Osho Quotes On Deep Meditation
- Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives in darkness. Meditation enkindles something that is latent in all of us, but needs to be provoked. We are looking outwards. Our backs are at our inner source; hence it is being neglected, ignored. and to ignore one's inner being is the only ignorance. To know it is the only knowledge. All other knowledge is worthless. It may help you in the world but it can't help you in eternity.
In that crystal clarity one knows what truth is, what bliss is, what beauty is. And to know it is to have attained the ultimate flowering, to know it is to have come to the highest peak. Then one feels at home, at rest. Now finally there is nowhere to go, nothing to attain. One has arrived. We in the East call it samadhi. Samadhi means a state of ultimate realization, of truth, beauty, bliss, consciousness, freedom -- of all the higher values.
- You can repeat a certain mantra continuously -- it will hypnotize you, it is auto-hypnosis. You will fall into a peaceful sleep,
that's true, and if you are searching fora peaceful sleep a mantra can be
used. I am not against it. It is a good non-medicinal tranquilliser but it
is not meditation and not at all transcendental meditation, because
transcendence simply means transcending the mind, and that can be done
only by one thing and that is witnessing the mind; not by doing anything,
not by repeating a mantra, chanting or anything. Any doing will be part of
the mind.
- There is only one secret which is not part of the mind,
and that is witnessing, watching.
- Thoughts are passing, desires are moving, memories are
coming and going like clouds in the sky and you are sitting silently
simply watching, not doing anything. If you do anything immediately the
mind starts functioning. What you do does not matter -- doing is part of
mind. A non-doing witnessing, just witnessing, as if a mirror goes on
witnessing whatsoever passes by -- that is awareness. And that awareness
takes you beyond the mind. It is true meditation.
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- Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean
silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you
can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something
separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a
little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should
walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently,
fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavor, then the bridge
is created.
- And through meditation comes wisdom -- not through
studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become
knowledgeable but no wise. and knowledgeable people are sad, they are
bound to be sad because all their knowledge is borrowed. There can be no
song in it.
- Meditation means undoing what the society has done to
you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself,
you have to become a man again. You have to come out of this state of
unconsciousness, of mechanicalness. You have to come out of this sleep. It
is possible only through meditation. There is no other way, there has
never been, there will never be. The only way to reduce a man to a machine
is take away his consciousness force him to function unconsciously. And
just the opposite is the way of meditation: give him back his
consciousness.
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