OSHO MEDITATION TECHNIQUES - 6

Meditation of Conscious Death

Taken from:
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,
Dynamics of Meditation,
Bombay, India, 1972
page 283

If you really want to know and understand
the true maning of life and death,
then you must, with your own will,
learn the art of withdrawing your lifeforce
from the exterior body
and concentrating it
on your inner self.

Then only can you grasp the true meaning!
Remember, this energy can be
controlled and diverted very easily.
Is is not at all a difficult task.
This energy is motivated with intention, and,
therefore, it can be spread out
or withdrawn willfully.
In fact, this energy is the
exuberance of your intention.

If one decides staunchly,
takes a vow to do this,
concentrates only for half an hour
to divert his life force to his inner being,
and decides to dive in and drown within himself,
withdrawing all his spread-out energies,
he is able to gain what he wants.
But this requires a daily and consistent practice.
Then he finds and experiences
that the energy or life force
has started withdrawing inside,
and the physical body has relinquished him.
He feels that his body is lying separately from his
spirit -
quite aside of him.

If tis practice is followed continuously for three
months,
you will find that your body is lying separately
outside of you.
This you can see also.
This is first seen from inside.
But if more practice is done
and more courage is put in,
we can bring out the living flame
that was inside
and see from outside
our own body lying separately, outside.

Determination, strong and unfaltering determination,
can force the energy to turn
or to direct itself inside.
The thought, the desire that
"I must return inside and go to the center",
can definitely enable you
to reach to the center.
The urge should be so intense,
that it permeates every fibre of the body
and every breath that you take.
Then any day it may happen
that you can reach the innermost
in an instant and see your body from within.