“How can we create the innerness within ourselves? Buddha invented a method, one of the most powerful methods, for creating inner sun of awareness. And not only for creating it: the method is such that it not only creates this inner awareness but simultaneously allows the awareness to penetrate to the very cells of the body, to the whole of one’s being. The method that Buddha used is known as Anapana-Sati Yoga of incoming and outgoing breath awareness. This is a guided meditation by Osho (Please refer to Osho’s audio discourse on this meditation) and it lasts for 45 minutes. Preferred time for this meditation is early morning and at night while going to sleep. One can sit in a lotus posture but for night just lie down in your bed and go into sleep doing it.”

– OSHO

First Stage: Deep and relaxed breathing for 10 minutes. The breath comes in: move with the breath; know, be aware, that the breath is moving in. When the breath has gone out again, move with it. Be in, be out, with the breath. Don’t allow any breath to be in or out without consciousness. This is a meditation. Now you will be focused on breathing, and when you are focused on breathing thoughts stop automatically. You cannot think, because the moment you think your consciousness moves from breath to thought. You have missed breathing.
Second Stage: Continue the first stage along with the acceptance of all kinds of sounds from the surroundings for 10 minutes. You have to continue the first stage i.e. breathing with awareness, added to that is “the listening to sound without any resistance on our part”. Just be at ease with your surrounding. Hear all the sounds coming from all the directions with total acceptance and gratitude towards existence e.g. chirping of birds, wind passing through the trees, children making noise, traffic noise anything whatsoever. We are not to feel that this sound is disturbing me.
Third Stage: Continue the first two stages and add to that the feeling of your being non existent. You have to continue breathing with awareness with the acceptance of all kinds of sounds in the surroundings and one more deep feeling to be added is that you are no more. Just Like a drop of water dissolves into ocean; you have to feel that you have fallen into the infinite ocean of existence and dissolved into it. Feel that you are no more and existence is.
All the stages have been explained more elaborately in Osho’s voice in the Hindi audio discourse for Anapana-Sati Yoga Meditation.

“To be conscious of the breath means that no thoughts can be allowed, because thoughts will distract your attention. Buddha never says, “Stop thinking.” He says, “Breathe consciously.” Automatically, thinking will stop; you cannot both think and breathe consciously. When a thought comes into your mind, your attention is withdrawn from the breathing. A single thought and you have become unconscious of the breathing process.”

– OSHO