What Is
Meditation?
Excerpt 16. Meditation Is Growing Up
Growing old is not of any
worth, every animal does it, it needs no intelligence. Growing up is a totally
different experience. Growing old is horizontal; growing up is vertical, it
leads you to heights, it leads you to depths.
And strangely enough, you will
be surprised to know that time is horizontal. One moment passes, another moment
comes, another moment... in a line, a horizontal line. Time is horizontal and
mind is also horizontal. One thought is followed by another thought, and by
another thought, but in a line, in a row, a procession, or just a traffic – but
it is going horizontal.
Meditation is vertical, it is
going beyond mind and beyond time. And perhaps, ultimately you will find that
time and mind are equivalent, two names of the same phenomenon – the horizontal
procession of thoughts, of moments. Meditation is to stop time and mind both,
and suddenly you start rising up in eternity. Eternity is not part of time, and
eternity is not a thought; it is an experience.
Excerpted from 'I
Celebrate Myself: God Is No Where, Life Is Now Here' by Osho
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