There's much confusion about the word meditation.
Meditation is not the same as concentration or contemplation. The enlightened mystic Osho dispels the misconceptions and explains that meditation is a simple way of knowing yourself on the deepest levels.
• TM
"Transcendental meditation is a sort of drug. If it works at all, it gives you good sleep, that's all. It calms you down, but even that calming down is not very positive; it is more like dullness, lethargy. It will help you to be less tense, but then you will become less intelligent also and less alive, because it slows down the whole process of your being. It is a tranquilizer – tranquilization through sound, mantra." - Osho: Dance Your Way to God
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• Biofeedback: a shortcut to meditation?
Q: Research
suggests that certain states of consciousness brought about by meditation
techniques appear to provoke specific brainwave patterns. These states
are now being created by electronic and auditory stimulation, and they
can be learnt through biofeedback.
The traditional "meditative state" – sitting silently
or at least quietly alert – is composed of bilateral, synchronous
alpha waves. Deeper meditation also has bilateral theta waves. A state
called "lucid awareness" has the bilateral synchronous alpha
and theta waves of deep meditation, plus the beta waves of normal thought
processes. Lucid awareness can be learnt through biofeedback, using the
most modern equipment.
Are these kinds of stimulation and biofeedback useful tools for the meditator?
What is the relationship of these technological methods to the meditation
beyond techniques? Is this an example of bringing meditation together
with science?
I would like to experiment with these new technologies– both personally
in my own meditation and professionally, in my work as a physician. What
is your comment?
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• Yoga
Visitor to
the Osho Meditation Resort: "I promised my yoga teacher I'd keep
my practice up while I was away," confesses one, looking a little
embarrassed, "and you know, since I've been here I haven't even thought
about it."
Three enthusiasts – all of them visiting the resort for the first
time – were asked for their take on yoga in the light of their introduction
to Osho's active meditative methods."
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Q: Is your approach something like sahaja yoga – effortless, natural and spontaneous yoga?
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• Transpersonal psychology
Q: "Transpersonal psychology seeks to explore the needs and aspirations that go beyond self-actualization and humanistic psychology, according to Assagioli. I have heard you speak of a psychology of the buddhas; is this the same thing as Assagioli is talking of?"
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• Primal Therapy
Q: "I've been working as a primal therapist. Do you see that this kind of approach has some value?"
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Also read Aneesha Dillon's article on her Neo-Reichian Release Work ...Reich Revisited
• Meditation is not concentration - pdf