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"It is the simplest art in the world, to be
silent. It is not a doing, it is a non-doing. How can it be
difficult?
"I am showing you the way of enlightenment through laziness!
Nothing has to be done to attain it, because it is your
nature. You have already got it. You are just so busy with
outer business that you cannot see your own nature.
"Deep within you is exactly the same as outside you: the
beauty, the silence, the ecstasy, the blissfulness. But
please, sometimes to be kind to yourself: just sit down and
don't do anything, either physically or mentally.
Relax, not in an American way.... because I have seen so
many American books titled How to Relax. The
very title says that the man knows nothing about relaxation.
There is no "how".
"Yes , it is okay – "How to repair a Car"; you will have to do
something. But there is no doing as such, as far as
relaxation is concerned. Just don't do anything. I know you
will find it a little difficult in the beginning. That is
not because relaxation is difficult, it is because you have
become addicted to doing something. The addiction will take
a little time to disappear.
"Just be, and watch . Being is not doing, and watching is
also not doing. You sit silently doing nothing, witnessing
whatsoever is happening. Thoughts will be moving in your
mind; your body may be feeling some tension somewhere, you
may have a migraine. Just be a witness. Don't be identified
with it. Watch, be a watcher on the hills, and everything
else is happening in the valley. It is a knack, not an art.
"Meditation is not a science, it is not an art, it is a knack
- just that way. All that you need is a little patience.
"The old habits will continue; the thoughts will go on
rushing. And your mind is always in a rush hour, the traffic
is always jammed. Your body is not accustomed to sitting
silently – you will be tossing and turning. Nothing to be
worried about. Just watch that the body is tossing and
turning, and that the mind is whirling, is full of thoughts
- consistent, inconsistent, useless - fantasies, dreams. You
remain in the center, just watching.
"All the religions of the world have taught people to do
something; stop the process of thought, force the body into
a still posture. That's what yoga is - a long practice of
forcing the body to be still. But a forced body is not
still. And all the prayers, concentrations, contemplations
of all the religions do the same with the mind: they force
it, they don't allow the thoughts to move. Yes, you have the
capacity to do it. And if you persist you may be able to
stop the thought process. But this is not the real thing, it
is absolutely fake.
"When stillness comes on its own, when silence descends
without your effort, when you watch thoughts and a moment
comes when thoughts start disappearing and silence starts
happening that is beautiful. The thoughts stop of their own
accord if you don't identify, if you remain a witness and
you don't say, "This is my thought."
"You don't say, 'This is bad, this is good.'
'This should be there...' and 'This should not
be there...' Then you are not a watcher; you have
prejudices, you have certain attitudes. A watcher has no
prejudice, he has no judgment. He simply sees like a mirror.
"When you bring something in front of a mirror it reflects,
simply reflects. There is no judgment that the man is ugly,
that the man is beautiful, that, "Aha! What a good nose
you have got." The mirror has nothing to say. Its
nature is to mirror; it mirrors. This is what I call
meditation: you simply mirror everything within or without.
"And I guarantee you... I can guarantee because it has
happened to me and to many of my people; just watching
patiently - maybe a few days will pass, maybe a few months,
maybe a few years. There is no way of saying because each
individual has a different collection.
"You must have seen people collecting antiques, postal
stamps. Everybody has a different collection: the quantity
may be different, hence the time it takes will be different
- but go on remaining witness as much as you can. And this
meditation needs no special time. You can wash the floor and
remain silently watching yourself washing the floor.
"I can move my hand unconsciously, without watching, or I can
move it with full awareness. And there is qualitative
difference. When you move it unconsciously it is mechanical.
When you move it with consciousness there is grace. Even in
the hand, which is part of your body, you will feel silence,
coolness – what to say about the mind?
"With your watching
and watching, slowly the rush of thoughts starts getting
less and less. Moments of silence start appearing; a thought
comes, and then there is silence before another appears.
These gaps will give you the first glimpse of meditation and
the first joy that you are arriving home."
Osho, From the False to the Truth , Talk #3
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