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"The man who lives in the future, lives a
counterfeit life. He does not really live, he only pretends
to live. He hopes to live, he desires to live, but he never
lives. And the tomorrow never comes, it is always today. And
whatsoever comes is always now and here, and he does not
know how to live here-now. The way to escape is called
"desire.", tanha – that is Buddha's word for what is an escape from the
present, from the real into the unreal.
"The man who desires is an escapist. Now, this is very strange that meditators are thought to be
escapists. That is utter nonsense. Only the meditator is not
an escapist – everybody else is. Meditation means relaxing
in the moment, in the present. Meditation is the only thing
in the world which is not escapist, although it is thought to be the most escapist thing. People who condemn
meditation always condemn it with the argument that it is
escape, escaping from life. They are simply talking
nonsense; they don't understand what they are saying.
"Meditation is not escaping from life: it is escaping into life. Mind is escaping from life, desire is escaping from
life."
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 1, Talk #7
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