenly the pinpoint will disappear and you will be filled
with bliss. Instead of pain you will be filled with bliss.
Why does this happen? Because you and your body are two, they are not one.
The one who is concentrating is you. The concentration is being done on the
body -- that is the object. When you concentrate, the gap is broadened, the
identification is broken. Just to have concentration you move inside, away
from the body. To bring the spot of pain into perspective, you have to move
away. That moving away creates the gap. And when you are concentrating on
the pain, you forget the identification, you forget that "I am feeling
pain."
Now you are the observer and the pain is somewhere else. You are observing
the pain, not feeling the pain. This change from feeling to observation
creates the gap. And when the gap is bigger, suddenly you forget the body
completely; you are aware only of consciousness.
You can try this technique also: PIERCE SOME PART OF YOUR NECTAR-FILLED
BODY WITH A PIN, AND GENTLY ENTER THE PIERCING. If there is pain, then first
you will have to concentrate on the whole area; then by and by it will come
to a pinpoint.
But there is no need to wait.You can use a pin. Use a pin on any part which
is sensitive. On the body many spots are blind spots; they will not be
useful. You may not have heard about blind spots on the body. Then give a
pin to anyone, to your friend, and sit, and tell your friend to pierce your
back with the pin at many points. At many points you will feel no pain. You
will say, "No, you have not pierced yet. I am not feeling any pain." Those
are blind spots. Just on your cheeks there are two blind spots which can be
tested.
If you go to Indian villages, many times in religious festivals they will
pierce their cheeks with an arrow. It looks like a miracle, but it is not.
The cheeks have two blind spots. If you pierce through these blind spots, no
blood will come out and there will be no pain. On your back there are
thousands of dead spots, where you cannot feel any pain. Your body has two
types of spots -- sensitive, alive ones, and those that are dead. So find a
sensitive spot where you can feel even a slight touch. Then pierce the pin
and ENTER THE PIERCING. That is the thing; that is meditation. And GENTLY
enter the piercing. As the pin moves inside, into your skin, and you feel
the pain, you also enter. Do not feel that the pain is entering you; do not
feel the pain, do not be identified with it. Enter with the pin. Pierce with
the pin.
Close your eyes; observe the pain. As the pain is piercing in, you also
pierce you. And with the pin piercing you, your mind will become easily
concentrated. Use that point of pain, of intense pain, and observe it. That
is what is meant by GENTLY ENTER THE PIERCING.
AND ATTAIN TO THE INNER PURITY. If you can enter observing, unidentified,
aloof, standing far away, not feeling that the pain is piercing you, but
observing that the pin is piercing the body and you are an observer, you
will attain to the inner purity; the inner innocence will be revealed to
you. For the first time you will become aware that you are not the body. And
once you know that you are not the body your life is changed completely,
because your whole life is around the body. Once you know you are not the
body, you cannot continue this life. The center is being missed.
When you are not the body, then you have to create a different life. That
life is the sannyasin's life. It is a different life; the center is
different now. Now you exist in the world as a soul, as an ATMAN, not as a
body. If you exist as a body, then you have created a different world: of
material gain, greed, gratification, lust, sex. You have created a world
around you; this is the body-oriented world.
Once you know you are not the body, your whole world disappears. You cannot
support it any more. A different world arises which is around the soul -- a
world of compassion, of love, of beauty, of truth, of goodness, of
innocence. The center is shifted, and it is not in the body now. It is in
the consciousness.
Enough for today.
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