Absolutely Free to be Funny: Osho

Yesterday I came across Osho through a great website called The Guru of You. On this site, there is a video library of the best known "enlightened masters" and links to all of their most popular discourses. I decided to check out Osho.

If you want a place to start, I really enjoyed this video: Absolutely Free to be Funny.

I find him to be captivating. While browsing his website I came across something he said about language limiting people. He suggested allowing yourself to, as a meditation, speak in sounds that are not of a language you know. He claimed this will open your mind.

I like it! Of course, people close to me would tell you I already walk around making strange unexplained noises at times, like a little kid. I have never done this intentionally, I sometimes just feel compelled to express a sound along with an emotion, I am just simply not filtering myself. Sometimes people think this makes me weird, and that's okay.

So apart from the fact that this seemed to be the cookie to my cookie-crumb idea, I also have a similar practice with movement I have only mentioned to a few people, but am deciding to share seeing as it is a practice I enjoy.

Everyday, pretty much since I first practiced yoga, I make a conscious effort to move differently. Some days I just stretch, others I will practice yoga, and usually, in addition to those practices I try to move my body in a way I do not usually move, or have not moved before.

In our daily lives our movements are very limited. We sit, stand, walk, kneel, crawl and lay down to sleep. Granted there are millions of people who do a lot more, for example hard laborers, athletes, yogis, dancers, etc. These aren't the kind of moving I am talking about though.

I'm talking about unconditioned movement. Like, you are shaking your head around with your tongue hanging out of your mouth, or swinging your arms as far as you can in every direction and your boyfriend wants to know what the hell you are doing. I do this to relax and loosen up my joints. Once you stop caring how you look - that's when it feels good. It is freeing in a way. Be you! Don't limit yourself.

I would bet Osho's non-language speaking has the same kind of effect. We are so conditioned, we need to always remember to look to our children for truth, for they are not yet conditioned away from their true selves. Even Jesus said to be like the children if you want to enter the kingdom of heaven. Remember, freedom is not complicated, it is the most simple experience there is; just be.

...and don't ever forget to play.

Marci
~With love