Osho Meditation Quotes
- The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality
easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just to be and not
be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner
ecstasy.
- Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and
intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
- In Japan, in China, they started to use many things, skills, as
an object, as a help, as a support to meditation. Archery is one of
them -- and archery is beautiful, because it is a very subtle skill,
and you need much alertness to be skillful in it.
- That's what meditation is all about -- to be in a space where
language does not interfere, where learned concepts don't come in
between you and the real.
- Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.
- Just twenty minutes repeating any nonsense word and you get so
many benefits? It appeals to the mediocre mind immediately. This
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's meditation is neither meditation nor
transcendental; it is simply an effort to exploit the gullible, to
exploit the people who are searching and seeking for everything,
searching for a panacea, searching for a remedy.
- When a person represses nothing, dreams disappear. So a Buddha
never dreams. If your meditation goes deep you will immediately find
that your dreams are becoming less and less and less. The day your
dreams completely disappear and you attain to clarity in your sleep
-- no clouds, no smoke, no thoughts; simple, silent sleep, without
any interference of dreams -- that day you have become a Buddha,
your meditation has come to fruition.
- Meditation is not a state of concentration; it is not a state of
mind at all. It is a state of total mindlessness -- and not a state
of sleep either. No mind, no sleep; no mind, but total awareness.
Out of that awareness you bring a different quality to music, to
painting, to poetry. And out of that meditativeness you can bring a
totally different quality to science too. But before that can happen
we will need large numbers of meditative people around the earth.
- If you feel joy you have already become identified; witnessing
is gone. If you feel sad you are no more a witness; you have
forgotten witnessing, you have become involved. You are colored by
your psychology of the moment. Joy, sadness, all these qualities,
are part of your psychology. And witnessing is a transcendence; it
is not psychological. The whole art of meditation consists in
witnessing.
- To feel that life is utterly meaningless is to be on a
crossroads: either you choose suicide or you choose sannyas; either
you choose madness or you choose meditation. It is a great
turning-point!
- Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light
unto yourself.
- Knowledge can be given to you, not intelligence. Intelligence is your own sharpened being. Through deep meditation one sharpens one's being; through meditation one drops borrowed thoughts, reclaims one's own being, reclaims one's originality, redaims one's childhood, innocence, freshness. Out of that freshness, when you act, you act out of understanding. And then the response is total, here-now; and the response is because of the challenge, not because of the past.
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