Feel the ever-present presence of existence
Tantra Meditations
posted by Osho
"Feel the cosmos as a translucent presence that is always alive.
If you take an LSD-type drug or something, everyone around you will become a light phenomenon of translucent and vivid colors. This is not because of LSD. The world is like that, but his eyes have become dull. LSD is not creating a colorful world around it. The world is already colorful, nothing is wrong with it. It is a rainbow of colors and translucent lights. But his eyes became dull. That's why you never notice this color.
LSD is simply lightening your eyes, it is not making the world look colorful. He is simply helping chemically to undo his dullness, and then the whole world explodes in front of you. This is a new thing. Even an ordinary chair becomes a wonderful phenomenon. A simple shoe on the floor takes on new colors, a new youth. The normal noise of traffic becomes musical. Trees that you have always seen, but never seen, are reborn as new, although you have always passed them and know that you have seen them. Every leaf on a tree is a miracle.
The reality is like that. It is not LSD that is creating this reality. LSD is simply destroying its dullness, its insensitivity, and you look at the world as it should really be looked at. But LSD can give you just a glimpse. And if you depend on it, sooner or later, even LSD won't be able to remove its dullness. Then you will need larger doses, and then you will become immune to larger doses. And, in fact, when you leave LSD or other drugs, the world will be even more dull than before, as it never has been. Then you will become even more insensitive. (...)
Finally, LSD will make you dull because you are not growing with it. When you grow up, the process is different. Then you become more sensitive, and when you become more sensitive, the world becomes different. Now you can feel many things that you have never felt before, because you were not sensitive.
This technique is based on the innermost sensitivity. First grow in sensitivity. Simply close your doors, make the room dark and light a small candle. Sit in front of the candle, with a very loving attitude; more than that, with an attitude of prayer. Simply pray to the candle: 'reveal yourself to me'. Take a shower, pour cold water over your eyes, then sit in an attitude of prayer before the candle. Look at her and forget about everything else. Just look at the little candle - the flame and the candle. Keep looking at her. After five minutes you will notice that many things are changing in the candle. Remember that they are not changing on the candle. It is your eyes that are changing.
With a loving attitude, closed to the outside world, with total concentration, with a sensitive heart, keep looking at the candle and the flame. Then you will discover new colors around the flame, new shadows that you had never seen before. They were there, the whole rainbow was there. Whenever there is light, the rainbow will be there, because the light contains all colors. You just need a subtle sensitivity. Just feel it and keep looking at it. Even if tears start to flow, keep looking at her. Tears will help your eyes to stay fresher.
Sometimes you may feel that the flame and the candle have become mysterious. It is not the ordinary candle that you brought with you, it acquired a new charm, it received a subtle divinity. Keep doing this. And you can also do that with many other things. (...)
Sensitivity needs to grow. All of your senses need to become more alive. Then, you can do other experiments with this technique. Feel the cosmos as a translucent presence that is always alive. There is light everywhere. With many shadows and shapes, light is happening everywhere. Look at her! And light is everywhere because every phenomenon is based on the foundation of light. Look at a leaf, or a flower, or a stone, and sooner or later you will notice rays coming from them. Just wait patiently. Don't be in a hurry because nothing is revealed when you are in a hurry. Hurry you are blunted. With anything, wait silently, and you will discover a new phenomenon, which has always been there, but you were not alert, you were not aware.
Feel the cosmos as a translucent ever-present and your mind will become completely silent, as if you feel the presence of all existence always alive. You will be exactly a part of it, a note in the great symphony. No loads, no tension ... the drop fell into the ocean. But a great imagination will be needed at the beginning. And it will help a lot if you try it with another exercise of sensitivity.
You can try in several ways. Simply take a person's hand in your hand. Close your eyes and feel life in the other person. Feel it and allow it to move towards you. Feel your own life and allow it to move towards the other. Sit next to a tree and touch the bark of its trunk. Close your eyes and feel life growing inside the tree, and you change immediately.
I heard about an experiment. A doctor was doing an experiment with people to see if their feelings changed their biochemistry. Then he made a report saying that feelings change biochemistry immediately. He experimented with a group of twelve people. He collected the urine from these people before the experiment and the urine was ordinary, normal.
Each person was put under a different stress. One was shown a film of horror, anger, violence and cruelty. It was simply a movie. For thirty minutes he was shown a horror movie. Naturally, his emotions changed with the film. She felt stressed. Another person was shown a very cheerful film. He felt happy. And so the experiment with the twelve people continued. Then their urine was collected and the analysis showed that everyone's urine was different now. The body's chemistry had changed. The person who felt horror became ill and the person who felt hope, joy and happiness was healthy. The urine was different; the body's chemistry was different.
You are not aware of what you are doing to yourself. When you go to see a murder film, you don't know what you're doing. You are changing your body chemistry. If you're reading a detective novel, you don't know what you're doing. You are killing yourself; becoming excited, becoming afraid and then tension arises. That's how you enjoy a detective novel. The more tense you become, the more you enjoy it. The more suspense about what is going to happen, the more you get excited. And you are changing your body chemistry.
All of these techniques that we are talking about here also change your body chemistry. If you feel that the whole world is filled with life and light, you are changing your body's chemistry. And this is a chain reaction. When your body chemistry changes, you can look at the world and it will look more alive. And if it looks more alive, your body chemistry will change again, and then it becomes a chain.
If this method is done for three months, you will be living in a different world, because then you will be different. "
- OSHO - Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
About Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Osho says, "These siva sutras are the oldest techniques, the most ancient. But you can call them the most recent ones too, because nothing can be added to them. They included all the possibilities, all means to clear the mind, to transcend the mind. Not a single method can be added to the one hundred and twelve methods of Shiva. " "These one hundred and twelve meditation methods constitute the whole science of mind transformation."