Gibberish Meditation is Osho’s highly cathartic method that invites total expression through meaningless sounds and spontaneous movement. Vigorous and playful, it is distinct from the gentle Devavani Meditation: here you are encouraged to be unfiltered, dynamic, and wholehearted. With eyes closed, you surrender to nonsensical vocalization and let your whole body speak—free of form, free of meaning.
The mind thinks in words; gibberish breaks this continual pattern of verbalization. Without suppressing anything, you pour thoughts, tensions, and unspoken feelings out in sound and motion. By throwing everything out—without analysis—you interrupt the mind’s loop of meaning-making and taste an immediate, freeing emptiness. It is a direct, embodied way to shift from head to heart, from thinking to pure energy and presence.
Phase Instructions
Gibberish Catharsis
Either alone or in a group, close your eyes and begin making nonsense sounds—gibberish. For the full fifteen minutes, move totally in the gibberish. Let it be meaningless: avoid forming intelligible words; allow sounds, tones, and rhythms to tumble out without control. Let your body be expressive—shake, dance, gesture, stamp, wave your arms, make faces—whatever wants to happen, allow it. Do not suppress thoughts; whenever a thought or feeling arises, don’t analyze it—throw it out immediately as sound and movement. Keep your energy flowing and continuous, letting volume, pace, and intensity change naturally. Remain with closed eyes and stay total until the time is complete, giving yourself permission to express whatever needs expression and to throw everything out.
Core Benefits
- Breaks the continual pattern of verbalization.
- Allows for total expression through meaningless sounds and spontaneous movement.
- Facilitates the release of thoughts, tensions, and unspoken feelings.
- Interrupts the mind’s loop of meaning-making.
- Enables a shift from thinking to pure energy and 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 →
Beloved Osho, relaxation has always been one of the most valuable states of being for me. "watchfulness" seems to be possible only then, or at least so much easier. Beloved master, would you like to comment on how "relaxation" is connected to "awareness"?
But beginning from awareness is far easier, and particularly for those who can understand the process of awareness, which is very simple. The whole day you are using it about things -- cars, in the traffic -- even in the Poona traffic you survive! It is absolutely mad. Just a few days ago I read about Athens. Athens is even worse than Poona. The government made a special seven day competition for the taxi drivers and they had put golden trophies for those who were the best at following traffic rules, the second and the third. But in the whole of Athens they could not find a single person. The police were getting worried; the days were almost finished, and the last day they wanted to find anyhow three -- they may not be perfect, but those prizes had to be distributed. One man they found was following the traffic…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 →
Common Questions
Gibberish Meditation is vigorous and playful, encouraging unfiltered and dynamic expression, while Devavani Meditation is more gentle.
The main purpose is to break the pattern of verbalization and allow for free, nonsensical expression, leading to a state of emptiness and presence.
No, you do not suppress anything; instead, you pour out thoughts and feelings through sound and motion without analysis.
It is encouraged to practice with eyes closed, as this supports surrendering to the experience fully.
No prior experience is required; anyone can participate wholeheartedly and dynamically in the meditation.