Osho Meditation Quotes
- To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to
practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of
let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the
fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the
flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and
compassion is its fragrance.
- In meditation you have to leave all judging: what is good, what
is bad -- you have to drop all that division. You simply look. You
look without any judgment, without any condemnation, without any
appreciation. You don't evaluate, you simply look. The look becomes
pure.
- The more you understand how the mind functions, the more the
possibility is that you will be able to sit in zazen; that you will
be able just to sit, sit and do nothing; that you will be able to
allow meditation to happen. It is a happening.
- The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even
for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind.
That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the
right state. It is your state.
- No-mind is what meditation is all about.
- Meditation is a state of clarity, not a state of mind. Mind is
confusion. Mind is never clear. It cannot be. Thoughts create clouds
around you -- they are subtle clouds. A mist is created by them, and
the clarity is lost. When thoughts disappear, when there are no more
clouds around you, when you are in your simple beingness, clarity
happens. Then you can see far away; then you can see to the very end
of existence; then your gaze becomes penetrating -- to the very core
of being.
- Meditation is clarity, absolute clarity, of vision. You cannot
think about it. You have to drop thinking. When I say, 'You have to
drop thinking,' don't conclude in a hurry, because I have to use
language. So I say, 'Drop thinking,' but if you start dropping, you
will miss, because again you will reduce it to a doing. 'Drop
thinking' simply means: don't do anything. Sit. Let thoughts settle
themselves. Let mind drop on its own accord. You just sit gazing at
the wall, in a silent corner, not doing anything at all. Relaxed.
Loose. With no effort. Not going, anywhere. As if you are falling
asleep awake -- you are awake and you are relaxing but the whole
body is falling into sleep. You remain alert inside but the whole
body moves into deep relaxation. Thoughts settle on their own
accord, you need not jump amongst them, you need not try to put them
right.
- Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence,
infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make
you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer.
- Creative persons get more easily into-meditation and go deeper.
Poets, painter, musicians, dancers, can get into meditation more
easily than businessmen -- they live a routine life, absolutely
uncreative.
- Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken
on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has
something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who
are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces,
who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration. These are
the qualities of meditation. A really meditative person is playful:
life is fun for him, life is a LEELA, a play. He enjoys it
tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.
- The ambitious mind cannot meditate because the basic foundation
of meditation is to be non-ambitious. Ambition means the effort to
control others. That is what politics is: the effort to control the
whole world. If you want to control others you will have to listen
to the mind, because the mind enjoys violence very much.
- If you meditate. first concentration will disappear and you will
be feeling a little at a loss. But if you go on, by and by you will
attain to an unfocused state of light -- that's what meditation is.
Once meditation is attained. concentration is child's play --
whenever you need to, you can concentrate. There will be no problem
about it and it will be easy and without any tension.
- Meditation will allow you to concentrate whenever the need
arises, but if there is no need you will remain relaxed, flowing in
all directions like water.
- Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them. So you don't have any ultimate conclusion with you on one hand; and on another hand you are not worried about trivia. You are simply silent. You are simply being yourself, with no decision, with no conclusion, with no center, and not worried about small things. If you can be in a state where no thought interferes with your being, no thought passes by, suddenly you are overwhelmed.
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