What happens in the fourth stage of experience?
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"In the fourth stage, there is no experience, only a profound silence where the knower, known, and knowledge dissolve into nothingness. This wordless silence cannot be named; any label is merely a distraction from the truth."
According to Osho, the fourth stage is not an experience at all but a gap—pure, silent no-experience in which the experiencer dissolves. Nothing happens; the knower, known, and knowledge vanish. It can only be felt, never said. Any name—Brahman, nirvana, etc.—is just a provisional label, inevitably misleading before this wordless silence.
At the deepest stage, there’s only a quiet emptiness where ‘you’ and any happening disappear—felt but impossible to describe.
Why this matters practically
- Stops the chase for peak experiences and spiritual labels.
- Invites resting in silent awareness beyond thoughts and identity.
- Reduces dogmatism by seeing words as pointers, not the truth.
- Invites resting in silent awareness beyond thoughts and identity.
- Reduces dogmatism by seeing words as pointers, not the truth.
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