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Meditation is not a work, it is a play.
Meditation is not something to be achieve some goal peace, bliss but something to be enjoyed as an end in itself.
Osho
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"DOING NOTHING IS MEDITATION"
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Meditation is an adventure into the unknown, greatest adventure the human mind can take. Meditation is just to be, not doing anything no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are it is sheer delight. From where does this delight come when you are doing anything?
It comes from nowhere, or it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused, because existence is made of the stuff called joy.
When you re not doing anything at all bodily mentally, on no level when all activity has ceased and you simply are, just being, that’s what meditation is: you have only to understand it.
When ever you can find time for just being, drop all doing. Thinking is also doing, concentration is also doing, contemplation is also doing. Even if for a single moment you are not doing anything and you are just at your center, utterly relaxed that is meditation. And once you have got the knack of it, you can remain in the state as long as you remain in that state as long as you want; finally you can remain in that state for twenty four hours a day.
Once you have become aware of the way your being can remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing things, keeping alert that your being is not stirred. That is second part of meditation – first, learned how just to be, and then learning little actions: cleaning the floor taking a shower, but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do complicated things.
For example, I am speaking to you but my meditation is not disturbed. I can go on speaking, but at my very center there is not even a ripple; it is just silent, utterly silent.
So mediation is not against action. It is not that you have to escape from life. It simply teaches you a new way of life: you become the center of the cyclone. Your life goes on, it goes on, it goes on really more intensely with joy, with more clarity, more vision, more creativity yet are aloof, just a watcher on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening around you.
You are not the doer, you are the watcher. That s the whole secret of meditation, that you are the watcher.
You are not whole secret of meditation that you become the watcher. Doing continues on its own level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing water from the well. You can do small and big things; only one thing is not allowed and that is, your centering should not be lost.
That awareness that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded, undisturbed.
That awareness, that watchfulness, should remain absolutely unclouded undisturbed.
Watching is meditation. What you watch is irrelevant. You can watch the trees, you can watch the river you can watch the clouds, you can watch children playing around. Watching is not the point; the object is not the point.
Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do it meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality you bring to your action. Waking can be to your action that you bring to your action. Waking can be a meditation if you walk alert. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alert. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of you remain alert and watchful.
The whole point is, one should not move in sleep. Then whatsoever you do is meditation.
The first step in awareness is to be very watchful of your body. Slowly one becomes alert about each gesture, each movement. And as you become aware, a miracle starts happening: many things that you used to do before simply disappear: your body becomes more relaxed, your body becomes more relaxed, your body, a subtle music pulsates in your body.
Then start becoming aware of your thoughts: they are more subtle than the body and of course, more dangerous too. And when you become aware of your thoughts, you will be surprised what goes on inside you. If you write down whatsoever is going on at any moment, you are in for a great surprise. You will not belive that this is what is going on inside you.
And after ten minutes read it you will see a mad mind inside! Because we are not aware, this whole madness goes on running like an undercurrent. It affects whatsoever you are not doing; it affects everything. And the sum total of it is going to be your life! So this madman has to be changed. And the miracle is that you need not do anything expect just become aware.
The important thing is that you are watching you have not forgotten to watch, that you are watching… watching… watching… and slowly slowly, as the watcher becomes more and more solid, stable unwavering , a transformation happens. The things that you were watching disapper.
For the first time, the watcher itself becomes the watcher, the observer itself becomes the observed.
Mediation has a few essential things in it, what ever the method, but those few essentials are necessary in every method.
The first is a relaxed state: no fight with the mind, no control of the mind, no concentration.
Second, just watch with a relaxed awareness whatever is going on, without any interference just watching the mind, silently, without any judgment, evaluation.
These are the three things: relaxation, watching, no judgment, and slowly, slowly a great silent descent over you. All movement within you ceases. You are, but there is no sense of “I am” – just a purse space.
There are many methods of meditation. They differ in their constitution, but the fundamentals remain the same: relaxed, watchfulness, a non-judgmental attitude.
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