“A COURSE IN MEDITATION”— 21 simple chapters so you can learn how to meditate and integrate meditation into your daily life. We work out to keep our body fit, young and to maintain our physical well-being. But what are we doing for our consciousness? More and more people are looking inwards, seeking to free themselves...
Be more sensitive. And you cannot be sensitive in one dimension. Either one is sensitive in all dimensions or one is not sensitive in any. Sensitivity belongs to your total being. So be more sensitive; then every day you will be able to feel what is happening… “For example, you are walking under the sun....
Being in contact with the body means a deep sensitivity… “You may not even feel your body – it happens that only when you are ill do you feel your body. There is a headache, then you feel the head; without the headache there is no contact with the head. There is pain in the...
Before you move into making love, just sit silently together for fifteen minutes holding each other’s hands crosswise… “Sit in darkness or in a very dim light and feel each other. Get in tune. The way to do that is to breathe together. When you exhale, the other exhales; when you inhale, the other inhales....
“Go to the sea, there are millions of waves. You never see the sea, you always see the waves, because they are on the surface. But every wave is nothing but a waving of the sea, the sea is waving through all the waves. Remember the ocean and forget the waves – because waves don’t...
It is not thinking about the wine that can make you intoxicated, it is the wine. You can go on thinking about the wine, but just by thinking about the wine you will never become intoxicated. You will have to drink it… and the drinking happens through feeling. “Thinking is a pseudo activity, a substitute...
“…Sit straight – on a chair or on the floor – with the spine straight but loose and not tense… “Inhale slowly and deeply. Don’t be in a hurry; very slowly go on inhaling. The belly comes up first; you go on inhaling. The chest comes up next and then finally you can feel that...
A sannyasin who is going to the West says: I feel a bit scared of going back. Scared to lose everything that I’ve felt here… “That fear is natural it comes to everybody, mm? “Just raise your hands and feel like a tree in the strong wind. Dance like a tree in the rains and...
Here’s how to free fall your way to sleep…. Every night sit in a chair and let your head fall back, relaxed and at rest. You can use a pillow so you are in a resting posture and there is no tension in the neck. Then release your lower jaw – just relax it so...
You carry an armor around you. It is just an armor – it is not clinging to you, you are clinging to it. So when you become aware of it you can simply drop it. The armor is dead: if you don’t carry it, it will disappear. Not only are you carrying it but also...
