JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES AND GO INTO YOUR BELLY……….
“ [A sannyasin said that four days ago he started feeling strange. He was in Lonavla (a nearby hill station); he nearly got killed; fell in love; and has waves of energy rushes from the chest upwards: It's beautiful but it's terribly frightening.]
So next time you start feeling the wave just close your eyes and go into your belly, two inches below the navel. You can put your hand there so that you can feel. Just two inches, around two inches below the navel, is your hara centre. So just go there and start feeling that all those waves and all that energy is moving towards the navel, that the waves are accumulating there. The fear will disappear and you will have tremendous joy, almost orgasmic joy.
The energy is there but right now it is very wild. It has to be a little educated that's all; it is a wild, primitive energy. In the beginning it is always so: when for the first time the energy erupts it is very primitive. It has to be a little cultured that's all; you have to teach it a few things.
The first thing is: move it towards the stomach. If it goes towards the head it can create problems you can become very much frightened -- because the head cannot contain that much energy. The stomach can.
In Japan they have two types of dolls. Zen masters keep these dolls to show to their disciples, particularly to western disciples. One doll that they keep on one side is a very beautiful doll but its head is very heavy -- made of heavy metal. The other doll's stomach is very heavy; it is made of metal. On the surface they look alike, but if you push the first doll it falls and it cannot get up because the head is too heavy. If you push the other doll it falls and suddenly gets up and sits again in the Buddha posture.
This is to show where the energy should be -- in the stomach. There it can be contained and there you can contain the whole universe. So Japanese say 'think from the belly'. They mean let all your energy be concentrated in the belly: your real mind should be there.
The brain cannot contain much and it does not need much: it lives on a very small quantity of electricity. With more electricity in the brain you start feeling terrified; everything goes berserk. It needs a very very slight quantity, a homeopathic dose. Just a little more and it becomes difficult.
That's why you cannot sleep without a pillow, because if you sleep without a pillow more energy flows towards the head -- with a pillow, less energy. So you can have a better sleep with a pillow. If you keep your head lower than your bed you will not be able to sleep the whole night because energy will be flowing to your head.
That's why, in yoga, they invented the head stand posture -- because of this energy. When it is arising too much and going upwards and they cannot manage it in the head, they stand on the head so it starts going upwards to the feet. Then there is no problem... otherwise it can destroy the subtle mechanism of the brain.
Just start keeping it there. And sometimes if you enjoy, you can stand on your head too; that will be helpful. But never stand for more than five or seven minutes -- at the most seven, mm? -- because if you stand for more than seven the energy starts moving towards the head. It will move upwards only from five to seven minutes mm? -- then it knows that the head is not there. It starts moving towards the head and of course it comes in a more rushing way because gravitation helps it. So never more than seven minutes; from five to seven minutes you can do it.
And whenever you feel that it is coming, just close your eyes... and you will enjoy it! It is a beautiful moment! For this I sent you to Lonavla, mm? It is good when it happens in the hills and mountains.”
OSHO
The Further Shore
Chapter 11 - Nature is the temple of god (12 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium)
So next time you start feeling the wave just close your eyes and go into your belly, two inches below the navel. You can put your hand there so that you can feel. Just two inches, around two inches below the navel, is your hara centre. So just go there and start feeling that all those waves and all that energy is moving towards the navel, that the waves are accumulating there. The fear will disappear and you will have tremendous joy, almost orgasmic joy.
The energy is there but right now it is very wild. It has to be a little educated that's all; it is a wild, primitive energy. In the beginning it is always so: when for the first time the energy erupts it is very primitive. It has to be a little cultured that's all; you have to teach it a few things.
The first thing is: move it towards the stomach. If it goes towards the head it can create problems you can become very much frightened -- because the head cannot contain that much energy. The stomach can.
In Japan they have two types of dolls. Zen masters keep these dolls to show to their disciples, particularly to western disciples. One doll that they keep on one side is a very beautiful doll but its head is very heavy -- made of heavy metal. The other doll's stomach is very heavy; it is made of metal. On the surface they look alike, but if you push the first doll it falls and it cannot get up because the head is too heavy. If you push the other doll it falls and suddenly gets up and sits again in the Buddha posture.
This is to show where the energy should be -- in the stomach. There it can be contained and there you can contain the whole universe. So Japanese say 'think from the belly'. They mean let all your energy be concentrated in the belly: your real mind should be there.
The brain cannot contain much and it does not need much: it lives on a very small quantity of electricity. With more electricity in the brain you start feeling terrified; everything goes berserk. It needs a very very slight quantity, a homeopathic dose. Just a little more and it becomes difficult.
That's why you cannot sleep without a pillow, because if you sleep without a pillow more energy flows towards the head -- with a pillow, less energy. So you can have a better sleep with a pillow. If you keep your head lower than your bed you will not be able to sleep the whole night because energy will be flowing to your head.
That's why, in yoga, they invented the head stand posture -- because of this energy. When it is arising too much and going upwards and they cannot manage it in the head, they stand on the head so it starts going upwards to the feet. Then there is no problem... otherwise it can destroy the subtle mechanism of the brain.
Just start keeping it there. And sometimes if you enjoy, you can stand on your head too; that will be helpful. But never stand for more than five or seven minutes -- at the most seven, mm? -- because if you stand for more than seven the energy starts moving towards the head. It will move upwards only from five to seven minutes mm? -- then it knows that the head is not there. It starts moving towards the head and of course it comes in a more rushing way because gravitation helps it. So never more than seven minutes; from five to seven minutes you can do it.
And whenever you feel that it is coming, just close your eyes... and you will enjoy it! It is a beautiful moment! For this I sent you to Lonavla, mm? It is good when it happens in the hills and mountains.”
OSHO
The Further Shore
Chapter 11 - Nature is the temple of god (12 June 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium)
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