Osho
Meditative Therapies
Osho has created a series of "meditative therapies" that give
participants the opportunity to dissolve the tensions and repressions
that keep them from being able to sit silently and observe the mind
that creates problems.
Uniquely simple and effective, these methods involve a minimum of interaction
among the participants, but the energy of the group helps each individual
go more deeply into his or her own process. No "therapist"
is required, but only a facilitator who has gone through the process
and has been trained in conducting it.
The
Mystic Rose
This is a three-week process, lasting three hours per day. During the
first week, participants laugh for no reason at all. It removes everything
that hinders the laughter -- all the inhibitions of past humanity, all
the repressions, dissolving the blocks to their inner spontaneity and
joy.
The second week is devoted to crying. In life we accumulate so much
sadness, despair, anxiety, tears. This is a cleaning process to discover
our own beauty, grace and joy.
Finally the third part is witnessing: The Watcher on the Hills. After
the laughter and the tears, there is only a witnessing silence.
Born
Again
This is a process that takes place for two hours a day, over seven days.
For the first hour, participants take the space and freedom to behave
as children. For the second hour, they sit silently, doing nothing.
"In these days I want to throw you back to the point where you
started being 'good' as against being natural. Be playful so your childhood
is regained. It will be difficult because you will have to put aside
your masks, your faces; you will have to put aside your personality.
But remember, the essence can assert itself only when your personality
is not there, because your personality has become an imprisonment. Put
it aside. It will be painful, but it is worth it because you are going
to be reborn out of it. And no rebirth is possible without pain. If
you are really determined to be reborn, then take the risk" Osho.
No
Mind
This is a week long process.
The first stage of this process 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." In the first
stage one has to simply allow whatever comes to the mind without bothering
about its rationality, reasonability, meaning, significance, leaving
language and mind aside.
Out of this will arise the second part a great silence in which you
sit with closed eyes. Gathering the energy within and being present
in here and now.