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 Today's lifestyle is vastly different from the lifestyle of ancient times. The lifestyle of a modern man is busy, fast and tedious. Everything is out of order except speed. Osho says, “you are going fast, but you are going so fast that you have no time to look at where you are going and why you are going there.”
It is a life replete with tensions and problems. These tensions lead to frustration and violence. In turn, man is pushed to find places where he can find peace. Some tend to drink while some turn to drugs. Only a few turn to meditation.
Osho says, “That is why I insist on active meditations, not silent meditations, because your energy needs acting out, it needs catharsis. You have too much energy with no action for the energy. And rich food is available and food creates more energy. It is a fuel. This age is the most well-fed age in the whole of history. And there is no work. Even if you go to the office or the shop or somewhere else, the work is mental, not physical. Mental work is not enough.”
Nobody needs meditation more than people who have no time to meditate. But how to integrate meditation into a hectic lifestyle? Osho devised several meditation techniques that can actually be integrated into everyday life, techniques that one can simply apply to everyday routines.
“The contemporary man is not simple, he is very complex. Those methods were for people who were not repressed, who were natural. In these ten thousand years religions have made everybody repressed; sexually, and in other ways, they have driven humanity against its own nature.
So I have created new methods which are cathartic, so that you can throw out all repressions, all garbage out of your being, and can become clean. Any one method that appeals to you will be enough to transform your being.”
OSHO
The coming issue of the online magazine attempts to bring out the essence of Osho’s meditation techniques that can help modern man to tackle every moment in a relaxed and playful manner.
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