Energy is Just That

 

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Energy is Just That

How many times have we heard the phrase, “He is such a bundle of energy” – this is often said of children who are invariably bubbling with fresh energy, they never seem to get tired. So, as we grow up how do we channelise our energy?

As an experiment, Gurdjieff would create situations in which anger would be forced upon a newcomer. All the other disciples would be given prior instructions to be rude and insulting to the target person for that day. They would be so rude and insulting, that anger would rise in that person, and it would reach a point where it was about to explode, that is when Gurdjieff would tell the person to close his eyes and step back and watch the anger in awareness, and look for its source. As the energy which had arisen fell towards its source, just watch where it came from; now you can connect with the original source. This according to Osho, is one of the most successful methods of meditation.

Energy is simply energy, it is neutral. Our energy takes several emotional forms – anger, love, sex, hate. For meditation to take place we should learn how to channelise the energy from its source. These are all forms of the same energy. We give the form, our mind gives the form, and the energy moves into it.

The child has more sex energy than us, but it is still in the source; it has not moved to the body yet. It will move. When the body will be ready and the glands will be ready and the body will be mature, the energy will move. Why does a child look so innocent? The energy is at the source; it has not moved. Again, the same thing happens when someone becomes enlightened. The whole energy moves to the source, and the person becomes childlike. That is what Jesus means when he says, “Only those who are like children will be able to enter into my kingdom of God.”

If you really express anger, you feel relief. If you go through sex, you feel relief. If you destroy something, your hate is released and you feel relief. Why is this relief felt? Because suspended energy is burdensome, heavy. Our mind is cloudy with it. We have to throw it out or allow it to move back to the original source; these are the only two things.

If it goes back to the source, it becomes formless. In the source, energy is formless. For example, electricity is formless. When it moves into a fan, it takes one kind of form. When it moves into a bulb, it takes a different form. We can use it in a thousand ways – the energy is the same. The form is given by the mechanism through which it moves.