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Osho on Dancing Totally and remaining Aware
Question: Beloved Osho, Can one be
absorbed in doing something – for instance, these dynamic
meditation techniques – with absolute total intensity, and at
the same time remain a witness who is separate, apart?
Osho: The same is the problem in
many forms. You think that a witness is something apart,
separate. It is not. Your intensity, your wholeness, is your
witness. So when you are
witnessing and doing something you are
not two – the doer is the witness. For example, you are dancing
here in kirtan. You are dancing: the dancer and the witness are
not two, there is no separation. The separation is only in
language. The dancer is the witness. And if the dancer is not
the witness then you cannot be total in the dance, because the
witness will need some energy and you will have to divide
yourself.
A part will remain a witness and the remaining will move in the
dance. It cannot be total, it will be divided. And this is not
what is meant, because really this is the state of a
schizophrenic patient – divided, split. It is pathological. If
you become two you are ill. You must remain one. You must move
totally into the dance, and your totality will become the
witness. It is not going to be something set apart, your
wholeness is aware. This happens. So don’t try to divide
yourself. While dancing become the dance.
Just remain alert; don’t fall asleep, don’t be unconscious. You
are not under a drug, you are alert, fully alert. But this
alertness is not a part standing aloof; it is your totality, it
is your whole being. But this is again the same thing as whether
two lovers are two or one. Only on the surface are they two,
deep inside they are one. Only in language will you appear two,
the dancer and the witness, but deep down you are the one. The
whole dancer is alert. Then only peace, equilibrium, silence,
will happen to you.
If you are divided there will be tension, and that tension will
not allow you to be totally here and now, to merge into
existence. So remember that, don’t try to divide. Become the
dancer and still be aware. This happens. This
I am saying through my experience. This I am saying through many
others’ experience who have been working with me. This will
happen to you also. This may have happened to many already. But
remember this: don’t get split. Remain one and yet
aware.
Enough for today.
Source: " Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi " - Osho
Related
Discourses:
Osho Quotes on Witnessing
Part 1,
Part 2
Osho discourse on How to Becomre
Aware in Actions
Osho discourse on Atisha
Meditation Sutras
Osho on three
ways of Doing Vipassana meditation
Osho Discourse on Difference in Witnessing
and Tathata
Osho on
traditional method of Vipassana Meditation
Osho on S.N.
Goenka Vipassana Meditation Technique
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