What is Dynamic Meditation (a)

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What is Dynamic Meditation?<br>Osho:<br>The first

thing to be understood about Dynamic Meditation is that

it is a method of creating a situation through

tension in which meditation can happen. If your total

being is completely tense, the only possibility that

remains is relaxation. Ordinarily one cannot go directly

into relaxation, but if your whole being is at the

peak of total tension then the second step comes

automatically, spontaneously: silence is created.<br>The first

three stages of the technique are done in order to

achieve this climax of tension throughout all the layers

of your being. The first layer is the physical body.

Beyond that is the prana sharir, the vital body: this is

your second body, the etheric body. Beyond it is the

third body, the astral body.<br>Your vital body takes

in breath as its food. If the normal intake of

oxygen is changed, the vital body is bound to change.

Deep, fast breathing for ten minutes in the first stage

of the technique is a means of changing the whole

chemistry of your vital body.<br>The breathing must be both

deep and fast- as deep as possible and as fast as

possible. If you cannot do both, then it must be fast. Fast

breathing becomes a sort of hammering on the vital body and

something which is asleep begins to wake: the reservoir of

your energies breaks open. The breathing is like a

flood of electricity throughout the whole nervous

system.<br>So you must do the first step as vigorously, as

intensely as possible. You must be in it totally; not a

single fragment of you should be outside of it. Your

whole being should be in the breathing in the first

step. You are just an anarchy: breathing in, breathing

out. Your total mind is in the process- breath going

out, breath coming in. if you are totally in it,

thoughts will cease because none of your energy is

available to move into thought- there is no energy left to

keep them alive.<br>Then, when the body electricity

begins to work in you, the second step begins. When

bioenergy begins revolving in you, working through your

nervous system, many things are possible for your body.

You must be free to let the body do anything it wants

to do.<br>This second step will be not only a state

of letgo but a state of positive cooperation too.

You must cooperate with your body, because the

language of the body is a symbolic one which has

ordinarily been lost. If your body wants to dance, you

cannot feel the message. So if there is a slight

tendency toward dancing in the second stage, cooperate

with it; only then will you understand the

language.<br>Whatsoever happens in this second ten-minute stage, do to

your maximum. Throughout the whole process of the

technique, nothing should be done below the maximum. You may

begin to dance, jump, laugh, or cry. Anything that

happens to you, however the energy wants to express

itself, cooperate with it. It will just be a hunch in the

beginning, just a mild temptation- so mild that if you want

to suppress it, it will not come to the conscious

level at all. It can be suppressed unknowingly. So if

there is any hunch, any flickering, any indication in

the mind, then cooperate with it and do it to your

maximum, to the very extreme.