Osho Gibberish (No-Mind) Meditation a part of the Heart and Soul Meditation Series (Online or In-Person)

Note: Please do not come In-Person if you feel any physical symptoms – including allergies)

What is No-Mind Meditation?-  The Osho Gibberish (No- Mind) meditation is a method that will help release tensions, anxiety and the energy gathered in the over-thinking mind.

Why do we offer it? It’s a helpful meditation technique that can be used anytime during the day when needed.  The Mystic Osho introduced this saying: ‘“I am dealing with the contemporary man who is the most restless being that has ever evolved on the earth.  But people do become silent; you just have to allow them to throw out their madness, insanity then they themselves become silent ”

How do we do it?

We start by speaking in Gibberish – nonsense sounds and syllable.  We will introduce how to do this.By speaking in Gibberish and not any language you know, it detaches us from thoughts, so we are not caught in them. And it helps release the energy of the thinking process!

“Just say everything that you ever wanted to say and have not been able to say because of civilization, education, culture, and society… And say it in any language you don’t know!…Shouting, laughing, crying, making noises making gestures. As you throw it out you will find yourself becoming light, becoming more alive.” (Osho)

This part of the meditation lasts 30 minutes and it is done out loud. If sound is a problem we can give suggestions how to do this, just as effectively but iusing as loud whispers as possible.  This first part prepares us for the second part.

Sitting in Silence ~ In the second 30 minute part, after participating in the gibberish we sit silently with straight back – on a chair or cushion.  The eyes can be half opened with the gaze downward or the eyes closed. We just observe any body sensations, breath, thoughts and emotions  that may pass through.

“No-Mind means intelligence.  Mind means gibberish, not intelligence,  and when I am asking you for gibberish, I am simply asking you to throw out the mind and all its activity so you remain behind – pure, clean, transparent, perceptive,” Osho

This meditation designed by Osho, is to cleanse and de-stress the mind. He has said that “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. Use gibberish and go consciously crazy. Go crazy with absolute awareness so that you become the center of the cyclone. Simply allow whatever comes, without bothering whether it is meaningful or reasonable. Just throw out all mind garbage and create the space in which the Buddha appears.”

The second part is silence and witnessing. The cyclone is gone and has taken you also away. The Buddha has taken its place in absolute silence and immobility. You are just witnessing the body, the mind and anything that is happening.

Gibberish when done with absolute intensity, takes us out of our logical mind and into the realms of the mysterious and spiritual. It supports participants to move beyond their usual boundaries of expression and daily structures, to experience a state beyond mind.

People who have participated in the No-Mind meditation around the world report that they have experienced themselves as more open and  centered afterwards, and find they can be much more deeply relaxed and silent during meditation.

As part of the Heart and Soul series, each Wednesday we will present a Meditation from the numerous meditation traditions Osho has given us.  We want to share and pass on as many of these as possible.  Often when Shanti (one of the meditation facilitators of The World of Meditation) would meet with Osho in a darshan, he would introduce to her a meditation technique, asking her to try it out.  Her love for experimenting with a variety of techniques continues even to this day.

Each session we will introduce the particular meditation presented.  Then we will all do the meditation.  There is always time before and after each meditation to ask questions and to just hang out with each other!

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