Main Kaun Hun #7
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Questions in this Discourse
A friend has asked: he cannot understand how meditation is a non-action, because whatever we do will be an action—how can it be a non-action?
Much confusion arises because of human language. In language we take many non-actions to be actions. We say, “So-and-so took birth.” Hearing it, it sounds as if he had to do something to be born—as if birth were an action. We say, “So-and-so died,” and it sounds as if he had to do something to die. We say, “Someone fell asleep,” and it sounds as if he had to do something to sleep.
Sleep is not an action, death is not an action, birth is not an action—but in language they become verbs.
You too say, “I slept last night.” But if someone asks you, “How did you sleep? What is the act of sleeping?” you will be in difficulty. You have slept many times, but you cannot tell what the act of sleeping is, how you slept. You might say you arranged the pillows, made the bed, darkened the room—but none of these is the act of sleeping. It may be that the pillow is there, the bed is there, the darkness is there, and still sleep does not come. Pillow, bed, and darkness are not sleep. Yes, their presence makes the coming of sleep easier, but the coming of sleep is something else.
And you can never bring sleep; sleep comes. Therefore sleep is a non-action. You cannot bring it, seize it, or force it. Yet you can prepare so that sleep may come. In bright light it will be difficult; in darkness it will be easier. If thorns are spread beneath you, sleep will be difficult; if the bed is right, it will be easier. But even so, you do not bring sleep—sleep comes.
When I say meditation is a non-action, I mean that whatever you do is only the outer arrangement for meditation. Then, within that arrangement, meditation will come; you cannot bring it. You are only making the outer arrangements. What is meant by outer arrangements must also be understood.
Therefore there is no technique, no method for meditation in the world. Nor is there any for sleep. There are rituals, a whole paraphernalia around sleep.
A small child puts his thumb in his mouth and goes to sleep. Pull the thumb out and his sleep becomes difficult. He has made an arrangement, an association: whenever his thumb goes into his mouth, his mind gets ready for sleep. The thumb in the mouth works as a signal for him that now sleep will come—and nothing more. Pillow and bed also work as signals, nothing more. That is why in a new house, a new room, on a new pillow or bed, sleep becomes difficult: there is a slight difference. One accustomed to a small room finds a large room a slight hindrance. The mind says, “This is not the place where sleep usually comes,” and it puts up a little resistance.
So the meaning of outer arrangements is: make such an arrangement that the mind does not obstruct. Here, whatever we will do is not really meditation. Meditation will come. We will only do this much: we will remove the obstacles that arise from our side, and we will wait.
Morning has come, the sun has risen, and you are sitting inside with the door closed—the sunlight does not enter. You ask me, “What should we do to bring sunlight in? Shall we fill baskets with sunlight, tie it up in bundles, hire laborers—what should we do? We have to bring sunlight in.” I say, you cannot bring it in. Sunlight can come in; it cannot be brought—it cannot be made into an action. Please do just this much: remove the obstruction to sunlight—the closed door—and simply open the door. That is an action: opening the door is an action. Then the sun will come in—that is not an action. Although you might tell people, “Today I opened the door and brought the sun in,” you would be wrong. You only opened the door; the coming was done by the sun, not by you. But had you not opened the door, you would have been doing the work of stopping the sun.
This means that we can stop meditation; we cannot bring it. And all of us together are stopping meditation. So when I say “make this arrangement,” I mean: please remove the arrangements by which you are preventing meditation—and meditation will come. Open the door—and the sun will come. And therefore, on the day meditation comes, you will not be able to go and tell someone, “I attained meditation.” That day you will say, “The Lord’s grace!” He who receives it cannot say, “I achieved it.” He will say, “His gift! His grace!”
And if someone does not believe in God, he will say, “I don’t know from where it came! From the unknown, the unknowable it arrived—there was no hand of mine in it.” He who receives it cannot say, “I attained it,” because he will see clearly that he tried very hard to attain and could not. Those who have attained say only this much: let us not be a barrier—that’s all.
The day Buddha was enlightened, someone asked, “How did you attain?” Buddha said, “As long as I tried to attain, I did not attain. The day I dropped the obstacles—the arrangements we ourselves had made, the walls and ramparts we had raised—when they fell, that day it happened. It had always been there, standing at the door, but the doors were closed.” So you can close the doors, you can open them—but you cannot bring the light. The light will come.
So when I said meditation is a non-action, I mean it is not your action. But do not take this to mean that you have nothing to do. The door must be opened; the bed must be laid; the pillow must be set; the darkness must be made. Sleep will come—but its preface must also be created. Sometimes it comes without a preface: if you are very tired, if you have not slept for many days, it comes even on a stone, in the bright light of midday. No pillow is needed, no night is required, no quiet is needed; it can come in the marketplace, on the road. Sometimes it comes—but one must be that tired. No one is that tired.
If there is that much thirst for the divine, for truth—if you have run so much, desired so much, sought so much—then meditation also comes without any arrangement. Therefore, when it comes to some without arrangements, they tell others there is no need for arrangements. But for most, some arrangements are needed. Still, even these arrangements are not meditation itself. Understand this distinction. They are only the preface within which it can arrive; we open the door for it. For this preface, I will give you the most important key. It cannot be understood by being told; only by experimenting.
The first and most important thing for entering meditation is the breath. Breath is the door. The door to all the most important things in life is breath. By the path of breath birth comes; by the path of breath death comes; by the path of breath meditation comes; by the path of breath the divine comes. Breath is the path. Life manifests in relation to breath, and, severed from breath, life becomes unmanifest.
These plants are breathing, the ocean is breathing, the birds are breathing. All life is the play of breath. You can understand life as the name of the infinite waves of breath. Wherever breath departs, life wanes. By this very path of breath, the divine too will come. By this very path everything has come and gone. Therefore breath is very important for meditation.
But breath can be taken in two ways. One, unknowingly, in unconsciousness, in stupor—as we are taking it. Breath goes on twenty-four hours, but we have never paid attention to it. The most important function of life is going on utterly unnoticed, silently. We have never attended to it. We have never been awake to breath. If we can become awake to breath, then immediately the door for the arrival of meditation begins to open. Nothing else is needed.
If a person, whenever it occurs to him during the day, becomes filled with awareness of the breath—mindful that this breath is going out, this breath is coming in, this breath is going out—then immediately another path within begins to open. Awareness of breath, seeing the breath consciously, at once begins to open new doors in consciousness.
Breath unconscious, and breath conscious. If you are breathing in stupor, you will not be able to enter the path of meditation. If you breathe with awareness, knowingly, with the sense that the breath is going, coming, then two things arise within you—one, the breath; and the other, you. These two separate at once. Right now breath and you are one—an identity. It seems, “I am breath.” If someone pinches your nose, you will cry out, “Don’t kill me! Will you kill me? Leave me!” If someone presses your throat and stops the breath, you will say, “I’m dying!” Right now “I” and breath are one.
There is only this difference between the ignorant and the wise: he whose “I” and breath are one is ignorant; he whose “I” and breath have become separate is wise. When it becomes clearly seen that I am separate and breath is separate, after that, death cannot happen to him. So long as he has taken breath to be himself, there will be death, because tomorrow the breath will break. The day he knows that I am behind the breath—separate, different—after that, death becomes impossible. The breath will break, yet he will know, “I am different.” The breath will stop, yet he will know, “I am.”
Therefore the first key with breath is: how can we take the breath while watching it, how can we take it with awareness? How can we see the breath, know it, recognize it? And the process happening within us is the process of breath. This whole body is an arrangement, a situation, to carry out the function of breath. This entire arrangement—this circulation of blood, these bones, the beating of this heart—the whole mechanism is for one work; at its center is breath. The entire structure is for breathing. This whole body is a machine for breathing. So the moment we become separate from breath, we become separate from the body as well. At once it will be known: I am not the body. And to one who begins to experience “I am not the body,” it will begin to be revealed who I am.
Sleep is not an action, death is not an action, birth is not an action—but in language they become verbs.
You too say, “I slept last night.” But if someone asks you, “How did you sleep? What is the act of sleeping?” you will be in difficulty. You have slept many times, but you cannot tell what the act of sleeping is, how you slept. You might say you arranged the pillows, made the bed, darkened the room—but none of these is the act of sleeping. It may be that the pillow is there, the bed is there, the darkness is there, and still sleep does not come. Pillow, bed, and darkness are not sleep. Yes, their presence makes the coming of sleep easier, but the coming of sleep is something else.
And you can never bring sleep; sleep comes. Therefore sleep is a non-action. You cannot bring it, seize it, or force it. Yet you can prepare so that sleep may come. In bright light it will be difficult; in darkness it will be easier. If thorns are spread beneath you, sleep will be difficult; if the bed is right, it will be easier. But even so, you do not bring sleep—sleep comes.
When I say meditation is a non-action, I mean that whatever you do is only the outer arrangement for meditation. Then, within that arrangement, meditation will come; you cannot bring it. You are only making the outer arrangements. What is meant by outer arrangements must also be understood.
Therefore there is no technique, no method for meditation in the world. Nor is there any for sleep. There are rituals, a whole paraphernalia around sleep.
A small child puts his thumb in his mouth and goes to sleep. Pull the thumb out and his sleep becomes difficult. He has made an arrangement, an association: whenever his thumb goes into his mouth, his mind gets ready for sleep. The thumb in the mouth works as a signal for him that now sleep will come—and nothing more. Pillow and bed also work as signals, nothing more. That is why in a new house, a new room, on a new pillow or bed, sleep becomes difficult: there is a slight difference. One accustomed to a small room finds a large room a slight hindrance. The mind says, “This is not the place where sleep usually comes,” and it puts up a little resistance.
So the meaning of outer arrangements is: make such an arrangement that the mind does not obstruct. Here, whatever we will do is not really meditation. Meditation will come. We will only do this much: we will remove the obstacles that arise from our side, and we will wait.
Morning has come, the sun has risen, and you are sitting inside with the door closed—the sunlight does not enter. You ask me, “What should we do to bring sunlight in? Shall we fill baskets with sunlight, tie it up in bundles, hire laborers—what should we do? We have to bring sunlight in.” I say, you cannot bring it in. Sunlight can come in; it cannot be brought—it cannot be made into an action. Please do just this much: remove the obstruction to sunlight—the closed door—and simply open the door. That is an action: opening the door is an action. Then the sun will come in—that is not an action. Although you might tell people, “Today I opened the door and brought the sun in,” you would be wrong. You only opened the door; the coming was done by the sun, not by you. But had you not opened the door, you would have been doing the work of stopping the sun.
This means that we can stop meditation; we cannot bring it. And all of us together are stopping meditation. So when I say “make this arrangement,” I mean: please remove the arrangements by which you are preventing meditation—and meditation will come. Open the door—and the sun will come. And therefore, on the day meditation comes, you will not be able to go and tell someone, “I attained meditation.” That day you will say, “The Lord’s grace!” He who receives it cannot say, “I achieved it.” He will say, “His gift! His grace!”
And if someone does not believe in God, he will say, “I don’t know from where it came! From the unknown, the unknowable it arrived—there was no hand of mine in it.” He who receives it cannot say, “I attained it,” because he will see clearly that he tried very hard to attain and could not. Those who have attained say only this much: let us not be a barrier—that’s all.
The day Buddha was enlightened, someone asked, “How did you attain?” Buddha said, “As long as I tried to attain, I did not attain. The day I dropped the obstacles—the arrangements we ourselves had made, the walls and ramparts we had raised—when they fell, that day it happened. It had always been there, standing at the door, but the doors were closed.” So you can close the doors, you can open them—but you cannot bring the light. The light will come.
So when I said meditation is a non-action, I mean it is not your action. But do not take this to mean that you have nothing to do. The door must be opened; the bed must be laid; the pillow must be set; the darkness must be made. Sleep will come—but its preface must also be created. Sometimes it comes without a preface: if you are very tired, if you have not slept for many days, it comes even on a stone, in the bright light of midday. No pillow is needed, no night is required, no quiet is needed; it can come in the marketplace, on the road. Sometimes it comes—but one must be that tired. No one is that tired.
If there is that much thirst for the divine, for truth—if you have run so much, desired so much, sought so much—then meditation also comes without any arrangement. Therefore, when it comes to some without arrangements, they tell others there is no need for arrangements. But for most, some arrangements are needed. Still, even these arrangements are not meditation itself. Understand this distinction. They are only the preface within which it can arrive; we open the door for it. For this preface, I will give you the most important key. It cannot be understood by being told; only by experimenting.
The first and most important thing for entering meditation is the breath. Breath is the door. The door to all the most important things in life is breath. By the path of breath birth comes; by the path of breath death comes; by the path of breath meditation comes; by the path of breath the divine comes. Breath is the path. Life manifests in relation to breath, and, severed from breath, life becomes unmanifest.
These plants are breathing, the ocean is breathing, the birds are breathing. All life is the play of breath. You can understand life as the name of the infinite waves of breath. Wherever breath departs, life wanes. By this very path of breath, the divine too will come. By this very path everything has come and gone. Therefore breath is very important for meditation.
But breath can be taken in two ways. One, unknowingly, in unconsciousness, in stupor—as we are taking it. Breath goes on twenty-four hours, but we have never paid attention to it. The most important function of life is going on utterly unnoticed, silently. We have never attended to it. We have never been awake to breath. If we can become awake to breath, then immediately the door for the arrival of meditation begins to open. Nothing else is needed.
If a person, whenever it occurs to him during the day, becomes filled with awareness of the breath—mindful that this breath is going out, this breath is coming in, this breath is going out—then immediately another path within begins to open. Awareness of breath, seeing the breath consciously, at once begins to open new doors in consciousness.
Breath unconscious, and breath conscious. If you are breathing in stupor, you will not be able to enter the path of meditation. If you breathe with awareness, knowingly, with the sense that the breath is going, coming, then two things arise within you—one, the breath; and the other, you. These two separate at once. Right now breath and you are one—an identity. It seems, “I am breath.” If someone pinches your nose, you will cry out, “Don’t kill me! Will you kill me? Leave me!” If someone presses your throat and stops the breath, you will say, “I’m dying!” Right now “I” and breath are one.
There is only this difference between the ignorant and the wise: he whose “I” and breath are one is ignorant; he whose “I” and breath have become separate is wise. When it becomes clearly seen that I am separate and breath is separate, after that, death cannot happen to him. So long as he has taken breath to be himself, there will be death, because tomorrow the breath will break. The day he knows that I am behind the breath—separate, different—after that, death becomes impossible. The breath will break, yet he will know, “I am different.” The breath will stop, yet he will know, “I am.”
Therefore the first key with breath is: how can we take the breath while watching it, how can we take it with awareness? How can we see the breath, know it, recognize it? And the process happening within us is the process of breath. This whole body is an arrangement, a situation, to carry out the function of breath. This entire arrangement—this circulation of blood, these bones, the beating of this heart—the whole mechanism is for one work; at its center is breath. The entire structure is for breathing. This whole body is a machine for breathing. So the moment we become separate from breath, we become separate from the body as well. At once it will be known: I am not the body. And to one who begins to experience “I am not the body,” it will begin to be revealed who I am.
A friend has asked whether the breath should be both deep and intense at the same time?
If both are together, the result will be greater. Let it be deep and also intense—deep and also fast. What I want is that all your energy be put into the breath itself, so that the mind has no other work left to do. Not even a trace of mind should be left over; let it be wholly engaged in the breath. Whatever little still remains—this is why later we put even that onto the inquiry, “Who am I?”
Two or three friends have asked that when they ask “Who am I?” with intensity, the intensity of the breath is no longer the same as before.
It won’t remain, because some energy then goes into asking “Who am I?”. Do not worry about this. Let the energy be put in totally—whether it goes into the breath or into “Who am I?”—so that within you there is no strength left over to do anything else. Let nothing remain; let it be total from your side, and the result will come.
Two or three friends have asked:
Osho, what is Kundalini?
Many friends have asked: it feels as if electrical currents are coursing through the whole body.
Osho, what is Kundalini?
Many friends have asked: it feels as if electrical currents are coursing through the whole body.
They will seem so. Completely accept those racing electrical currents. And when they speed up, don’t try to stop them. Those currents will purify the body from all sides; they will purify the mind. But if you block them, harm can happen. So I keep saying: don’t hold back even a little—let everything go; be an opening, let whatever is happening, happen.
Many friends have let out loud screams.
They will come out even more. Some still hold them back.
Many friends have let out loud screams.
They will come out even more. Some still hold them back.
So someone has asked whether to hold back or not?
I have been saying again and again: don’t hold back anything.
It is asked: Why does the voice burst out of the mouth, why does crying break out, why does laughter come with such intensity—are we somehow outside our awareness?
We have mistreated our mind a great deal. Many times we wanted to cry loudly, but we held it back; it remained stuck. Many times we wanted to laugh loudly, we suppressed that too; it got stuck. We wanted to scream, but couldn’t; that too remained stuck. Civilization has made man incomplete on all sides. He neither laughs fully, nor cries fully, nor lives fully, nor loves fully, nor gets angry fully, nor enters friendship fully, nor can he even fight wholeheartedly. Everywhere there is incompleteness. All of it has remained stuck.
The depth of meditation becomes available only when all that stuck residue breaks up and flows out. If you block it, going into meditation’s depth is impossible. So don’t stop it. If the inner state to scream arises and your whole life-energy is bursting to scream, let it scream. In a little while those voices will pass out and inside you will feel light. The burden of years can drop. But if you hold it back, you will get stuck right there.
And here, don’t bother about who will think what. This “What will people think?” has become our death. For twenty-four hours we live frightened of what others will think. We have to live; others will do the thinking! Because of their thinking, we do not manage to live at all. You are alone; what others think has no value. You have to live, you have to be. So drop it completely.
The depth of meditation becomes available only when all that stuck residue breaks up and flows out. If you block it, going into meditation’s depth is impossible. So don’t stop it. If the inner state to scream arises and your whole life-energy is bursting to scream, let it scream. In a little while those voices will pass out and inside you will feel light. The burden of years can drop. But if you hold it back, you will get stuck right there.
And here, don’t bother about who will think what. This “What will people think?” has become our death. For twenty-four hours we live frightened of what others will think. We have to live; others will do the thinking! Because of their thinking, we do not manage to live at all. You are alone; what others think has no value. You have to live, you have to be. So drop it completely.
Now some friends have asked that it feels like it is an animal’s voice, not our own voice.
Yesterday a friend was almost in the state of a lion just before it roars. But he held himself back a great deal. Had he roared, it would have been very auspicious.
What is the reason that this animal voice is within us?
The reasons are many, but let me say briefly that all of us have journeyed through one or another animal form to arrive at being human. If an animal sound begins to come out of you very strongly, it is highly symbolic. It brings the news of which form you have traveled through to become human. It tells of your previous form. Let it come out; don’t be concerned about it.
In someone’s body the energy may arise so strongly that they begin to dance, stand up, shout. Do not worry about others. If you open your eyes to look, you will be distracted. You are gone—your work has stopped. Whatever is happening to someone, let it happen to them. Whatever is happening to you, let it happen to you. Do not hold back. If the body feels like standing, then stand; because the urge to stand means that a current within wants to rise that cannot rise fully while sitting, so the body stands. Someone’s hands may form mudras, someone’s head may turn, someone may spin, someone may fall, someone may writhe like a fish, someone’s one leg may tremble, someone’s one hand may move up and down—whatever is happening, let it be. The energy is working within; let it work. That energy will leave you in wondrous new states you have not known before.
Some twenty or twenty-five friends have come to a place where a new experience may also happen. Let me speak of it today; it may be possible today.
When you are in full intensity, in total intensity, when you surrender in your wholeness, when you fully let go and allow whatever happens within you to happen without becoming one who stops it—when this reaches its peak, you will begin to feel as if a great power has descended from above into you, as a river falls into the ocean, as a current of electricity descends from above upon you and enters you. Such an experience will begin. When it happens, you will be in real difficulty, because such a great descent, such an advent of power, has never been within your imagination. When it comes, you will begin to move like an automaton. You may fall, roll, scream, dance—anything can happen; nothing can be predicted. If on your side you reach the peak, then a great power from above can also come into relationship with you.
But until on your side you reach the whole, this will not happen. That contact, that connection, can happen only at your peak. So today again we shall try with our full strength. In these four days there has been considerable momentum.
And remember, not even a single person should sit like a spectator, because that harms the whole atmosphere. The place where such a person sits becomes a continuous obstruction to the electrical currents that begin to spread all around. He sits in the midst like a non-conductor. If someone wants to watch, then move completely out of the middle; sit somewhere at the edges, by the walls, far away. Do not sit here in the center. And there is no value in watching anyway. Nothing is going to happen by watching.
Today I hope we will put in our full energy. We have tried, but still much energy remains unused.
Yesterday I said I would go and touch a few people before meditation, and only they could come in the afternoon. But that would take at least an hour, so it is not possible. And the reason I wanted to touch you I will tell you now; you can keep it in mind yourselves.
I wanted to touch those in whom the energy is awakening very intensely but who are creating some small hindrances somewhere. So those who feel that something is happening but “I am creating a hindrance”—those people should come to meet me in the afternoon. And what I wanted to do by touching you will be possible in the Nargol camp, because we will be together for four days and there will be more time. And any friends who feel inclined to go deeper should certainly come to Nargol. This time there are many early signs that much will be possible there.
Now let us sit for meditation.
First, make sure that no one touches anyone else and move away from one another. Those who need to lie down, or who know they will fall in between, should lie down in advance so that there is space for them. Quietly.
Sit with a resolve that today you will put in your full energy. Sit with a second prayer that when your full energy is expended, the energy of the divine may also descend.
Loosen up, close your eyes. Even in between, if you feel like lying down, lie down immediately. Do not worry at all that your head might fall even on someone’s feet. If it does, don’t worry. If you fall, fall; only do not stop yourself. And today we have to put in our total strength.
Close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply. Take as deep a breath as you can. Exhale just as deeply; inhale just as deeply. Begin deep breathing. Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply. Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply. With your total strength, begin deep breathing. Let the breath go in deeply, let the breath go out deeply. Deep breath in, deep breath out. Deep breath in, deep breath out. Breath in, breath out. Deep breath, deep breath, deep breath...
And keep watching inside—breath went in, breath went out. Remain a witness to it, be the seer of it. Breath is going in—we are watching; breath is going out—we are watching. Breath is going in—we are watching; breath is going out—we are watching. Keep watching and keep taking deep breaths—two tasks.
Do it with your total strength for ten minutes. Take deep breaths, deep breaths... let the whole body tremble; don’t worry, but take deep breaths. Waves of electricity will begin to run through the whole body. Breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply. Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply, and remain the watcher within—this breath went in, this breath went out. Keep watching, keep watching, keep watching... deep breath... keep watching...
For ten minutes I will be silent. You take deep breaths and keep watching. Put everything on the line; give it your all. Deep breath...
What is the reason that this animal voice is within us?
The reasons are many, but let me say briefly that all of us have journeyed through one or another animal form to arrive at being human. If an animal sound begins to come out of you very strongly, it is highly symbolic. It brings the news of which form you have traveled through to become human. It tells of your previous form. Let it come out; don’t be concerned about it.
In someone’s body the energy may arise so strongly that they begin to dance, stand up, shout. Do not worry about others. If you open your eyes to look, you will be distracted. You are gone—your work has stopped. Whatever is happening to someone, let it happen to them. Whatever is happening to you, let it happen to you. Do not hold back. If the body feels like standing, then stand; because the urge to stand means that a current within wants to rise that cannot rise fully while sitting, so the body stands. Someone’s hands may form mudras, someone’s head may turn, someone may spin, someone may fall, someone may writhe like a fish, someone’s one leg may tremble, someone’s one hand may move up and down—whatever is happening, let it be. The energy is working within; let it work. That energy will leave you in wondrous new states you have not known before.
Some twenty or twenty-five friends have come to a place where a new experience may also happen. Let me speak of it today; it may be possible today.
When you are in full intensity, in total intensity, when you surrender in your wholeness, when you fully let go and allow whatever happens within you to happen without becoming one who stops it—when this reaches its peak, you will begin to feel as if a great power has descended from above into you, as a river falls into the ocean, as a current of electricity descends from above upon you and enters you. Such an experience will begin. When it happens, you will be in real difficulty, because such a great descent, such an advent of power, has never been within your imagination. When it comes, you will begin to move like an automaton. You may fall, roll, scream, dance—anything can happen; nothing can be predicted. If on your side you reach the peak, then a great power from above can also come into relationship with you.
But until on your side you reach the whole, this will not happen. That contact, that connection, can happen only at your peak. So today again we shall try with our full strength. In these four days there has been considerable momentum.
And remember, not even a single person should sit like a spectator, because that harms the whole atmosphere. The place where such a person sits becomes a continuous obstruction to the electrical currents that begin to spread all around. He sits in the midst like a non-conductor. If someone wants to watch, then move completely out of the middle; sit somewhere at the edges, by the walls, far away. Do not sit here in the center. And there is no value in watching anyway. Nothing is going to happen by watching.
Today I hope we will put in our full energy. We have tried, but still much energy remains unused.
Yesterday I said I would go and touch a few people before meditation, and only they could come in the afternoon. But that would take at least an hour, so it is not possible. And the reason I wanted to touch you I will tell you now; you can keep it in mind yourselves.
I wanted to touch those in whom the energy is awakening very intensely but who are creating some small hindrances somewhere. So those who feel that something is happening but “I am creating a hindrance”—those people should come to meet me in the afternoon. And what I wanted to do by touching you will be possible in the Nargol camp, because we will be together for four days and there will be more time. And any friends who feel inclined to go deeper should certainly come to Nargol. This time there are many early signs that much will be possible there.
Now let us sit for meditation.
First, make sure that no one touches anyone else and move away from one another. Those who need to lie down, or who know they will fall in between, should lie down in advance so that there is space for them. Quietly.
Sit with a resolve that today you will put in your full energy. Sit with a second prayer that when your full energy is expended, the energy of the divine may also descend.
Loosen up, close your eyes. Even in between, if you feel like lying down, lie down immediately. Do not worry at all that your head might fall even on someone’s feet. If it does, don’t worry. If you fall, fall; only do not stop yourself. And today we have to put in our total strength.
Close your eyes and begin to breathe deeply. Take as deep a breath as you can. Exhale just as deeply; inhale just as deeply. Begin deep breathing. Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply. Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply. With your total strength, begin deep breathing. Let the breath go in deeply, let the breath go out deeply. Deep breath in, deep breath out. Deep breath in, deep breath out. Breath in, breath out. Deep breath, deep breath, deep breath...
And keep watching inside—breath went in, breath went out. Remain a witness to it, be the seer of it. Breath is going in—we are watching; breath is going out—we are watching. Breath is going in—we are watching; breath is going out—we are watching. Keep watching and keep taking deep breaths—two tasks.
Do it with your total strength for ten minutes. Take deep breaths, deep breaths... let the whole body tremble; don’t worry, but take deep breaths. Waves of electricity will begin to run through the whole body. Breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply. Breathe in deeply, breathe out deeply, and remain the watcher within—this breath went in, this breath went out. Keep watching, keep watching, keep watching... deep breath... keep watching...
For ten minutes I will be silent. You take deep breaths and keep watching. Put everything on the line; give it your all. Deep breath...
(With many voices, seekers responding intensely… Osho remains silent for a while, then begins to give instructions.)
Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… let this whole atmosphere only breathe in and out. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… and keep watching—the breath has gone in, the breath has gone out. Deep breath… let this whole atmosphere be nothing but breathing in and breathing out. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… put in your total energy… let the body become completely tired… put in your total energy… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… and the mind will begin to become utterly quiet. Deep breath… keep watching, keep watching; the mind will go on becoming quiet.
Take deep breaths, take deep breaths, take deep breaths, let the whole body become nothing but a mechanism for breathing, and inside keep watching—this breath has gone in, this breath has gone out; breath in, breath out.
Put in your total energy—right from the start, put it in totally, so that by the time we reach the end the peak comes that I want to happen. Let go… give it your whole strength. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… keep watching—deep breath… deep breath… tire yourself out.
And don’t worry about others. No one should be opening their eyes and looking around in between. Mind your own work.
Deep breath… put in total energy… put in total energy… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deeper… and deeper… and deeper… and deeper… and deeper… stake your total energy… deeper… and deeper… and deeper breath… and deeper breath… keep watching… become a bellows of breath—only breath… only breath… let only breath remain and everything else disappear; let only breath remain and everything else disappear. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… give it your total energy, total energy… deep breath… deeper… deeper… deeper… put everything on the line. Deeper… deeper… deeper… deeper… deeper… before entering the second stage, put in your total energy.
For one or two minutes now, put in your total energy so that we can enter the second stage. Only on total energy shall we enter the second. Deeper… deeper breath… keep watching—deep breath in, breath out; breath in, breath out. Give it your total energy… deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper… go deeper, bring deeper strength.
For one minute put in your total energy; before entering the second stage, put in your total energy… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… I will announce the second stage, prepare yourselves… deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper, and deeper… let only breath remain, only breath remain, only breath remain, only breath remain… only breath remains, the watcher remains… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath…
(Many different sounds are coming; people are crying, screaming…)
Now enter the second stage—keep taking deep breaths, keep taking deep breaths, and drop the body completely. Let the body go… drop the body completely… whatever happens to the body, let it happen. Let the body whirl, sway, fall, shout, cry—drop all concern. Leave the body loose… take deep breaths and let the body go… take deep breaths and let the body go… let happen to the body whatever is to happen. Drop the body completely, so it becomes clearly visible that the body is separate. Let the body move like a separate mechanism—whirling, falling, crying, shouting—leave it. Whatever energy arises within, let it move the body as it will; cooperate. If the hands move, let them; if the feet move, let them; if the head turns, let it; if the body falls, if sounds come, if shouts arise, if tears arise, if postures change—drop all control. The second stage is: drop the body.
Keep the breath deep, and drop the body. Let the body become as tired as it can—drop it completely. For the next ten minutes let whatever happens to the body happen. Keep the breath deep… let the breath be deep… let the breath be deep… let the breath be deep… drop the body… drop it completely… do not hold back even a little, do not be shy… drop it, let the body be as it will.
Whatever the energy inside the body does, let it do. Whatever happens, let it happen. Who knows how many illnesses will disappear. Drop the body completely… who knows how many suppressed impulses will be released forever. Drop the body completely… let the breath remain deep and drop the body… drop the body… drop the body totally… whatever happens, let it happen. Let the breath remain deep, keep watching the breath within, and drop the body. Whatever happens, whatever happens, let it happen. Leave the body loose. If the body spins, let it spin… if hands and feet tremble, move, let them move… if the whole body whirls like a mechanism, let it whirl… if it falls, let it fall… if the body stands up, let it stand up… if sound comes, let it come… if shouts come, let them come… if crying comes, let it come… let go… let go…
Increase it—intensify the breath, keep letting go of the body… increase it—take the breath deeper and drop the body…
Let go… drop the body completely… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… don’t hold anything back, don’t restrain anything; let whatever happens, happen. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… and drop it completely…
Five minutes remain. In these five minutes, let the whole body do whatever it does. Let go… let the body do whatever it does, so it becomes clearly visible that the body is separate and I am separate.
Drop the body… if it wants to cry, let it cry… if it wants to laugh, let it laugh… if it wants to scream, let it scream… if it wants to dance, let it dance… whatever happens, let it happen… let go… drop it completely… let there be no inner grip, no resistance left… do not hold back even a little. Keep the deep breathing going… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath…
Let go… let go, let the body do whatever it does. You do not stop it, do not feel shy, do not control. You keep the deep breathing going and drop the body… let the energy inside do whatever it does… let go, let the energy make happen whatever it will. If the expression on the face changes, let it change… if sound comes, let it come… if some animal within begins to roar, let it roar… whatever happens, let it happen. Deep breath… deep breath… put in your total energy… put in your total energy… deep breath… deep breath… the whole mechanism has to be tired out. Do not be miserly—tire it completely. Let go…
(Many people roaring, shrieking, etc.)
Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… take deep breaths, put in your full strength.
Only two minutes remain. To go to the third stage, put in your full strength. Take deep breaths and drop the body completely. Take deep breaths, drop the body completely. Whatever happens, let it happen. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… drop the body completely.
This is the last minute. Before the third stage, let the body do whatever it has to—cry, shout, fall, shake, sway—let go… let go with full strength… deep breath… deep breath… drop the body… let go, don’t hold back. Let go… let go… let the whole atmosphere begin to cry and shout together… let go… let everything go. The last minute. Before entering the third stage, put in your total energy. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deeper, deeper, deeper… and let the body go for the last time, let it go completely, whatever happens, let it happen.
Put in your full strength… put in your full strength… put in your full strength… before going into the third stage, put in your full strength… put in your full strength… more intensity, more intensity, more intensity, more intensity… put in your total energy… total energy… total energy… do not hold back even a little, let nothing be left behind—drop it completely… let it not be that later you can say, “I held something back.” Let go… let go… let go… for one minute drop completely; whatever happens, let it happen. Whatever happens, let it happen. Let go… let go… let go… to enter the third stage, let go—totally let go… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper…
And enter the third stage. The breath will remain deep, the body will go on doing whatever it has to, and inside you begin to ask with total force—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Within your mind, ask intensely—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let the body keep moving, let the breath keep going deep. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let your whole life-force begin to ask—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let every hair of the body begin to ask, every heartbeat begin to ask—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put your total energy inside—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… For ten minutes put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I?…
Put your entire energy within—Who am I? Who is this “I”?… Let a storm arise. After ten minutes we will rest again. Who am I? Who am I?… Let the whole life-force tremble—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let there be no gap between two “Who am I?”—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total energy… throw yourself into the storm—only then will we be able to enter meditation. The more intensely one asks, the deeper one will be able to go into meditation. The fourth stage will be of meditation. Put in your total strength—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Put in your total energy… before the final rest, put in all your energy so the rest can be deep.
Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let the body whirl, let it whirl. Let the energy circulate fully in the body. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let it whirl with full force. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Five minutes remain, put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… For these five minutes, put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Deep breath… tire yourself out. Deep breath… deep breath… let the body do whatever happens. Drop the body completely. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… put in total energy, so a connection can be made with the energy above. As soon as the connection happens, the body will suddenly begin to dance—don’t worry about it. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
(Many sounds of crying and shouting…)
Put in your total energy. Only three minutes remain. Put in your total energy. Put in your total energy. Deep breath… deep breath… deeper, deeper, deeper… and inside, ask like a storm—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Before going into the fourth stage, put in your total energy. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your full strength. Throw in your total energy. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total energy. And if it feels as if energy is descending from above, then whatever happens to the body, let it happen. If it begins to dance, don’t worry. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
One or two minutes remain—put in your total energy, then we will rest… Rest will be as deep as the energy we put in. Drive yourself mad, put in your full strength. Drive yourself mad, put in your full strength. And meanwhile, if anyone feels energy descending from above, then let yourself go—whatever happens, let it happen. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Become utterly mad, let yourself go. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
The moment of entering the fourth stage is near. Intensify—Who am I?… Let go… and if energy descends from above, do not worry. If it seems that dance arises, then dance—do not be afraid. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total strength… deep breath… do not miss the opportunity, put in your total strength. It is a matter of one minute. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Raise the full storm… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Move, move with intensity—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Tire yourself out… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
If anyone’s body wants to stand up, do not stop it—let it. Let it go… if the body wants to stand, let it stand… let go… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Do not stop it—if anyone’s body wants to stand, let it stand. Who am I? Who am I?… Let go—if the body stands up, let it stand. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… If the body stands up, do not stop it—let go, stand up… if it dances, let it dance… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let go… whoever’s body is standing up, let it rise—let go, stand up… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
One second more… let go completely… if the body stands up, let it—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let go… whoever’s body wants to stand, let it. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Don’t hold back—let go. Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Now let go… drop everything—drop the depth of the breathing too, drop the asking too, and enter the fourth stage. Drop even “Who am I,” drop the deep breathing. Let things remain exactly as they are. If sitting happens, sit… if lying happens, lie down… drop everything. Now for ten minutes go into total rest.
The door is open—if the Divine is to come, let it come. For ten minutes, do nothing. Just remain—simply remain. Birds will speak—keep listening… the waves of the ocean will roar—keep listening… there will be sounds on the road—keep listening… just remain lying there in waiting, just awaiting. The door is open; sit waiting at the door. There is nothing to do—just remain for ten minutes. In these ten minutes a glimpse of meditation will come. In these ten minutes one can have a sense of that which is. Now I become silent. For ten minutes just remain; there is nothing to do.
(Ten minutes of total rest)
Now slowly, slowly open your eyes. Those who cannot open their eyes, place both hands over the eyes, then slowly open them. Those who have lain down, who have fallen, slowly get up. If you cannot get up, first take two or four deep breaths, then rise. If still you cannot rise, remain lying and keep taking deep breaths. But do not be in any hurry to get up; rise gently. Those who are standing, also slowly open your eyes, take a few deep breaths, then gently sit down—do not sit down all at once. Slowly open your eyes, take deep breaths, then gently sit.
Continue this experiment every night. Do the experiment and then go to sleep, so that throughout the night’s sleep the result of the experiment goes on resonating.
In these five days a great deal of work has happened. Some friends have come very close indeed. Some even made contact with that vast energy. Some stopped one or two steps—one or two rungs—earlier. But everyone has moved. And I would like you to come to Nargol, so that in those four days truly everyone can take the leap. There is much possibility in Nargol; so do not miss the opportunity. Whoever can come by any means, do come.
Our session today is complete. Those who, by midday, feel that somewhere the rising of energy stopped, or that an energy from above entered but got stuck somewhere—those who feel any difficulty, any obstruction—come to meet me between three and four in the afternoon. But not with intellectual curiosities—only those whose questions have arisen from their personal practice should come in the afternoon.
Our morning session is over.
Take deep breaths, take deep breaths, take deep breaths, let the whole body become nothing but a mechanism for breathing, and inside keep watching—this breath has gone in, this breath has gone out; breath in, breath out.
Put in your total energy—right from the start, put it in totally, so that by the time we reach the end the peak comes that I want to happen. Let go… give it your whole strength. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… keep watching—deep breath… deep breath… tire yourself out.
And don’t worry about others. No one should be opening their eyes and looking around in between. Mind your own work.
Deep breath… put in total energy… put in total energy… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deeper… and deeper… and deeper… and deeper… and deeper… stake your total energy… deeper… and deeper… and deeper breath… and deeper breath… keep watching… become a bellows of breath—only breath… only breath… let only breath remain and everything else disappear; let only breath remain and everything else disappear. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… give it your total energy, total energy… deep breath… deeper… deeper… deeper… put everything on the line. Deeper… deeper… deeper… deeper… deeper… before entering the second stage, put in your total energy.
For one or two minutes now, put in your total energy so that we can enter the second stage. Only on total energy shall we enter the second. Deeper… deeper breath… keep watching—deep breath in, breath out; breath in, breath out. Give it your total energy… deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper… go deeper, bring deeper strength.
For one minute put in your total energy; before entering the second stage, put in your total energy… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… I will announce the second stage, prepare yourselves… deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper breath, deeper, and deeper… let only breath remain, only breath remain, only breath remain, only breath remain… only breath remains, the watcher remains… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath…
(Many different sounds are coming; people are crying, screaming…)
Now enter the second stage—keep taking deep breaths, keep taking deep breaths, and drop the body completely. Let the body go… drop the body completely… whatever happens to the body, let it happen. Let the body whirl, sway, fall, shout, cry—drop all concern. Leave the body loose… take deep breaths and let the body go… take deep breaths and let the body go… let happen to the body whatever is to happen. Drop the body completely, so it becomes clearly visible that the body is separate. Let the body move like a separate mechanism—whirling, falling, crying, shouting—leave it. Whatever energy arises within, let it move the body as it will; cooperate. If the hands move, let them; if the feet move, let them; if the head turns, let it; if the body falls, if sounds come, if shouts arise, if tears arise, if postures change—drop all control. The second stage is: drop the body.
Keep the breath deep, and drop the body. Let the body become as tired as it can—drop it completely. For the next ten minutes let whatever happens to the body happen. Keep the breath deep… let the breath be deep… let the breath be deep… let the breath be deep… drop the body… drop it completely… do not hold back even a little, do not be shy… drop it, let the body be as it will.
Whatever the energy inside the body does, let it do. Whatever happens, let it happen. Who knows how many illnesses will disappear. Drop the body completely… who knows how many suppressed impulses will be released forever. Drop the body completely… let the breath remain deep and drop the body… drop the body… drop the body totally… whatever happens, let it happen. Let the breath remain deep, keep watching the breath within, and drop the body. Whatever happens, whatever happens, let it happen. Leave the body loose. If the body spins, let it spin… if hands and feet tremble, move, let them move… if the whole body whirls like a mechanism, let it whirl… if it falls, let it fall… if the body stands up, let it stand up… if sound comes, let it come… if shouts come, let them come… if crying comes, let it come… let go… let go…
Increase it—intensify the breath, keep letting go of the body… increase it—take the breath deeper and drop the body…
Let go… drop the body completely… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… don’t hold anything back, don’t restrain anything; let whatever happens, happen. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… and drop it completely…
Five minutes remain. In these five minutes, let the whole body do whatever it does. Let go… let the body do whatever it does, so it becomes clearly visible that the body is separate and I am separate.
Drop the body… if it wants to cry, let it cry… if it wants to laugh, let it laugh… if it wants to scream, let it scream… if it wants to dance, let it dance… whatever happens, let it happen… let go… drop it completely… let there be no inner grip, no resistance left… do not hold back even a little. Keep the deep breathing going… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath…
Let go… let go, let the body do whatever it does. You do not stop it, do not feel shy, do not control. You keep the deep breathing going and drop the body… let the energy inside do whatever it does… let go, let the energy make happen whatever it will. If the expression on the face changes, let it change… if sound comes, let it come… if some animal within begins to roar, let it roar… whatever happens, let it happen. Deep breath… deep breath… put in your total energy… put in your total energy… deep breath… deep breath… the whole mechanism has to be tired out. Do not be miserly—tire it completely. Let go…
(Many people roaring, shrieking, etc.)
Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… take deep breaths, put in your full strength.
Only two minutes remain. To go to the third stage, put in your full strength. Take deep breaths and drop the body completely. Take deep breaths, drop the body completely. Whatever happens, let it happen. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… drop the body completely.
This is the last minute. Before the third stage, let the body do whatever it has to—cry, shout, fall, shake, sway—let go… let go with full strength… deep breath… deep breath… drop the body… let go, don’t hold back. Let go… let go… let the whole atmosphere begin to cry and shout together… let go… let everything go. The last minute. Before entering the third stage, put in your total energy. Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deeper, deeper, deeper… and let the body go for the last time, let it go completely, whatever happens, let it happen.
Put in your full strength… put in your full strength… put in your full strength… before going into the third stage, put in your full strength… put in your full strength… more intensity, more intensity, more intensity, more intensity… put in your total energy… total energy… total energy… do not hold back even a little, let nothing be left behind—drop it completely… let it not be that later you can say, “I held something back.” Let go… let go… let go… for one minute drop completely; whatever happens, let it happen. Whatever happens, let it happen. Let go… let go… let go… to enter the third stage, let go—totally let go… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper…
And enter the third stage. The breath will remain deep, the body will go on doing whatever it has to, and inside you begin to ask with total force—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Within your mind, ask intensely—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let the body keep moving, let the breath keep going deep. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let your whole life-force begin to ask—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let every hair of the body begin to ask, every heartbeat begin to ask—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put your total energy inside—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… For ten minutes put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I?…
Put your entire energy within—Who am I? Who is this “I”?… Let a storm arise. After ten minutes we will rest again. Who am I? Who am I?… Let the whole life-force tremble—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let there be no gap between two “Who am I?”—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total energy… throw yourself into the storm—only then will we be able to enter meditation. The more intensely one asks, the deeper one will be able to go into meditation. The fourth stage will be of meditation. Put in your total strength—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Put in your total energy… before the final rest, put in all your energy so the rest can be deep.
Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let the body whirl, let it whirl. Let the energy circulate fully in the body. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let it whirl with full force. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Five minutes remain, put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… For these five minutes, put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Deep breath… tire yourself out. Deep breath… deep breath… let the body do whatever happens. Drop the body completely. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Deep breath… deep breath… deep breath… put in total energy, so a connection can be made with the energy above. As soon as the connection happens, the body will suddenly begin to dance—don’t worry about it. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
(Many sounds of crying and shouting…)
Put in your total energy. Only three minutes remain. Put in your total energy. Put in your total energy. Deep breath… deep breath… deeper, deeper, deeper… and inside, ask like a storm—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Before going into the fourth stage, put in your total energy. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your full strength. Throw in your total energy. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total energy. And if it feels as if energy is descending from above, then whatever happens to the body, let it happen. If it begins to dance, don’t worry. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
One or two minutes remain—put in your total energy, then we will rest… Rest will be as deep as the energy we put in. Drive yourself mad, put in your full strength. Drive yourself mad, put in your full strength. And meanwhile, if anyone feels energy descending from above, then let yourself go—whatever happens, let it happen. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Become utterly mad, let yourself go. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
The moment of entering the fourth stage is near. Intensify—Who am I?… Let go… and if energy descends from above, do not worry. If it seems that dance arises, then dance—do not be afraid. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total strength… deep breath… do not miss the opportunity, put in your total strength. It is a matter of one minute. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Raise the full storm… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Move, move with intensity—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Tire yourself out… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
If anyone’s body wants to stand up, do not stop it—let it. Let it go… if the body wants to stand, let it stand… let go… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Do not stop it—if anyone’s body wants to stand, let it stand. Who am I? Who am I?… Let go—if the body stands up, let it stand. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… If the body stands up, do not stop it—let go, stand up… if it dances, let it dance… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let go… whoever’s body is standing up, let it rise—let go, stand up… Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
One second more… let go completely… if the body stands up, let it—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Let go… whoever’s body wants to stand, let it. Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?… Don’t hold back—let go. Who am I? Who am I?… Put in your total energy—Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?…
Now let go… drop everything—drop the depth of the breathing too, drop the asking too, and enter the fourth stage. Drop even “Who am I,” drop the deep breathing. Let things remain exactly as they are. If sitting happens, sit… if lying happens, lie down… drop everything. Now for ten minutes go into total rest.
The door is open—if the Divine is to come, let it come. For ten minutes, do nothing. Just remain—simply remain. Birds will speak—keep listening… the waves of the ocean will roar—keep listening… there will be sounds on the road—keep listening… just remain lying there in waiting, just awaiting. The door is open; sit waiting at the door. There is nothing to do—just remain for ten minutes. In these ten minutes a glimpse of meditation will come. In these ten minutes one can have a sense of that which is. Now I become silent. For ten minutes just remain; there is nothing to do.
(Ten minutes of total rest)
Now slowly, slowly open your eyes. Those who cannot open their eyes, place both hands over the eyes, then slowly open them. Those who have lain down, who have fallen, slowly get up. If you cannot get up, first take two or four deep breaths, then rise. If still you cannot rise, remain lying and keep taking deep breaths. But do not be in any hurry to get up; rise gently. Those who are standing, also slowly open your eyes, take a few deep breaths, then gently sit down—do not sit down all at once. Slowly open your eyes, take deep breaths, then gently sit.
Continue this experiment every night. Do the experiment and then go to sleep, so that throughout the night’s sleep the result of the experiment goes on resonating.
In these five days a great deal of work has happened. Some friends have come very close indeed. Some even made contact with that vast energy. Some stopped one or two steps—one or two rungs—earlier. But everyone has moved. And I would like you to come to Nargol, so that in those four days truly everyone can take the leap. There is much possibility in Nargol; so do not miss the opportunity. Whoever can come by any means, do come.
Our session today is complete. Those who, by midday, feel that somewhere the rising of energy stopped, or that an energy from above entered but got stuck somewhere—those who feel any difficulty, any obstruction—come to meet me between three and four in the afternoon. But not with intellectual curiosities—only those whose questions have arisen from their personal practice should come in the afternoon.
Our morning session is over.
Osho's Commentary
Yesterday I said that meditation is non-doing.