Traditional methods of Meditation have, until recently, had an appeal as they are so ancient and so many people have achieved enlightenment through them in the past. They were very relevant to Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali or Krishna. Thus, the traditionalist felt- ‘If Buddha achieved through these methods, why cant I?’
Modern man is a very new phenomenon. No traditional method can be used exactly as it exists because modern man never existed before. So, in a way, all traditional methods have become irrelevant and modern man needs new methods, new techniques.

Another very important thing: the quality of the mind has basically changed. In Patanjali’s (the most famous commentator in yoga) days, the centre of the human personality was not the brain; it was the heart. Before that, it was not even the heart. It was still lower, near the navel. Today, the center has gone even further away. Now, the center is the brain. That is why teachings like those of Krishnamurti have appeal. No method is needed- only understanding. But if it is just a verbal understanding, just intellectual, nothing changes, nothing is transformed. It again becomes an accumulation of knowledge.

What we do in ‘Active Meditations’ is to use chaotic methods rather than systematic ones because a chaotic method is very helpful in pushing the center down from the brain. The center cannot be pushed down through any systematic method because systemization is brainwork. Through a systematic method, the brain will be strengthened; more energy will be added to it. Through chaotic methods the brain is nullified. It has nothing to do. The method is so chaotic that the center is automatically pushed from the brain to the heart. If one does ‘Dynamic Meditation’ vigorously, unsystematically, chaotically, your center moves to the heart. Then there is a catharsis.

A catharsis is needed because your heart is so suppressed due to your brain. Your brain has taken over so much of your being that it dominates you. There is no place for the heart, so the longings of the heart are suppressed. One has never laughed heartily, never lived heartily, never done anything heartily. The brain always comes in to systematize, to make things mathematical, and the heart is suppressed. So firstly, a chaotic method is needed to push the center of consciousness from the brain towards the heart.

Then the catharsis is needed to unburden the heart, to throw off suppressions, to make the heart open. If the heart becomes light and unburdened, then the center of consciousness is pushed still lower; it comes to the navel. The navel is the source of vitality, the seed source from which everything else comes. The body and the mind and everything