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If life goes naturally, beautifully, if
there are no life-negative teachers, if there are no
politicians and priests to distract you - then nearabout the
age of forty-two, exactly as sexual maturity comes, comes
meditation maturity. Nearabout the age of forty-two, one
starts feeling to fall inwards. Near the age of fourteen,
one starts falling towards the other, becomes extrovert.
Love is extroversion; relationship is to think of the other.
Meditation is introversion; meditation is to think of one's
own self, of one's own center.
Between the age of fourteen and the age of forty-two there
comes a change. By and by one lives life, knows what love
is, knows its fulfillment and its frustration, knows its
joys and its sadness, knows its beauty and its ugliness,
knows that there are moments of great ecstasy and then great
valleys of darkness. Then one starts by and by moving
towards his own self, because to depend on the other can
never be really ecstatic. If your joy depends on the other,
that joy can never have the quality of freedom in it. And a
joy which does not have the quality of freedom is not much
joy. If your are dependent on the other, then there is a
limitation. The joy that comes through love is momentary.
You can meet with the other only for moments, and then again
you are separate and you fall apart. Just in the middle of
it you fall apart. Just for a moment you become joined
together. Then one starts thinking. "Is there a way to
become one with existence and never to fall apart
again?"
That's what meditation is. Love is joining with existence
through another person for only moments. Meditation is
getting joined together with existence eternally.
"Yoga" means to join together. This has to happen
somewhere in the deepest core. And then there is joy and
then there is freedom. And then there is bliss and there is
no dark valley following it. Then happiness is eternal, then
celebration is eternal.
Osho: What is
Meditation?
Published by Element Books,U.K
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