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 "Remember, meditation will bring you more and
more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radial
intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and
sensitive; your life will become richer.
"Look at the
ascetics: their life has become almost as if it is not life.
These people are not meditators. They may be masochists,
torturing themselves and enjoying the torture... The mind is
very cunning, it goes on doing things and rationalizing
them.
"Ordinarily you are violent towards others but the mind is
very cunning – it can learn non-violence, it can preach
nonviolence, then it becomes violent towards itself. And the
violence that you do on your own self is respected by people
because they have an idea that to be an ascetic is to be
religious. That is sheer nonsense. God is not an ascetic,
otherwise there would be no flowers, there would be no green
trees, only deserts. God is not an ascetic, otherwise there
would be no song in life, no dance in life – only cemeteries
and cemeteries. God is not an ascetic: God enjoys life. God
is more Epicurean than you can imagine. If you think about
God, think in terms of Epicurus. God is a constant search
for more and more happiness, joy, ecstasy. Remember that.
"But mind is very cunning. It can rationalize paralysis as
meditation; it can rationalize dullness as transcendence: it
can rationalize deadness as renunciation. Watch out. Always
remember that if you are moving in the right direction you
will go on flowering."
Osho, Ancient Music in the Pines, Talk #7
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