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Bypassing the Mind Meditation

Category: Tantra Duration: 60 minutes

Bypassing the Mind is a Tantric entry into silence: you do not fight the mind, you simply step aside. Rather than analyzing thoughts, you allow their pressure to release, drop your energy from the head into the hara (the belly center), and then rest as a witness. In Osho’s spirit, the method is direct and playful—first unburden the mind through total expression, then sink below it, and finally discover the effortless clarity that needs no psychotherapy, no fixing—only presence.

This meditation moves through catharsis, centering, witnessing, and let-go. It honors the Eastern understanding that mind is a servant, not the master: when it chatters, you don’t argue; when it resists, you don’t push. You bypass. In this simple turning, borrowed knowledge releases its grip, the crowd of thoughts passes like a market far below, and you find yourself at the silent summit of your own being.


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