Meditation Techniques
The Book of Secrets (OSHO)
Breath-A bridge to the universe
The Sutras
- Radiant one, this expression may dawn between two breaths. After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up (out)---the beneficence.
- As breath turns from down to up, and again as breath curves from up to down—-- through both these turns, realize.
- Or, whenever in-breath and out-breath fuse, at this instant touch the energy-less, energy-filled center.
- Or, when breath is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or all in (down) and stopped—in such universal pause, one’s small self vanishes. This is difficult only to the impure.
The first nine techniques are concerned with breath–the most significant thing. Breath has 2 points-one where it touches the body and the universe, and another where it touches you and that which transcends the universe.
1. Watch the gap between 2 breaths
-When the breath touches your nostrils, feel it there. Then let the breath move in. Move with the breath fully consciously. When you are going down, down, down with the breath, do not miss the breath. Do not go ahead and do not follow behind, just go with it. When you are moving with breath minutely, when there is no breath, how can you remain unaware? You will suddenly become aware that there is no breath, and the moment will come when you will feel that the breath is neither going out nor coming in. The breath has stopped completely. In the stopping, the beneficence.
2. Watch the turning point between two breaths
-When breath takes a turn, you are not joined with it. In that moment you can easily become aware of who you are. What is this being? What is it to be? Who is inside this house of body? Who is the master? Am I just the house or is there some master also? Am I just the mechanism or does something else penetrate this mechanism? The breath has stop at turning, realize. Be aware of the turning, and you become a realized soul.
3. Watch the fusion point of two breaths.
-The moment you can feel the center from where breath goes out or comes in, the very point where the breaths fuse–that center—if you become aware of it, then enlightenment.
4. Be aware when the breathing stops.
-”Or, when breath is all out (up) and stopped of itself, or all in (down) and stopped—in such universal pause, one’s small self vanishes. This is difficult only to the impure” . Your small self is only a daily utility. In emergencies you cannot remember it. Who you are—the name, the bank balance, the prestige, everything just evaporates. Your car is just heading toward another car; another moment and there will be death. In this moment there will be a pause. Suddenly breathing stops. If you can be aware in that moment, you can reach the goal.
