What Is
Meditation?
Excerpt 6. Meditation
Is an Experiment
You don't believe in God? That
is not a hindrance to meditation. You don't believe in soul? That is not a
hindrance in meditation. You don't believe at all? That is not an obstacle. You
can meditate, because meditation simply says how to go withinwards: whether
there is a soul or not doesn't matter; whether there is a God or not doesn't
matter.
One thing is certain, that you
are. Who are you? To enter into it is meditation: to go deeper into your own
being. Maybe it is just momentary; maybe you are not eternal: maybe death
finishes everything. We don't make any condition that you have to believe. We
say only that you have to experiment. Just try. One day it happens: thoughts
are not there. And suddenly when thoughts disappear, the body and you are
separate - because thoughts are the bridge. Through thoughts you are joined
with the body; it is the link. Suddenly the link disappears - you are there,
the body is there, and there is an infinite abyss between the two. Then you
know that the body will die, but you cannot die.
Then it is not something like a
dogma; it is not a creed, it is an experience - self-evident. On that day,
death disappears; on that day, doubt disappears, because now you are not always
having to defend yourself. Nobody can destroy you, you are indestructible. Then
trust arises, overflows. And to be in trust is to be in ecstasy; to be in trust
is to be in God; to be in trust is to be fulfilled.
So I don't say cultivate trust,
I say experiment with meditation.
Excerpted from 'Come,
Follow to You' by Osho
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