| |
"Meditation starts by being separate from the
mind, by being a witness. That is the only way of separating
yourself from anything. If you are looking at the light,
naturally one thing is certain: you are not the light, you
are the one who is looking at it. If you are watching the
flowers, one thing is certain: you are not the flower, you
are the watcher.
"Watching is the key of meditation:
"Watch your mind.
"Don't do anything – no repetition of mantra, no repetition
of the name of god – just watch whatever the mind is doing.
Don't disturb it, don't prevent it, don't repress it; don't
do anything at all on your part. You just be a watcher, and
the miracle of watching is meditation. As you watch, slowly
mind becomes empty of thoughts; but you are not falling
asleep, you are becoming more alert, more aware.
"As the mind becomes completely empty, your whole energy
becomes aflame of awakening. This flame is the result of
meditation. So you can say meditation is another name of
watching, witnessing, observing – without any judgment,
without any evaluation. Just by watching, you immediately
get out of the mind."
"Whatever Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and other people like him are
doing is good, but they are calling something meditation
which is not. That's where they are leading people astray.
If they had remained sincere and authentic and told people
that this will give you mental health, physical health, a
more relaxed life, a more peaceful existence, it would have
been right. But once they started calling it 'transcendental
meditation' they have raised a very trivial thing to an
ultimate significance which it cannot fulfill. People have
been in transcendental meditation for years, and in the
East, for thousands of years. But that has not become their
self-knowing, and that has not made them Gautam Buddhas.
"If you want to understand exactly what meditation is, Gautam
Buddha is the first man to come to its right, exact
definition – that is witnessing."
Excerpted from Osho, The Invitation, Talk #21
To continue reading – and see all the available formats of this talk: click here
|
|