|
|
Osho Quotes on Vipassana Meditation
-
Vipassana simply means watching
your breath, looking at your breath. It is not like YOGA PRANAYAMA:
it is not changing your breath to a certain rhythm -- deep
breathing, fast breathing. No, it does not change your breathing at
all; it has nothing to do with the breathing. Breathing has only to
be used as a device to watch because it is a constant phenomenon in
you. You can simply watch it, and it is the most subtle phenomenon.
If you can watch your breath then it will be easy for you to watch
your thoughts.
-
Buddha's religion is
tremendously beautiful -- no ritual, no so-called ordinary religious
performances -- simply, you remain watchful. But that is something
inside you, nobody else can even detect what you are doing. You can
be driving your car, you can be sitting in your office and you can
be doing it. It is not even deep breathing -- that others can feel,
that you are doing some deep breathing. It is simply vipassana, it
is simply watching, watching everything -- outside, inside.
-
In these simple words he (Gautam
Buddha) has given to the world the greatest meditation: vipassana.
More people have become enlightened through vipassana than through
any other method. There are thousands of methods but vipassana seems
to be the easiest, the most perfect, and very natural. It does not
demand any unnaturalness from you.
-
Buddha used to call it vipassana.
The word is beautiful, simple, meaningful. It means just watching.
pashya means to see and passana means to see very carefully.
Vipassana means to see carefully but without thinking. You are just
there, sitting silently, doing nothing.
-
when I say watch, don't TRY to
watch, otherwise you will become tense again, and you will start
concentrating on the breath. Simply relax, remain relaxed, loose,
and look...because what else can you do? You are there, nothing to
be done, everything accepted, nothing to be denied, rejected, no
struggle, no fight no conflict, breathing going deep -- what can you
do?
You simply watch. Remember, simply watch. Don't make an effort to
watch. This is what Buddha has called VIPASSANA -- the watching of
the breath, awareness of the breath -- or SATIPATTHANA --
remembering, being alert of the life energy that moves in breath.
Don't try to take deep breaths, don't try to inhale or exhale, don't
do anything. You simply relax and let the breathing be natural --
going on its own, coming on its own -- and many things will become
available to you.
-
If you want the silent
meditation that Gautam Buddha has given to the world, vipassana, you
have to be vegetarian. A non-vegetarian will find it very difficult,
because the meditation is for a very sensitive person, and a meat
eater is hard. He is not very sensitive; he is insensitive. He has
been eating it from childhood so he has no awareness; he has become
accustomed to it.
-
Vipassana is not a concentration. In
concentration, everything is a distraction. When you are trying
to concentrate, narrowing your mind, anything can become a
distraction, but vipassana is awareness. It is not concentrating
on anything exclusively. It is all inclusive. It is just
awareness. Awareness knows no distraction. That is the beauty of
awareness.
-
|
|
