In the last retreat in Brazil, Living in the Now, we joined a No-Mind process, based on the meditation created by Osho.
In No-Mind we use gibberish to empty out and then we sit in silence. At the end of the process, we asked some friends to share about their experience.
“I felt reborn.”
Sara
How was it for you to do this process for the first time?
Very intense and effective. I felt the benefit and the change growing every day, together with a deep cleansing. The first days I was struggling because I was telling myself not to think, to look for what the heart wanted to tell me. Then, towards the end of the process, I felt like a channel from the belly coming up to the mouth and putting out whatever was coming. By the end I was exhausted. I perceived the whole body emptied out—beautiful. I felt reborn.
“Maybe if I just accept, if I just let go…”
Dharmamitra
Was there a moment in which you felt something shifted in you?
In the middle of the process, a letting go happened—of any wanting to do things the right way, of being a good disciple and meditator. While sitting in silence watching, I was getting extremely tired. I was putting in effort to become more aware. Suddenly something shifted inside me: “Maybe if I just accept, if I just let go…” Then, a huge relief: when the sleepiness came, I surrendered to it, and quickly after, a different kind of awareness came up. It became so juicy to be there—I was so still in the mind, in the body…
“For once I can say I’m in love.”
Bimala
How do you feel Swaha supported your process?
Swaha is everything—he is the fire in my heart. He is the vehicle and the fuel. He allows me to open up and experience the vastness in me. Now I feel I have more space to be more authentic, whole, at peace. I cannot express the love that I feel for him. I can’t contain it; it’s so much bigger than me. For once I can say I’m in love. Not that I haven’t been in love, but this love is something else. This is the big one. The One.
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– How to take care of the gifts? –
Whatever you nurture, whatever you give your attention to, will grow. If you ignore it, if you forget it, then it will die.
So, whatever has been helpful for you, whatever brings you some silence inside, allows you to just relax into yourself – you should do it. That is why I show you so many different meditations.
If dancing is helpful for you, dance. If swimming is, swim. If gibberish is, do gibberish. Then sit.
And if you sit for just 15 minutes in silence, that’s enough. But if you are not ready to be in silence, then you have to do something first – to get out some of your restlessness, to empty your busy mind.
Listen to the Master or meditate on the vision of your Beloved or feel the sacred in your heart — whatever is helpful for you. Then you go on nourishing it. It is very difficult, even for 15 minutes, but giving your attention to anything gives results. That’s how you take care of it.
You have to see what you learned, what you received, what insights you had. What you saw about yourself, what came up, what is it that you have to work on. What is in your way for being happy or staying in this love or being truthful or being peaceful. This is what you have to look into.
You have all the meditations that you can play with and you can stay connected through the videos and podcasts and all that, but you have to see what came up in you, the things you are still carrying that you want to get rid of. That is your homework.”
Vasant Swaha
Whatever you nurture,
whatever you give
your attention to, will grow.
Swaha
