Osho Meditation Quotes
- Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you
away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your
authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing
naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the
first man who has descended onto earth -- who knows nothing, who has
to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a
pilgrimage.
- Meditation is the ultimate experience of blissfulness. It cannot
be produced by drugs, it cannot be produced by machines, it cannot
be produced from the outside.
- The whole art of meditation is to learn awareness, alertness,
consciousness. While you are feeling angry, don't repress it; let it
be there. Just become aware. See it as if it is some object outside
you. Slowly slowly, go on cutting your identifications with the
mind. Then you have found your real individuality, your being, your
soul. Finding this awareness is enlightenment -- you have become
luminous.
- As one becomes aware, first one finds thoughts becoming less,
and finally stopping. Then he finds time is not there -- and he has
found the key to the basic meditation. Then all other meditations
are differentiations of the same method, different combinations of
the same method. Different combinations, but essentially they are
awareness or witnessing.
- My effort is to make meditation almost a science so it is not
something to do with religion. So anybody can practice it -- whether
he is a Hindu or a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, it doesn't
matter. What his religion is, is irrelevant; he can still meditate.
He may not even believe in any religion, he may be an atheist; still
he can meditate.
Meditation has to become almost like a wildfire. Then there is some hope.
- Consciousness is exactly like a mirror which reflects. And
meditation is allowing your mirror to reflect, simply to reflect the
mind in action, the body in action. It doesn't matter if the body is
a man's or a woman's; it does not matter how the mind functions --
emotionally or logically. Whatever the case, the consciousness has
simply to be alert to it. That alertness, that awareness, is
meditation. So there is no possibility of any difference in
meditation between man and woman.
- Meditation is nothing but by and by dropping the mind and
coming to a point when you have no mind at all.
- The so-called transcendental meditation is nothing but a
psychological tranquilizer. It is nothing -- just a tranquilizer. It
helps, but it is good for sleep, not for meditation. You can sleep
well, a more calm sleep will be there. It is good, but it is not
meditation at all. If you repeat a word constantly it creates a
certain boredom, and boredom is good for sleep.
- The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is
learning; meditation is unlearning: that is — die constantly to your
experience; let it not imprison you; experience becomes a dead
weight in the living and flowing, riverlike consciousness.
- With meditation, whatsoever is attained remains with you. If you
stop the technique you will not proceed further, but whatever you
have attained will remain with you. It cannot be lost; a real growth
can never be lost. It is not something added to you that you can
lose. It is you who has grown.
- Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with.
It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It
is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you
breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you
have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.
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