THE PROCESS
This is a week long meditative therapy created by Osho to rediscover the beauty of childhood without verbalising or analysing our past psychological experiences.
For the first hour you behave like a child. Just enter your childhood. Whatever you wanted to do, do it – dancing, singing, jumping, crying, weeping – anything at all, in any posture. Nothing is prohibited except touching other people. Don’t touch or harm anyone else in the group.
The course includes one hour of allowing yourself to just be a child again, and one hour of silent sitting together as a group. It also includes OSHO Dynamic Meditation at sunrise, OSHO Kundalini Meditation at sunset, followed by the OSHO Evening Meeting.
The workshop will happen in the countryside, just at the edge of the Pyrenees mountains, in SW France. For the times outside the process it is possible to go for walks and rest.
BECOMING A CHILD AGAIN
Once upon a time we were all real! Just naturally ourselves. When we wanted to laugh, we laughed. When we wanted to cry, we cried. When we were angry, we were angry. We danced and jumped and shrieked with delight. Playfulness was our essence. We lived in innocence, knowing nothing, except what we needed in that moment.
We were very small and needed the love of others, it was our only security. The price for that love was that we started “growing old,” rather than just naturally maturing and “growing up.” The day we became good boys and girls was a catastrophe. We stopped growing – we became artificial, unnatural, serious….
Also, the world around us was so exciting and we wanted to go “out” and discover everything, and so we became so knowledgeable about everything except ourselves. In the process we forgot who we really are, and lost the innate ability of relaxing into not-knowing.
Now is our chance to take ourselves back to that same fork in the road. This time we can consciously choose to take the path of playfulness, innocence, naturalness, laughter… rediscovering our originality, individuality and freedom. And once we are on the road of authenticity, then finding ourselves, finding our center, finding our own inner joy will happen by itself.
Then follows the hour of just sitting silently. You will be fresher, more innocent, and meditation will become easier.
SITTING IN SILENCE
“You are using awareness without being aware of it, but only about outside things. It is the same awareness that has to be used for the inside traffic. When you close your eyes there is a traffic of thoughts, emotions, dreams, imaginations; all kinds of things start flashing by.
“What you have been doing in the outside world, do exactly the same with the inside world and you will become a witness. And once tasted, the joy of being a witness is so great, so otherworldly that you would like to go more and more in…. From unawareness to awareness is the greatest quantum leap.” Osho
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“This great experiment through which we are passing is basically to achieve your lost childhood again. When I say ‘your lost childhood,’ I mean your innocence, your eyes full of wonder, knowing nothing, having nothing, but yet feeling yourself at the top of the world. Those golden moments of wonder, joy, no tension, no worry, no anxiety, have to be regained, rediscovered. The sage is nothing but the circle that started in your birth coming full way, complete, back to the same point.
“This is your second childhood. You are born again. Your eyes are no longer filled with the dust of knowing. But this not-knowing is a tremendous perceptivity, a great clarity. It does not need to know, because it feels, and feeling is a higher state than knowing. As the clarity becomes more and more transparent, instead of feeling it becomes your being.” Osho
Facilitated by Leela and Vatayana
Start of the course: Lundi 24th June 2024 at 16:30, first meal – dinner
End of the course: Dimanche 30th June 2024 at 14:30, last meal – lunch
Cost of the course : 250 EUR
Cost of accommodation and food: 390 EUR for 6 nights and 3 meals a day.
Where : In the town of Foix, au hour south of Toulouse, SW France, 90 km from Andorra The town has a train station with good connections with Toulouse international airport, situated about an hour’s drive away. Carcassonne international airport is about 1h30 away and Barcelona’s is 4 hours away.
Contact : For bookings and more information please contact leela@oshofrance.com or call +33780305305
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