The Orange Book

0 1 a 0 1a © copyright 1980 by Rajneesh Foundation Published by Ma Yoga Laxmi, Rajneesh Foundation, Shree Rajneesh Ashram, 17 Koregaon Park, Poona 411 001, India First edition December 1980 5,000 copies Photo typeset by Graphic Systems Poona Processed by Rajneesh Foundation Poona Printed by Usha Offset Printers Pvt. Ltd. Contents Bombay Printed in India THE GREATEST JOY IN LIFE All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any laughter, movement and catharsis 15 form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, DAWN recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. MORNING celebration, work and play 45 Compilation and editing Swami Anand Veetmoha AFTERNOON sitting, looking and listening 93 Design Swami Anand Subhadra EVENING shake, dance and sing 131 Coordination Ma Yoga Pratima, Ma Deva Ritambhara Production Ma Anand Parinita, Ma Prem Tushita, NIGHT fantasy, prayer and love 159 Swami Anand Hartmut Cover Design Swami Govinddas THE ONLY WAY 219 techniques have become useless that we really become meditators and can see that far-away ‘here-and-now’ is simply here, now. Until then, join the dance! Laugh and sing, run, jump and scream, sit and stare, live, love and pray from dawn to darkness with these beautiful meditations. And don’t let your daily routine be an excuse for not jumping in and experimenting. The arrangement into sections follows the scheduling of the five main meditations of the monthly meditation camps at the Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Poona, or the times suggested by Osho; but these sections are only suggestions, not rigid categories. It is infinitely better to do the Dynamic Meditation in the evening than not at all. And if work permits you can sing and Introduction dance all day long! Think of meditation as an adventure and this Orange Book as your guide. And when the point is reached that a Master is needed, come, THIS Orange Book is a collection of meditation techniques that Osho for the source of it all is here. has given over the years, together with extracts and quotations from the books of his morning discourses and evening darshans. Swami Anand Veetmoha Some of the techniques – Vipassana, Nadabrahma, Whirling – have been familiar to meditators of many traditions for centuries; others – Dynamic, Kundalini, Gourishankar – reflect both the wisdom of these traditions and the findings of contemporary psychology; they are Osho’s unique prescription for the needs of modern man. Together, they add up to a rare opportunity for us to exhaust all our efforts to reach the here-and-now and find ourselves. In Osho’s vision, as in the vision of all the Buddhas throughout the ages, it is only when all our efforts have come to an end and all these _ The Greatest Joy in Life What is meditation? 3 The first thing is to know what meditation is. Everything else follows. I cannot say to you that you should do meditation, I can only explain to you what it is. If you understand me, you will be in meditation; there is no should to it. If you don’t understand me, you will not be in meditation. What is meditation? in that silence truth is known, and never otherwise. Meditation is a state of no-mind. MEDITATION is a state of no-mind. Meditation is a state of pure And you cannot find meditation through the mind, because mind consciousness with no content. Ordinarily, your consciousness is too will perpetuate itself. You can find meditation only by putting the full of rubbish, just like a mirror covered with dust. The mind is a mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind; by constant traffic: thoughts are moving, desires are moving, memories seeing the mind pass, but not getting identified with it, not thinking are moving, ambitions are moving – it is a constant traffic! Day in, that I am it. day out. Even when you are asleep the mind is functioning, it is Meditation is the awareness that I am not the mind. When the dreaming. It is still thinking; it is still in worries and anxieties. It is awareness goes deeper and deeper in you, slowly slowly, a few preparing for the next day; an underground preparation is going on. moments arrive – moments of silence, moments of pure space, This is the state of no meditation. Just the opposite is meditation. moments of transparency, moments when nothing stirs in you and When there is no traffic and thinking has ceased, no thoughts move, everything is still. In those still moments you will know who you are, no desire stirs, you are utterly silent – that silence is meditation. And and you will know the mystery of this existence. _ 4 The Orange Book A day comes, a day of great blessings, when meditation becomes your natural state. Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state – which we have lost. It is a paradise lost, but the paradise can be regained. Look into the child’s eyes, look and you will see tremendous silence, innocence. Each child comes with a meditative state, but he has to be initiated into the ways of the society – he has to be taught how to think, how to calculate, how to reason, how to argue; he has to be taught words, language, concepts. And, slowly slowly, he loses contact with his own innocence. He becomes contaminated, polluted by the society. He becomes an efficient mechanism; he is no more a man. All that is needed is to regain that space once more. You have known it before, so when for the first time you know meditation, you Meditation is not concentration will be surprised – because a great feeling will arise in you as if you have known it before. And that feeling is true: you have known it before. You have forgotten. The diamond is lost in piles of rubbish. But if you can uncover it, you will find the diamond again – it is MEDITATION is not concentration. In concentration there is a yours. self concentrating and there is an object being concentrated upon. There is duality. In meditation there is nobody inside and nothing It cannot really be lost: it can only be forgotten. We are born as outside. It is not concentration. There is no division between the in meditators, then we learn the ways of the mind. But our real nature and the out. The in goes on flowing into the out, the out goes on remains hidden somewhere deep down like an undercurrent. Any day, flowing into the in. The demarcation, the boundary, the border, no a little digging, and you will find the source still flowing, the source longer exists. The in is out, the out is in; it is a non-dual of fresh waters. And the greatest joy in life is to find it. consciousness. Concentration is a dual consciousness: that’s why concentration creates tiredness; that’s why when you concentrate you feel exhausted. And you cannot concentrate for twenty-four hours, you will have to take holidays to rest. Concentration can never become ___ 6 Meditation is not concentration your nature. Meditation does not tire, meditation does not exhaust you. Meditation can become a twenty-four hour thing – day in, day out, year in, year out. It can become eternity. It is relaxation itself. Concentration is an act, a willed act. Meditation is a state of no will, a state of inaction. It is relaxation. One has simply dropped into one’s own being, and that being is the same as the being of All. In concentration the mind functions out of a conclusion: you are doing something. Concentration comes out of the past. In meditation there is no conclusion behind it. You are not doing anything in particular, you are simply being. It has no past to it, it is uncontaminated by the past. It has no future to it, it is pure of all future. It is what Lao Tzu has called wei-wu-wei, action through inaction. It is what Zen masters have been saying: Sitting silently doing nothing, the spring comes and Choosing a meditation the grass grows by itself. Remember, ‘by itself' – nothing is being done. You are not pulling the grass upwards; the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. That state – when you allow life to go on its own way, when you don't want to direct it, when you don’t want to FROM the very beginning find something which appeals to you. give any control to it, when you are not manipulating, when you are not enforcing any discipline on it – that state of pure undisciplined Meditation should not be a forced effort. If it is forced, it is spontaneity, is what meditation is. doomed from the very beginning. A forced thing will never make you natural. There is no need to create unnecessary conflict. This is to be Meditation is in the present, pure present. Meditation is understood because mind has a natural capacity to meditate if you immediacy. You cannot meditate, you can be in meditation. You give it objects which are appealing to it. cannot be in concentration, but you can concentrate. Concentration is human, meditation is divine. If you are body oriented, there are ways you can reach towards God through the body because the body also belongs to God. If you feel you are heart oriented, then prayer. If you feel you are intellect oriented, then meditation.

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