(08) It Needs Intelligence to Be Happy (The Meditation)

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Meditation for Today

“Inner Smile”

This “Inner Smile” is a practice that supports our capacity to enter into a state
of simple, ordinary, egolessness – a part of “

the language of health,

wholeness, happiness” Osho talks about .
You can do this meditation for just a few minutes, whenever you have the time
and are sitting somewhere without any specific task to do. You can do it on the

subway, at home, during your lunch break at work, while watching your
toddler play in the park, anytime when you are basically idle. In the beginning,
while learning, it’s good to do it with your eyes closed. Later on you can easily
do it with your eyes open also – and then no one around you will even notice
that you are doing a meditation technique while sitting there.

The Method

The first stage:

Whenever you have nothing specific to do sit down, relax the lower jaw, and
let your mouth open just slightly. Start breathing from the mouth, but not
deeply. Simply let the body breathe, so the breathing will become more and

more shallow. And when you feel that the breath has become very shallow,
and your mouth is open and your jaw relaxed, your whole body will be relaxed.

The second stage:

Now start feeling a smile happening, not only on your face but all over your
being – and you will be able to. It is not a smile that comes on the lips; it is an

existential smile that spreads inside.

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Try it out and then you will know what it is – because it cannot be explained.
No need to smile with your lips, on your face, but just as if you are smiling
from the belly; the belly is smiling. And it is a smile, not laughter, so it is very,
very soft, delicate, fragile – like a small roseflower opening in the belly and the
fragrance spreading all over the body.

The third stage:

Once you have known what this smile is you can remain happy for 24 hours.
And whenever you feel that you are missing that happiness, just close your
eyes for a few moments and catch hold of that smile again, and it will be there.
During the day you can catch hold of this smile as many times as you want. It
is always there.