Osho Quotes on meditation
- To people who have not meditated may go on believing
that they are free but they are deceiving nobody else except themselves.
Be more meditative and you will know how to live in freedom. And of
course, life is life only when you are able to live in freedom.
- Man can live in freedom only if he is meditative,
otherwise not. Meditation is the source of all freedom. Without meditation
you are a slave, a slave of your own instinct, a slave of your unconscious
desires. You may think and believe that you are free, but you are not.
Somebody insults you and you become angry.
- Wake up from your dreams and make every possible effort
to get deeper into meditation, into awareness, into witnessing. Become
more and more conscious and you will become a king. Everybody has the potential
to become a king. If we miss, we miss only because of our lethargy. We
never make any effort, we never try to go inwards.
- Or if once in a while we try, within minutes we are
tired and again we start running and rushing into the outside world. A persistent
effort is needed and perseverance is needed and patience is needed.
Victory is bound to happen, but it happens only when you are really ready.
That readiness comes through intense effort. Make every effort to be
meditative -- that is the key, the master key to the doors of the kingdom
of god.
- Meditation does not mean concentration, it does not
mean contemplation: it means getting beyond the mind. Concentration,
contemplation, are both of the mind. Meditation means getting unidentified
with the mind, seeing the mind as separate, knowing the mind as separate,
witnessing the mind but not getting identified with it. Slowly slowly as
witnessing grows, the distance grows between you and the mind. Soon the
mind is a faraway echo, and finally you cannot even hear the echo; then
you are left utterly alone.
- This insight is the beginning of real life. How to
start this insight? That's what meditation is all about. Start witnessing.
Walking on the street, become a witness. Watch the body walking... and
you, from the innermost core, are just watching, witnessing, observing.
Suddenly you will have a sense of freedom. Suddenly you will see that the
body is walking, you are not walking. Sometimes the body is healthy,
sometimes the body is ill. Watch, just watch, and suddenly you will have a
sense of a totally different quality of being.
- You are not the body. The body is ill, of course, but
you are not ill. The body is healthy, but it has nothing to do with you.
You are a witness, a watcher on the hills... far beyond. Of course,
tethered to the body, but not identified with the body; rooted in the
body, but always beyond and transcending. The first meditation is to
separate yourself from the body. And by and by, when you become more acute
in your observation of the body, start observing the thoughts that
continuously go on within your mind.
- But first watch the body, because it is gross, can be
observed more easily, will not need much awareness. Once you become
attuned, then start watching the mind. Whatsoever can be watched becomes
separate from you. Whatsoever you can witness, you are not it. You are the
witnessing consciousness. The witnessed is the object; you are the
subjectivity.
- The body, and the mind also, remain far away when you
become a witness. Suddenly you are there -- with no body and no mind... a
pure consciousness, just simple sheer purity, an innocence, a mirror. In
this innocence, for the first time you know who you are. In this purity,
for the first time existence becomes life. For the first time you are.
Before it, you were simply asleep, dreaming; now you are.
- Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always
herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past
experiences, your education, your religion, your parents -- which may be
dead, but their judgments are being carried by your mind and they will be
given as a heritage to your children. Generation after generation, every
disease is being transferred as a heritage. Only a non-judgmental mind has
intelligence, because it is spontaneously responding to reality.
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