... liberation and the only hope for creating a joyful and peaceful humanity on Mother Earth. Here we explain our view of meditation for our inner and outer transformation.
Meditation is the true miracle! When it happens we experience the most beautiful moments existence can provide for us: the body is relaxed without tension, the mind calm without thinking, the heart open for the joy of being and the spirit in blissful ecstasy.
We are one with the world and the world is one with us. We love the world and the world loves us. Love is freedom and freedom is love. All separations due to sex, family, race, nation or religion disappear and a deep inner peacefulness descends on us.
Sometimes we accidentally might touch this divine space in our life even without knowing about meditation. In sports people talk about being "in the zone" to describe moments of bliss, when things happen without effort just by themselves.
Consciously or unconsciously we all search for these moments – in the effort to reach orgasm, the longing for love, the fight for freedom or the prayer to God. We try to relax our body by practicing Yoga or to stop our mind by sitting in Zen meditation.
However, the real thing doesn't seem to happen! We are too tense and overloaded by a leak of movement, plenty of stuck emotions and an avalanche of mental input, which we never saw in human history before.
We need physical, mental or emotional release before we can deeply feel, relax and be silent again. Osho provides this possibility for modern man by His famous Active Meditations like Dynamic Meditation or Kundalini Meditation.
Relaxing, letting go of judging and just watching the mind with its endless traffic jam of thoughts are the keys to meditation. Not catching clouds of thoughts but allowing them to pass by and disappear is the secret of meditation and the way to enter paradise now.
For almost forty years Osho talked to his disciples in morning and evening discourses. Most of them are recorded and prevent the changing of his words as it has been done before by the words of enlightened mystics.
These discourses are the key to meditation on the Osho Path. Like no other meditation He gives this immense support. While he talks, you find yourself relaxing your body, opening your mind for the multiversity of life, feeling peace in your heart and becoming very silent.
You relax into the gaps between His words; you disappear in the ocean of consciousness. There is no meditation technique anymore, there is no you anymore. There is just blissfulness and a silent awareness.
The most forgotten spiritual qualities are playfulness and paradox, laughter and celebration. In fact the spiritual tradition of Zen started with the enlightening laughter of Buddha's disciple Mahakashajap.
Children are happy as long as they can rejoice in the wonders of each new day. They laugh and they cry, they fight and they play without taking the world too serious. They live with a joy and an innocence, which we have lost since the days of early life.
Remembering this innocence and bringing back to your life a sense of humor and playfulness is the purpose of the Zen Wind - Zen Play Meditations. You reconnect to your playful energies, deepen your breathing, open your heart and relax in deep silence.
These meditations are an inner adventure for anyone who wants to feel young in spirit and wise by experience. Becoming like a child again you can rejoice and celebrate life in all its inner and outer richness.
Breathing into Life Meditation
Breathing in Love Meditation
Lion's Heart Meditation
Ocean Love Meditation
Dragon Breath Meditation
Synopsis
In the principal spiritual traditions such as Yoga, Tantra, Tao or Zen conscious breathing is the key for wellbeing and spiritual fulfilment – the key to enjoy life. Sadly in our Western stress dominated world we have lost our breath and our selves – we have lost our potential to be healthy, loving and joyful beings. This book is the result of Devapath having been a physician and a spiritual therapist for over thirty years.
Devapath has a unique way to open our eyes so that we can experience the immensely rich world of breathing. He shows us how it influences all areas of our life and how it can help us to improve the quality of our love and life affairs.
In ten chapters he guides us along an exciting journey, where we learn how deep breathing helps us to make friends with our body, to release stress and to keep us young. We learn how it improves our sex life and heals our relationships. We become aware how it can relax our mind, balance our emotions and help us to open our heart to discover our inner beauty.
Preface
A fresh breeze
A new quality of life
A new education
A new beginning
A new ecology
A new womb
Chapter 1 – Breathing with awareness
The breath gives life
Coming home to the body - our temple
Refreshing our life energies by right breathing
Breathing on the spiritual path
The breath awareness meditation
Chapter 2 – Breathing beyond stress
Releasing stress with a good breath
Overcoming lethal stress
Why do we feel so easily stressed?
The addiction to stress
Moving beyond stress
The dynamic tension release meditation
Chapter 3 – Breathing for inner healing
Sailing in the winds of life
The soul of healthy breathing
Health and rejuvenation through inner massage
Being in touch with life
The diaphragm meditation
Chapter 4 – Breathing with pleasure
Giving a fresh breath to our relationships
Sex or suicide
Reconnecting to our life energy
The pelvis breathing meditation
Chapter 5 – Breathing in Tantra
The joy of Tantric Breathing
Tantric healing and the river of love
Tantra – the rediscovery of spontaneity
Overcoming schizophrenia
The flame of life meditation
Chapter 6 – Breathing and relaxing the mind
The mind is the problem
Asking the heart for support
From a dead serious relationship…
To a joyful relationship
The power of breathing to relax the mind
The gibberish meditation
Chapter 7 – Breathing to master emotions
Overwhelming emotions
The hidden rulers of our life
Trapped in emotional repression
Inner liberation by emotional release
Transforming emotions
The mastering emotions meditation
Chapter 8 – Breathing into your beauty
Breathing like a child
The healing power of loving yourself
The Buddha belly
The good, the bad and the beautiful
A meditation for belly, heart and beauty
Chapter 9 – Breathing with the ocean of life
The boy and the mysterious ocean
Treasures of the ocean
Whirling waters – dancing spirits
Aquaprana Ocean Healing
Waves of energy – waves of trust
The ocean wave meditation
Chapter 10 – Breathing in love and meditation
The journey from fear to love
Love prevents madness
Love heals the fear of orgasm
Love transforms death
Love needs no middleman – love needs you
The magic of love meditation