Editing Rajneesh (section)

=== Meditation ===
Rajneesh presented meditation not just as a practice, but as a state of awareness to be maintained in every moment, a total awareness that awakens the individual from the sleep of mechanical responses conditioned by beliefs and expectations.<ref name=Wallis131 /><ref name="JMF4" /> He employed Western [[psychotherapy]] in the preparatory stages of meditation to create awareness of mental and emotional patterns.<ref name="JMF5" />

He suggested more than a hundred meditation techniques in total.<ref name="JMF5" /><ref name="HBU-ZTB172" /> His own "active meditation" techniques are characterised by stages of physical activity leading to silence.<ref name="JMF5">{{harvnb|Fox|2002|p=5}}</ref> The most famous of these remains [[dynamic meditation]],<ref name="JMF5" /><ref name="HBU-ZTB172" /> which has been described as a kind of microcosm of his outlook.<ref name="HBU-ZTB172">{{harvnb|Urban|1996|p=172}}</ref> Performed with closed or blindfolded eyes, it comprises five stages, four of which are accompanied by music.<ref name="Gordon3-8">{{harvnb|Gordon|1987|pp=3–8}}</ref> First the meditator engages in ten minutes of rapid breathing through the nose.<ref name="Gordon3-8" /> The second ten minutes are for [[catharsis]]: "Let whatever is happening happen.{{nbsp}}[...] Laugh, shout, scream, jump, shake—whatever you feel to do, do it!"<ref name="JMF5" /><ref name="Gordon3-8" /> Next, for ten minutes one jumps up and down with arms raised, shouting "Hoo!" each time one lands on the flat of the feet.<ref name="Gordon3-8" /><ref name="MFLM35">{{harvnb|Osho|2004|p=35}}</ref> At the fourth, silent stage, the meditator stops moving suddenly and totally, remaining completely motionless for fifteen minutes, witnessing everything that is happening.<ref name="Gordon3-8" /><ref name="MFLM35" /> The last stage of the meditation consists of fifteen minutes of dancing and celebration.<ref name="Gordon3-8" /><ref name="MFLM35" />

Rajneesh developed other active meditation techniques, such as the [[Kundalini]] "shaking" meditation and the Nadabrahma "humming" meditation, which are less animated, although they also include physical activity of one sort or another.<ref name="JMF5" /> He also used to organise [[Gibberish]] sessions in which disciples were asked to just blabber meaningless sounds, which according to him clears out garbage from mind and relaxes it.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 October 2010 |first=Chaitanya|last=Keerti|title=It's all gibberish|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/speaking-tree/its-all-gibberish/articleshow/6836508.cms |access-date=1 May 2022 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=OSHO Gibberish Meditation |url=https://www.osho.com/meditation/osho-active-meditations/osho-gibberish-meditation |access-date=1 May 2022 |website=OSHO – Transform Yourself through the Science of Meditation}}</ref> His later "meditative therapies" require sessions for several days, OSHO Mystic Rose comprising three hours of laughing every day for a week, three hours of weeping each day for a second week, and a third week with three hours of silent meditation.<ref name="TLS198">{{harvnb|Aveling|1994|p=198}}</ref> These processes of "witnessing" enable a "jump into awareness".<ref name="JMF5" /> Rajneesh believed such cathartic methods were necessary because it was difficult for modern people to just sit and enter meditation. Once these methods had provided a glimpse of meditation, then people would be able to use other methods without difficulty.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}