Tantra is freedom—freedom from mind-constructs and mind-games, from patterned identities and borrowed disciplines; freedom from structures and from the illusion that fulfillment lies in the other. This meditation embodies that essence. It is not a religion, not a rule, not a technique to perfect, but a living invitation to rest in what is prior to patterns: a spacious, uncontrived presence.
In this practice, you simply allow every imposed shape—beliefs, postures, strategies for improvement—to dissolve. You watch the mind’s designs without entering them, let the body be as it is, and relax into undefended being. It is a tantric approach because it liberates through direct intimacy with experience, not by fighting it: seeing clearly, releasing subtly, and abiding as the vastness that needs no discipline to be itself.
Phase Instructions
First Stage: Setting the Field of Freedom
Choose a quiet space where you feel unobserved. Sit upright, lie down, or stand—whichever feels most natural. Let the body find its own alignment without forcing a posture. Allow the eyes to softly close or rest in an unfocused gaze. Take a few easy breaths and set a single intention: to do nothing unnecessary. Let go of goals, results, and any idea of a ‘right’ meditation.
Second Stage: Seeing Mind-Constructs and Games
Turn attention inward and watch thoughts arrive. Whenever a belief, label, judgment, or plan appears, notice it as a ‘mind-construct.’ Silently acknowledge, “mind-game” or “pattern,” and without arguing or following, let it pass. Feel how each thought has a subtle body echo—tension, contraction, or flutter—and allow those sensations to soften on the exhale. Nothing to fix; only clear seeing and letting be.
Third Stage: Releasing Structures and Disciplines
Notice any urge to control the breath, correct the posture, count, chant, or measure progress. Recognize these as subtle disciplines. Gently relax the impulse to manage experience. If the body wants to sigh, stretch, or be still—allow it. If emotions arise, give them space without storyline. Let the breath breathe itself. The practice is permission: unpatterned, effortless, undecorated presence.
Fourth Stage: Freedom from the Other
Sense how identity is often shaped by ‘the other’—imagined eyes, roles, agreements. For a few breaths, withdraw attention from these relational mirrors. Feel your aloneness as fullness, not isolation: a sovereignty that does not depend on approval, memory, or expectation. Let every inward reference to others fall away, until only simple being remains—undivided, sufficient, and whole.
Fifth Stage: Abide as the Space to Be
Rest as open awareness. No object is required—sounds, sensations, and thoughts can come and go without captivity. If the mind tightens around anything, notice and soften. If effort appears, recognize it and release. Abide as the clear, edgeless space in which everything arises and dissolves. When it feels complete, open the eyes softly, stay quiet for a minute, and carry this unstructured freedom into your next activity.
Core Benefits
- Freedom from mind-constructs and mind-games
- Dissolution of patterned identities and borrowed disciplines
- Relaxation into undefended being
- Liberation through direct intimacy with experience
- Abiding as vastness that needs no discipline
What Osho Said About This Technique
Suppose you contemplate something beyond perception, beyond grasping, beyond not being. -- you.
I AM EXISTING. THIS IS MINE. THIS IS THIS. OH BELOVED, EVEN IN SUCH KNOW ILLIMITABLY. You can use any mantra: RAM, RAM, AUM, AUM -- anything. You can use Jesus Christ; you can use Ave Maria. You can use any word and monotonously chant it; it will give you deep sleep. You can even do this: Raman Maharshi used to give the technique WHO AM I? And people started using it as mantra. They would sit with closed eyes and they would go on repeating. `Who am I? Who am I? Who am I?' It had become a mantra. That was not the purpose. So don't make it a mantra, and sitting, don't say, `I am existing.' There is no need. Everyone knows, and you know already that you are existing; there is no need, it is futile. Feel it -- I AM EXISTING. Feeling is a different thing,…Read the full discourse →
For the delights of kissing the deluded crave declaring it to be the ultimately real --
LIKE A MAN WHO LEAVES HIS HOUSE AND STANDING AT THE DOOR ASKS (A WOMAN) FOR REPORTS OF SENSUAL DELIGHTS. THE STIRRING OF BIOTIC FORCES IN THE HOUSE OF NOTHINGNESS HAS GIVEN ARTIFICIAL RISE TO PLEASURES IN SO MANY WAYS. SUCH YOGIS FROM AFFLICTION FAINT FOR THEY HAVE FALLEN FROM CELESTIAL SPACE, INVEIGLED INTO VICE. AS A BRAHMIN, WHO WITH RICE AND BUTTER MAKES A BURNT OFFERING IN BLAZING FIRE CREATING A VESSEL FOR NECTAR FROM CELESTIAL SPACE, TAKES THIS THROUGH WISHFUL THINKING AS THE ULTIMATE. SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE KINDLED THE INNER HEAT AND RAISED IT TO THE FONTANELLE STROKE THE UVULA, WITH THE TONGUE IN A SORT OF COITION AND CONFUSE THAT WHICH FETTERS WITH WHAT GIVES RELEASE, IN PRIDE WILL CALL THEMSELVES YOGIS. Tantra does not say that to make love to the outer is sin, it simply says that it is not very far-going. It does…Read the full discourse →
Consider your essence as light rays from center to center up the vertebrae, and so rises "livingness" in you.
OR IN THE SPACES BETWEEN, FEEL THIS AS LIGHTNING. FEEL THE COSMOS AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING PRESENCE. In India, because of this, we have developed a particular yoga which we call SAHAJ YOGA. SAHAJ means spontaneous, easy, natural. Always remember SAHAJ. If you feel any technique spontaneously coming to you, if you feel more affinity with it, if you feel better with it -- more healthy, more alive, more at home -- then that is the method for you. Move with it; you can trust it. Don't create unnecessary problems. And the inner mechanism is very complex. If you do something which is too much for you, you may destroy many things. So it is better to move with something which feels harmonious to you. The third technique: <q>"FEEL THE COSMOS AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING PRESENCE."</q> This again is concerned with light: "FEEL THE COSMOS AS A TRANSLUCENT EVER-LIVING PRESENCE."…Read the full discourse →
At the start of sexual union keep attentive on the fire in the beginning, and so continuing, avoid the embers in the end.
WHEN IN SUCH EMBRACE YOUR SENSES ARE SHAKEN AS LEAVES, ENTER THIS SHAKING. EVEN REMEMBERING UNION, WITHOUT THE EMBRACE, TRANSFORMATION. ON JOYOUSLY SEEING A LONG ABSENT FRIEND, PERMEATE THIS JOY. WHEN EATING OR DRINKING, BECOME THE TASTE OF FOOD OR DRINK, AND BE FILLED. Once you know this, even the partner is not needed. You can simply remember the act and enter into it. But first you must have the feeling. If you know the feeling, you can enter into the act without the partner. This is a little difficult, but it happens. And unless it happens, you go on being dependent, a dependency is created. For so many reasons it happens. If you have had the feeling, if you have known the moment when you were not there but only a vibrating energy had become one and there was a circle with the partner, in that moment there was…Read the full discourse →
Mind, intellect, and the formed contents of that mind are it, so too are the world and all that seems from it to differ,
ALL THINGS THAT CAN BE SENSED, AND THE PERCEIVER, ALSO DULLNESS, AVERSION, DESIRE, AND ENLIGHTENMENT. LIKE A LAMP THAT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS OF SPIRITUAL UNKNOWING, IT REMOVES OBSCURATIONS OF A MIND AS FAR AS THE FRAGMENTATIONS OF INTELLECT OBTAIN. WHO CAN IMAGINE THE SELF-BEING OF DESIRELESSNESS? THERE'S NOTHING TO BE NEGATED, NOTHING TO BE AFFIRMED OR GRASPED; FOR IT CAN NEVER BE CONCEIVED. BY THE FRAGMENTATIONS OF THE INTELLECT ARE THE DELUDED FETTERED; UNDIVIDED AND PURE REMAINS SPONTANEITY. IF YOU QUESTION ULTIMACY WITH THE POSTULATES OF THE MANY AND THE ONE, ONENESS IS NOT GIVEN, FOR BY (TRANSCENDING) KNOWLEDGE ARE SENTIENT BEINGS FREED. THE RADIANT IS POTENCY LATENT IN THE INTELLECT, AND THIS IS SHOWN TO BE MEDITATION; UNSWERVING MIND IS OUR TRUE ESSENCE. I told her that it seemed she had not heard that Zen people in Japan will first purchase a cup from the supermarket, bring it…Read the full discourse →
Common Questions
No, this meditation is not a religion but a living invitation to rest in uncontrived presence.
No, this meditation is not about following techniques, but about allowing imposed shapes to dissolve.
The focus is on seeing clearly, releasing subtly, and abiding as a spacious presence.
This is a tantric approach that liberates through direct intimacy with experience, not by fighting it.
No, it is about relaxing into being without needing discipline to be what you are.