What Is
Meditation?
Excerpt 1. Meditation Is a Flowering
"Remember, meditation will
bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radial
intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will
become richer.
"Look at the ascetics:
their life has become almost as if it is not life. These people are not
meditators. They may be masochists, torturing themselves and enjoying the
torture... The mind is very cunning, it goes on doing things and rationalizing
them.
"Ordinarily you are
violent towards others but the mind is very cunning – it can learn
non-violence, it can preach nonviolence, then it becomes violent towards
itself. And the violence that you do on your own self is respected by people
because they have an idea that to be an ascetic is to be religious. That is
sheer nonsense. God is not an ascetic, otherwise there would be no flowers,
there would be no green trees, only deserts. God is not an ascetic, otherwise
there would be no song in life, no dance in life – only cemeteries and
cemeteries. God is not an ascetic: God enjoys life. God is more Epicurean than
you can imagine. If you think about God, think in terms of Epicurus. God is a
constant search for more and more happiness, joy, ecstasy. Remember that.
"But mind is very cunning.
It can rationalize paralysis as meditation; it can rationalize dullness as
transcendence: it can rationalize deadness as renunciation. Watch out. Always
remember that if you are moving in the right direction you will go on
flowering."
Ancient Music in the Pines by Osho -Chapter 7
Ancient Music in the Pines by Osho -Chapter 7
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