According to Osho, preparation means living in choiceless awareness without practicing methods or chasing 'how.' Simply watch yourself as you are; let a natural separation arise between the 'me' (memory, mind) and the 'I' (consciousness). Do not cultivate change; allow it to happen spontaneously. Stay receptive to paradox and disruption that shatter mind-habits, so awareness flowers.
Stop looking for a method; just watch yourself quietly, and real change will happen on its own.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Do you recommend any particular discipline besides dynamic meditation?
Even to move into an undisciplined life you have to follow some discipline. But you must remain the master; it must not become a slavery. The real thing, the end, is always to be spontaneous As we are, we are really conditioned not to be free. Our whole upbringing, our culture, our civilization, our religion, our parents -- they have all conditioned our minds not to be flee, because a free mind is a dangerous mind. Your freedom is really a deception. You are tethered to a pole It allows you a little freedom -- you can move and say that you are free -- but you are still tethered to the pole, so you can only move in a circle. This is man's state of mind. To jump from this state directly into the spontaneous is very difficult. Sometimes it happens, but you need much courage. You require the…
Beloved Osho, when sitting here with you, I try to watch and to be as aware as possible. My mind runs on, wondering if this space is right, whether I should be the watcher or be lost into you. At the same time, I try to relax and ignore all this. Somehow, despite all these gymnastics, a moment comes when melting happens, and I become so soft and receptive, so very simple and flowing. Beloved master, how can I get out of my own way so that I don't waste so much of this precious time with you?
But by the time he was ninety, he was still collecting books. Somebody told him, "Now it is time that you should start reading. The preparation has gone on too long, and you have thousands and thousands of books -- we don't think you will be able to read all of them. Your life is just at the very end, maybe a year or two more." But the man said, "But my collection is not complete yet." So he started collecting more forcibly, put more men into collection, into translation. Finally he fell sick, and the doctor said, "He is not going to survive more than seven days." He called all the scholars who were translating his books: "Now stop translating. You just try to find small summaries from every scripture, because I have got only seven days and I want to know what is written in all the scriptures.…
Question: Osho, you once said that within fifty years, if there are not people like Krishna, Christ, Buddha, and Mahavira on the earth, the whole of humanity could be destroyed. And, like Vivekananda, you said that you are searching for a hundred individuals who can courageously experiment and rise to the highest peaks of the soul; then it will be possible to save this land and all humanity. For this you go from village to village, looking for eyes that can become a flame. You said, I am ready to make the total effort. On my side, the preparation is complete to take one inward. Let me not, at the time of dying, have to say that I was looking for a hundred people and I did not find them. If your readiness is there, come. Please clarify the meaning of “my preparation” and “your preparation.” What preparations are needed?
Osho, to remain awake even in death—or to successfully orchestrate a conscious death in meditation—what preparations should a seeker make concerning the body-system, the breath-system, the state of the breath, the state of prana, celibacy, willpower, etc.? Kindly shed detailed light on this.
But even in a cinema hall, where it is easier because it is all shadows, we do not remain witnesses. If we inspected the handkerchiefs of those exiting, we would know how many cried. We all know nothing is on the screen—only light and shadow. Yet everything “happens” there, and we become participants. Do not be mistaken that while watching a film you are merely a viewer—you become a participant. Someone pleases you, someone repels you; you identify. If we cannot be witnesses even to a film, how will we be witnesses in life? Life, too, is not much more than a film. At depth, like the play of rays on the screen, life is the play of electrical particles. If you reduce the body or a wall to its ultimate component, you find only electric particles. The difference between the screen and this is not great—two-dimensional there, three-dimensional here.…
And once you have chosen it, continue it for seven days. Just close your eyes and relive it. Go into the details. The rain is falling on the roof... the tip top -- the sound... the smell... the very texture of the moment... a bird is singing, a dog is barking... a plate has fallen, and the sound. Go into all the details, from all sides; multi-dimensional, from all the senses. Every night you will find that you are moving into deeper details -- things that you may even have missed in the real moment, but that your mind has recorded. Whether you miss the moment or not, the mind goes on recording. You will come to feel subtle nuances which you were not aware that you had experienced. When your consciousness is focused on that moment, the moment will be there again. You will start feeling new things.