Osho

Meditating with Andreas:

I have a channel on youtube that allows you to practice meditation with me. It makes it much easier to access meditation and is the next best thing to coming to a workshop. There are also many other inspiring videos about meditation.

The link is: https://www.youtube.com/user/kokoro88888

The Mantra Transmission Circle

In this method we create a circle of people who sing the mantras. Then we place people in the center who just sit quietly and receive the mantras. In the center the effect of the mantras is most concentrated and the depth of meditation that can be reached is utterly amazing. We create a very powerful Presence of Meditation that otherwise would be difficult to create.

The Mantra Transmission Circle is the most powerful meditation method that I know. It links up the consciousness of everyone in the circle through Mantra to help the people in the middle to go beyond the limits of their own consciousness. In this process, the persons in middle can experience a tremendous expansion, deepening and purification of consciousness that is vastly beyond the state consciousness of any single person present. No other method does this.
This method represents the very essence of friends helping each other to find liberation.

 

At the time of the publication of this book, this method is presented every Wednesay evening 7:30 P.M. at the Forum 104, 104 rue vaugirard in Paris. For more information please see www.andreasmamet.com,

Learning to share the Dharma

I began sharing the Dharma in earnest in 1981, after spending 5 years at Osho's Ashram in Poona, India. Those 5 years were dedicated to the practice of meditation, the central pillar having been the two hours of meditation in the direct presence of Osho, which only could be described as indescribably enriching and luminous. 

Meditation activities at the Ashram started at 6 a.m. and ended around 10 p.m. To spend a minimum of 5 or 6 hours a day in meditation was easy. However there were many opportunities to engage in practices upto 12 hours a day. Once a month there was a 10­­-day meditation camp which shifted meditation to 8 hours a day. Then there were groups like 10-day Vipassana. There meditation was practiced about 12 hours a day, if one included the two hours with the Master. Other groups like Soma presented various esoteric practices, they ran up to 14 days. And again other groups like Enlightenment Intensive plunged the practitioner into asking himself "Who Am I?" upto 16 hours per day.

This should give a basic idea what an intense place Osho's Ashram was, if you were ready to practice and work on yourself. 

Before living at Osho's Ashram I spent 3 years in direct training with a traditional Indian Yogi by the name of Mahindra who taught me many yogic sciences, including Mantra and Kriya Meditation. After that time I continued my training in the Himalayas. I spend time with yogis in ashrams and caves at the Ganges. There, in 1975, I met Swami Charanananda, a disciple of Nityananda and most noteably, Swami Paramananda Avdhoot, who lived in Badrinath, close to the Tibetan border at 11,000 feet. Spending time with those two yogis was precious.

In April 1981 I went to Tokyo and I began sharing the Dharma by running workshops and meditation intensives. One could say that I began learning what worked and what didn't.

What works most emphatically is to practice meditation with people, to create a opportunity for direct experience.

What didn't work too well was to ask people to ask questions. One should think that to create room for that would be important, but I discovered that many people actually didn't know or didn't dare to ask questions that had actual relevance to them.

Their actual, existential question would be, "I am miserable and depressed. Why am I suffering so much?" But instead they ask some superficial, intellectual questions. Answering them would bring no relief to the questioner whatsoever. I soon learnt to ignore many intellectual questions. I began talking about the dynamics of suffering and what caused suffering. Sometimes I pushed people to ask a question that was authentic and expressed their vulnerability. 

What works well also is to talk about my direct experiences in meditation. This works for a number of reasons. First, I share my own being directly, no quotes from any books, and this seems to inspire people. I noticed over time that when I talk about my own experiences in meditation, it is as if the very air in the room changes. Talking about Samadhi is like invoking Samadhi in the room. There are people in the room who feel this. 

Looking back over the last 32 years of teaching, I can safely say that my teaching modalities have dramatically changed in the sense that the fluidity of presentation has greatly amplified. I considered it a compliment one day when Julia said, "You know, they come back not because you are so spiritual, but because you are so funny!" Perhaps I have advanced from being a spiritual teacher to being a spiritual comedian. That would be a good thing.

In sharing the Dharma well I feel it is very important to be authentic and vulnerable. I have seen many spiritual teachers succumb to the temptation of allowing themselves to appear a little more than they actually are. To me that represents the first step into a very wrong direction.

 

It is very important to me to let people know that I am not Superman. I am quite capable of lots of mistakes and I have many things to learn. In fact, through the practice of meditation I have finally figured out how many things I don't understand and don't know. I allow myself to tell people that I am very unenlightened and that I have lots of work to do and that when I go home after teaching, I practice, I invoke and pray just like they do.

I allow myself to share with people my very own longing for liberation. I let them know that I am on the journey just like them. I offer my friendship. I declare that I have not mastered anything, but have so much to learn myself. I am being myself, my very human self, without any pretension of having found what I know I have not found. It is of great importance to be real and authentic.

 

I constantly remind people of their own intuition and ability to solve problems and when I don't know the answer to a question, I say that I don't know. 

What works for me is to be myself. 

I might add that recently I have started to reduce the time that I talk about the Dharma in favor of spending more time to practice meditation with people. This creates lengthy meditation sessions, but the results are tangibly encouraging as people are actually going into deeper modes of meditation and feel very uplifted. 

And I feel very privileged to have learnt one of the most powerful methods of meditation at Osho's Ashram in Poona. I call it the Mantra Transmission Circle. Singing mantras is an extremely powerful tool of transformation and this method amplifies the power of mantra even further. The deep peace and beauty that arises on the faces of people is just marvellous to behold.

Our innermost being wants to return to the Peace beyond understanding. We want to reconnect with that which is Eternal Beauty. This is possible for all of us.

The Kiss of God

While the initial Kiss of God (Samadhi) can be extremely explosive, what happens afterwards is that everything becomes extremely silent inside and even though thoughts may still be there, they become extremely fine, weightless and non-substantial to the point of being almost gone.

Osho, 30 January 2015

 I spent the entire night with Osho. As a result my chest is exploding with indescribable bliss and my body can't seem to stop crying.

The time is now

Within the next 5 minutes, tell someone how much you appreciate them. Do it in person, by phone or email. Give hugs and kisses.

Meditation: I love you

 

Become conscious of your breathing. As you breathe out, think, "I love you" to the Universe. As you breathe in, just feel the response. Do it all day long and see what happens.

The world

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

Peace on Earth

If you are sincere in your desire to contribute to Peace on Earth, then it is imperative that you train yourself in identifying each negative, toxic notion in your mind and intercept its expression.

Observe yourself

(Excerpt from a talk given on 19 November 2014 in Paris)

 

Mantras are the central theme of the work I do. However, we also have to consider other things.

 

I am trying to present a wholistic teaching. One of the most important things I do is to show  how to track down the sources of our suffering.

 

You may have seen the movie "Bruce Almighty" with Jim Carey. Of course you know that Jim Carey is my guru along with Woody Allen. Those two are the source of my wisdom...

 

One of the things that happened in that movie was that the character of Jim Carey was always complaining.  He was always criticizing situations and other people. And then his ultimate target of complaint of course was God. According to Bruce, God did everything wrong.

 

Bruce was not capable of connecting his suffering with his own behavior. His behavior created his suffering. But that he could not see. It is very important to be able to connect your suffering with the choices that you make in life. You need to connect the dots. You connect your suffering with the source. The source is you. It is not God. God is not the source of your suffering. We are the source of our suffering. We are our worst enemy. 

 

When something happens that brings us suffering, we have to learn to track down the origin. We have to track down how we created our suffering. 

 

A man came to Christ with a terrible illness and Christ healed the man. Then Christ said to the man, "Now go and sin no more."  The translation of this is, "Don't commit the same mistakes again which brought the suffering to you."

 

That means you have to practice something extremely important. You, I, we all, without exception, have to practice intense self-observation. Every moment reflect: How do I behave? What are the thoughts in my head? What are my choices?

 

We all say, I want happiness and joy. Then 5 minutes later we totally sabotage our commitment to find joy in life.  We take a hammer and hit ourselves over the head and then we wonder why we have a headache. But we cannot see the connection. Then we search a guru who is supposed to show us why we have a headache. This is why people need gurus. And the guru may just say, stop hitting yourself over the head. And we say, “oh, thank you, GuruJi. I needed your wisdom. Thank you. You are so wise. You are magic.” (People in the audience are laughing)

 

What we need is a good mirror. That is all. Self-observation will give us that mirror to allow us recognize which thoughts and choices create our suffering. Once we know our methods, we can stop them.

Think

Within the context of observing our daily behavior I want to present to you what I found on the Internet. It is called THINK. It is an invitation to reflect for a moment before we speak. 

 

THINK ...

T - Is it TRUE?

H - Is it HELPFUL?

I - Is it INSPIRING?

N - Is it NECESSARY?

K - Is it KIND?

 

We can apply this to the words we speak and also to the actions we engage in.

 

I made this very interesting discovery. If I can really follow this, I speak a whole lot less! I just stay silent. 

 

Underlying our great capacity of saying hurtful things of course is one great illness that has befallen humanity and that is our incessant habit of judging others.

 

Why do we judge others? I can think of two reasons why we judge others. One, we like to feel superior. And two, we totally forget looking at our own lives.

 

Do you remember the story where Christ was talking to a crowd of people who were ready to stone a woman who had committed adultery? Interestingly, this terrible act of stoning women seems to arise again in the mid-east. It apparently has never quite gone away. 

 

Christ really had a very powerful way of teaching through imagery or by simply asking questions. The question that he posed to people was this: If you are free of any kind of bad behavior in your life, then go ahead. You be the first one to stone the woman.  He made people stop and look at their own lives for a moment. Then he said, if you are so virtuous, then go ahead and be the first to pick up a stone. By doing so he stopped the entire crowd from killing the woman.

 

That is what a Master does. He makes you look at yourself.

Right course of speech and action

There is such a thing as a Greater Existential Flow. If we find a way to relax into the moment, it is possible to access this Wondrous River of Being. Then it becomes easier to find the right words and actions for a given situation. 

Meanwhile, as we are looking to contact that Greater Flow, we may ask ourselves, "Which course of action gives me peace?" Follow that.

Love

If nobody said to you "I love you" today then this is for you:
"I love you."

Who am I?

During the 70s I spent 5 years at the Ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, now called Osho. During that time I spent an average of 5 hours a day in meditation, but often I entered retreats where I meditated upto 10 or more hours a day for 3 weeks at a time. During such high intensity efforts of meditation many things shifted in my consciousness and at one point I began to remember that my last life was that of a Tibetan and I remember with great clarity being killed by a Chinese as I was running down a mountain.

 

The amazing thing was that I was quickly reincarnated into a German family and at the age of 6 my parents attempted to flee from East Germany to the West. I spent a few months in a German Refugee camp, thereby successully completing the process of escaping that I failed to complete as a Tibetan. 

 

There were other times when I had the most amazing experience of being in two bodies at the same time, one Tibetan, the other one the current body. As if watching it from above, I could see there was an effort made to transfer the knowledge of the Tibetan body into this one. It was as if files were transferred from one computer to the other. It was a very exotic experience.

 

This also explains why to this day I experience at times massive transmissions from Tibetan Yogis, one of them I call Lama Drubchen, with whom I had contact the last time at the end of last year.

 

These contacts are hair-raising in the the way of initiating a tremendously expanded vision of the Universe and also a presence that seems like a million volts surging through the body. So, fascinatingly I seem to exist between Osho and another teacher, Drubchen.

 

Therefore, I owe much gratitude to the Tibetan world, but I also know that I made a choice to not go back to the Tibetan world, at least in some externally visible form, because the Tibetan world at this point is tremendously limited and handicapped.

 

For that reason I came back in a western body and after my time in the Himalayas in 1975, close to the Tibetan border, was fortunate to be called, literally, by Osho and go through those amazing 5 years of meditation on a monastic level of intensity without the monastic limitations, which are mostly unknown and hidden to the casual observer of Tibetan Buddhism.

 

For those beings who have access to deeper knowledge, they will discover that Osho used to be a Tibetan yogi (Milarepa, in my view), which was confirmed by the late Karmapa in the 70s. So, in a way I continue in the deepest and most real Tibetan tradition as it has morphed into another expression, which is a white body, under the blessings of Tibetan Masters such as Drubchen and Osho (who also has left the recognizable Tibetan form because it has become too limited and too corrupted).

 

I really consider myself lucky to be under the guidance of so much substantial presence of Drubchen and Osho. My only way to say “Thank You,” is to share what I have received and what I am receiving.

 

This book is my attempt of sharing and saying “Thank you.” This book is an expression of me following my joy and I invite you to make the decision to discover and follow your joy also.

 

Andreas Mamet

aka Swami Anand Karunesh

aka Lhundrup

28 February, 2010

Suddenly, out of nowhere a brilliant golden light arose in the center of the head which quickly grew in intensity. Simultaneously there was a single thought that suggested, "Fall back into its center." I followed the instruction and fell back into its center. As I did, the golden light intensified. It expanded further and changed color and became a blinding white light. I followed this instruction several additional times until the light was everything that there was, an infinite presence of breathtaking bliss, and one could not fall back further.

The Fallen Angels Are Us

In order to understand radical, fanatical religion, we need to understand the functioning of the mind/ego. The message of the ego is simple: I am better than you. I am bigger than you in every way.
If asked why, it will quickly collapse, because there exists no substantial reason to back that notion.
Therefore, the ego/mind will look for a doctrine behind which to hide and justify its claim for superiority. The ultimate doctrine of course is to say: “I am connected with the One And Only True God.” Fascinatingly, that is the message of all religious fanatics. “My God is the true one. Not yours.”
Now the ego/mind has diverted the attention away from its toxic presence. Now it is hiding behind some religious imagery. It uses God to justify its toxic and violent existence.
Using God to hide behind to express the ego/mind/shadow desire to dominate, control and in fact ... consume other souls is the ultimate perversion of humanity. The individual is entirely lost in separation.
That is the true meaning of the fallen angel. Fallen into separation. And the fallen angel knows not he has fallen.