Origins

The Osho No-Mind Meditation is divided into two parts. 

The first half-hour is gibberish, simply allowing yourself to express whatever comes to your mind without bothering about its rationality, meaning, or significance. This helps to empty the mind of all the chatter & ‘garbage’ and it prepares us for the second part of the meditation.

After a half-hour of gibberish a great silence will arise in the second half hour as we silently sit, with closed eyes and gather all our energy within.

More explanation from an Osho Discourse:

“The first part is Gibberish:  The word Gibberish comes from the 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.“ Use gibberish and go consciously crazy. Go crazy with absolute awareness so that you become the center of the cyclone.  Simply allow whatever comes, without bothering whether it is meaningful or reasonable. Just throw out all mind garbage and create the space in which Buddha (silence, consciousness, peace) appears.

The Second Part: The cyclone is gone and has taken you also away. The Buddha has taken its place in absolute silence and immobility. You are just witnessing the body, the mind and anything that is happening.“

About No Mind

No-Mind is one of the Meditative Therapies that Osho gave us shortly before leaving his body. Mystic Rose, Born Again and the No-Mind all fall under this category of powerful energy releasing Meditations

Gibberish is derived from the Enlightened Sufi Master, Jabbar. Using this unique and  unusual technique of speaking only gibberish, many of his disciples became enlightened. The essential of this simple yet powerful technique, is the release and expression of blocked, repressed energies on one hand, and the possibility to do so in a very unusual way through the dynamic method of gibberish which is very freeing and liberating. It supports participants to move beyond their usual boundaries of expression and daily structures, to experience a state beyond mind. Gibberish when done with absolute intensity, takes us out of our logical mind and into the realms of the mysterious and spiritual.

People who have participated in the No-Mind Meditative Therapy around the world report that they have experienced themselves as more open and centered afterwards, and find they can be much more relaxed and silent during meditation.

Subhan Schenker and Shanti Schenker-Skye will facilitate this event. They have been meditating for over 43 years and lead meditations, events and workshops internationally. 

Subhan Schenker Schenker Shanti-Skye

Costs:  $10 for each session or $6.50 with a Meditation Pass-                                       (A Meditation Pass is good for 10 meditations and costs $65.00)