Biography Of Osho. Spiritual Movement, His Meditation Theory And Commandments.

 

Life of Osho

11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990

Early days

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh or Osho was a popular and powerful speaker born in 1931 in Central India and was the eldest of 11 children of a cloth merchant. He was the leader of a worldwide new spiritual movement. Rajneesh emphasized the importance of free thought, meditation, love, courage, creativity, and humor. At the age of 21, he had an intense spiritual awakening. At that time he was studying philosophy at the University of Saugar. Then after a Master's degree, he taught philosophy at the University of Jabalpur for nine years. After then, he resigned from the University and became a Guru and teacher of Meditation. In 1974, he moved with his disciples to Pune, India and he established a new Ashram on six acres. The basic center was called dynamic meditation, a process designed to allow people to experience the divine. He also became well-known for his progressive approach to sexuality, which is totally different from the thoughts of other Indian Teachers. In 1980, he was attacked by Hindu fundamentalists who disagreed with Osho's unconventional stance on religion and spirituality. So he left India and moved to America.

Spiritual Movement

His disciples bought a large plot of land near Antelope, Oregon to refocus on the Rajneesh movement`s activities. After a short time, the campaign ran into conflict with country residents and the state government. The increased tensions around the Poona ashram, along with criticism of its activities and threatened punitive action by Indian authorities, provided an impetus for the ashram to consider the establishment of a new commune in the United States. While the various legal battles ensued Rajneesh remained behind the scenes, having withdrawn from a public-facing role in what commune leadership referred to. Several months later, on 30 October 1985, he ended his period of public silence, announcing that it was the time to “speak his own truths”. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford Plea bargain. After his deportation, 21 countries deny his entry. He ultimately returned to Mumbai, India in 1986, and he was given a hero`s welcome by Indian disciples. In 1987, he settled back in Poona ashram, where he would give evening discourses. In February 1989, he expressed his wish to be called “Osho”. He gave his last public discourse in April 1989. Then onwards he would just simply sit in silence with his followers. Osho died on 19 January 1990, aged 58, reportedly of heart failure.

Osho on Meditation

Rajneesh presented contemplation not just as a practice but as a state of mindfulness to be maintained in every moment, total mindfulness that awakens the existent from the sleep of mechanical responses conditioned by beliefs and prospects. He employed Western psychotherapy in the introductory stages of contemplation to produce mindfulness of internal and emotional patterns.

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He suggested further than a hundred contemplation ways in aggregate. His own” active contemplation” ways are characterized by stages of physical exertion leading to silence. The most notorious of these remains Dynamic Contemplation which has been described as a kind of example of his outlook. Performed with closed or blindfolded eyes, it comprises five stages, four of which accompany the music.

• First, for ten twinkles, the meditator engages in moments of rapid-fire breathing through the nose. Breathe chaotically and deeply.
• The second stage is for catharsis(purification or purgation of the emotions) for ten twinkles, letting whatever is passing be. Laugh, cry, laugh, jump, shake — whatever you feel to do, do it.
• Next, one for ten twinkles jumps up and down with arms raised, crying Hoo! each time one lands on the flat of the bases.
• At the fourth, silent stage, the meditator stops moving suddenly and completely, remaining fully motionless for fifteen twinkles, witnessing everything that’s passing. Freeze and remain in position and just observe.
• The last stage of the contemplation consists of fifteen twinkles of dancing and festivity. Move to the music and celebrate.

Osho believed that sitting to meditate was difficult in the modern world. He said that through movement, the yogi could find a silent point within, whereas by sitting quietly, the yogi becomes aware of chaos.

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Rajneesh developed other active contemplation ways, similar to the Kundalini” shaking” contemplation and the Nada Brahma” humming” contemplation, which is less animated, although they also include physical exertion of one sort or another. His after” pensive curatives” bear sessions for several days, OSHO Mystic Rose comprising three hours of laughing every day for a week then three hours of weeping each day for an alternate week, and a third week with three hours of silent contemplation. These processes of” witnessing” enable a” jump into mindfulness. Rajneesh believed similar cathartic styles were necessary because it was delicate for ultramodern people to just sit and enter contemplation. Once these styles had handed regard to contemplation, also people would be suitable to use other styles without difficulty.

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Rajneesh`s Some Commandments :

• Life is now and here.
• Live wakefully.
• There is no God then life itself.
• Truth is within you, don`t search for it elsewhere.
• Die each moment so that you can be new each moment.
• Do not swim- float.

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