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you will be killed from every side. There is no way to escape, so fall flat on your back (chuckling), say 'Yes!' and be killed! (laughter) Right? Good!
The Madman's Guide to Enlightenment
Chapter #5
Chapter title: None
5 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7806055
ShortTitle: MADGUI05
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[Osho gives a meditation to a sannyasin.]
You start one meditation, and that is just sitting silently and allowing your fingers to have their own movement. Feel the movement from the inside. Don't try to see it from the outside. So keep your eyes closed and just feel the movements from inside. let the energy flow more and more into the hands.
The hands are deeply connected with the brain -- the right hand with the left side brain, the left hand with the right side brain. And if fingers can be allowed total freedom of expression, then many many tensions accumulated in the brain are released. That is the easiest way to release the brain mechanism, its repressions, its unused energy. Your hands are perfectly capable of doing it.
Out of such experiences a separate science was evolved in the East -- the science of mudras. Slowly slowly, people became aware that whenever a certain thing happens in the mind, the hand takes a certain gesture, a certain posture. When you are angry, it may become a fist. It has to become a fist, because anger means that you don't want to release the tension. You want to accumulate it in the head; only then will it become violence. So in anger the hand closes and becomes a fist. Then there is no energy released by the hand; it accumulates. In anger you want to beat somebody, to hit somebody, because the whole hand gathers too much energy and it needs an abrupt release. That's what hitting is. And that's why, when you are angry it is very helpful to hit a pillow, to beat a pillow -- it does the same. It doesn't matter whom you are beating. There is no point in beating your wife or your child or your friend; that can be done to the pillow. Because the real thing is not beating -- the real thing is that the accumulated energy is much
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