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Osho introduces the No Mind meditation on May 26, 1988 in Gautama
the Buddha Auditorium.
"My Beloved Ones,
I am introducing you to a new
meditation. It is divided in three parts.
The first part is gibberish. The word ‘gibberish’ comes from a
Sufi mystic, Jabbar. Jabbar never spoke any language, he just
uttered nonsense. Still he had thousands of disciples because
what he was saying was, ”Your mind is nothing but gibberish. Put
it aside and you will have a taste of your own being.”
To use
gibberish, don’t say things which are meaningful, don’t use the
language that you know. Use Chinese, if you don’t know Chinese.
Use Japanese if you don’t know Japanese. Don’t use German if you
know German. For the first time have a freedom – the same as all
the birds have. Simply allow whatever comes to your mind without
bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, significance – just the way the birds are doing.
For the first
part, leave language and mind aside. Out of this will arise the
second part, a great silence in which you have to close your
eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather your energy
within yourself.
Remain here
and now.
Zen cannot be
understood in any other way. This is the last part of the series
LIVE ZEN.
In the third
part I will say, let go. Then you relax your body and let it
fall without any effort, without your mind controlling. Just
fall like a bag of rice.
Each segment
will begin with the drum of Nivedano. Before Nivedano gives the
drum, there are a few more things I have to say to you....
I am
extremely sorry that I have not been physically here for many
days, but I am also extremely happy that you never missed my
presence.
I was in your
heart
and I was in
the wind and in the rain
and the
thunder of clouds.
I was in your
tears,
in your
nonsense utterances....
I was
absolutely present here with you –
and those who
are present know it perfectly.
I was absent
only for those who themselves are absent. At least today, don’t
go anywhere.
Nivedano,
give the first drum....
(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
(Everyone bursts into a sea of sound, volume and tempo clashing
and
crashing
in one great crescendo – a tidal wave of mind.)
(Osho motions to Nivedano for the second drumbeat, and an
instantaneous
Silence falls over the whole of Buddha Hall.)
(Drumbeat)
Now the third
drum... Relax.
(Drumbeat)
The fourth
drum... Come back!
(Drumbeat)
This begins
and ends the series called LIVE ZEN.
What I could
say, I have said to you.
What I could
not say, I have given to you.
Okay,
Maneesha?"
Source: "
Live Zen, Chapter 17 " - Osho
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