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Osho Meditation –\u00a0 Stop Exercise<\/p>\n

Osho – Start doing a very simple method at least six times a day. It takes only half a minute each time so it is three minutes a day. It is the shortest meditation in the world (she laughs). But you have to do it suddenly \u2013 that\u2019s the whole point of it.<\/p>\n

Walking on the street \u2013 suddenly you remember. Stop yourself, stop yourself completely, no movement. Just be present for half a minute. Whatsoever the situation, stop completely and just be present to whatsoever is happening. Then start moving again. Six times a day. More you can do but not less. It will bring much opening. It has to be done suddenly.<\/p>\n

In my childhood when I entered high school, I had a teacher who was a little eccentric about a few things. One was that whenever he took the attendance, he would not allow anybody to say, \u2019Yes, Sir.\u2019 When he called the names he would insist that we would say, \u2019Present, Sir.\u2019 And I loved it, because I started meditating. This is what I used to do: when he called my name, I would say, \u2019Present, Sir,\u2019 and I would be really present. I would forget everything and just stop and be present, pure presence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He became aware by and by that I was doing something else. One day he called me after the class and said. \u2019What are you doing? You seem to be mysterious. When you say, \u201dPresent, Sir,\u201d what do you do exactly? \u2013 because suddenly your face changes, your eyes change, your movements stop, and I have started feeling some energy coming towards me. What are you doing? I feel very pulled,\u2019 he said, \u2019and sometimes now I have even started remembering you. In my home sometimes I suddenly hear you calling, \u201dPresent, Sir,\u201d and something happens to me. But what are you doing?\u2019<\/p>\n

If you just become present suddenly, the whole energy changes. The continuity that was going on in the mind stops. And it is so sudden that the mind cannot create a new thought so immediately. It takes time; the mind is stupid. It cannot work without time, so when you do it suddenly…. Gurdjieff used to call this exercise, the \u2019Stop Exercise\u2019.<\/p>\n

His disciples would be working \u2013 somebody might be digging in the garden, somebody might be cleaning the floor, somebody might be cooking, and suddenly he would shout loudly, \u2019Stop!\u2019 And everybody had to stop \u2013 whatsoever he was doing. If your mouth was open and you were going to say something, it had to remain open; you were not to close it. If your eyes were open they had to remain open. If you were moving and you had taken one step up, it had to remain there; whether you feel or not, that was not the question. You were not to manage anything; you were simply to stop as you were.<\/p>\n

It was one of the most beautiful methods that he developed. In that stopping, suddenly the mind stops, and for a single moment there is a clearing. All thoughts disappear \u2013 there is emptiness, and in that emptiness there is an opening.<\/p>\n

So start this \u2013 call it \u2019Present, Sir\u2019 or \u2019Stop Exercise\u2019 as you like. Anywhere, the moment you remember, just give a jerk to your whole being and stop. Not only you will become aware. Soon you will feel that others have become aware of your energy \u2013 that something has happened; something from the unknown is entering you. That will open your closedness.<\/p>\n

There is something that man can do but there is something that only God can do. Whatsoever you can do, you have done. It is as if a tree has brought buds \u2013 that\u2019s all the tree can do. But for the opening of the bud, for the petals to open, it will have to wait for the sun. Then with the sunrise the petals will open. This \u2019stop\u2019 exercise is to allow the sun to enter you. It is always there but you are so occupied with the mind that the rays of the sun never enter you.<\/p>\n

So six times or more… and don\u2019t prolong it because after half a minute the old mind will come back and the whole thing will be destroyed!<\/p>\n

Source: ” God Is Not For Sale, Chapter 14 ” – Osho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[347,125,165],"tags":[19,2,349],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darshan-diaries-meditation-techniques","category-meditation","category-osho","tag-meditation","tag-osho","tag-stop"],"yoast_head":"\nStop Excercise - Guru Quote<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Walking on the street \u2013 suddenly you remember. 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