Osho Meditation Quotes
- The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is
no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you
and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are
left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your
being is meditation. And meditation is the golden key to all the
mysteries of life.
- In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious -- more
conscious than ever.
- Religion has to become something like your heartbeat. Meditation
has to become something like your breathing. Whatever you are doing,
you are breathing; it is not a separate action. And only then are
you saturated, in every fiber of your being, with meditativeness.
- Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone
to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word
meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the
body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
- A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession
he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some
quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning
the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace,
some beauty, which is not possible without samadhi.
- Mind opens outside; meditation opens inside. Mind is a door that
leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads
you to your interiority -- to the very innermost shrine of your
being.
- Meditation is independent of any other person; only you are to
create the situation. And naturally the conclusion will be to start
with awareness, because you don't know how else to stop thoughts. It
is not in your hands to stop thoughts or to stop time. Only one
thing remains, and that is awareness -- that you can be more aware
or less aware.
- When you are empty, when just a vacuum exists, meeting happens.
Anybody who is capable of being empty will merge. And this is the
only way to become one with existence. You may call it love, you may
call it prayer, you may call it meditation, or whatsoever you like.
- Meditation is not a superficial retirement. It is a deep,
intimate, real retirement, a withdrawal -- a withdrawal from
occupation. It is not that you will not be occupied, you can
continue whatsoever you are doing, but you withdraw yourself and
your investment in occupation.
- Meditation comes only to those who are interested in meditation
as an end in itself. Silence comes: that is another thing. Peace
comes: that is another thing. The divine comes: that is another
thing. These are consequences, byproducts; they cannot be longed for
because that very longing creates tension.
- My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible,
for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can
make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual
disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more
laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
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