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OSHO Nirvana Meditation Center in Shonan Fujisawa

The sky is visible from the windows, and the light of Shonan pours in.
I wished this to be a space where grace from existence pours down, and I felt moved to share it.
The space holds four or five people for active meditations such as Kundalini Meditation, and about ten for quiet meditations such as Nadabrahma Meditation or Vipassana.

I have heard that long ago Osho asked just one promise of those who became sannyasins: to take one hour every day for meditation. Beyond that they could do anything they liked. That was the only promise, and with it they could become sannyasins.

As I recall, I heard this story around 2002 at a meditation gathering held regularly in Kamakura, from a friend, Swami Vinod, a Japanese sannyasin who apparently ran a meditation center called Anand Niketan in Tokyo in the 1980s.

I also faintly remember Vinod saying that Osho's greatest legacy and contribution was his meditations, and that even if the name Osho disappeared, his meditations would remain.

"Oh, that's easy," you think, and you try it, but keeping it up turns out to be surprisingly hard. Five, ten, fifteen years after becoming a sannyasin, even one hour a week becomes difficult. There are all kinds of phases, of course. Then wisdom sets in: life itself is meditation. Work is meditation. Listening to music is meditation. Losing yourself in a hobby is meditation. Meditation is not something you do, it is something that happens. (laughs)
With excuses like these, you stop altogether.

I know this well, because there was a time when I, too, made all sorts of excuses and kept putting meditation off.

But these Active Meditations, simple as they are, work wonderfully on body, heart and soul. Try continuing them steadily every day, even for a week as an experiment. Not only during the meditation itself but beyond it, you begin to develop what might be called a meditative constitution. In daily life you may find yourself resting deeply in silence, just as you are. In an unexpected moment you may notice the presence, guidance or love of Something Great, or feel wrapped in an overwhelming presence of love and grace. Gradually it starts to feel like a waste not to do them. And if you simply keep at this one practice, sincerely and steadily, you come to see that it already contains emotional release, bioenergetics and therapy, and that nothing else is needed. To me, that is the magic of this meditation, and what makes it so truly interesting.

To begin with, as a trial, we plan to hold meditations such as Kundalini Meditation or Chakra Breathing in this space from 7 p.m., mostly when I am here in Fujisawa (Thursday to Sunday).

A meditation that is hard to begin alone becomes easier when a few people gather and meditate together. Your energies resonate and support one another, and you can sink into depths and heights of consciousness that are not easily reached alone.

Everyone is warmly welcome to come and visit.
OSHO Nirvana Meditation Center in Shonan Fujisawa is 10 minutes by bus from Tsujido Station, the nearest JR station, and 15 minutes by bus from Shonandai Station on the Odakyu Line.

OSHO Nirvana Meditation Center in Tokyo Kagurazaka is a 7-minute walk from Kagurazaka Station on the Tozai Line and a 5-minute walk from Edogawabashi Station on the Yurakucho Line.

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