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• Dance your way to meditation!
• National seminar on ‘Zorba The Buddha’ inaugurated
• Painting Should Carry Your Presence
• Osho Discourse On Love

The Pioneer, Lucknow
February 14, 2011

Participants at the Osho meditation camp were told on Sunday that dance was the best way to attain meditation. However, the participants were told of other meditation techniques too at the meditation programme, held in Chowk.

Swami Satya Niranjan – who had come from Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune – said true seekers should attend meditation camps, as they provided an opportunity where meditation simply flowed in tandem with dance and celebration.

He said people should be grateful to the Almighty for the precious life they have been gifted with.

“You can express gratitude by dancing. This will help you shed hesitation,” he said, adding that dancing not only kept you fit but it also generated happiness. In the beginning there are two entities—the dancer and the dance. “But if taken as a mission, the enjoyment of dance increased and an individual felt the fragrance of meditation because ego disappears completely. And, the depth of meditation takes one to the path of Moksha,” he said.

The participants were however told several other techniques. Swami Niranjan asked the disciples to choose at least one of them and practice it daily for one hour.

“In case of dynamic meditation, one has to be particular that it has to be practiced empty stomach and in early morning hours,” he said.

He taught several techniques including mystic rose, no dimension, vigyan bhairav tantra, natraj, vipassna, kundalini to the participants. “If you continue with any of these techniques for 90 days. It will certainly transform you,” he said.

“The phenomenon of meditation has a permanent effect on practitioners. It can happen any moment. It can happen right now, and it may take years, or even several carnations. It all depends on your intensity, on your sincerity and on your totally,” he informed participants.

The Hitavada, Jabalpur
February 5, 2011

A NATIONAL Seminar on ‘Zorba The Buddha’ was formally inaugurated at Department of Philosophy of Mankunwarbai Arts and Commerce (Autonomous), College for women, on Friday.

The seminar is organized by Department of Philosophy, under guidance of Principal Dr Anupama Gangully which is sponsored by University Grants Commission (UGC), Central Regional Office, Bhopal.

On the occasion, chief guest was Professor Jatashankar, from Allahabad, Professor Priyavart Shukla, from Philosophy Department of Rani Durgawati University (RDU), Keynote speaker was Swami Satay Vedant, former Vice-Chancellor of Osho Multiversity, while Senior Advocate Rajendra Tiwari was presided over.

Members of organizing committee accorded warm welcome to all invited guests.

Speaking on the occasion, chief guest Professor Jatashankar said that the theme ‘Zorba the Buddha’ is the phrase carved by OSHO, after a long process of thoughts and experiences. Professor Jatashankar informed difference about Zorba, he said that Zorba represents the materialist and objective approach and one thing is missing here is spirituality. Only Zorba can find the Buddha. He added that Buddha represents the spirituality and subjective approach, but the same is missed here materialism. Buddha was a Zorba upto age of 29, after 16 years of deep meditation, he was transformed.  He became enlightened.

Similarly, keynote speaker Swami Satya Vedant informed about OSHO. In which, he said that Osho wishes to deliberate that Zorba the Buddha is combination of outer and inner self. He said that every human being has both instincts, materialism and spiritualism so that Zorba, the Buddha is complete creature. He said that Osho pronounces “Let the Buddha get up and dance and ask Zorba to sit down and mediate to become one in new man.”

Advocate General Tiwari also expressed views on Osho.

Co-ordinator of programme Dr J S Dubey informed that a large number of intellectual and followers of Osho from different states are participating in the seminar. In the second phase, the invited guests shared experience and deep discussion were held. He informed that the concluding ceremony would be held on Friday at 4 pm. In which, Osho, Shailendra would be chief guest and Professor S P Dubey would be invited as special guest.

First City , Delhi
February, 2011

Action needs skill. But no-action also needs skill. The skill of action is just on the surface; the skill of no-action is at the very core of your being. The skill of action can be learned easily; it can be borrowed; you can be educated in it because it is nothing but technique. It is not your being, it is just an art.
OSHO

But the technique, or the skill, of no-action is not technique at all. You cannot learn it from somebody else, it cannot be taught, it grows as you grow. It grows with your inner growth, it is a flowering. From the outside, nothing can be done to it; something has to evolve from the inside.

The skill of action comes from without, goes within; the skill of no-action comes from within, flows without. Their dimensions are totally different, diametrically opposite. So first try to understand this, then we will be able to enter this story.

For example, you can be a painter just by learning the art; you can learn all that can be taught in art schools. You can be skillful, and you can paint beautiful pictures, you can even become a renowned figure in the world. Nobody will be able to know that this is just technique, unless you come across a master; but you will always know that this is just technique.

Your hands have become skillful, your head knows the know-how, but your heart is not flowing. You paint, but you are not a painter. You create a work of art but you are not an artist. You do it, but you are not in it. You do it as you do other things – but you are not a lover. You are not involved in it totally; your inner being remains aloof, indifferent, standing by the side. Your head and your hands, they go on working, but you are not there. The painting will not carry your presence, it will not carry you. It may carry your signature, but not your being.

A master will immediately know, because this painting will be dead. Beautiful….you can decorate a corpse also, you can paint a corpse also, you can even put lipstick on the lips and they will look red, but lipstick, howsoever red, cannot have the warmth of flowing blood. Those lips – painted, but no life in them.

You can create a beautiful painting, but it will not be alive. It can be alive only if you flow in it; that’s the difference between a master when he paints and an ordinary painter. The ordinary painter really always imitates because the painting is not growing within him. It is not something with which he is pregnant. He will imitate others, he will have to look for ideas; he may imitate nature-that makes no difference. He may look at a tree and paint it, but the tree has not grown within him.

Look at van Gogh’s trees. They are absolutely different – you cannot find trees like that in the world of nature. They are totally different; they are van Gogh’s creations, he is living through the trees. They are not these ordinary trees around you, he has not copied them from nature, he has not copied them from anybody else. If he had been a god, then he would have created those trees in the world. In the painting, he is the god, he is the creator. He is not even imitating the creator of the universe; he is simply being himself. His trees are so high they grow and touch the moon and starts.

Somebody asked van Gogh, ‘What type of trees are these? Where did you get the idea from?’

Van Gogh said: “I don’t go getting ideas from anywhere – these are my trees! If I was the creator, my trees would touch the starts, because my trees are desires of the earth, dreams of the earth - to touch the stars; earth trying to reach, to touch the starts – hands of the earth, dreams and desires of the earth.”

But these trees are not imitations. These are van Gogh trees.

A creator has something to give to the world, something he is pregnant with. Of course, even for a van Gogh technique is needed, because hands are needed. Even van Gogh cannot paint without hands - if you cut off his hands, what will he do? He also needs technique, but technique is just a way to communicate. Technique is just the vehicle, the medium. The technique is not the message, the medium is not the message. The medium is simply a vehicle to carry the message. He has a message, every artist is a prophet – has to be! Every artist is a creator has to be, he has something to share. Of course, technique is needed. If I have to say something to you, words are needed, but if I am saying only words, then there is no message; then this whole thing is just a chattering. Then I am throwing garbage on others. But if words carry my wordless message to you, only then is something being sad.

When something is to be said, it has to be said in words, but that which has to be said is not words. When something has to be painted it has to be painted by colours and brush and canvas, and the whole technique is needed – but the technique is not the message. Through the medium, the message is given but the medium in itself is not enough.

Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Mumbai
January 20, 2011

Question: What is Love?
Osho: It depends. There are as many loves as there are people. Love is a hierarchy, from the lowest rung to the highest, form sex to superconsciousness. There are many many layers, many planes of love. It all depends on you. If you are existing on the lowest rung, you will have a totally different idea of love than the person who is existing on the highest rung. Adolf Hitler will have one idea of love, Gautam Buddha another; and they will be diametrically opposite, because they are at two extremes.

At the lowest, love is a kind of a politics, power politics. Wherever love is contaminated by the idea of domination, it is politics. Whether you call it politics or not is not the question, it is political. And millions of people never know anything about love except this politics – the politics that exist between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. It is politics, the whole thing is political: you want to dominate the other, you enjoy domination. And love is nothing but politics sugar-coated, a bitter pill sugar-coated.

You talk about love but the deep desire is to exploit the other. And I am not saying that you are doing it deliberately or consciously. People are falling in love with horses, dogs, animals, machines, things. Why? Because to be in love with human beings has become an utter hell, a continuous conflict – nagging, always at each other’s throats. This is the lowest from of love. Nothing is wrong with it if you can use it as a steppingstone, if you can use it as a meditation.
If you can watch it, if you try to understand it, in that very understanding you will reach another rung, you will start moving