This cathartic method invites you to go consciously crazy, shaking loose the mind’s habit of thinking in words and releasing what is pent up in the body. Distinct from the gentle Devavani meditation, this is vigorous and expressive. The term gibberish is traced to the Sufi mystic Jabbar, who spoke in no language at all—only pure, meaning-free sounds. In the same spirit, you are encouraged to speak nonsense and move as the energy demands, without censorship.
The first stage breaks the grid of continual verbalization by replacing familiar words with sounds, while allowing the body to express fully—crying, shouting, flailing, or whatever arises—without gaps. The second stage is a deep grounding: lying on the belly, you let each out-breath merge you into the earth beneath, settling the stirred energies into quiet presence.
Phase Instructions
First Stage: Gibberish Catharsis (15 minutes)
Alone or in a group, standing or sitting, close your eyes and begin making nonsense sounds—gibberish. Do not use any words or speak in any language you know. Let whatever needs to be expressed come out in sounds. Go totally mad—consciously crazy—throw everything out without suppressing thoughts; give them voice as gibberish. Let your body be equally expressive: you may cry, scream, throw your hands and legs in the air—whatever arises. Keep a continuous flow; do not allow gaps. If no sounds come, repeat simple syllables like "la la la"—but do not be silent. If practicing in a group, do not interfere with anyone; stay with your own experience and ignore what others are doing. A blindfold may help you stay inward.
Second Stage: Melt into the Earth (15 minutes)
Lie down on your stomach for fifteen minutes. With each exhalation, feel yourself merging with the earth—melting into the ground beneath you. Let the breath carry you down and in, surrendering your weight and settling the energy stirred in the first stage.
Core Benefits
- Releases pent-up emotions
- Breaks habitual thinking in words
- Encourages expressive freedom
- Promotes emotional catharsis
- Grounds energy into quiet presence
What Osho Said About This Technique
Beloved Osho, often while sitting with you or when first waking in the morning, I am in a very silent space. It is like having a secret twinkling smile inside. And with it is the awareness that problems do not exist and this space is always available. I watch the mind surfacing with thoughts and for some beautiful moments it is very easy to not get engaged. But then as the discourse ends or I begin some activity I seem to go completely unconscious, unable to stop the momentum of my mind and my doing. There is just a nagging memory of the silence and a feeling of being uncentered again and miss
There is no need to worry -- and don't be greedy! Whatever is happening is so much. If listening to me a silence descends on you, thoughts disappear, and you feel a center, a new space, and you also feel that this space is always available... it is true. The moment you feel your center, the feeling that this center is always available is part of it. It is part of the experience, an essential part; hence it has an authority. Or, in the morning when you wake up and the mind is silent... and now that you have become aware of silence, you can recognize it. Everybody wakes up in the morning with a silent mind, but that remains for only a few seconds. And even in those few seconds he does not realize that he is without any thought, because he has had no taste of it, no…Read the full discourse →
The society goes on repressing. In fact the real function of a temple is to provide a place where you can go and cathart, where you can throw all the rubbish that the society has forced on you. And society has to force things because it has to think of so many things. It cannot pay attention to each individual singly -- it has to look to the collectivity. And when you live with many people you cannot be absolutely free, so many things are bound to be inhibited. Those inhibited things drive people crazy. But if they can be allowed, soon you will feel such relaxation coming to you as you have never felt before.Read the full discourse →
Aum, may my speech be rooted in my mind, and my mind rooted in my speech. O self-illumined brahman, be manifest unto me. Speech and mind form the basis of my knowledge, so please do not undo my pursuit of knowledge. Day and night I spend in this pursuit. I shall speak the law; I shall speak the truth. May brahman protect me; may he protect the speaker, protect the speaker. Aum, shanti, shanti, shanti.
But there are problems; theologicians have created them. The first problem they have created, and because of which this remembering becomes impossible -- to remember that you are already divine becomes impossible -- is a very deep condemnatory attitude. You go on condemning yourself: you are the sinner. They have created guilt in you. So how can a sinner be, right this very moment, the divine? He will have to get rid of the sin; he will have to suffer for his sins, and time will be needed. He will have to pass through purifications, and only when he has become holy, a saint, will he have a glimpse of the divine. Particularly in the West, Christianity has given everybody a deep guilt complex. Everybody is guilty -- not only about your own sins that you have committed, but also about the sin that Adam committed in the very beginning.…Read the full discourse →
What is dynamic meditation?
The first thing to be understood about Dynamic Meditation is that it is a method of creating a situation through tension in which meditation can happen. If your total being is completely tense, the only possibility that remains is relaxation. Ordinarily one cannot go directly into relaxation, but if your whole being is at a peak of total tension then the second step comes automatically, spontaneously: silence is created. The first three stages of the technique are done in order to achieve this climax of tension throughout all the layers of your being. The first layer is the physical body. Beyond that is the prana sharir, the vital body: this is your second body, the etheric body. Beyond it is the third body, the astral body. Your vital body takes in breath as its food. If the normal intake of oxygen is changed, the vital body is bound to change.…Read the full discourse →
In the cavity of the heart, which is situated in the body, dwells the unborn who is eternal.
THE EARTH IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN THE EARTH, BUT THE EARTH DOES NOT KNOW IT. WATER IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN WATER,BUT WATER DOES NOT KNOW IT. FIRE IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN FIRE BUTFIRE DOES NOT KNOW IT. AIR IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN THE AIR, BUT THE AIR DOES NOT KNOW IT. THE SKY IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN IT,BUT THE SKY DOES NOT KNOW IT. THE MIND IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN THE MIND, BUT THE MIND DOES NOT KNOW IT. THE INTELLECT IS ITS BODY. IT LIVES IN THE INTELLECT, BUT THE INTELLECT DOES NOT KNOW IT. THE EGO IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN THE EGO,BUT THE EGO DOES NOT KNOW IT. THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS, BUT THE CONSCIOUSNESS DOES NOT KNOW IT. THE UNMANIFEST IS ITS BODY. IT DWELLS IN THE…Read the full discourse →
Common Questions
The primary purpose is to shake loose the mind’s habit of thinking in words and release pent-up emotions through vigorous and expressive movement.
Gibberish Meditation is vigorous and expressive, unlike the gentle Devavani meditation, focusing on releasing emotions with meaning-free sounds.
The term 'gibberish' is linked to the Sufi mystic Jabbar, known for speaking in pure, meaning-free sounds.