VIPASSANA IS THE MOST SIMPLE MEDITATION IN THE WORLD

VIPASSANA IS THE MOST SIMPLE MEDITATION IN THE WORLD :

OSHO explains VIPASSANA and ANAPANSATI YOGA , how to be aware of our breath ….

Vipassana is the most simple meditation in the world. 

It is through vipassana that Buddha became enlightened, and it is through vipassana that many more people have become enlightened than through any other method. 

Vipassana IS THE METHOD …
Question: I thought that meditation was a simple thing. But seeing people doing Vipassana, I am losing all hope of ever becoming a successful meditator. Please give me a little encouragement.

OSHO : “ Meditation is simple. Precisely because it is simple, it looks difficult. Your mind is accustomed to dealing with difficult problems, and it has completely forgotten how to respond to the simple things of life. The more simple a thing is, the more difficult it looks to the mind, because the mind is very efficient in solving difficult things.

It has been trained to solve difficult things, it does not know how to tackle the simple. Meditation is simple, your mind is complex. It is not a problem that meditation is creating. The problem is coming from your mind, not from meditation.

Vipassana is the most simple meditation in the world. It is through Vipassana that Buddha became enlightened, and it is through Vipassana that many more people have become enlightened than through any other method. Vipassana IS THE METHOD .

Yes, there are other methods also, but they have helped only very few people. Vipassana has helped thousands, and it is really very simple; is not like yoga.

Yoga is difficult, arduous, complex. You have to torture yourself in many ways: distort your body, contort your body, sit this way and that, torture, stand on your head -- exercises and exercises... but yoga seems to be very appealing to people.

In fact, coming across Vipassana for the first time, one doubts whether it can be called a meditation at all. What is it? -- no physical exercise, no breathing exercise; a very simple phenomenon: just watching your breath coming in, going out... finished, this is the method; sitting silently, watching your breath coming in, going out; not losing track, that's all.

Not that you have to change your breathing -- it is not pranayam; it is not a breathing exercise where you have to take deep breaths, exhale, inhale, no. Let the breathing be simple, as it is. You just have to bring one new quality to it: awareness. “

O S H O
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ANAPANSATI YOGA : “ The technique of Anapansati is tremendously valuable. It is a way of watching your own breathing.

You don't have to do a thing about it; you don't have to interfere with your breathing or to breathe in any particular manner. You have only to watch it as it is. 

But it is also true that as soon as you begin to observe it, your breathing becomes a little faster. It is inevitable. With your observation, the manner of your breathing will change, and it will be faster than before. And this change and the observation itself will show results.

But the main objective of Anapansati is not to bring about any changes in your breathing pattern; the main objective is just observing your breath as it is. 

Because when you observe your breathing, and observe it constantly, by and by you begin to separate yourself from it; there occurs a gap between you and your breath. 

Because when someone observes something, immediately the observer becomes separate from the observed.

In fact, the observer cannot be one with the observed. The moment you turn something into the observed, you separate yourself from your object of observation-you become different from it. 

Since you have made your breath the observed, and you have been watching how it works, you become distant from it in the very process of observation. 

And then one day you will find that while breathing is going on you are at a considerable distance from it.

Anapansati yoga brings about your separation from the body; you really experience it.

You can try Anapansati in many ways. If you watch the way you walk-if you just observe how the right foot rises and moves, and then the left foot rises and moves-if you only watch the movement of your feet, you will find in two weeks' time that you are quite separate from your feet. 

You will clearly see your feet as the observed and you remain the observer. Your own feet will seem to you to be functioning mechanically. Such a person can say that walking he does not walk, talking he does not talk, eating he does not eat, sleeping he does not sleep. And he is right.

But it is very difficult to understand such a person who has become a watcher on the hill. If he is a witness to his walking, if he really does not walk while walking, it is only he who actually sees it so; it will be difficult for others even to understand it. If he is a witness to his talking, he will not talk while talking, he will remain a witness alone.

Anapansati is a significant technique; it makes you the witness, the witnessing soul, but it is different from kundalini. “
OSHO
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