This meditation distills the essence spoken of in Osho’s reflections on Nietzsche: to gaze into emptiness, nothingness—into the abyss—until the abyss also gazes into you. Rather than fighting with the mind’s monsters, you relax the fighter, soften all effort, and look into the vast, silent space that is always here. In this looking, the habitual stance of doing gives way to effortless seeing; witnessing replaces struggle.
Rooted in Tantra’s embrace of totality, this practice uses a soft, unforced gaze into open space (a blank wall, a dark room, the night sky) to invite a felt sense of boundlessness. As the meditation deepens, the direction reverses: instead of you looking at space, you allow space to look through you. Subject and object begin to dissolve, leaving a luminous, choiceless awareness—simple, intimate, and free of the need to become anything.