One Day Osho Meditation Workshop

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" Spiritual learning cannot come from words but from the gaps, the silences that are always surrounding you. They are there even in the crowd, in the market, in the bazaar. Seek the silences, seek the gaps within and without, and one day you will find that you are in meditation.

Meditation comes to you. It always comes; you cannot bring it. But one has to be in search of it, because only when you are in search will you be open to it, vulnerable to it. You are a host to it. Meditation is a guest. You can invite it and wait for it. It comes to Buddha, it comes to Jesus, it comes to everybody who is ready, who is open and seeking." Osho

Finally, we are meeting again for a full day of meditation and celebration. The vibes of the wonderful moments during the last camp with Swami Keerti are still throbbing in our hearts filling all of us with love, life and laughter.

Theme of this meditation camp : From chaos to cosmos , from mind to no-mind.

This is an open workshop for all seekers , new and old, seekers of all different paths who have walked in search of freedom from the mind, who have taken a conscious effort to start a journey in this path from mind to heart and from heart to the being.

The tentative schedule for the Saturday's event is:

8:30 – 9:30 – Osho Dynamic Meditation ( most powerful session of the day, don't miss)

9:30 – 10:45 – Breakfast and Rest

10:45 - 11:15 - Osho Audio Discourse with emphasis on "The Art of Listening"

------- 15 Mins Break -------

11:30 - 1:00 - Vipassana Meditation / Nataraj Meditation / Stop Meditation

1:00 – 3:00 – Lunch and Rest / River Visit

3:00 – 4:00 – Chakra Sound / Nadabrahma Meditation / No Mind Meditation

4:00 – 4:30 – Rest / River visit

4:30 – 5:30 – Osho Kundalini Meditation

5:30 – 6:00 – Rest

6:00 – 8:00 – Osho Evening Celebration and Group Sharing sessions

Wear loose colorful clothes and come in an empty stomach. Clean drinking water is provided. Bring your own towels. You do not need yoga mats as meditation cushions are provided by us.

Please arrive 10-15 minutes earlier for getting necessary instructions on meditations.

The suggested love donations for the event is 20$ , which includes Breakfast, vegetarian lunch, afternoon organic herbal tea and whole day of meditations with a loving, caring group of fellow meditators.

You can join us from the morning (highly recommended) or join us for some of these sessions as your schedule permits. If you are joining in from in-between please text us or call us so that you don't come when some meditation session is going on.

Location / Walking directions of the Meditation Center :

N or Q train from 42nd Street, Times Square,directed to Ditmars Boulevard ( get off the train on the last stop) Walk north-east on 31st street towards Ditmars Blvd. Turn left at Ditmars Blvd. Walk from 31st street straight to 19th street in Ditmars Blvd. Turn right at 19th street towards 21st Drive. Turn left at 19th street and 21st drive to get to 18-52 block, ask for entrance door to the centre in the 18-52 block 1st floor

What’s the difference between a Teacher and Master?

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Osho:

Many buddhas have existed, but once in a while a buddha becomes a master. The famous name of Gautam the Buddha is famous just because of his being a master. Millions of buddhas preceded him, but they were not masters.

It happened: One day somebody asked Buddha, ‘You have almost fifty thousand sannyasins around you – how many of them have become like you?’ Buddha is reported to have said that many had. But the questioner was puzzled. He said, ‘If many of them have become like you, why does nobody know about them?’

Buddha said, ‘They have become enlightened, but they are not masters. They are just like me, they exist on the same plane of being – that is one thing. But to persuade another to bring his consciousness to the same plane is a difficult art.’

To persuade the other towards higher peaks of being is almost impossible because the other will create all sorts of resistances. And the more you try to bring him up, the more his ego will be there to resist. And the ego will enjoy falling down more and more. The ego will be the enemy. And the other is identified with his own ego, he thinks he is the ego. So when a master tries to transform or help, you create all sorts of barriers in order not to be helped.

Teachers are many, masters few. Teachers are very cheap; you can get them a rupee a dozen – because to be a teacher is nothing. You need a little intellectual capacity to understand things, a little capacity to explain things – if you are a little articulate you can become a teacher.

Scriptures are there: you can memorize them. With a little practice you can attain to a certain logical penetration into things. You can silence people, you can prove things. And many will be attracted because people live in their intellectual center – they live in their heads.

A teacher is a head-oriented person, more heady than you. He can impress you, but that impression will not lead you anywhere. You will remain in the same rut. He himself is nowhere. A teacher is a man who teaches without knowing what he is teaching. A teacher is a man who talks about things he has not known, who talks about worlds with no experience.

He has not tasted anything of the Unknown. He may have tasted many things of the Vedas, Koran, Bible, Upanishads; knowledge he may have gathered much, but knowing he has none. But you can adjust to a teacher very easily because he is of the same type; he belongs to the same level of being as you, to the same plane.

Teachers become very, very influential; they lead great movements; millions are attracted to them – because they talk the same language that you can understand. Masters cannot lead big movements – almost impossible. In fact, by the time they become known they are here no more; by the time people come to hear about them, they are gone.

Then they are worshipped for thousands of years, but that worship won’t help much. To be impressed by a master is difficult, because that means dying to your own ego. To allow a master to work on you is very courageous: you open your heart, you become vulnerable; and nobody knows where he is leading – you have to trust.