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Osho on Waiting a necessary part of Meditation
Question: For the last twelve years i have been
waiting for the waters of my mind to clear, But the
carts of situations and surroundings keep passing
through them constantly. this will go on through out
life. should I still keep waiting?
Osho
:
Waiting is important,
necessary, but not enough. Together with awaiting one
should know how to sit at the bank of the stream of the
mind. If we sit in the current of the river and wait,
there will be no results. Our very being in the river
will bring up the dirt. The art of standing aside from
the river is meditation.
Awaiting is a necessary part of meditation but it, in
itself, is not meditation. He who cannot wait cannot
meditate; but he who thinks awaiting is meditation is
also wrong. Meditation is the art of sitting on the
bank. The mind has its own stream of thoughts. No matter
how hard you try to watch it with patient awaiting, you
shall never be able to step out of the mind. Nor will
the stream of the mind clear.
Your very presence pollutes the mind. Step out of the
mind. Sit on its bank and watch it from a distance, as
you would watch the birds in the sky, as you would watch
a river flow by. The further you step away from the
mind, the clearer and purer will it become. It will
become silent, tranquil. This is one thing. The second
thing. In the infinite story of existence, twelve years
is nothing.
In the boundless saga of existence, what are twelve
years? Nothing. So do not think that if you have waited
twelve years you have waited long. If you have waited
twelve years, you have spent twelve lakh years in
polluting the stream. Therefore, I say, eternal
awaiting! When I say this, I do not mean you shall have
to wait for countless years. What I mean is that you
should be prepared to wait indefinitely. The happening
can take place in a moment. The greater your
preparedness the earlier will be the happening.
Why is it so? It is because impatience agitates the
mind. The carts of surroundings and situations, do not
stir up the dirt of the stream of our mind as much as
our own impatience. Awaiting means: I have attained
patience. Let the happening take place whenever it
pleases – now or after countless births – I shall wait
patiently. I am in no hurry. I am in no haste.
The longer the mind is readily willing to wait, the
earlier the happening takes place. So to not think it
was a big thing to wait for twelve years. And do not
take awaiting alone to be enough. Concentrate more, and
give more importance
to sitting on the bank, to being alert and being a
witness.
Source: "The Way of Tao, Volume 2" - Osho
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