In India we used to have camps where, in the afternoon, for one hour there would be a gibberish period, everybody saying whatsoever he wants to say—one thousand people together. It is not a conversation, because you are not talking to anybody, you are simply talking. It was a rare experience—because I was the only listener and because of what people were saying! One day a man in front of me was phoning, actually talking on the phone. And I heard, Hello, hello. Everyone looked: What are you doing? He was talking on a long-distance call with no phone, nothing. He was a businessman and just the habit…But it was a tremendously relaxing experience for people. After one hour talking nonsense… One of my very intimate sannyasins…what happened to him was that just talking and shouting, he went and started pushing the car in which I had come. It was standing there on a slope. He was a very sane man but he was pushing the car and he was talking all the time against Jayantibhai, whose car it was that he was going to throw into the ditch. And they were friends—but something must have been incomplete in his mind. Somehow a few people stood up and prevented him. Because he was prevented, he climbed up a tree…and he is not mad! He started waving the branch of a tree so strongly that it seemed that it would break and he would come down on the whole group who was sitting underneath. And all the time he was shouting at Jayantibhai. With difficulty he was brought down. And nobody had ever thought that this man would do such a thing. After the hour was over he was so silent—more silent than anybody. I asked him, How are you feeling? He said, I am feeling more relaxed then I have ever felt in my life. Even though I have been doing stupid things…but you allowed us to do everything that we wanted to do, and I am feeling very relieved. A lot of burden is thrown away, and I am feeling so much love for Jayantibhai. All anger is gone. The camp used to be for five days or seven days and that man on the phone continued for seven days, Hello, and he was very serious. As the meditation would begin he would start phoning and he was certainly listening to something, and answering, and deciding about business. Put this money there, and do this, and purchase that. This is the time to purchase it. Prices are going up. And so serious that finally the last day I asked him, How are you feeling? He said, I also wonder…this meditation is strange. I am not mad, and I know that there is no phone but that is the only idea that comes to me. And you have said, `You have to allow it. And afterwards I feel for hours absolutely silent, joyous. A great burden… It must have been his daily routine and he was missing it. It has never been used by groups, but the very word `gibberish comes from the name of a Sufi mystic, Jabbar. He used to talk nonsense. You would ask about the moon, and he would talk about the sun; he never answered the question he was asked. He would make up his own words. It is because of his name, Jabbar, that the word gibberish came into being; it is the language of Jabbar. He is one of the enlightened Sufi masters. He used gibberish for others; otherwise he was silent. For days, if nobody came, he would be silent. If anybody came and said anything to him, then that person triggered him. Then he would say anything—sentences without meaning, words without meaning. You could not make any sense out of what he was saying. Jabbar was asked again and again by his disciples, Why do you do such things?—otherwise you are so silent. Not only do people laugh at you, we all feel embarrassed that we are your disciples. And they think that we are idiots: what can we learn with this man? Only to his disciples would he say, You know that these people are unnecessarily coming with questions. They dont intend to understand or to change, and my gibberish stops them from coming so I can work in silence with you. And it is good for my mind too, because most of the time I am silent. It is good, just as an exercise for the mind: if it is needed, I can use it. So just to check that it is still working, I use all this gibberish. mystic15 But this is a strange world. The government of Rajasthan passed a resolution in their assembly that I cannot have camps in Mount Abu, because they had heard all these things were happening there—people who are perfectly alright become almost mad, start doing all kinds of things. Now these politicians in the assembly dont have any idea of human mind, its inhibitions and how to exhaust them, how to burn them. I had to stop that meditation because otherwise they were not going to allow me to have camps in Mount Abu. Osho
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