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"Meditation is not anything of the mind, it
is something beyond the mind. And the first step is to be
playful about it. If you are playful about it mind cannot
destroy your meditation. Otherwise it will turn it into
another ego trip; it will make you very serious. You will
start thinking, 'I am a great meditator. I am holier than
other people, and the whole world is just worldly – I am
religious, I am virtuous.'
"That's what has happened to thousands of so-called saints,
moralists, puritans: they are just playing ego games, subtle
ego games.
"Hence I want to cut the very root of it from the very
beginning. Be playful about it. It is a song to be sung, a
dance to be danced. Take it as fun and you will be
surprised: if you can be playful about meditation,
meditation will grow in leaps and bounds. But you are not
hankering for any goal; you are just enjoying sitting
silently, just enjoying the very act of sitting silently,
just enjoying the very act of sitting silently - not that
you are longing for some yogic powers, siddhis, miracles.
All that is nonsense, the same old nonsense, the same old
game, played with new words, on a new plane....
"Life as such has to be taken as cosmic joke – and then
suddenly you relax because there is nothing to be tense
about. And in that very relaxation something starts changing
in you – a radical change, a transformation – and the small
things of life starts having new meaning, new significance.
Then nothing is small, everything starts taking on a new
flavor, a new aura; one starts feeling a kind of godliness
everywhere. One does not become a Christian, does not become
a Hindu, does not become a Mohammedan; one simply becomes a
lover of life. One learns only one thing, how to rejoice in
life.
"But rejoicing in life is the way towards god. Dance your way
to god, laugh your way to god, sing your way to god!"
Osho, The Golden Wind
(This title is no longer available at Osho's request)
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