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- What is meditation? It is
not your character, it is not what you do. It is
what you are. It is not the character, it is the
consciousness that you bring to whatsoever you do.
The doing is irrelevant. Whether you are doing it
consciously or not is the question, whether moral or
immoral. Are you alert? If you are alert, meditation
happens. If you are not alert, you live in sleep.
- The man of meditation
becomes the man of understanding because his energy
accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not
interested in trivia; he does not put any energy at
all into petty things. So whenever the time arises
to give, he has to give. Energy is understanding. Be
conscious of it and use your energy very
consciously, and use your energy in such a way that
you don't simply go on wasting it.
- Except witnessing, I don’t
teach anything else. So just witness your mind and
the meditation will be happening. And once you have
got in tune with your being, you know the way, you
know the how. Then it does not matter where you are.
Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest
or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the
same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear
inwards.
- Meditation is nothing but
a way to learn how to do a thing totally -- once you
have learnt, make your whole life a meditation,
forget all about meditations, let the life be the
only law, let the life be the only meditation. And
then time disappears.
- For a prayer oriented
religion the concept of a personal God is needed --
to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God
is a useless hypothesis; it can be discarded easily
into the dustbin. It is not needed.
- To be a criminal needs
great unconsciousness. Meditation destroys your
unconsciousness, opens the doors of light and
suddenly what you were doing in the darkness starts
disappearing.
- Meditation is just a
situation; silence is not going to be the
consequence of it. No, meditation is just creating
the soil, the surrounding, preparing the ground. The
seed is there, it is always there; you need not put
in the seed, the seed has always been with you. That
seed is Brahma; that seed is atma. – that seed is
you. Just create the situation and the seed will
become alive. It will sprout and a plant will be
born, and you will start growing. Meditation doesn’t
lead you to silence; meditation only creates the
situation in which the silence happens. And this
should be the criterion — that whenever silence
happens laughter will come into your life. A vital
celebration will happen all around.
- Meditation is totally
different. When you concentrate you close your mind
to everything else. Meditation means just an
openness, a relaxed openness. It is not
concentration. While listening to me you are
listening to the birds singing in the trees too. The
wind passing through the trees singing its song —
you are open to it too. The aeroplane passing by, or
the train — you are open to it too. This is
meditation — you are simply open, available,
conscious, available, all doors are open.
- Ordinarily, the mind is
the master and you have to follow it. The mind gives
you something to think about and you have to think
about it. The mind gives you some dream and you have
to dream it. And the mind goes on.... And sometimes
even if you say to your mind, "Stop!" it is not
going to stop, it is not going to listen to you at
all. Because you have cooperated with it so much,
and you have given it your energy and identification
so much, that the mind doesn't remember your mastery
at all. You are just a slave. Meditation means to
create a gap so that you can become master, master
of your own mind. And mastery means that you are not
identified.
- The more your meditation
goes deep, the less and less you will feel the
burden of the mind. The more and more meditation
goes deep, the less and less you will be a mind.
Thoughts will become rare, and ultimately they
cease. That doesn't mean you become unthinking; it
only means that your consciousness becomes clear,
transparent, without thoughts moving continuously as
clouds. Whenever you need to think you can think;
but now thought becomes an instrument to you, not an
obsession as it is presently. Thoughts are an
obsession without meditation.
- The more meditation goes
deep, the more you will become master of your own
thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind stops.
You will say, "Move!" and the mind begins to move.
Once this capacity comes to you, you will not fall
down again. Unless this is achieved, if you
discontinue meditation, soon every result will be
washed away.
- As meditation goes deep
you will feel less and less desires, more and more
contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be
less and less desire for that which you don't have,
and more and more contentment with whatsoever you
have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented
consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no
desire, only contentment.
- When someone is dancing
madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after
meditation, he is creating vibrations around him.
They may penetrate into anyone. They can become
infectious; they do become infectious. This ecstasy
can go to others also; this ecstasy can be felt.
Others' hearts will be touched by it. And if you can
create ripples around you, vibrations, you have
served the world, and there is no other way to serve
it -- you have served the divine, and there is no
other way to serve it.
- Meditation needs you in
your totality. Nothing less will do. If you withhold
something, and just do it halfheartedly, it is
better not to do it, because the whole effort is
useless. You will be simply tired and nothing will
happen. So why unnecessarily tire yourself? If you
are half in it you will be tired. And if someone
feels tired -- remember this, and find out -- he
will be half in it. If you are totally in it, you
will be refreshed, not tired. This is the
difference. If you are TOTALLY in it -- nothing has
been retained, nothing has been withheld; you were
in it totally, the doer was not standing outside;
the doer has become the doing -- then you will come
out of it fresh, fresh like the dew in the morning,
fresh like a rose just opening; fresh, full of
energy, light, dancing... blessed. And not only
blessed, in such a state of mind that you can bless
others.
Osho Meditation Quotes -
1,
2,
3, 4,
5,
6,
7
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