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OSHO Heart Meditation - Coggle Diagram
OSHO Heart Meditation
Instructions
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has 4 stages
1st 3 stages, you may stand, move, sit, or lie down
as happens for you naturally
eyes open or closed
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Introduction
In this meditation, based on a small fragment from Atisha, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, you allow all the suffering
- of yourself and of all the beings of the world
- to ride on your incoming breath and reach your heart
The heart can do miracles, immediately transforms the energy.You drink in misery and it is transformed into blissfulness.
Then, on your outgoing breath you pour that blissfulness Into the whole existence.The meditation has no fixed format; the format given here is the one that works well to start with and you can adapt it as you like later on.
This meditation can be done with specific OSHO Heart Meditation music, which indicates and energetically supports the stages
First Stage
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Bringing your awareness to your body and breathing,
feel yourself here and now.
Then bring your awareness to your heart chakra,
the energy center in the middle of your chest.
If it helps you, place one or both hands on your heart center.
Absorb each in-breath into the heart, pour each out-breath out from the heart
Second Stage
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Start with you own misery,
feel it with as much intensity as possible:
- the hurt, the wounds, and the suffering in your whole life
Accept it and welcome it
Breathe in your misery... absorb it into the heart... let it be transformed there into joy, into bliss.Breathe out all the joy, the blissfulness, pour yourself into existence.You may express in sounds, words, gestures and movements what is happening inside you or you may let it happen silently
Third Stage
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Now expand this process.Take the whole misery of all beings, unconditionally
- friends, enemies, family, strangers.
Accept and welcome it.
Breathe in all this misery and hell... Absorb it into the heart...
Let it be transformed there into joy, into bliss.Breathe out all the joy, the blissfulness, pour yourself into existence.You may express in sounds words, gestures and movements
what is happening inside you to you may let it happen silently
Fourth Stage
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Now completely withdraw your attention from the world,
from others, even from yourself
Lie down, close your eyes, be silent and still.
Note
Once you experienced how pain and suffering can be transformed into joy through the breath and heart,
you may like to apply this method silently whenever people and events around you trigger the process
For full details about this meditation, see: The Book of Wisdom, #1 and #5, by Osho