Writing Down Contents of the Mind Meditation (Part of the Heart and Soul Online Series)

What is the ‘ Writing Down Contents of the Mind Meditation?’’ The Mystic Osho while speaking with one disciple says “Unconsciousness is a kind of basement where you go on throwing things, repressing things. Things that you don’t want to see, things that you don’t want to hear, things that you don’t want to accept, you go on throwing into the unconscious. It is your rejected parts — allow them to surface. And that is what is happening while you are asking the question, and why I am insisting that you go on asking. My answer may help you or not, but your asking is going to help you certainly. “If it is something unconscious that wants to come into light,
and you start writing it, you find it is losing meaning. Its whole meaning is
in repression. Unrepressed it bursts like a soap bubble.

So it is tremendously good. Go on doing it. Only intellectual questions will
not disappear; intellectual questions will remain. But if a question is coming
from the unconscious and is significant… Intellectual questions are rubbish;
they don’t have anything to do with your being and your change. Let your
unconscious reveal, and you will start seeing changes — not that the
questions are disappearing, but your attitudes, your approaches, your
behavior, even your dreams are changing.

Why do we offer this meditation? It is important to understand all aspects of the mind. This meditation will allow the mind to say what it wants-it needs a space to air itself out. That will help to create a space of silence, awareness and relaxation.

How do we do it?
Osho continues “It is a beautiful exercise to write down whatever you feel is somewhere
lurking in the darkness of your mind. It is not very clear; there it is dark —
bring it into the light. And if you can bring all the contents of the
unconscious into the conscious mind, your unconscious mind and your
conscious mind will become one; they will be both conscious.”

For 30 minutes we will allow ourselves to write whatever the mind wants to say. If there are questions, write them down. Or if there are hidden thoughts, emotions or stories you have never told anyone, write them down.

After 30 minutes, we will then stop and just sit silently with eyes close.

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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!

Expectations in Meditation by Mystic Osho.

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