“I have invented many meditations, but perhaps

this will be the most essential and fundamental one.”

 

 

Details of this 21-day course:

As Osho explains:

 

For seven days we laugh for no reason at all for three hours each day.

 

“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.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #30, Q1"

 

 

 

“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.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #30, Q1"

 

 

 

For the second seven days, we cry for no reason at all for three hours a day.

 

“So for seven days you have to allow yourself to weep, cry, for no reason at all - just the tears are ready to come.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #30, Q1"

 

 

 

“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.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #30, Q1"

 

 

 

The third part is the time for the “Watcher on the Hill,” just watching whatever is happening inside or out.

 

“I can understand that time passes, but wounds remain. Even if wounds heal, scars remain. And my effort here is to take away all your scars and all your wounds and make you aware that you are just a watcher -- which cannot be wounded; no bullet can pass through it, no nuclear bomb can destroy it.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #3, Q2"

 

 

 

“Just be a witness. Go on witnessing whatsoever passes in the mind, and the very process of witnessing has the whole secret in it. Slowly slowly, you will see less and less thoughts are coming to you, because you are no more welcoming them, and because you don't care, and because you don't cling, and because you don't choose this against that, and because you are no more judgemental. Good thoughts, bad thoughts, all are alike. Great thoughts, small thoughts, all are alike. You remain aloof, distant, a watcher on the hill.

Slowly slowly, less and less traffic... and one day suddenly intervals start happening. An interval for a few seconds, and you will have a taste of the unknown. And once you have tasted something of no-mind, your real life begins. Then all is joy, then all is benediction.”

 

-Osho, "The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty,#6, Q5"

 

 

 

“when you have become capable of reflecting life and death both, you come to know you are neither -- neither this nor that, neti-neti. Then you know that you are just the quality of reflection, that you are a pure consciousness, a witness, that you are a mirror and nothing else, that you are just a watcher, a watcher on the hill. Thousands of things passed -- good and bad, ugly and beautiful, success and failure, sunny days and cloudy days, agonies and ecstasies all passed -- but you are separate, eternally separate, from all that passes in front of you. You cannot be reduced to any seen thing: you are the seer.

That is freedom. That's what is called liberation, nirvana. And that man knows what benediction is!"

 

-Osho, "Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot, #7"

 

 

 

As Osho further explains:

 

“Laughter is a great medicine. It is a tremendously powerful therapy. If you can laugh at your own unconscious, the unconscious loses its force. In your very laughter your guilt, your wounds, disappear.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #4, Q1"

 

 

“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.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #30, Q1"

 

 

“My own experience says to me that if you can laugh rightly, in the right moment, it will bring you out of unconsciousness into the open sky, from the darkness to the light. I am introducing laughter as a meditation because nothing makes you so total as laughter; nothing makes you stop your thinking as laughter does. Just for a moment you are no more a mind. Just for a moment you are no more in time. Just for a moment you have entered into another space where you are total and whole and healed.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #21, Q1"

 

 

“This is absolutely my meditation.”

 

-Osho, "YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, #30, Q1"