Osho Meditation Quotes
- Samadhi is death, dhyan is death, meditation is death. Many
times there will be moments when you will suddenly feel you are
dying. Don't escape, allow it to happen. If you allow it to happen,
death has gone, death is there no more, and the inner flame,
beginningless, endless, has come into being. It has always been
there, now you can feel it.
- A religious mind is a nonphilosophical mind. A religious mind is
an innocent, intelligent mind. The mirror is clear, the dust has not
been gathered; and every day a continuous cleaning goes on. That's
what I call meditation.
- If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that
you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not
a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the
kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more
silent, more alert.
- Remember, meditation can never be result-oriented; you simply
meditate, that's all. Everything happens but it will not be a
result. If you are seeking the result nothing will happen;
meditation will be useless.
- When you seek a result, it is the mind; when you don't seek a
result, it is meditation.
- This is part of meditation in a Zen monastery -- whatsoever you
do, do it with awareness. When you walk, walk fully alert; when you
move your head, be fully alert. Whatsoever you do, follow it with
alertness; don't miss it, don't think of anything else. Be there in
it as a light and everything is revealed. Every act, every nook and
corner of it is lighted; nothing is in darkness. When you eat, eat
with awareness. This is all one has to do in a Zen monastery --
twenty-four hours of alertness.
- Meditation is not contemplation, it is action -- action of the
whole, of the total being. In the West particularly. Christianity
has created a false impression, and meditation looks like
contemplation. It is not. Because of Christianity the West has
missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest
flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to
contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
- Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates
the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the
criterion -- that whenever silence happens laughter will come into
your life. A vital celebration will happen all around. You will not
become sad, you will not become depressed, you will not escape from
the world. You will be here in this world, but taking the whole
thing as a game, enjoying the whole thing as a beautiful game, a big
drama, no longer serious about it.
Seriousness is a disease.
- Meditation cannot be a fragmented thing, it should be a
continuous effort. Every moment one has to be alert, aware and
meditative.
- Remember, meditation is not something that is done by the mind,
it is the absence of the mind. When the mind stops meditation
happens. It is not something out of the mind, it is something beyond
the mind. And whenever you are alert, the mind is not.
- Meditation cannot be purchased and no one can give it to you. You have to achieve it. It is not something outer, it is something inner, a growth, and that growth comes through awareness.
Osho Meditation Quotes - Quotes2, Quotes3, Quotes4, Quotes5, Quotes6, Quotes7, Quotes8, Quotes10, Quotes11, Quotes12, Quotes13, Quotes14, Quotes15