Here is the post Derek Oliver posted on his LinkedIn account.
My English is poor, pronunciation is further ahead of it. So I am using text to speech conversion to remove one hurdle at least. This way you may get a glimpse towards which I am pointing to, like it happens when you ask a stranger in non-English speaking country about something and he or she tries to explain it. Since you are thirsty of knowing about it, so you get it too. The consciousness plays an important role in communicating the point at much higher level where we all are connected because it is from one’s own experience or understanding.
I quote the post as below:-
“An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h in 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with Tempo Mach 2 appears.
The pilot of the fighter jet slows down, flies alongside the Airbus and greets the pilot of the passenger plane by radio:
“Airbus flight, boring flight isn’t it? Take care and have a look here!”
He rolls his jet on its back, accelerates, breaks through the sound barrier, rises rapidly to a dizzying height, only to swoop down almost to sea level in a breathtaking dive.
He loops back next to the Airbus and asks, “Well, how was that?”
The Airbus pilot answers: “Very impressive, but now have a look here!”
The jet pilot watches the Airbus, but nothing happens. It continues to fly stubbornly straight, with the same speed.
After five minutes, the Airbus pilot radioed, “Well, what are you saying now?”
The jet pilot asks confused: “What did you do?”
The other laughs and says, “I got up, stretched my legs, went to the bathroom, got a cup of coffee and a cake.”
The moral of the story is: When you are young, speed and adrenaline seems to be great. But as you get older and wiser, comfort and peace are not to be despised either.
This is called S.O.S.: Slower, Older, Smarter. Dedicated to all my friends who like me likes the S.O.S. approach!”
My comments:
The similar difference holds true with Yoga and Awareness Meditation. You can practice awareness meditation even for few seconds during typing each day consistently for few months or few years. It is like your life is kept on autopilot and you are practising meditation during your act. No extra effort or time is needed to do it.
So it is like keeping the plane on auto-pilot so that job in hand continue while we are practicing awareness meditation at the same time. It goes deeper, much deeper than rituals, chanting of mantra etc.
These all old and obsolete methods become less effective because in our day to day life we need to do a lot of activities just to make both ends meet. Earlier times when these chanting etc were evolved, a person needs to lean how to cook and learn to do farming. Then just keep repeating it whole life.
Now a days people need to learn to use new Apps, new gadgets and at the same time make their presence felt on social media platforms too.
So in all these rigorous activities there left not much time to do mantra chants, rituals etc and people do them robotically very fast paced.
In that also the phone rings few times! So the small and rare opportunity to go a little deeper, that was available is also lost.
Awareness meditation can be practiced during texting or browsing! It goes much deeper because it helps in breaking our mechanical life and bring in conscious act, and big thing is that we have already lived in our childhood and it is our nature by default.
While in Yoga you need to twist and turn your body like the fighter jet pilot did. It is very ancient method discovered by Patanjali. Mystics all over the world try to give the method which is best suited for people of their time and future generations up to minimum 500 years.
Yoga is actually the oldest method of ancient time to discover the truth within, when life of people is limited to food. Awareness meditation and dynamic meditation combo is latest method suitable for contemporary people. If today someone is praising Yoga then it is like praising Postal communication with WA or Social Media where interaction is in real time. Yes, postal communication has its own advantages too and Yoga has its own advantages but the time required to fulfil the very purpose is not possible for everyone.
Osho strongly suggested to choose Awareness Meditation when asked to choose one from Yoga and Awareness because:-
1) People will find it difficult to spare time for meditation.
2) Life in itself becomes such a struggle and exhaustive just to survive that it is enough effort for anybody to fall into relaxed state.
3) Use of mind and stress to survive became so much that just like for birds to remain flying both wings needed, people need to learn to be able to draw energy from the infinite by connecting with cosmic source on daily basis. Awareness meditation fills this gap.
The difference between Yoga and Awareness Meditation is now crystal. The reason behind effectiveness of awareness meditation against rituals and chanting of mantra is also crystal clear.
In today’s hectic life at many levels these obsolete methods could not help in growing our ‘inner unique wisdom’. Everyone is unique in this sense and it is not one size fits all type thing. Like everyone has different Apps installed on their mobile, we all need personal methods that helps us to grow inwards. This inward growth helps us in diving deeper till our uniqueness is discovered,
This personal uniqueness grows through personal experimentation in life, it grows at a slow pace like nature grows and whatever is not giving result is worth dumping for me at least so I need to try many methods to discover that which helps me most.
The older or obsolete software on our laptop or mobile needs to be upgraded to newer one so as to keep pace with latest technology. In the same way older and obsolete methods needs to be upgraded to newer one. So between Yoga and Awareness Meditation, awareness meditation is my choice from my own experience.
Awareness meditation is the way worked for me, may be you too find it suitable otherwise Dynamic meditation is for most of the people. There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.
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My experiences may be of your help in taking only one step. Because everyone has to move forward alone, this is the nature of this journey.
In my life mindfulness or awareness meditation helped miraculously. Apart from that living a simple, authentic and totality in life is very helpful even when we are serving people around us with great love and care without discrimination.
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