Mystic Rose Meditation

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Mystic Rose is, strictly speaking, not a meditation but a meditative therapy, one of three developed by Ma Prem Leela under Osho's guidance. The other two are Born Again and No-Mind.

In its full form, Mystic Rose is a three-week process running three hours a day, the first week consisting of laughter, the second of sadness and weeping, the third of silent watching. Osho spoke extensively about this process in the last discourse of YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, on 21 Apr 1988. It was used once (in short form) as the meditation at the end of a discourse in This This A Thousand Times This ~ 01, on 27 May 1988.

The (Osho International Meditation) Resort in Pune offered the full three-week process once a month until the Covid era. As of this writing (Apr 2021), it is still unavailable, as are most public group activities in the Covid era. Their blurb follows, minimally edited, part description and part sales pitch. Osho's quotes cited in the blurb are not sourced, so the wiki has taken the liberty. See Footnotes for sources. Many are from YAAHOO #30 (superscript 1) and a few others are from elsewhere in YAAHOO.

"I have invented many meditations, but perhaps this will be the most essential and fundamental one".1 Osho
Laugh, Cry, and Let the Scars of the Past Be Dissolved in Silence
For 21 days, Laugh for 3 hours a day for 7 days, Cry for 3 hours a day for 7 days, and then Sit Silently, for 3 hours a day for 7 days. The course includes OSHO Dynamic Meditation for the 3rd week, and optionally for the first two weeks, and OSHO Kundalini Meditation and the OSHO Evening Meeting every day.
Whenever any experience is not fully lived in the moment, it leaves a residue inside us. It may be a small thing or something really significant but those residues or scars stay in the unconscious blocking our natural ability to flower to our full potential.
Whatever is left in the unconscious remains, waiting for an opportunity to be expressed, accepted, and resolved.
When we allow all our un-laughed laughter, our un-cried tears, and our un-lived silence to be experienced, we can allow whatever is in the unconscious to flow freely and be lived now – and be resolved forever.
The laughter, tears and silence do their work without the need for words, discussion, or analysis as is typical of conventional "therapy". You just participate with totality and sincerity, and the rest happens by itself.
The OSHO Mystic Rose provides that opportunity.
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… for three hours, people simply laugh for no reason at all…. 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".1
"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".1
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".1
"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".1
The third part is the time for the "Watcher on the Hill", just watching whatever is happening inside or out.
"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. A watcher cannot be wounded; no bullet can pass through it, no nuclear bomb can destroy it".2
"Just be a witness. Go on witnessing whatsoever passes in the mind, and the very process of witnessing has the whole secret in it".3
"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".4
"That is freedom. That's what is called liberation, nirvana. And that man knows what benediction is!"4
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".5
"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.1
"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".1
"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".6
"This is absolutely my meditation".1


see also
Ma Prem Leela, the ma who Osho asked to develop and teach this meditation
Osho Mystic Rose - Introduction by Leela (2015), a film where Leela explains the process and gives background
YAA HOO The Mystic Rose ~ 30, 21 Apr 1988, the discourse where Osho talks about Mystic Rose for practically the whole discourse
Osho´s meditative therapy group Mystic Rose
Ma Dharm Jyoti and Ma Deva Amrita tell about Osho´s meditative therapy group Mystic Rose. They are facilitating Mystic Rose group in Oshodham, Delhi in end of (Nov-Dec) every year.
Mystic Rose participants in the video are Ma Prem Satbodhi from Japan, Ma Yogin Maitreyi from India and Swami Chetan Anabhra from Russia.
Interviewed by Swami Anand Avinash during Osho´s birthday celebration 2017 in Oshodham, Delhi, India.
The Mystic Rose (music album) - a tape with laughter and music for the meditation

Booklet with the audio cassette, showing instructions. Click to download PDF.


Footnotes

Sources for the various Osho quotes:

  1. YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, ch 30
  2. YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, ch 3
  3. The Fish in the Sea Is Not Thirsty, ch 6
  4. Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot, ch 7
  5. YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, ch 4
  6. YAA-HOO! The Mystic Rose, ch 21