... REST AT THE NOON HOUR AND MEDITATE LOVE'S ECSTASY; TO RETURN HOME AT EVENTIDE WITH GRATITUDE; AND THEN TO SLEEP WITH A PRAYER FOR THE BELOVED IN YOUR HEART AND A SONG OF PRAISE UPON YOUR LIPS. Almustafa has the deepest insight into love that anyone has ever shown. These are not the words of a philosopher, these are the experiences of a mystic. Almustafa is just a name. It is Kahlil Gibran who is...

... me that my discourse should be only for two hours? It will never be. But his stupidity knows no limits. Second: only five meditations, one hour each. In the country where meditation was born, in the country where there are one hundred twelve meditations, in the country where all the geniuses for almost ten thousand years have done nothing but meditate... a police commissioner ordering us that we...

.... Why only for us? - if you are making it a law, then it should be for the whole country; for all the temples, for all the mosques, for all GURUDWARAS. This is a temple of God. Nobody can say to us that we cannot meditate for more than one hour. Today he is saying.... I warn the people of Poona: this insane person should be removed immediately, because today he is imposing himself on a small...

..., nonviolent group of people who have done no harm to anybody - "You should meditate only one hour." My discourse should be only for two hours. Soon he will be imposing on you - "Your intercourse should be only for two hours." What about intercourse? What about himself? What is the limit he has imposed upon himself? How long, three minutes? And Third: discourses will be open to police...

... THE NOON HOUR AND MEDITATE LOVE'S ECSTASY; TO RETURN HOME AT EVENTIDE WITH GRATITUDE; If you cannot let go totally, then slowly slowly, step by step, move towards gratitude. AND THEN TO SLEEP WITH A PRAYER FOR THE BELOVED IN YOUR HEART AND A SONG OF PRAISE UPON YOUR LIPS. And don't be bothered by any police commissioners! Okay, Vimal? Yes, Osho. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... experimentally, then your method also becomes conventional. Once science accepts it, then it will cling to it also. So don't be worried about it... and don't feel hopeless about it. Be here for these three months and meditate as deeply as you can, and when you go back, try to find ways .... [Osho went on to say that in fact many people in psychiatric hospitals are not really mad, they just need a channel for...

... suppressed energy, which society will not allow them (see 'Hammer on the Rock' where Osho expands on this).] If you can find some acceptable ways and means for people to cathart easily without any condemnation, without anybody saying that they are mad; if they can meditate .... The word 'meditation' is beautiful because it doesn't condemn you, and it has a sacredness about it... a certain sanctity, a...

... fear will go only if you surrender; there is no other way. If you are afraid of the dark, go into the dark. Sit in the dark and you come to understand, so there is no fear. In fact the darkness is so beautiful, so velvety, so serene and so silent. No light is so tremendously beautiful as darkness. If the fear is there, go into it. If you are afraid of the cemetery, go and sit there and meditate; and...

... existence and its beauty, its truth, its eternity, its deathlessness. What has happened to you, Purna, continue it in other realms, in other directions. In love, drop the object. In meditation, don't meditate upon somebody or something - drop the object. All over the world, whenever you tell people to meditate, they immediately ask, "On what?" because verbally, meditation is action, activity. On...

... what has one to meditate? Meditation begins only when there is nothing to meditate upon, when there is simply consciousness - you are aware - but you are not concentrating on anything. Concentration is a kind of imprisonment. And all our educational programs around the world are teaching people to concentrate. A man like Adolf Hitler creates concentration camps to kill people - his concentration...

... deep breath, exhale, relax. Slowly slowly you will become artful, skillful, in being closer and closer to the present. Then one day the mystery of all mysteries opens up: suddenly you have entered the present. And a single moment of that experience is enough; then you are never the same again. [The new sannyasin teaches at university and asks if he can meditate with his students.] Perfectly good...

... - help them to meditate. Create a small group in the university, start meditating, help them to meditate. It will help immensely. [The sannyasin says he has a pressure in his forehead which is disturbing, especially when he did vipassana.] That will disappear if you have understood my message to you. It is a chronic tension there. I can see it, it is there - hence the name! Much pressure is there, but...

.... Don't argue - let them feel you. Arguments create barriers, arguments make people blind. Don't argue. If they say something against me, don't become irritated. They don't know anything about me. Just let them feel you. Meditate, dance, be loving, and just be there silently in the house, as if you are almost absent. When they feel this new quality - that you are present yet absent, that you are moving...

... there also I will continue to work on you. Continue to meditate; choose at least one meditation and continue.... So we have centres there, remain in contact, mm? And next time when you come you will find the ashram even more difficult, because by that time we must have moved and things will have become really huge. But this feeling will settle. The unease is created deliberately. I can manage the...

... are worthwhile, it connects them with me; if the people are not worthwhile, it disconnects them from me. It has to serve a double function. It is just as a gate is both an entrance and exit, it has a double function: it allows people to enter in, it throws people out too. But if you meditate, slowly slowly you will see the reason for everything that looks so irrational. The rational is there, deep...

... look through it. But even that has to be dropped. So continue to meditate. [A visitor says: I've had some really incredible experiences and I've had a good time. I think I would like to be a sannyasin but I'm still very confused. I'm a practising attorney in California and I live in an ego world.] You can live in it: I allow everything. My sannyas is not a renunciation. It simply teaches you how to...

..., moving rightly. Mm ? nothing to be worried about! [Osho explains the meaning of archan.] It means prayer. Prayer has to be evolved in your being, mm? And prayer has a different, a little different quality than meditation. It is meditation plus - plus love. Meditation has no love in it. The other is not involved in it. You can meditate all alone. In fact, you can meditate only when you are all alone. It...

... more male. Prayer is more female. It is just unnatural to a woman's being to think that something without love can be fulfilling. Love has to be there as an essential part of anything that can be fulfilling. Even meditation has to have some love in it. Meditation plus love is prayer - that is the meaning of archan. So start growing prayer. Meditate - that is one part of it - but start having a...

... need to work, there was no need to be concerned with all kinds of unnecessary problems. They were enjoying meditations. If they wanted, they were doing therapy groups. If they simply wanted to be there to listen to me, they were there. Those three months or six months, or whatsoever they could manage, were sheer joy. In America the whole fabric changed. People had no time even to meditate. Out of...

... of cases against the government, against the neighbors. Their whole energy... as if they had forgotten for what they had come. There was no time to meditate, no time to dance, no time to sing your songs or play on your flute. They were just hoping that soon, when the commune was complete, they would be able... But I knew that this was impossible. First, the commune would never be complete in the...

... out. So now we are in a better position because all the communes in Europe are going to break down for the same reasons. Economically they will be in difficulties; legally they will be in difficulties. Soon, when there are difficulties, people start being annoyed, irritated, angry; they start fighting with each other... It is good there are small centers where people come to meditate, to read. At...

... used for my work. It becomes something integrated, that people come there to meditate - it is not something impersonal. The commune becomes impersonal. And the commune is continuously looking for people who can put in more money. That is nothing to condemn the commune for, because the commune's problem is that it is going downhill all the time. People are there, their necessities are there, and...

... finished. I had sent her to India to look for a location in the Himalayas, because I had told her one year before that if this continuous government fight is going to be there... four hundred sannyasins are involved in legal services - what nonsense! These people had come to meditate here; they had not come to be attorneys and advocates and in paralegal service and this and that. That they could have...

... who are against looking out. In Jainism there are two sects: one sect believes that Mahavira, their great master, used to meditate with closed eyes; and there is another sect which believes that he used to meditate with open eyes. This is the only difference between them. And on this point they have been fighting and arguing for twenty-five centuries. I was passing by a small place, Dewas, and I saw...

.... Until the court decides, the lock cannot be opened. But, fearful that the other sect may break the lock, the first sect also brought another bigger lock. The second sect brought an even bigger lock. So three locks are on it, and the court has not been able to decide yet. Because how to decide whether Mahavira used to meditate with open eyes or closed eyes? I said to my chauffeur, "If you know the...

... like the wiper on the windshield on your car. Keep your wiper moving. Your eyes close and open. They go on keeping themselves fresh, removing all dust. So, Vimal, both are good. Sometimes meditate with open eyes. Sometimes meditate with closed eyes. But never forget blinking. Okay, Vimal? Yes, Osho. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... good-heartedness can become a disease if it is too much. She comes to me again and again, and she writes notes and letters that she cannot tolerate poverty. When she goes to her hotel she meets beggars on the road and she cries and weeps, she feels guilty and she suffers much. She cannot meditate - even in meditation, those beggars' faces come. She thinks that it is selfishness to meditate while...

... there is so much poverty. A very good-hearted woman, but not mature. Simple, good - but childish. I told her, "You do either of two things. Go and first remove the poverty from the world and then come - if time is left and I am here. First remove the poverty and then come and meditate so you don't feel guilty. Or, if you think that is impossible, then drop the idea. Meditate, and out of your...

... learn great things and that is to teach them. That's why I go on saying to you that if you have shared my being in any way, go and spread, go and teach, go and help other people to meditate, and you will suddenly be surprised one day: the greatest meditation will happen to you when you are helping somebody to go into meditation. While meditating, things will happen. While you yourself are meditating...

... THE KINGDOM OF GOD. No man who looks back is fit for the kingdom of God - why? Because no man who looks in the past can be capable of being in the present. A Zen seeker came to Rinzai, the great Master. He wanted to meditate and he wanted to become enlightened, but Rinzai said, "Wait, a few other things first. First things first. From where are you coming?" The man said, "I always...

.... They say, "We are atheists. We don't believe in God. Are you still ready to accept us as sannyasins? Can we still meditate?" And I say to them: YOU are the persons who can meditate! The person who believes in the old God cannot meditate: he depends too much on God, he is never a grown-up person. Meditation needs a certain growth. You can meditate; God is not needed. God is not a...

... prerequisite for meditation, but when you meditate, slowly slowly you become aware of God. God is the ultimate revelation, not the prerequisite. God is not a condition to become a sannyasin, God is the ultimate realization of sannyas. But then you will not be angry with Nietzsche, remember, because you will know that what he was saying is also true. He was talking about the concept of God. Moses's concept of...

... circle it is a circle! You cannot call it a perfect circle, because if it is not perfect it is not a circle, it must be something else. Watch, meditate on these words. "BUT STILL," you say, "I DOUBT. SOMEWHERE DOUBT GOES ON LINGERING." You doubt your wife? Are you certain about your faithfulness towards her? Maybe that's why the doubt arises. You may be fooling around, if not...