CALL your own name, in the morning, in the night, in the afternoon. Whenever you feel sleepy call your own name. And not only call it, answer it and say it loudly. Don't be afraid of others. You have been afraid of others enough, they have already murdered you through fear. Don't be afraid, even in the market place you must remember. Call your own name: 'Teertha are you here?' And answer 'Yes, sir.'

THIS is one of the oldest mantras. Whenever you feel divided, whenever you see that a duality is coming into being, simply say inside: 'Not two'. But say it with awareness; don't repeat it in a mechanical way. Whenever you feel love arising, say 'Not two', otherwise the hate is waiting there they are one. When you feel hate arising say 'Not two'. Whenever you feel a clinging towards life say 'Not two', whenever you feel a fear of death, say 'Not two'. Only one lS. And this saying should be your understanding. It should be filled with intelligence, penetrating clarity, and suddenly you will feel a relaxation within. The moment you say 'Not two'if you are saying it understandingly, not repeating it in a mechanical way you will suddenly feel the illumination.

WHEN somebody comes to see you or meet you just settle within yourself, become silent. When the man enters, deep down feel peace for him. Feel: 'Peace be to this man'. Don't just say it, feel it. Suddenly you will see a change in the man as if something unknown has entered into his being. He will be totally different. Try it. Osho gave this tension technique for those who have become aware of a persistent pattern offrustration and anger in their day-to-day affairs. Every day for fifteen minutes, any time that you feel good, choose a time and close the room and become angry- but don't release it. Go 84 The Orange Book Ponder on the opposite 85 on forcing it ... go almost crazy with anger, but don't release it no expression, not even a pillow to hit. Repress it in every way - do you follow me? It is just the exact opposite of catharsis. If you feel tension arising in the stomach as if something is going to explode, pull the stomach in; make it as tense as you can. If you feel the shoulders are becoming tense, make them more tense. Let the whole body be as tense as possible almost as if on a volcano, boiling within and with no release. That is the point to remember - no release, no expression. Don't scream, otherwise the stomach will be released. Don't hit anything, otherwise the shoulders will be released and relaxed. For fifteen minutes get heated up, as if one is at one hundred degrees. For fifteen minutes work to a climax. Put on an alarm and when the alarm goes, try the hardest you can. And as the alarm stops, sit silently, close your eyes and just watch what is happening. Relax the body. This heating of the system will force your patterns to melt.

MAKE a mantra of 'yes'. Every night before you go to sleep repeat 'yes, yes' and get in tune with it; sway with it, let it come over all of your being from the toe to the head. Let it penetrate. Repeat 'yes, yes, yes'. Let that be your prayer for ten minutes in the night and then go to sleep. And early in the morning again at least for three minutes sit in your bed. The first thing to do is to repeat 'yes' and get into the feel of it. In the day whenever you start feeling negative, just stop on the road anywhere. If you can say loudly 'yes, yes', good. Otherwise at least you can say silently 'yes, yes'.

YOU cannot find a better situation to meditate than while flying at a high altitude. The higher the altitude, the easier is the meditation. Hence, for centuries, meditators have been moving to the Himalayas to find a high altitude.

When the gravitation is less and the earth is very far away, many pulls of the earth are far away. You are far away from the corrupted society that man has built. You are surrounded by clouds and the stars and the moon and the sun and the vast space ... So do one thing: start feeling one with that vastness, and do it in three steps.

The first step is: for a few minutes just think that you are becoming bigger ... you are filling the whole plane.

Science now needs great meditators, otherwise this earth is doomed.





















Then the second step: start feeling that you are becoming even bigger, bigger than the plane, in fact the plane is now inside you.

And the third step: feel that you have expanded into the whole sky. Now these clouds that are moving, and the moon and the stars - they are moving in you: you are huge, unlimited.

This feeling will become your meditation, and you will feel completely relaxed and non-tense.
 

A certain silence immediately comes to you if you stand quietly. Try it in the comer of your room. Just in the comer, stand silently, not doing anything. Suddenly the energy also stands inside you. Sitting you will feel many disturbances in the mind because sitting is the posture of a thinker; standing, the energy flows like a pillar and is distributed equally all over the body. Standing is beautiful.

When you feel and enjoy that, then shake the lower part. Then when you feel and enjoy that, shake the whole body. So in three parts; first the head, just the head, second the torso, third the whole body.

As far as meditation is concerned, you can find one star which belongs to you and to which you belong.

If you continuously do body movements and you never sit silently, then too you will miss something. When the energy has started moving, one should become absolutely silent, otherwise the movement remains gross. The body movement is good but it is a gross movement, and if the whole energy remains in the gross movement, the subtle movement will not start.

This is one of the basic laws of the mind that whatsoever you do consciously, you cannot do. But do it and when you do it consciously, you will feel a separation. You are doing it but still you are a witness; you are not lost in it. A distance arises, and that distance is tremendously beautiful. But I am not saying to create that distance. That is a by-product you need not worry about it.

MEDITATION is a way to come to terms with one's loneliness, to have an encounter with one's own loneliness -rather than escaping from it, diving deep into it and seeing exactly what it is.

THE breath goes in, let it be mirrored in your being that the breath is going in. The breath goes out, let it be mirrored in your being that the breath is going out, and you will feel such tremendous silence descending on you. If you can see the breath going in and going out, going in and going out, this is the deepest mantra that has ever been invented.