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LISTEN TO OSHO SPEAK ON THIS MEDITATION
WITH UTMOST
DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW THE KNOWER.
There is a slight
difference in the techniques -- slight modifications. But though the
differences are slight in the techniques, for you they may be great. A
single word makes a great difference.
WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON
THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH. The incoming breath has one junction
where it turns, the outgoing breath has another junction where it
turns. With these two turnings -- and we have discussed these turnings
-- a slight difference is made: that is, slight in the technique, but
for the seeker it may be great. Only one condition is added --
WITH UTMOST DEVOTION -- and the whole technique becomes different.
In the first form of
it there was no question of devotion, just a scientific technique. You
do it, and it works. But there are persons who cannot do such dry,
scientific techniques. Those who are heart-oriented, those who belong
to the world of devotion, for them a slight difference has been made:
WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW
THE KNOWER.
If you are not of the
scientific bent, of the scientific attitude, if you are not a
scientific mind, then try this:
WITH UTMOST DEVOTION -- with faith,
love, trust --
CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW THE
KNOWER. How to do this? How? You can have devotion about someone:
about Krishna, about Christ you can have devotion. But how can you
have devotion about yourself, about this junction of breathing? The
phenomenon seems absolutely non-devotional. But that depends....
Tantra says that the
body is the temple. Your body is the temple of the divine, the abode
of the divine, so do not treat your body as an object. It is sacred,
it is holy. And while you are taking a breath in, it is not only you
who is taking the breath, it is the divine within you. You are eating,
you are moving or walking... look at it in this way: it is not you,
but the divine moving in you. Then the whole thing becomes absolutely
devotional.
It is said about many
saints that they love their bodies. They treat their bodies as if
their bodies belong to their beloveds. You can treat your body in this
way or you can treat it just like a mechanism -- that again is an
attitude. You can treat it with guilt, sin; you can treat it as
something dirty; you can treat it as something miraculous, as a
miracle; you can treat it as the abode of the divine. It depends on
you. If you can treat your body as a temple, then this technique will
be helpful --
WITH UTMOST DEVOTION...
Try it. While you are
eating, try it. Do not think that
YOU are eating. Think that it is the
divine in you who is eating, and look at the change. You are eating
the same thing, you are the same, but immediately everything becomes
different. You are giving the food to the divine. You are taking a
bath -- a very ordinary, trivial thing -- but change the attitude:
feel that you are giving a bath to the divine in you. Then this
technique will be easy:
WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO
JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW THE KNOWER.
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