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Osho Quotes on Vipassana Meditation
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Vipassana becomes isolation if
you are suppressing something. It is a withdrawal and a
fear-oriented thing; basically ill. Vipassana can be very healthy
and wholesome if you are not withdrawing but just going in to come
back again. It is not a renunciation, a rejection of the world -- it
is just a rest into oneself.
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I never give vipassana to people
in the beginning -- first I give them catharsis; they should pass
through a few cathartic groups. When they start feeling that now
nothing is coming up, now even if somebody is shouting and they
don't feel anger arising, then is the moment to go into vipassana.
Now the body is ready to receive it. It is a great gift; first one
has to be ready to receive it.
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In Vipassana remember it -- many moments will
come when you will be thrown so totally into the herenow that
you will find who you are for the first time. Vipassana is one
of the deepest-going methods
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In Vipassana it can happen
sometimes that one feels very very sensual, because you are so
silent and energy is not dissipated. Ordinarily much energy is
dissipated and you are exhausted. When you simply sit, not doing
anything, you become a silent pool of energy, and the pool goes on
becoming bigger and bigger and bigger. It almost comes to a point
where it is overflowing... and then you feel sensuous. You feel a
new sensitivity, sensualness, even sexuality... as if all the senses
have become fresh, younger, alive... as if the dust has fallen from
you and you have taken a bath, and are being cleansed with the
shower. That happens.
That's why people --
particularly buddhist monks who have been doing Vipassana for
centuries -- don't eat much. They don't need to. They eat once --
and that too a very meagre meal, very small; you may call it at the
most a breakfast... and once a day. They don't sleep much but they
are full of energy. And they are not escapists -- they work hard. It
is not that they are not working. They will chop wood and work in
the garden, in the field, on the farm; they will work the whole day.
But something has happened to them, and now the energy is no more
being dissipated.
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Buddha used to call it vipassana.
The word is beautiful, simple, meaningful. It means just watching.
pashya means to see and passana means to see very carefully.
Vipassana means to see carefully but without thinking. You are just
there, sitting silently, doing nothing.
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The same is the process of
vipassana. You have to watch your breathing - that is the method
that Buddha used, a very simple and very scientific method. You just
watch the breath going in, you go with it; it is coming out, you
come out with it. You don't forget at any time the watching; you
don't go astray. If you can manage it for forty-eight minutes, that
very day you will become enlightened, in this life! There is no need
to wait for another life and there is no need even to wait for one
hour. Those twelve extra minutes may be too difficult. Just
forty-eight is the exact right time.
To attain those forty-eight
minutes may take years, but it need not be postponed for another
life, it can happen in this life. It all depends on your intensity.
It all depends how much you are ready, willing, open, receptive,
vulnerable.
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Vipassana simply means watching your breath
-- the art of watching your breath without disturbing it at
all. It is a subtly art, because the moment you watch you
start disturbing. Slowly slowly the knack is learned. Once
you know how to watch the breath without disturbing it you
have found the right key.
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Vipassana is not a concentration. In
concentration, everything is a distraction. When you are
trying to concentrate, narrowing your mind, anything can
become a distraction, but vipassana is awareness. It is not
concentrating on anything exclusively. It is all inclusive.
It is just awareness. Awareness knows no distraction. That
is the beauty of awareness.
Osho Quotes on
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