Beginning of Meditation
Action before beginning meditation - 'Pay attention to why I am thinking. Our thoughts are actions of the future and the past. Thought is a kind of disorder. Awareness is born from living in the present. Imagining the future and living in the pleasures and pains of the past is against meditation.
Step-I : According to Osho, before starting meditation, you must have catharsis, that is, the dust on your consciousness must be removed. For this, if you want, do catharsis or Bhastrika of yoga, Kapalbhati Pranayama. You can do more than this to exhaust your body.
Step II: In the beginning, notice and observe all the movements of the body. Hear the sound outside. Pay attention to what is happening around you. Listen to him carefully.
Step III: Then slowly turn the mind inward. Observe silently on the movements of thoughts and feelings. With the slightest effort of noticing this or meditating, the mind will become stable and calm. Silence from within is essential for the beginning of meditation.
Step IV: Now you are ready to just look and feel. As seeing and hearing deepen, you will fall into meditation.
Starting method of meditation: Initially sitting in Siddhasana, close the eyes and keep the right hand on the right knee and the left hand on the left knee, keeping the spine straight, take deep breaths and release. Just pay attention to this movement of breaths for five minutes, how far this breath goes in and then how far this breath comes out.
Enjoy the silence completely inside. When silence happens, the sense of witness arises in the person. Thinking is a useless action of the body and understanding is the nature of the mind.
Duration of meditation: Keep doing the above meditation method regularly for 30 days. After 30 days, increase its time duration from 5 minutes to 10 minutes for the next 30 days and then to 20 minutes for the next 30 days. 90 days is enough to conserve power. Keep it up.
Caution: Meditate in a clean and quiet environment. It is forbidden to sleep while meditating. There is a lot of thinking while meditating. But on thinking 'why am I thinking', thinking stops for a while. Just focus on the breath and resolve that for 20 minutes I want to clear my mind.
Ultimately, meditation means paying attention to everything that is related to our lives. On the body, on the mind and whatever is happening around. On the actions of thoughts and feelings. With a single effort of paying attention to this, we can move one step at a time towards nectar.
Meditation and Thoughts: When you sit with your eyes closed, there is often a complaint that the thoughts of a lifetime come at the same time. Thoughts of the past or plans for the future, fantasies, etc., keep buzzing around the brain like flies. How to get rid of this? It is believed that as long as there is thought, meditation cannot happen.
Now no one is even ready to believe that nirvichara can happen. What's the harm in trying. Osho says that meditation is the death of thoughts. You just start meditating. Where there used to be 30-40 thousand thoughts of worry and contemplation in the first 24 hours, now their number will start decreasing. When the whole thing happens, a very big event can happen.