This meditation is inspired by Osho’s insight that meditation cannot be owned; it is everybody’s birthright. It ripens as existence ripens a tree: slowly, silently, without hurry. Rather than pushing for results, you offer a total inner ‘yes’ and allow fresh breeze and sun to cleanse you, trusting the vast timing of life. In this way, meditation ceases to be something you do and becomes the sea you live in — like a fish moving effortlessly in its own element.
Rooted in the Tantra spirit of acceptance and totality, this method invites you to drop the fever of speed, open all your inner doors and windows, and let your breathing carry bliss naturally. You are not trying to get anywhere; you are allowing what is already here to deepen. By releasing the word ‘no’ from your body, breath, and mind, and by resting in non-doing, you discover that initiation is simply saying yes to existence — a gentle, ongoing flowering that needs eternity, not urgency.
Phase Instructions
First Stage: Saying Yes — Opening Doors and Windows
Settle in a quiet space with soft natural light. If possible, open a door or window so fresh air can touch your face — let this be a physical symbol of inner openness. Sit comfortably with an upright, relaxed spine; hands resting on thighs, palms up. Close your eyes lightly. With each exhale, whisper or feel the word 'yes.' With each inhale, sense yourself receiving existence. Imagine breeze and sunlight entering through every inner window, cleansing and brightening you. Do not force anything; your only doing is a gentle, total 'yes.' If thoughts arise, acknowledge them and return to the rhythm: inhale receive, exhale yes.
Second Stage: Slowing Time — Trusting Eternity
Keep sitting. Let all movements and breath become unhurried, like a tree growing at night. Sense that existence has endless time and you, too, have nothing to chase. Allow your breath to lengthen naturally. Feel the body soften with gravity, the face unwrinkle, the shoulders melt. If you notice any drive to achieve a result, bow to it inwardly and let it dissolve into the long, slow tide of breathing. Let silence deepen without effort; you are being meditated.
Third Stage: Becoming the Fish — Bliss in the Breath
Now imagine your awareness as a fish moving in the sea of life. Your breath is the sea — everywhere, supportive, effortless. On each inhale, feel you are surrounded by living space; on each exhale, feel you merge with it. Allow a subtle fragrance of beatitude to infuse the breath; let contentment ride on inhaling and exhaling. Do not concentrate hard; simply sense that meditation and you are no longer two. If the mind comments, let the comment float by like a bubble in water.
Fourth Stage: Dropping 'No' — Total Openness
Gently scan your body-mind for any traces of contraction, resistance, or doubt — the lingering 1% of 'no.' Name each felt knot softly inside: 'this is a no.' With the next exhale, release it with a soft sigh or a whispered 'yes.' Let the chest and belly widen. Imagine every cell learning the taste of 'yes' and the word 'no' falling out of your inner vocabulary. Offer your whole being, 100% available, without bargaining. Rest in the sensation of doors within you standing open.
Fifth Stage: Resting Under the Tree — Non-Doing Integration
Either remain seated or lie down. If you can, sit by an actual tree; otherwise, visualize a vast, shady tree above you. There is nothing to attain now — only resting. Feel the earth support you completely. Trust that what has begun in you will flower in its season. Let thoughts come and go unowned. End by placing a hand on the heart and silently affirm: 'I am willing to wait. I live in yes. Meditation flowers by itself.' Sit a few moments with eyes open, carrying this slowness into your next simple action.
Core Benefits
- Fosters a total inner 'yes' without seeking hurried results
- Transforms meditation into a natural state of being, rather than an activity
- Promotes acceptance, openness, and connection with life
- Facilitates effortless movement in life's flow, akin to a fish in water
- Encourages bliss through natural breathing by dropping resistance
What Osho Said About This Technique
He would not like to know the truth through others, he would like to experience it himself -- because unless you drink the water your thirst is not going to be quenched. Buddha may have drunk the whole Ganges -- that is not going to make any difference to you. Just a glass of water will do for you but you have to drink it. But people are so foolish that they go on worshipping Buddha and Krishna and Christ, and hoping that their thirst will be quenched they go on worshipping scriptures -- Dhammapada, Koran, Bible. It is like a thirsty man worshipping a book of chemistry which explain that water is H2O. You can go on worshipping the book; you will remain thirsty. You are simply proving yourself silly and nothing else. Or you can go on repeating the mantra "H2O, H2O, H2O...Read the full discourse →
In 1969 followers of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi invited Osho to talk to them. This was the first occasion on which Osho addressed a western audience, and the first time he talked publicly at length in English. The discourse has been published in OTI January 1 & 16, 1991; and February 1, 1991. Osho: Really, there can be no method as far as meditation is concerned. Meditation is not a method. Through technique, through method, you cannot go beyond mind. When you leave all methods, all techniques, you transcend mind. So meditation itself is not a method. Truth cannot be achieved through method. Method is our own invention. We, who are ignorant, have achieved knowledge through methods constructed, created, projected, in our ignorance. Through method you can achieve a sort of self-hypnosis, a sort of auto-hypnosis. Any method, whatsoever it's name, can only give you an illusory kind of peace.Read the full discourse →
Question: when I meditate I usually repeat a mantra or a namokar, but the mind remains restless. How can one best occupy one's mind while meditating?
Mind itself means projection, so unless you transcend the mind, whatever you come to experience is projection. Mind is the projecting mechanism. If you experience any visions of light, of bliss, even of the divine, these are all projections. Unless you come to a total stopping of the mind you are not beyond projections; you are projecting. When mind ceases, only then are you beyond the danger. When there is no experience, no visions, nothing objective -- the consciousness remaining as a pure mirror with nothing reflected in it -- only then are you beyond the danger of projections. Projections are of two types. One type of projection will lead you to more and more projection. It is a positive projection; you can never go beyond it. The other type of projection is negative. It is a projection, but it helps you to go beyond projections. In meditation you use…Read the full discourse →
Osho, for many years I have been making continuous efforts—nothing happened. I did this, I did that—nothing happened. But yesterday, when I simply sat holding awareness, I was astonished: What was that? What happened was beyond my imagination.
It will be; it is bound to be beyond imagination. You don’t even know—what will happen is utterly unknown and unknowable. You cannot make any expectation of it; you have no idea what it will be. What will happen in meditation cannot be said in advance, nor can it be imagined. What happens is unprecedented. It has never been known before. It is totally unknown, utterly unknowable. It will happen only when this entire known mind of yours becomes utterly quiet. And it will become quiet. Awareness stills the mind. When the mind becomes still, meditation descends. Meditation is not something you do; it descends. It surrounds you. Meditation is a state outside the mind-field. Meditation is the very nature of the soul. As soon as the mind-field is quiet, meditation begins to spread. So, very quietly, very effortlessly, without any tension, in silence; everyone sit with a little space…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 meditation emphasizes acceptance and the release of pressure to achieve results, focusing on a gentle unfolding aligned with life's timing.
Unlike other techniques that may stress discipline or effort, this meditation invites a relaxed receptivity and a natural 'yes' to existence.
Releasing 'no' involves letting go of internal resistance to open oneself to natural ease, allowing for spiritual unfolding without force.
Yes, it is suitable for anyone as it requires no special skills, focusing on openness and acceptance of what naturally unfolds.
No, it can be practiced anywhere as it is more about maintaining a state of acceptance and openness in everyday life.