Osho on Meditation ~ The Top Down Meditation Approach – Simply Non – Doing
That’s the whole secret of meditation, that you become the watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do all small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost.
Call Off The Search – A Beautiful Documentary on Papaji
The first question is: Who are you? I am That from where you, me, she, he, and all the rest emerge. I am That. Papaji
Jiddu Krishnamurti on what is Meditation and how to Meditate
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower. If you cultivate humility, it ceases to be. Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to…
Osho on the exact process for the Watchfulness meditation
When I say watch, don’t TRY to watch, otherwise you will become tense again, and you will start concentrating on the breath. Simply relax, remain relaxed, loose, and look…because what else can you do? You are there, nothing to be done, everything accepted, nothing to be denied, rejected, no struggle, no fight no conflict, breathing…
S.N.Goenka on how Vipassana can help deal with Alcohol, Drugs and Cigarette addiction
We keep advising people who are addicted to tobacco smoking-even ordinary tobacco smoking-that if an urge arises in the mind, not to take the cigarette and start smoking. Wait a little. Just accept the fact that an urge to smoke has arisen in the mind. When this urge arises, along with it there is a…
How Vipassana can help break the habit pattern of the mind ~ S.N.Goenka
You have started changing the habit pattern of your mind by observing sensation and understanding its nature of impermanence. This stops the blind habit pattern of reacting to the sensation and multiplying the vicious cycle of misery. Initially in an hour you get a few seconds or a few minutes of not reacting. But eventually,…
Series of Guided Meditations to relax your Body, Mind, Breath and Senses
Relax your energetic body, mind, breath and senses with a 4 part series of Guided Meditations from Billy Doyle
Osho quotes on how to use Sex as a Meditation
In fact, the sex act is not really a dialogue between a man and a woman. It is a dialogue of man with nature, through woman, and of a woman with nature, through man. It is a dialogue with nature. For a moment you are in the cosmic flow; you are in the celestial harmony;…
The 5 levels of Meditation ~ from Chanting to focusing on the breath and to eventually ‘Just Being’
Meditation is a vast and vague subject. With the below writeup, considering my intense experience with various techniques of meditation, i attempt to define/draw out the various levels of Meditation a seeker goes through. Hope this becomes a convenient guide for new and old Meditators to experience and understand Meditation in greater depth.
Deep Meditation is an experience of Death in life ~ Osho
You come to your innermost center where there is only pure awareness. That pure awareness will be with you when you die because that cannot be taken away. All these other things which can be taken away, we take away with our own hands in meditation.
The four parts of the Mind ~ S.N. Goenka
In the referenced video, S.N. Goenka goes on to explain the four different parts of the mind. 1. Vinnyana or Consciousness 2. Sanya or Perception 3. Vedhana or Sensation 4. Sankhara or Reaction
Knowing and loving the ~ Energy Body ~ Select quotes from Jane Klein
We must look at our body completely objectively, as we look at a tree or a table or any object which does not have a strong psychological impact on us. We will then feel, without comment, the weight, contraction, agitation, and so on. We accept the facts without psychological: interference. In accepting the sensation of…
Vijnana Bhairava Tantra on focusing awareness between breaths
Oh Bhairavi, by focusing one’s awareness on the two voids (at the end) of the internal and external breath, thereby the glorious form of Bhairava is revealed through Bhairavi. ~ Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
Our essential nature is 🌺pure consciousness. It Just Is ~ Billy Doyle
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The life I am trying to grasp is the ME that is trying to grasp it ~ RD Laing
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Select quotations on Self Enquiry and Centering Awareness from the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra
When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold. ~ Verse 62 One should concentrate on the state when sleep has not yet come, but the external awareness has disappeared (between waking and sleep)—there the…
Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle
It is Ignorance to know the diversity of the whole world and never to have asked, Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle
Krishnamurti ~ In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind
In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind ~ Krishnamurti
Li Po ~ Witnessing ~ Until only the Mountain remains
“The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” Li Po
Osho on seeing things just as they are
“Start seeing things without naming them, without labeling them, without saying good or bad, without dividing them. Just see and allow the fact to be there in your presence without any judgement, condemnation, appreciation, whatsoever ~ Osho
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone ~ Alan Watts
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone ~ Alan Watts
Empty words ~ Atmananda krishna menon
When you find that what you see is only yourself, the ‘seeing’ and ‘objects’ become mere empty words..- Atmananda krishna menon
Form ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Form is nothing but seeing. ― Atmananda Krishna Menon
You know nothing ~ Krishnamurti
Forget all you know about yourself; forget all you have ever thought about yourself; start as if you know nothing. — Krishnamurti
Need nothing ~ Gangaji
“Need nothing and then see what happens.” – Gangaji
Essential core of Osho’s Teaching
Witnessing is concerned with the body, the second with the mind, the third with the heart. And when you become capable of watching the third too, the fourth happens on its own accord. Suddenly a quantum leap and you are standing exactly at the very center of your being, where there is nothing to be…
Meditation make you more ‘You’ ~ David Lynch
The thing about meditation is: You become more and more You. – David Lynch