Sweet Silence meditation camp

Osho meditation camps

Sweet
Silence

An invitation to go inside — reducing all distractions, opening to the essentials, listening inwards.

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A week of return,
together in stillness

For many years a group of friends gathered around Asanga to spend a week or more in meditation and silent retreat — in the Swiss mountains in Amden, and later close to Freiburg.

After Asanga's departure it was very clear: we continue. In his understanding, in a similar set-up, carrying the depth of silence he shared with us forward.

The camp begins with Osho's active meditation techniques, breathing exercises, selected discourses, time for silent sitting, sharing, chai and chit-chatting — a good preparation for what Asanga called: "sweet-silence / sweets & silence".

  • I Arrival & preparation — active meditations, discourses, sharing
  • II 3½ days of silent retreat — alone in your room, no reading, no talking, no writing
  • III Coming back together — sharing, silent sitting, Osho discourse, departure
Camp landscape
Asanga Group in the mountains
21 days silence – Osho

"It is helpful to practice breath awareness, practice Dynamic Meditation, do not read, write, do not think."

Thinking needs stimulation, thinking needs new sensations. If your sensory system is constantly bored, there will be nothing outside of you to think about.

You will need less sleep. And if you are constantly aware of breathing, so much energy will be generated in you.

Twenty-four hours of constant awareness means a minimal wastage of energy — so energy is conserved. This energy will be used in kundalini.

If things come to your mind, do not become anxious, just watch them. Just be indifferent. Do not be concerned at all, just go on witnessing your breathing.

So much will come to you: things that are absurd, illogical, unimaginable, fantastic, nightmarish. Let these things come and go — just go on watching.

You cannot forget a thing that you have not tried to remember. Whatever is worth remembering will be with you when the experiment is finished.

by Osho