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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : The revolutionary
new Mystic Rose Meditation
Out of this incident Osho introduces the new Mystic Rose Meditation
as one of the greatest revolutions in meditation since his Dynamic
Meditation.
I have chosen Leela, one of my therapists, to create a new meditative
therapy. The first part will be Yaa-Hoo!—for three hours,
people simply laugh for no reason at all. And whenever their laughter
starts dying they again say, "Yaa-Hoo!" and it will
come back. Digging for three hours you will be surprised how many
layers of dust have gathered upon your being. It will cut them
like a sword, in one blow. For seven days continuously, three
hours every day…you cannot conceive how much transformation
can come to your being.
And then the second part is "Yaa-Boo." The first part
removes everything that hinders your laughter—all the inhibitions
of past humanity, all the repressions. It cuts them away. It brings
a new space within you, but still you have to go a few steps more
to reach the temple of your being, because you have suppressed
so much sadness, so much despair, so much anxiety, so many tears—they
are all there, covering you and destroying your beauty, your grace,
your joy.
In old Mongolia they had an ancient idea that every life, whatever
pain is suppressed…and pain is suppressed, because nobody
wants it. You don't want to be painful so you suppress it, you
avoid, you look somewhere else. But it remains.
And the Mongolian idea was—and I agree with it—that
life after life it goes on accumulating in you; it becomes almost
a hard shell of pain. That's why all the saints and the sages
have been telling you, shouting—"Go into yourself!"
You listen to them, but you don't go. There is a reason why you
don't go: you know that going in, you have to encounter pain;
going in, you have to encounter misery, suffering, agony. It is
better to remain outside—engaged, busy. Never be alone,
because in your aloneness you may unconsciously start moving inwards.
Being alone, having nothing else to do you may start looking inwards….
If you go in you will find both, laughter and tears. That's
why sometimes it happens that by laughing, suddenly you find tears
also start coming together with it—very confusing, because
ordinarily we think they are contrary. When you are full of tears
it is not a time to laugh, or when you are laughing it is not
the right season for tears. But existence does not believe in
your concepts, ideologies; existence transcends all your concepts,
which are dualistic, which are based on duality. Day and night,
laughter and tears, pain and blissfulness, they both come together.
When a man reaches into his innermost being he will find the
first layer is of laughter and the second layer is of agony, tears.
So for seven days you have to allow yourself to weep, cry, for
no reason at all—just the tears are ready to come. You have
been preventing them. Just don't prevent, and whenever you feel
they are not coming, just say, "Yaa-Boo!"
These are pure sounds, used as a technique to bring all your
laughter and all your tears and clean you completely, so that
you can become an innocent child.
This is absolutely my meditation.
Leela will be in charge of it and you will be surprised that no
meditation can give you so much as this small strategy. This is
my experience of many meditations, that what has to be done is
to break two layers in you. Your laughter has been repressed;
you have been told, "Don't laugh, it is a serious matter."
You are not allowed to laugh in a church, or in a university class…
So the first layer is of laughter, but once laughter is over
you will suddenly find yourself flooded with tears, agony. But
that too will be a great unburdening phenomenon. Many lives of
pain and suffering will disappear. If you can get rid of these
two layers you have found yourself.
Maneesha, there is no meaning in the words, `Yaa-Hoo' or `Yaa-Boo'.
These are simply techniques, sounds which can be used for a certain
purpose to enter into your own being.
And you may have felt it—when you shout, "Yaa-Hoo!"
you may have felt a sudden breeze of freshness and joy.
I don't want so many people to cry here; that's why I have not
used the other part. That is to be used in special groups.
I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the
most essential and fundamental one. It can take over the whole
world. Already from every country news cuttings are coming to
me—"What is this Yaa-Hoo!?" People are making
up meanings of their own, but it has taken over around the world.
Now the second thing is Yaa-Boo! And the whole process of Yaa-Hoo
and Yaa-Boo, the couple, married…arranged marriage!
Every society has done so much harm by preventing your joys
and your tears. If an old man starts crying you will say, "What
are you doing? You should feel ashamed; you are not a child, that
somebody has taken your banana and you are crying. Have another
banana, but don't cry."
Just see—stand on the street and start crying and a crowd
will gather to console you: "Don't cry! Whatever has happened
forget all about it, it has happened." Nobody knows what
has happened, nobody can help you, but everybody will try—"Don't
cry!" And the reason is that if you go on crying, then they
will start crying, because they are also flooded with…
Those tears are very close to the eyes.
And it is a healthy thing to cry, to weep, to laugh. Now scientists
are discovering that crying, weeping, laughter, are immensely
healthful; not only physically but also psychologically, they
are very much capable of keeping you sane. The whole of humanity
has gone a little cuckoo, for the simple reason that nobody laughs
fully because all around there are people who will say, "What
are you doing? Are you a child?—at this age? What will your
children think? Keep quiet!"
If you cry and weep without any reason, just as an exercise, a
meditation…nobody will believe it. Tears have never been
accepted as meditation. And I tell you, they are not only a meditation,
they are a medicine also. You will have better eyesight and you
will have better inner vision.
I am giving you a very fundamental technique, fresh and unused.
And it is going to become worldwide, without any doubt, because
its effects will show anybody that the person has become younger,
the person has become more loving, the person has become graceful.
The person has become more flexible, less fanatic; the person
has become more joyful, more a celebrant.
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of
all the inhibitions of the past. Laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and
laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you
have learned the art you will be immensely surprised: why has
this not been told up to now? There is a reason: nobody has wanted
humanity to have the freshness of a roseflower and the fragrance
and the beauty.
I have called this series of lectures The Mystic Rose. "Yaa-Hoo!"
is the mantra to bring the mystic rose in your very center, to
open your center and release your fragrance. yaahoo30
Just today, Leela has sent a question to me: "People who
are doing the Mystic Rose meditation in the third stage, the watcher
on the hills—many start feeling tears coming for no reason
at all. What has to be done about it?"
Leela, nothing has to be done about it. This is simply beautiful.
These tears are not of pain. These tears of people in silence
are of gratitude. These are just flowers, they are pouring unto
the feet of existence itself. Rejoice in their tears. Remember
this saying of Saigyo—a great master—What it is, I
know not; but with gratitude my tears fall. bolt07
I am not a religious person in the sense of being a blind believer—I
am just the opposite. But what is true is true, and cannot be
denied. My own experience I cannot deny. I have never cared about
myself; I have never thought about the tomorrow and never thought
about the yesterday. I have simply lived moment to moment, day
by day…. yaahoo27
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