Osho Meditation Camp on 15th May 2010

A spiritual retreat with Swami Anand Arun

Osho Shubham Meditation Centre is delighted to announce a spiritual retreat with Bodhisatva Swami Anand Arun from Tapoban Nepal.

In 1986, Osho appointed Swami Arun Director of Meditation and Spiritual Growth of the Rajneesh Mystery School.

Swami Arun now travels to America, Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine and India, leading meditation camps. In these meditation camps he has initiated more than 65,000 sannyasins from 30 different countries. Swami Arun travels the world, sharing the bliss of meditation and the blessings of Osho.

During the retreat, Swami Arun will teach several different Osho meditations: some are active, some passive & quiet. Each evening, there is dancing, music and celebration. It is scheduled as follows,

• The retreat starts with Swamiji's presence at Satsang event at Osho Shubham Meditation Centre on 8th April 2010 from 6 PM.
• Friday 9th April and Saturday 10th April, Swamiji will be at St. Patrick School' Hall from 10 am to 6 pm.
• The retreat will conclude on 11th April at Shubham Meditation Centre and will be celebrated with Sannyas Initiation by Swamiji.
  

You may attend all the event or any of them you like.

Cost:-

£10 for event on 8th April

and

£35 per day per person including meals if you are not able to come for all 3 days.

or

£100 for all three days i.e. on 9th, 10th and 11th including meals.

or

£107 for all the events including meals.
(i.e. events on 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th)

Please Note: Residential dormitory facility is also available for an extra £15 per night per person.

Please contact Ma Prem Anjali on her phone 07961821328 or email anjaligarg@hotmail.com,
Space is limited so please confirm your place by depositing the money in advance, as it will is first come first serve.

To experience a retreat with Swami Arun is a precious gift to give to yourself. The deep values and benefits received will last all of your life. Many

people travel to Nepal and India for this kind of energy and transformation. We are fortunate that it is now going to be available in your city.

Looking forward to meet you. Love and Hugs.

Meditation is death

Question: Our Beloved Master, our love for music, poetry, dance, our love for love itself – doesn't that suggest an urge in us to disappear? If that is so, why does meditation, the art of disappearing, not come more naturally to us?

Osho: Maneesha, music, poetry, dance, love are only half way. You disappear for a moment, then you are back. And the moment is so small...
Just as a great dancer, Nijinsky, said, "When my dance comes to its crescendo, I am no more. Only dance is." But that happens only for a small fragment of time; then again you are back.
According to me, all these – poetry, music, dance, love – are poor substitutes for meditation. They are good, beautiful, but they are not meditation. And meditation does not come naturally to you, because in meditation you will have to disappear forever. There is no coming back. That creates fear.
Meditation is a death – death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.
It happens in poetry, in music, in dance, only for a small moment that you slip out of your personality and touch your individuality. But only because it happens for a small moment, you are not afraid; you always come back.
In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from ABC. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.
The Upanishads say that the master is a death. It is an incomplete sentence. The master is a death but also a rebirth, a resurrection. A master is nothing but meditation. A master simply gives you a meditation; he cannot do anything else. He gives you the meditation to die and to be reborn.
A meditator can play music and it will have a totally different significance. A meditator can write poetry, but then the poetry will not be only a composition of words. It will express something inexpressible. A meditator can do anything, but he will bring to it a new grace, a new beauty, a new significance.
Music, poetry, dance or love can become hindrances to meditation if you stop at them. First comes meditation, and then you can create great poetry and great music. But you will not be the creator; you will be just a hollow bamboo flute. The universe will sing songs through you, will dance dances through you. You will be only an address – c/o you. Existence will express itself, and you will be just a hollow bamboo.
Meditation makes you a hollow bamboo; then whatever happens through that hollowness, that empty heart belongs to existence itself.
Then Existence sings songs.

Rinzai: Master of the Irrational, Discourse 1

Osho on Meditation

"Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. To experience the beauty of the flower you have to be in a state of meditation, not in a state of mentation. You have to be silent, utterly silent, not even a flicker of thought – and the beauty explodes, reaches to you from all directions. You are drowned in the beauty of a sunrise, of a starry night, of beautiful trees."

~ Osho

"Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ."

~ Osho

"Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself."

~ Osho

"This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you."

~ Osho

"Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then suddenly you will come to know: meditation follows you. If you love the work that you are doing, if you love the way you are living, then you are meditative."

~ Osho

"Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all – consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise -- the traffic in the head. So many thoughts – trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation."

~ Osho

"The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That’s what meditation is all about. Find at least one hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied, just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear, and behind the agonies is the ecstasy."

~ Osho