Question:

One says you told Ram he is enlightened – in the sense of realized. Another says you had both your tongues in both your cheeks. Ram says you were joking and that I should ask you. I tell myself it is really none of my business, but still, is he? Has he?
Osho replied
“If he has understood that I was joking, then he must be enlightened.
Enough for today.”

A MONK SAID, ”BECAUSE HE DISTINGUISHES THINGS BADLY, IT MEANS HE CAN’T SEE.”

HOFUKU SAID, ”KWATZ!” to the monk who was giving this answer – because he divides things into good and bad, into black and white, into dead and alive. He cannot see what those persons are doing.

Hofuku shouted the Zen KWATZ! which is equivalent to the stick hitting your head. Because the master cannot always carry the stick, they found an equivalent. And certainly when a Zen monk or master shouts ”Kwatz!” it hits harder than any stick can. It keeps you utterly silent – ”What happened? Why has he started shouting in a strange way, a sound which means nothing?” But it can wake you. Any sound, meaningless or meaningful, can wake you up.

The Zen experience is that certain sounds reach into certain centers of your being. That is the experience of all the mystics of the world. For example, Sufis have found the sound HOO. If you repeat ”Hoo” continuously, you will find that the center of your life, just two inches below your navel, is hit again and again. Soon there will be sparks coming out of your life center.

In this country, they have found OM – which is mild, in accordance with the character of the people who have lived in this country. It does not hit very hard, but it pushes. ”Om, Om,” again and again – it pushes you into a different space that is not mind.

Zen has found KWATZ – it is like their character, their training, their samuraihood. They are warriors. ”Kwatz!” – it hits exactly the same center as ”Hoo.” When you greet each other with ”Yaa-Hoo,” you are hitting the same center.

(end of quote) Zen – The Solitary Bird (Chapter 14) 1988

Please show me where Osho says that the Hoo is a Who?

Nonsense.
Newcomers throw themselves in, in innocence, without expectations.

I reckon that a large percentage of the Pune1 participants didn’t really know/understand what was happening to them, and that is why even today they have difficulty explaining themselves. Osho’s Active Meditations were revolutionary then and they are still revolutionary today. They just need to be explained properly.

Dynamic done totally is in Lokesh’s words a Mind Bomb. If you really want to bomb your mind that is. Hyperventilation, that is when you have sucked too much carbon dioxide out of the system (than the system can generate), is a known technique of brainwashing. Bhastrika is similar but not identical to Osho’s technique.

There is confusion because not the whole of the Dynamic exercise is a meditation. The first three stages are just a build up to the meditation. The meditation begins at the first “freeze”.

The whole of Osho’s (physical) work was to raise “the energy” and then “freeze it” and “watch it”. Teaching me to watch energy has been Osho’s greatest lesson to me.

That must be the weirdest phrase in the English language. I remember once trying to translate it into greek.

Which is the other side of the face?

And the fact that it is generally directed threateningly at children makes it even weirder.