What Is
Meditation?
Excerpt 10. Meditation Is Cool
If you go to Catholic, Jaina,
Buddhist monks, you will find them very nervous – maybe not so nervous in their
monasteries, but if you bring them out to the world, you will find them very,
very nervous because on each step there is temptation.
A man of meditation comes to a
point where there is no temptation left. Try to understand it. Temptation never
comes from without: it is the repressed desire, repressed energy, repressed
sex, repressed greed, that creates temptation. Temptation comes from within
you, it has nothing to do with the without. It is not that a devil comes and
tempts you, it is your own repressed mind that becomes devilish and wants to
take revenge. To control that mind one has to remain so cold and frozen that no
life energy is allowed to move into your limbs, into your body. If energy is
allowed to move, those repressions will surface. That's why people have learned
how to be cold, how to touch others and yet not touch them, how to see people
and yet not see them.
People live with cliches –
"Hello, how are you?" Nobody means anything. These are just to avoid
the real encounter of two persons. People don't look into each other's eyes,
they don't hold hands, they don't try to feel each other's energy, they don't
allow each other to pour. Very afraid, somehow just managing... cold and dead.
In a strait-jacket.
A man of meditation has learned
how to be full of energy, at the maximum, optimum. He lives at the peak, he
makes his abode at the peak. Certainly he has a warmth but it is not feverish,
it only shows life. He is not hot, he is cool, because he is not carried away
by desires. He is so happy, that he is no longer seeking any happiness. He is
so at ease, he is so at home, he is not going anywhere, he is not running and
chasing... he is very cool.
Excerpted from 'Dang
Dang Doko Dang' by Osho
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