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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : Gibberish,
and Meditation at the end of discourse
For three weeks Osho is unable to come to discourse. When he
returns on 26 May 1988, he introduces the final form of the meditation
at the end of discourse: (1) few minutes gibberish; (2) silent
sitting; (3) let-go, lying down; (4) sitting silently. This is
followed by celebration.
My Beloved Ones,
I am introducing you to a new meditation. It is divided in three
parts.
The first part is gibberish. The word `gibberish' comes from a
Sufi mystic, Jabbar. Jabbar never spoke any language, he just
uttered nonsense. Still he had thousands of disciples because
what he was saying was, "Your mind is nothing but gibberish.
Put it aside and you will have a taste of your own being."
To use gibberish, don't say things which are meaningful, don't
use the language that you know. Use Chinese, if you don't know
Chinese. Use Japanese if you don't know Japanese. Don't use German
if you know German. For the first time have a freedom—the
same as all the birds have. Simply allow whatever comes to your
mind without bothering about its rationality, reasonability, meaning,
significance—just the way the birds are doing.
For the first part, leave language and mind aside. Out of this
will arise the second part, a great silence in which you have
to close your eyes and freeze your body, all its movements, gather
your energy within yourself.
Remain here and now.
Zen cannot be understood in any other way. This is the last part
of the series Live Zen.
In the third part I will say, let go. Then you relax your body
and let it fall without any effort, without your mind controlling.
Just fall like a bag of rice.
Each segment will begin with the drum of Nivedano. Before Nivedano
gives the drum, there are a few more things I have to say to you….
I am extremely sorry that I have not been physically here for
many days, but I am also extremely happy that you never missed
my presence.
I was in your heart
and I was in the wind and in the rain
and the thunder of clouds.
I was in your tears,
in your nonsense utterances….
I was absolutely present here with you—
and those who are present know it perfectly.
I was absent only for those who themselves are absent. At least
today, don't go anywhere.
Nivedano, give the first drum….(Drumbeat)
(Gibberish)
(Everyone bursts into a sea of sound, volume and tempo clashing
and crashing in one great crescendo—a tidal wave of mind.)
(Osho motions to Nivedano for the second drumbeat, and an instantaneous
silence falls over the whole of Buddha Hall.)
(Drumbeat)
Now the third drum…Relax. (Drumbeat)
The fourth drum…Come back! (Drumbeat)
This begins and ends the series called Live Zen.
What I could say, I have said to you.
What I could not say, I have given to you. livzen17
Now, Nivedano…
Remember, the first step of the meditation is gibberish. And gibberish
simply means throwing out your craziness, which is already there
in the mind, piled up for centuries. As you throw it out you will
find yourself becoming light, becoming more alive, just within
two minutes.
You will be surprised that when Nivedano gives his second beat,
to enter into silence, you enter into silence as deeply as you
have never done before. Just those two minutes have cleaned the
way.
In fact in those two minutes, if you put your total energy…the
more you put into it, the deeper will be the following silence.
So don't be partial, don't be middle-class. Just be a first-rate
crazy man!
About women there is no question, they beat every man every day.
Nivedano… cuckoo12
The following evening at the end of discourse, Osho experiments
with a variation of the Mystic Rose meditation: laughing, crying,
sitting silently, lying down. This is the only occasion he leads
this technique. After this, he retains the gibberish technique.
Osho also creates the new No-Mind Meditation Group: 1 hour of
gibberish, followed by 1 hour of silent sitting, daily for one
week.
Osho gives detailed instructions for further meditation groups:
Born Again, and Reminding Yourself of The Forgotten Language of
Talking to Your Mind and Body. All his meditation groups continue
to be popular programs in the Meditation Academy.
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