Active Meditations are techniques designed by Osho to adjust to the current passive lifestyle.
They add a preliminary “active” step to traditional meditations.
Before we can truly sit and relax our minds, and encounter ourselves as we are, we need to let go of many repressed emotions and feelings, which create our internal tensions.
This is what unstructured chaotic movement does. It can be in many forms like dancing, breathing, whirling, babbling. For a period of time, we stop strict control of our movements, and let them just happen spontaneously, responding to the music. We just watch. We let our bodies and minds be active, while we just passively observe them.
When the traditional meditation step comes and our tired body also becomes passive and relaxed, the inner and outer passivities merge and in that stillness, we can see ourselves.
The Taoist mystic, Osho, taught philosophy before setting up the ashram which became famous with people from the West wanting to experience meditation and transformation. He is said to be one of the 10 people – others include Gandhi, Nehru and Buddha – who have changed the destiny of India. His own epitaph is: Never Born – Never Died – Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990. His books have sold in tens of thousands.
