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Osho on Right way to Meditate
Question : What is the right
way to Meditate?
Osho : The first and primary work is
to clean your interior being of all thoughts. There is no
question of choosing to keep the good thoughts in and to throw
the bad thoughts out. For a meditator, all thoughts are simply
junk; there is no question of good and bad. They all occupy the
space inside you, and because of their occupation, your inner
being cannot become absolutely silent. So good thoughts are as
bad as bad thoughts; don't make any discrimination between them.
Throw the baby out with the bath water!
Meditation needs absolute quiet, a silence so deep that nothing
stirs within you. Once you understand exactly what meditation
means, it is not difficult to attain it. It is our birthright;
we are absolutely capable of having it. But you cannot have
both: the mind and meditation. Mind is a disturbance. Mind is
nothing but a normal madness.
You have to go beyond the mind into a space where no thought has
ever entered, where no imagination functions, where no dream
arises, where you simply are -- just a nobody.
It is more an understanding than a discipline. It is not that
you have to do much; on the contrary, you don't have to do
anything except clearly understand what meditation is. That very
understanding will stop the functioning of the mind. That
understanding is almost like a master before whom the servants
stop quarreling with each other, or even talking with each
other; suddenly the master enters the house and there is
silence. All the servants start being busy -- at least looking
like they are busy.
Just a moment before, they were all quarreling and fighting and
discussing, and nobody was doing anything.
Understanding what meditation is, is inviting the master in.
Mind is a servant. The moment the master comes in with all its
silence, with all its joy, suddenly the mind falls into absolute
silence. Once you have achieved a meditative space,
enlightenment is only a question of time. You cannot force it.
You have to be just a waiting, an intense waiting, with a great
longing -- almost like thirst, hunger, not a word ....
It is like the experience of people who have sometimes got lost
in a desert. At first, thirst is a word in their mind: "I am
feeling thirsty and I am looking for water." But as time goes
on, and there is no sign of any oasis -- and as far as the eyes
can see, there is no possibility of finding water -- the thirst
goes on spreading all over the body. From the mind, from just a
word, `thirst', it starts spreading to every cell and fiber of
the body. Now it is no longer a word, it is an actual
experience.
Your every cell -- and there are seven million cells in the body
-- is thirsty. Those cells don't know words, they don't know
language, but they know that they need water; otherwise life is
going to be finished. In meditation, the longing becomes just a
thirst for enlightenment and a patient awaiting; because it is
such a great phenomenon and you are so tiny. Your hands cannot
reach it; it is not within your reach. It will come and
overwhelm you but you cannot do anything to bring it down to
you.
You are too small; your energies are too small. But whenever you
are really waiting with patience and longing and passion, it
comes. In the right moment, it comes. It has always come.
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