Say Out Loud what is in the Mind Meditation!- part of the Heart and Soul Meditation Series(Online)

What is Osho’s ‘Say Out Loud what is in the Mind Meditation?’ This Meditation was given to a disciple personally after they said to Osho ” I have so many problems with my mind in every meditation – I can’t stop it.”

Why do we offer this meditation? Osho then explains very clearly why this meditation technique can be of much help.  It seems like such a good meditation for many of us, so we wanted to share it with whoever is interested in experimenting with it.

How do we do it? Osho said to the disciple that he understood the dilemma of the continually chattering mind. He suggested this: ‘Start doing one thing: every day, for one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon, sit and say whatsoever comes in the mind, loudly, mm? so that not only do you think it, you hear it. Whatsoever it is — if nonsense comes, let it: you are not to edit it and you are not to make it beautiful because it is not meant to be a performance; it has to be that which is inside. If a few words come — and they will — if the sentence is not even complete and the words stop, then stop; don’t complete it. Then if something else comes, say that. But whatsoever comes, just watch it, articulate it, say it… whatsoever it is.

You have that garbage in the mind, it has to be thrown. You don’t throw it so it goes on revolving inside. Nothing is a problem; you are creating a problem!
People go on keeping that garbage, they don’t throw it. It is as if you are accumulating garbage in your house and you don’t throw it outside so it stinks; and when it becomes too much you are disturbed. Wherever you move it is always there and everywhere you come across it. It has to be thrown.
The mind creates a certain garbage just as the body does — it is part of life. You eat something: a part of it is digested — becomes your blood, your bones, your flesh, your marrow — but ninety percent of it is just rubbish that has to be thrown out. If you don’t throw it, you will accumulate it in your stomach and then you will be creating poison for your body. That’s what happens when somebody is too constipated, he starts creating toxins in the body; then the poison will circulate in the blood. The same food that was going to be nourishment will become a deathly poison… the same food! So one has to go on throwing it out.
The mind functions in exactly the same way on a subtle plane. You hear somebody talk, you are hearing me talk, you read a book, you are in the market, you listen to people, you see a movie, you listen to the radio, you read the newspaper, all this is going in. Part of it will be digested — a very small part of it is worth digesting; the remaining — what will you do with it? It will go on revolving.
That’s why you know that the content is not important: the content is not important. When somebody is constipated it is not that he is holding gold in his stomach — it is just rubbish, excreta. And that’s what goes on moving in the mind: excreta
One has to understand the process: just as you cleanse your body, you cleanse your intestines, just as every day you throw the excreta out of the body and that keeps you healthy, in the same way mind needs to be cleansed every day. So this will help you — one hour in the morning, one hour in the afternoon.
First many thoughts will come, mm? After a few days you will see thoughts are not coming but only fragmentary words… not even thoughts but just words. Then by and by you will start feeling that even words are no more coming but sounds — gibberish. When gibberish starts coming, come back; then you have touched the right level. Now thoughts are not coming, words are not coming, gibberish is coming. That means that much is cleaned and then meditation will be easy.
This you have to continue at least for six months — this will be your meditation — and you will be completely freed.”

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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