Osho Meditation Quotes
- MY suggestion to MY people is: don't carry any idea of God, for
or against. Don't carry any image of God. In fact, God is absolutely
irrelevant -- be meditative! And meditation means: drop all
thoughts, drop all ideologies, drop all knowledge. Drop the mind
itself.
- Meditation is not an effort against the mind. It is a way of
understanding the mind. It is a very loving way of witnessing the
mind -- but, of course, one has to be very patient.
- All knowing becomes knowledge. The moment it becomes knowledge,
drop it. It is just like dust gathers on the mirror; every day you
have to clean it. On the mirror of your mind dust gathers, dust of
experience: it becomes knowledge. Clean it. That's why every day
meditation is needed. Meditation is nothing but cleaning the mirror
of your mind. Clean it continuously! If you can clean it every
moment of your life, then there is no need to sit separately for
meditation.
- Remember, be alert that knowledge has not to be gathered, that
you have to remain like a child -- full of wonder, full of awe.
Every nook and corner is mysterious, and you don't know what it is.
You cannot figure it out, what this life is. Enchanted you run in
this direction and that direction.
- Meditation is needed only because you have not chosen to be
happy. If you have chosen to be happy there is no need for any
meditation. Meditation is medicinal: if you are ill then the
medicine is needed. Buddhas don't need meditation. Once you have
started choosing happiness, once you have decided that you have to
be happy, then no meditation is needed. Then meditation starts
happening of its own accord.
- Meditation follows a happy man like a shadow: wherever he goes,
whatsoever he is doing, he is meditative.
- Meditation brings happiness. In fact, wherever they found a
happy person they always found a meditative mind -- both things got
associated. Whenever they found the beautiful meditative milieu
surrounding a man, they always found he was tremendously happy --
vibrant with bliss, radiant. They became associated. They thought:
Happiness comes when you are meditative. It was just the other way
round: meditation comes when you are happy.
But to be happy is difficult and to learn meditation is easy. To be happy means a drastic change in your way of life, an abrupt change -- because there is no time to lose. A sudden change -- a sudden clash of thunder -- a discontinuity.
- MEDITATION comes naturally to a happy person. Meditation comes
automatically to a joyous person. Meditation is very simple to a
person who can celebrate, who can delight in life.
- Meditation makes you a master and the mind becomes a slave. And
remember: the mind as a master is dangerous because, after all, it
is a machine; but the mind as a slave is tremendously significant,
useful. A machine should function as a machine, not as a master. Our
priorities are all upside-down -- your CONSCIOUSNESS should be the
master.
- Anything can become a meditation -- cooking or washing your
clothes, any activity can be transformed into meditation. And the
real sannyasin, the real seeker, will transform all his acts into
meditation. Only then, when meditation spreads over all your life,
not only when you are awake in the day -- slowly slowly it starts
penetrating and permeating your being in sleep too -- when it
becomes just part of you, like breathing, like your heartbeat, then,
only, have you attained to the discipline, to the essential
discipline of Zen.
- MEDITATION is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.
- Without meditation, energy remains passion; with meditation, the same energy becomes compassion. Passion and compassion are not two energies, they are one and the same energy. Once it passes through meditation, it is transformed, transfigured; it becomes qualitatively different. Passion moves downwards, compassion moves upwards; passion moves through desire, compassion moves through desirelessness; passion is an occupation to forget the miseries in which you live, compassion is a celebration, it is a dance of attainment, of fulfillment...you are so fulfilled that you can share.
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