The deepest meditation I’ve ever found (and I’ve tried 112)
Might the Tibetan version be better than Osho's?
In this video, I share my honest experience with this practice, what makes it so different, and why I believe it may be one of the most transformative meditations available today. This is not a technique for the mind; it’s a surrender into something far greater.
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š§♂️ What is OSHO Mahamudra Meditation™? “This meditation is a meeting between you and the cosmos, between you and the whole of existence. It helps you to merge, melt, and let-go on the deepest level possible.”
– Osho, from “Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, #6”
The meditation has two stages (approx. 50 minutes) and is supported by specific music that mirrors and deepens the energetic flow of the practice. Instructions (from osho.com):
- First Stage – 30 minutes: Stand with eyes closed and let the body move naturally. Allow spontaneous movements to arise — no control, just witnessing. This is Latihan. The body becomes an expression of pure energy.
- Second Stage – 20 minutes: Kneel, raise both hands to the sky. Feel like a hollow bamboo. Let energy pour into you from above — then bow down and release it into the earth. Repeat at least 7 times.
– Osho
- More info on osho.com
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| Saraha, MahÄsiddhas (British Museum) |
It refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact [that] wisdom and emptiness [are] inseparable" [1]. (That is to say, the "perfection of wisdom" or prajnaparamita is that all things are ultimately impersonal).
MahÄmudrÄ is a multivalent term of great importance in later Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism, which "also occurs occasionally in Hindu and East Asian Buddhist esotericism" [2].
The name also refers to a body of teachings representing the culmination of all the practices of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism that believe it to be the quintessential message of all of their sacred texts.
The practice of MahÄmudrÄ is also known as the teaching called "Sahaja Yoga" or "Co-emergence Yoga" [3].
In Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Kagyu school, Sahaja MahÄmudrÄ is sometimes seen as a different Buddhist vehicle (yana), the "Sahajayana" (Tibetan lhen chig kye pa), also known as the vehicle of self-liberation [4].
Jamgon Kongtrul, a Tibetan nonsectarian (ri-mĆ©) scholar, characterizes mahÄmudrÄ as the path to realizing the "mind as it is" (sems nyid), which also stands at the core of all Kagyu paths. He states, "In general, MahÄmudrÄ and everything below it are the ‘mind path’" (sems lam).
MahÄmudrÄ traditionally refers to the quintessence of mind itself and the practice of meditation in relation to a true understanding of it [5].
History
The usage and meaning of the term mahÄmudrÄ evolved over the course of hundreds of years of Indian and Tibetan history and, as a result, the term may refer variously to "a ritual hand-gesture, one of a sequence of 'seals' in Tantric practice, the nature of [ultimate] reality as emptiness [impersonal], a meditation procedure focusing on the nature of Mind, an innate blissful gnosis [knowing] cognizing emptiness nondually, or the supreme attainment of buddhahood at the culmination of the Tantric path" [2].
According to Jamgon Kongtrul, the Indian theoretical sources of the mahÄmudrÄ tradition are Yogacara and tathagatagarbha ("buddha-nature") texts such as the Saį¹dhinirmocana SÅ«tra and the MahÄyÄnottaratantraÅÄstra [6].
The actual practice and lineage of mahÄmudrÄ can be traced back to wandering maha-siddhas ("great adepts") during the Indian Pala Dynasty (760-1142), beginning with the 8th century siddha Saraha [7].
Saraha's dohas ("songs" or "poems in rhyming couplets") are the earliest extant mahÄmudrÄ literature and promote some of the unique features of mahÄmudrÄ such as the importance of:
- pointing-out instruction by a guru,
- the non-dual nature of mind, and
- the negation of the conventional means of achieving enlightenment such as calm-and-insight (samatha-vipasyana) meditation, monasticism, rituals, tantric practices, and doctrinal study in favor of more the direct methods of mahÄmudrÄ "non-meditation" and "non-action" [8].
These teachings also became the wellspring for the body of instructions eventually known as the mind teachings of Tibet associated with mahÄmudrÄ of the Kagyu lineages [9].
Later Indian and Tibetan masters such as Padmavajra, Tilopa, and Gampopa incorporated mahÄmudrÄ into tantric, monastic, and traditional meditative frameworks [10]. More: Mahamudra
Osho's Mahamudra Meditation. How to practice. A Tibetan Vajrayana meditation
- Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit
