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NIDHI YASHA, Fashion Designer314

NY Studio, Mumbai

NIDHI YASHA, Fashion Designer

Children6666 Meditation Camps were initiated at Oshodham during December 2002 under the loving guidance of Sambudh Swami Om Prakash Saraswati, founder of Oshodham. He insisted that children should be introduced to meditation before their minds are corrupted by conditionings of the society.Enriching self through Creativity, Laughter, Dance and Meditation – Children Camps are organized at Oshodham at regular intervals throughout the year. These camps are designed to give children an opportunity to laugh, dance, sing and play together; to explore talents, interests, and abilities; to challenge self-imposed limitations and expand self-awareness; and to develop a closer relationship with nature and each other; and much more.Through everyday activities, such as Active and Passive Meditations, creative arts, creative games and sharing n music sessions, a loving environment based on spontaneous cooperation and acceptance comes alive, in which children easily opens up …Meditations like Kundalini, Gibberish, No Dimensions, Nadabrahma, Whirling, laughter, breathing based meditations, Evening Satsang, various Dance Meditations e.g Stop Dance, Heart Dance etc. and Listening to Osho’s Discourses gives children a taste of silence and bliss in a playful way and allows them the freedom to be their real self.Every day children are involved in lot of creative activities e.g. painting, clay modeling, paper craft, theatre, choreography, singing and many more. And the more involved they are, absorbed they are, more blissful it is. The whole point of these creative sessions is that child is able to express so freely and totally that the activity itself becomes the fun and bliss.

Children Meditation Camp

&quot;If you are ready to dive deep into the world that we are creating here- it is an invisible world, something of great value is possible&quot;

CHILDREN MEDITATION CAMP

Through everyday activities, such as Active and Passive Meditations, creative arts creative games and sharing, a loving environment based on spontaneous cooperation and acceptance comes alive, in which children easily opens up …&nbsp;Meditations like Kundalini, Gibberish, No Dimensions, Mystic Rose, Whirling, Evening Satsang, various Dance Meditations e.g Stop Dance, Heart Dance etc. and Listening to Osho’s Discourses gives children a taste of silence and bliss in a playful way and allows them the freedom to be their real self.&nbsp;Every day children are involved in lot of creative activities e.g painting, clay modeling, acting, singing etc. And the more involved they are, absorbed they are, more blissful it is. The whole point of these creative sessions is that child is able to express so freely and totally that the activity itself becomes the fun and bliss.&nbsp;As Osho says, “If the child is absorbed in painting, that's enough. He was in deep meditation, he moved with the painting utterly... he was lost in it! The painting is good because the painter was lost.Help the child to be completely lost, and whenever a child is painting on his own, he will be lost. If you force him to paint then he will be distracted. So whatsoever the children want to do, let them do; just help them. Mm? You can help in many technical ways. You can tell them -- if a child wants to paint -- how to mix colours, how to fix the canvas, how to use the brush; that you can help with. Be a help there; rather than being a guide, be a help.”There are also fun and games along with meditation and creativity sessions, fostering the qualities of non competitiveness, co-operation, respect and friendship. One interesting session to bring alive the feeling of love and sharing is Heart Dance. Children who come from different cultural backgrounds, they learn to appreciate and respect people of all religions while practicing meditation.&nbsp;One of the unique aspects of these camps is sensitivity to children's spiritual lives. Through prayer, meditations and just being together in silence, children were supported and nurtured in their spiritual journey.As Osho says “Children have to be taught how to think, not how to believe; they need to be helped to understand themselves, not to have blind faith in someone else's ideas. And only when religion is based on self-knowledge and not of blind faith can it be united with education. And the result will be sheer bliss!”<iframe style="min-height:400px;width:100%;" width="560" height="315" src="https://oshoworld.com/embed//osho-children-meditation-camp_hindi-version" title="OSHO Children Meditation Camp_Hindi Version" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

Enriching self through Creativity, Laughter, Dance and Meditation – Children Camps are organized at Oshodham at regular intervals through out the year.These camps are designed to give children an opportunity to laugh, dance, sing and play together; to explore talents, interests, and abilities; to challenge self-imposed limitations and expand self-awareness; and to develop a closer relationship with nature and each other; and much more.

Children and Meditation

Osho says &quot;I say over and over again that if you want your children to know the truth you must give them the chance to think creatively. Stop conditioning them with beliefs; allow them to understand things for themselves. Creativity will become their capacity for life; creativity will become their wisdom. That capacity and that wisdom will lead them to the uncharted sea of truth.&quot;

Osho Also says, “We should teach children meditation as we start educating their intellect. Just as the child comes to understand science, he should come to understand religion simultaneously. As his head grows brighter let his heart also grow full of light. Let him not grow up only to know about, let him grow up also to be. Let it not be only his possessions that grow, let him grow too! Let not only his exterior expand, let his interiority also have a depth, just as the trees rise up in the sky but their roots go deep underground. The deeper the roots go underground the higher the tree rises in the sky."

Children are closer than adults to the state of innocence because society -- in the form of parents, teachers and priests -- has not managed yet to fill their minds with conditioning, with beliefs and ideals. They tend to use their minds just for practical reasons; not to philosophize and plan and create problems.&nbsp; They are more in touch with their bodies, in contact with the earth. Osho says that because of this state of innocence, of artlessness, non-mindness, often children can spontaneously fall into a state of meditation.

Why Meditation for Children?

Creativity in children is reflected through their feelings, emotions, and imagination. Children are more concerned with how they "think" things are rather than being concerned with how they "really" are. To encourage creativity in children, it is important to remember that the process of creating is more important than the final product. This means that the children are more interested in painting, clay-modeling, singing, or dancing than they are in making a perfect picture, a perfect clay sculpture or singing the right words to a song.&nbsp;

Creativity is natural in children. All children are born artists. They see the world through fresh, new eyes and then use what they see in original ways. Osho says “Watch children and you will see: all children are creative.” &nbsp;

All Children are Creative

Osho says &quot;Children have to be taught how to think, not how to believe; they need to be helped to understand themselves, not to have blind faith in someone else&#39;s ideas. And only when religion is based on self-knowledge and not of blind faith can it be united with education. And the result will be sheer bliss!&quot;

Osho also explains, “This should be the principle: children should be helped to listen to their bodies, to listen to their own needs. The basic thing for parents is to guard the children from falling into a ditch. The function of their discipline is negative. Remember the word "negative"... no positive programming but only a negative guarding -- because children are children, and they can get into something which will harm them, cripple them. Then too don't order them not to go, but explain to them. Don't make it a point of obedience; still let them choose. You simply explain the whole situation. Children are very receptive, and if you are respectful towards them they are ready to listen, ready to understand; then leave them with their understanding. And it is a question only of a few years in the beginning; soon they will be getting settled in their intelligence, and your guarding will not be needed at all. Soon they will be able to move on their own.”&nbsp;Osho also explains that children should be taught to keep the balance between intelligence and meditation. Both these qualities are to be nurtured. Osho says, "Give your children meditation as well as thinking. Thinking will help them to be successful in the world, and meditation will help them towards success in the divine. Give them thought to sharpen their intellects, give them meditation to nurture the sacred in their hearts. The most important phenomenon in the world happens where sacredness of the heart meets the activeness of the intellect. In that meeting, activity and inactivity balance each other, the day and the night both cease to be, and you start catching glimpses of that which lies beyond both life and death."

Children camps at Oshodham are combined with the meditation camp for parents thus facilitating the whole family to dive into the depths of love, laughter &amp; silence.Osho says, “To be a parent is a great art. To give birth to children is nothing -- any animal can do it; it is a natural, biological, instinctive process. To give birth to a child is nothing great, it is nothing special; it is very ordinary. But to be a parent is something extraordinary; very few people are really capable of being parents. And the criterion is that the real parents will give freedom. They will not impose themselves upon the child, they will not encroach upon his space. From the very beginning their effort will be to help the child to be himself or to be herself. They are to support, they are to strengthen, they are to nourish, but not to impose their ideas, not to give the shoulds and should-nots. They are not to create slaves.”

Parenting is Great Art

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The true education according to Osho will have two wings, Love and meditation. Osho says,&nbsp; "If only the child's intellect is educated he will be partially paralyzed; there will be no fullness, no totality in his life. One of his legs will always be crippled, and his life will be a limping. It is only because all others are lame too that no one recognizes the fact. Children have a game called lame race in which one of their legs is tied to another child's leg, so only one of their legs can run free. This is virtually the way our life is organized, so that we are running on one leg only. It is hardly surprising that we fail, collapse, break down! Meditation is the second leg. We should teach children meditation as we start educating their intellect. Just as the child comes to understand science, he should come to understand religion simultaneously. As his head grows brighter let his heart also grow full of light. Let him not grow up only to know about, let him grow up also to be. Let it not be only his possessions that grow, let him grow too! Let not only his exterior expand, let his interiority also have a depth, just as the trees rise up in the sky but their roots go deep underground. The deeper the roots go underground the higher the tree rises in the sky."&nbsp;Osho shares His vision on Education and how it can complement present education system, “The education that has prevailed in the past is very insufficient, incomplete, superficial. It only creates people who can earn their livelihood but it does not give any insight into living itself. It is not only incomplete, it is harmful too -- because it is based on competition. Any type of competition is violent deep down, and creates people who are unloving. Their whole effort is to be the achievers -- of name, of fame, of all kinds of ambitions. Obviously they have to struggle and be in conflict with themselves. That destroys their joys and that destroys their friendliness. It seems everybody is fighting against the whole world. Education up to now has been goal-oriented: what you are learning is not important; what is important is the examination that will come a year or two years later. It makes the future important -- more important than the present. It sacrifices the present for the future. And that becomes your very style of life; you are always sacrificing the moment for something, which is not present. It creates a tremendous emptiness in life.”&nbsp;Bringing out the essence of education, Osho says, "A real education will not teach you to compete; it will teach you to cooperate. It will not teach you to fight and come first. It will teach you to be creative, to be loving, to be blissful, without any comparison with the other. It will not teach you that you can be happy only when you are the first. That is sheer nonsense. You can't be happy just by being first. And in trying to be first you go through such misery that you become habituated to misery by the time you become the first."&nbsp;Osho's vision of education is five dimensional. The first dimension is informative like languages, history, geography and many other subjects, which can be dealt by television and computers. In the second dimension comes the scientific subjects that can be imparted again by television and computers with the guidance of a human being. The third dimension is the art of living, love, laughter and an acquaintance with life, its wonders, its mysteries… a reverence for life is the foundation of this dimension. The fourth dimension is art and creativity where the child can choose from the whole rainbow of creative arts and become a part of existence, which is constantly creative. The fifth dimension of Osho's vision of education is the art of dying which includes all meditations so that the child can become aware of the eternal life inside him.

Children Meditation Camp is based on Osho’s insight on education for children. Osho says, “Education means drawing your inner being into expression in your living, your day-to-day life. Your honesty, your love, your compassion, should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.”

Why Meditation for Children?

All Children are Creative

Parenting is Great Art

Osho’s Vision on Education