Should one continue meditating for a full minute if the process begins within half a minute?

And a friend has asked: if the process begins within half a minute, should one still continue for a full minute?

If the process has begun—if you feel the inner door has started to open—you can stop. One full minute is not essential. The one minute is only so that everyone’s process can get started. If after a minute someone still feels something is incomplete, they may continue for two minutes. We are using one minute as a standard for all. If someone feels something is happening and the minute finishes, they can carry on for another minute; there is no obstacle in that. It depends on you. Then we will spend the third stage in deep silence. Whatever experiences arise in that moment, keep watching them with great joy, remain a witness. At the end, again rub the forehead for one minute. Then raise both hands toward the sky and open your eyes. Let the sky peep into your eyes, and let your eyes gaze into the sky—then a deep…

Another friend has asked: Osho, how would ten minutes each sound?

It’s not necessary that it be exactly ten minutes. If it becomes twelve minutes, no harm; if fifteen, no harm. Just keep this estimate: it should not be less than ten minutes. In two to four days you’ll get the feel for it—just make sure it isn’t less than ten minutes. However much more it becomes, there’s no harm. Then for three months you will need to complete all four stages. As soon as your process is complete—someone’s may be in three weeks, someone’s even in three days, but generally it will take three months to fully enter the process—then the second and third stages will drop away on their own. You will breathe for a minute or two and directly enter the fourth stage. They will no longer be necessary. Therefore, for three months you must certainly make the effort. And don’t stop it from your side. When any…

A second friend has asked: When, in meditation, the experience of light occurs, that light too would still be a light of nature, and the seer would remain separate, wouldn’t he?

Experience—experience bliss filling you; let it spread through every fiber. And just behind bliss, the sense of the Divine begins to dawn. Following bliss, the Divine seems present everywhere. Bliss opens the door to God. Experience that God is present on all sides—only He is present, surrounding from every side; He is outside, He is within. Bliss opens the door of the Lord. Feel His nearness… Feel the presence of the Divine all around. Bliss opens the door. Now the door is open—feel the presence, feel the presence of the Divine. Experience the Lord’s presence—feel His presence. He is all around, He is all around. Experience it—the Divine stands encircling you on every side. This is the moment—do not miss it. Experience—experience clearly—experience His presence. He is the incoming breath; He is the outgoing breath. Experience—only He is present; the Divine alone is present. Rejoice—experience His presence. God stands surrounding…

Within three, four minutes you will feel that the body has relaxed; the breathing has come into a rhythm. Then with each outgoing breath, simply say, 'Osho' inside; not very loudly -- just a whisper, but inside so that you can hear it. When the breath comes in, just wait. When the breath goes out, you call, and when the breath comes out, allow me to come in. Don't do anything -- simply wait; so your work is only when the breath goes out. When the breath goes out, go into the universe. The outgoing breath is almost like dropping a bucket into a well. And when the breath comes in, it is like the bucket being pulled out of the well. This is only for twenty minutes. So four, five minutes to get into it, and then twenty minutes to remain in it.

(Osho remains silent for a few minutes, then begins to offer suggestions.)

Keep looking within... keep looking within... let everything outside become dead. Let it go... utterly dead... remain just watching... remain only the witness... drop everything... as if you have died... as if everything outside has died—the body too... thoughts too... only an inner flame remains, watching. Only the seer remains, only the witness remains. Let go... let go... let go completely... (Silence… solitude… hush…) Whatever happens, let it happen... let go completely... keep only looking within and let go completely... drop every grip... (Silence… solitude… hush…) The mind has become quiet and empty... the mind has become utterly empty... the mind has become quiet and empty... the mind has become utterly empty... the mind has become utterly empty... If there is even a slight holding, drop that too... let go completely... dissolve... as if you are not. The mind has become empty... the mind quiet and empty... the mind has…