UNDERSTANDING DEEPER STAGES OF MEDITATION : DHYANA AND SAMADHI - OSHO

UNDERSTANDING   DEEPER  STAGES  OF  MEDITATION :  DHYANA  AND  SAMADHI ….
“ Begin with Dhyana, with meditation, and end in Samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it – that is the only way to know it….”

“ Meditation has two parts: the beginning and the end.
The beginning is called Dhyana and the end is called Samadhi.
Dhyana is the seed, samadhi is the flowering. Dhyana means becoming aware of all workings of your mind, all the layers of your mind – your memories, your desires, your thoughts, dreams – becoming aware of all that goes on inside you. Dhyana is awareness, and samadhi is when the awareness has become so deep, so profound, so total that it is like a fire and it consumes the whole mind and all its functionings. It consumes thoughts, desires, ambitions, hopes, dreams. It consumes the whole stuff the mind is full of.
Samadhi is the state when awareness is there, but there is nothing to be aware inside you; the witness is there, but there is nothing to be witnessed.
Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it – that is the only way to know it. “

OSHO
I AM THAT , CHAPTER 2. LIVING IN YOUR OWN LIGHT , Talks on the Isha Upanishad , 12 October 1980 am in Buddha Hall

“ Samadhi means the remaining of only one. In meditation there are three points. Meditation is divided into three: the meditator, the meditated upon, and the relationship – meditation. So meditation has three things in it, three divisions: meditator, meditated upon, and the relationship – meditation.
When these three dissolve, the meditator loses himself into meditation, and the meditation drops into the meditated upon. Anyway one remains, and the three are lost. What does it mean? Simple consciousness remains; simple knowing remains; simple awareness remains. You are not aware of anything, just aware. You are not aware; there is no you, just awareness – it is better to say, ONLY AWARENESS REMAINS. Or, you can choose any point among the three – one remains… “

OSHO
 That Art Thou. CHAPTER 44. ADHYATMA UPANISHAD.

“ Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and becomes the ocean… “
OSHO
 That Art Thou. CHAPTER 41. ADHYATMA UPANISHAD