"When you are running your breathing naturally goes very deep and it starts
massaging the Hara - which is in fact the center from where meditative
energy is released.
      "And when you are running you are throwing all carbon dioxide out of
your lungs. Carbon dioxide makes people dull, dead, frozen, blocked; [it is]
good for trees and very bad for man. When you are running.your lungs are
full of oxygen.and they purify the blood, they purify the whole system.
      "Running against the wind is a perfect situation. It is a dance of the
elements. And while running you cannot think; if you are thinking you are
not running rightly. When you are running totally, thinking stops. You
become so earth-bound, the head no longer functions. The body is in such an
activity that there is no energy left for the head to go on and on; thinking
stops. And in those moments of non-thinking, your existence is pure, you
simply are - you don't know whom.
      "Before we can rise high and reach the ultimate we will have to become
authentic, as authentic as possible. Through running that authenticity
happens. Sometimes try one technique.."

      "Lie on your bed and imagine that you are running. Imagine the whole
scene: the trees and the wind, the sun, the whole beach, the salty air..
Imagine everything: visualize it and make it as colorful as possible. Recall
any morning that you like the most - running on the beach, in a forest - and
start running in imagination.
      "You will find that your breathing is changing. Go on running. You can
do this for miles, for hours. You will be surprised that even doing this on
the bed, you will attain to those moments again when suddenly meditation is
there. So if some day for some reason you cannot run - you are ill or the
situation doesn't allow it, or the city is not worth running in - you can do
this and you will attain to the same moments."



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