Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Osho on Feeling Sad
Q: I’ve been feeling sad lately...for no reason that I know of
You are holding — that may be the whole problem. You don’t trust life. Somewhere deep down there is a mistrust of life, as if, if you don’t
control them, things will go wrong and that if you remain in control only then can things go right; you have to always deliberately manage
things. Maybe your childhood conditioning has helped in that way. That has done much damage, because when a person starts managing
everything, his life is lived at the minimum.
Life is such a vast phenomenon; it is impossible to manage it. And if you really want to manage it, you have to cut it to the minimum; then
you can manage. Otherwise life is wild.
It is as wild as these clouds, and this rain and this breeze and these trees and the sky. It is wild — and you have cut your wild part out
completely. You are afraid of it — that’s why you don’t open as much as you can, and that is creating your sadness also.
Sadness is nothing but the same energy that could have been happiness.
When you don’t see that your happiness is flowering, you become sad. Whenever you see somebody happy, you become sad: Why is it not
happening to you? It can happen to you! There is no problem in it. You just have to uncondition your past. You will have to go a little out
of the way for it to happen, so just make a little effort to open yourself. Even if it feels a little painful in the beginning.... In the
beginning it will feel painful.
Start one meditation in the night, from tonight. Just feel as if you are not a human being at all. You can choose any animal that you like.
If you like a cat, good. If you like a dog, good...or a tiger — male, female — anything you like. Just choose, but then stick to it. Become
that animal. Move on all fours in the room and become that animal.
For fifteen minutes enjoy the fantasy as much as you can. Bark if you are a dog and do things a dog is expected to do — and really do them!
Enjoy it and don’t control, because a dog cannot control. A dog means absolute freedom, so whatsoever happens in that moment, do. In that
moment don’t bring in the human element of control. Be really doggedly a dog! For fifteen minutes roam around the room...bark, jump.
Continue this for seven days. It will help.
You need a little more animal energy. You are too sophisticated, too civilized, and that is crippling you.
Too much civilization is a paralyzing thing. It is good in a small dose but too much of it is very dangerous. One should always remain
capable of being an animal.
Your animal has to be freed; that is the problem as I see it. If you can learn to be a little wild, all your problems will disappear. So
start from tonight — and enjoy it!
From the book: The Passion for the Impossible
You are holding — that may be the whole problem. You don’t trust life. Somewhere deep down there is a mistrust of life, as if, if you don’t
control them, things will go wrong and that if you remain in control only then can things go right; you have to always deliberately manage
things. Maybe your childhood conditioning has helped in that way. That has done much damage, because when a person starts managing
everything, his life is lived at the minimum.
Life is such a vast phenomenon; it is impossible to manage it. And if you really want to manage it, you have to cut it to the minimum; then
you can manage. Otherwise life is wild.
It is as wild as these clouds, and this rain and this breeze and these trees and the sky. It is wild — and you have cut your wild part out
completely. You are afraid of it — that’s why you don’t open as much as you can, and that is creating your sadness also.
Sadness is nothing but the same energy that could have been happiness.
When you don’t see that your happiness is flowering, you become sad. Whenever you see somebody happy, you become sad: Why is it not
happening to you? It can happen to you! There is no problem in it. You just have to uncondition your past. You will have to go a little out
of the way for it to happen, so just make a little effort to open yourself. Even if it feels a little painful in the beginning.... In the
beginning it will feel painful.
Start one meditation in the night, from tonight. Just feel as if you are not a human being at all. You can choose any animal that you like.
If you like a cat, good. If you like a dog, good...or a tiger — male, female — anything you like. Just choose, but then stick to it. Become
that animal. Move on all fours in the room and become that animal.
For fifteen minutes enjoy the fantasy as much as you can. Bark if you are a dog and do things a dog is expected to do — and really do them!
Enjoy it and don’t control, because a dog cannot control. A dog means absolute freedom, so whatsoever happens in that moment, do. In that
moment don’t bring in the human element of control. Be really doggedly a dog! For fifteen minutes roam around the room...bark, jump.
Continue this for seven days. It will help.
You need a little more animal energy. You are too sophisticated, too civilized, and that is crippling you.
Too much civilization is a paralyzing thing. It is good in a small dose but too much of it is very dangerous. One should always remain
capable of being an animal.
Your animal has to be freed; that is the problem as I see it. If you can learn to be a little wild, all your problems will disappear. So
start from tonight — and enjoy it!
From the book: The Passion for the Impossible
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Dhyanalinga
Sadhguru on the DhyanalingaQuestion: In what way is the Dhyanalinga unique? What's so different about it, Sadhguru?
Sadhguru: The uniqueness of the Dhyanalinga is that all the sevenchakras are established. Lingadhanda, a copper tube with solidified mercury in it, has all the seven chakras established in their full flow, further complemented by copper rings on the outer periphery of the Dhyanalinga. Do you know what chakras are? Within your physical body, there are various centers, there are seven basic centersrepresenting the seven dimensions of life, or seven dimensions of the experience of life. These seven chakras are: the Muladhara, which is located at the perineum, between the anal outlet and the genital organs; Swadhistana is just above the genital organs; Manipuraka is just below the navel; Anahata is the soft spot beneath the point where the ribcage meets; Vishuddhi is at the pit of the throat; Ajna is between the eyebrows and Sahasrar is at the top of the head.
What do these seven dimensions represent? If your energy is dominant in Muladhara, then food and sleep will be the most dominant factors in your life. If it is dominant in Swadhistana, pleasure will be the most dominant in your life. You will seek pleasure and enjoy the physical reality. If your energy is dominant inManipuraka, you are a doer - you will do many things in the world. If it is dominant in Anahata, you are a very creative person. If your energy is dominant in Vishuddhi, you become a very powerful person. If your energy is dominant in Ajna, you become peaceful. If you attain to Ajna, then you're realized intellectually. You're not realized experientially, but a certain peace and stability arises within you irrespective of what is happening outside of you. If your energy moves into Sahasrar, you will explode into unexplained ecstasy. Whatever experience happens within you, it's just a certain expression of your life energies. Anger, misery, peace, joy, ecstasy. all are different levels of expression for the same energy. These are the seven dimensions through which one can find expression.
In my previous life as Sadhguru Shri Bhramha, I was known asChakreshwara. For those of you from the state of Tamil Nadu, maybe you have heard of this. It means somebody who has complete mastery over all the hundred and fourteen chakras. It is because of that mastery that now we can have people blowing up everywhere like explosions. He was known as Chakreshwara because he exhibited certain qualities of his total mastery over the chakras. A phenomenally rare thing he did was, when he left his body, he left through all the seven chakras. Generally, when yogis leave their body, they leave through one particular chakra - whichever they have particular mastery over, through that they leave. Otherwise, depending upon their tendencies, they leave accordingly, but Sadhguru left his body through all the seven chakras. As a preparation for the consecration of the Dhyanalinga, he left his body through all the seven chakras. So this is from the horse's mouth (laughs).
So the uniqueness of the Dhyanalinga is that it has all the sevenchakras energized at their peak. It's the highest possible manifestation, in the sense that if you take energy and push it up to very high levels of intensity, it can hold form only to a certain point. Beyond that, it cannot hold any form; it becomes formless. If it becomes formless, people are incapable of experiencing it. Pushing the energy to the highest point beyond which there will be no form, and crystallizing it at that point, it has been taken and consecrated. It took three and a half years of a very intense process of consecration. The kinds of situations that people witnessed during the consecration are too unbelievable. Many yogis and siddhas¹ have attempted to create a Dhyanalinga, but for various reasons, all the required ingredients never fell together. There were three fully consecrated Lingas in the present state of Bihar, but their physical forms are gone now. They have been totally razed to the ground and homes have been built over their locations, but the energy forms are still there. We know where they are; I have located them. All the other Lingas were never completed. I have found dozens of places where they attempted to create a Dhyanalinga, but for some reason, they were never completed.
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