Meditation techniques

[ajay0]

A wide list of meditation techniques such as Gibberish, Choiceless awareness, Trataka with commentary by Osho.

Osho Meditation Technique – Art of Ecstasy

 

[syo]

A wide list of meditation techniques such as Gibberish, Choiceless awareness, Trataka with commentary by Osho.

Osho Meditation Technique – Art of Ecstasy

If you want to damage your brain, that is.

 

[ajay0]

If you want to damage your brain, that is.

On the contrary, scientific research has shown the following benefits from meditation.

Eight weeks to a better brain – Harvard Gazette

Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Harvard-affiliated researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) reported the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced changes over time in the brain’s gray matter.

12 Benefits of Meditation

Increased self-awareness, lenghtened attention span, reduction of age-related memory loss, better emotional regulation and impulse control, improved symptoms of trauma and ptsd, decreased blood pressure resulting in better cardio-vascular health, reduction of insomnia, recovery from addictive behaviors, better social behavior, improved symptoms of depression, lesser anxiety and other positive benefits have been recorded as dividends stemming from study and practice of meditation.

 

[Twilight Hue]

A wide list of meditation techniques such as Gibberish, Choiceless awareness, Trataka with commentary by Osho.

Osho Meditation Technique – Art of Ecstasy

Meditation advice from a violent criminal? No thanks.

His meditation however has improved substantially by being dead, so he's progressing.

 

[ajay0]

Meditation advice from a violent criminal? No thanks.

The techniques mentioned has been there much before Osho, such as Gibberish created by the sufi sage Jabbar, trataka which is an ancient yogic technique, choiceless awareness by contemporary Jiddu Krishnamurti and others. Osho just gives a commentary on them.

Also Osho was acquitted of all criminal charges . However his outspoken nature made a lot of enemies for him in India and abroad and consequently he was and still being subjected to slander and propaganda.

All I can say is that he died decades back, and his books are harmless. There is no need to be petrified by his teachings.