... to be made more and more subtle. For example, you can meditate on a rock, or you can meditate on a flower, or you can meditate on the fragrance of the flower, or you can meditate on the meditator. And then things go subtle and subtle and subtle and subtle. For example, you can meditate on the sound aum. The first meditation is to say it loudly so it resounds all around you. It becomes a temple of...

..., nobody was purchasing it. So the question was rising all around, that "If these people can change the desert, can live happily, can live comfortably, can work hard... still can meditate.... We started the day with the meditations, then the work; then five thousand people eating in one restaurant, one kitchen, one family.... You cannot figure out who is rich, who is poor because everybody is having...

... with meditation can give you a new birth, can make you a new man. Q: TO HAVE SEX WHILE MEDITATING? A: Yes. Rather say otherwise, meditating while making - while making love. Because just a small change makes much difference. In a monastery two monks were talking - because they were given time, for one hour or two hour every day evening to meditate and to walk. They were thinking whether smoking will...

... said, "I also asked, but I asked him, 'Can I meditate while smoking?' He said, 'That's a great idea. Why waste time? While you are smoking, if you can meditate too that's a great idea. Do it!'" So I will not say that while you are meditating make sex, no. I will say while you are making love, meditate. And it is one of the most peaceful, silent, harmonious state - where meditation is the...

... spite of it. The second question: Question 2: BELOVED MASTER, WHY DO YOU SAY THAT IT IS RIGHT TO MEDITATE BUT WRONG TO PRAY? IN MY OPINION, MEDITATION GIVES DEEP INNER CALM TO A PERSON FOR HIS OWN SAKE, BUT TO PRAY DEEPLY AND CALMLY GIVES YOU THE DIRECT AND INTENSE CONNECTION TO GOD, AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT COMES DOWN TO YOU. Rosemary, I have not said what you have heard. You must be hearing through a...

... thick layer of Christianity, a thick layer of rubbish. In the first place, you say, "Why do you say that it is right to meditate but wrong to pray?" ... Because meditation is the only prayer there is, and prayer is possible only in meditation; any other prayer is going to be false, pseudo. If you have not been in deep meditation, how are you going to know that there is God? Then the idea of...

... returned to his seat he was full of praise for the airline. "You have to hand it to these Jewish stewardesses," he said to his fellow priest. "They think of everything!" Beware of coincidences! You say, Rosemary, "Why do you say that it is right to meditate but wrong to pray?" To pray is not right; to be in prayer is right. To pray means you will be saying something to God...

... hurts then meditate over it. There must be something of truth in it, something true. If anything hurts, respect it, go deep into it. Find out why it hurts, and you will be rewarded. You will grow through that. Lies are sweet; they don't hurt. So beware of sweet lies. When something does not hurt you it cannot become an impetus for growth; it is useless, not to be bothered about at all. But pay your...

... direction. Patipada, anything that hurts, meditate over it and you will be immensely enriched. The fifth question: Question 5: BELOVED MASTER, WHY DO YOU HAVE SO MANY ENEMIES? Gayan, remember two fundamental laws. One is: No good deed goes unpunished. And second: Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. The sixth question: Question 6: BELOVED MASTER, I VERY MUCH DOUBT MY WIFE. WHAT SHOULD I DO...

... tired and you meditate and feel good. Sometimes you join in a few groups, and many things are released and relaxed. And once out of it, you again start throwing dust on yourself. [A visitor who had been involved in Arica and had studied Hatha Yoga, said that he felt he was stuck. Osho checked his energy.] Something has to be done with your love energy. Love and meditation are just like two wings, and...

... he just wants to meditate. That too is not going to fulfill you. It may give you a silence, a stillness, but that stillness will be something dead. It will not throb with life... because without love, nothing throbs. Love is the very beat, the pulse; everything pulsates with it. So my whole effort here is how to give you both. Otherwise both are lopsided and create a sort of imbalance. You have to...

... ponder over the sound of one hand clapping," or "Go and meditate on the original face that you had before your parents were born." Now what kind of face did you have before your parents Were born? Not even you, but your parents... even they were not in existenCe. Then, what face did you have? That is your original face. Go and ponder over it. Absurd... you cannot figure it out. The whole...

... you went away with great gratitude towards the Master." NO MATTER WHAT HE CALLS IT... "You called it a great puzzle given by a great Sufi Master, but it was simply cabbage. You meditated over it, but it was nonsense. One cannot meditate over it, there is nothing to meditate over." That is the meaning of a Zen koan: there is nothing to meditate over in it. Sometimes it has happened...

...: the Master has given the koan "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" and the seeker simply slapped the Master. And the Master laughed. He said, "There is no need for you to meditate over it. You already know the answer! " This is the answer: when a Master gives you the koan, go and meditate... what is the sound of one hand? This is the answer, but you cannot imitate it. If you...

... THE LAYING DOWN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. IF TODAY PEOPLE SIT AND MEDITATE ONLY ONE OR TWO HOURS, LOOKING ONLY AT THEIR OWN EGOS, AND CALL THIS REFLECTION, HOW CAN ANYTHING COME OF IT? ONE SHOULD LOOK AT THE TIP OF ONE'S NOSE. BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT ONE SHOULD FASTEN ONE'S THOUGHTS TO THE TIP OF THE NOSE. NEITHER THAT, WHILE THE EYES ARE LOOKING AT THE TIP OF THE NOSE, THE THOUGHTS SHOULD BE...

... something. Or the third word is 'meditation', but that too means thinking: to meditate upon something. Of these three words no word carries the meaning of DHYANA. DHYANA means a state of no-thought, a state of silence, a state of being conscious, but without any content. The mirror is there but reflecting nothing, nothing whatsoever. Just like the mirror, the consciousness is there, but nothing is...

... immortal, to taste it is to be golden. Then dust is transformed into the divine. The goal of all alchemy is to transform the lower metal into IF TODAY PEOPLE SIT AND MEDITATE ONLY ONE OR TWO HOURS, LOOKING ONLY AT THEIR OWN EGOS, AND CALL THIS REFLECTION, HOW CAN ANYTHING COME OF IT? One can sit in meditation and can only look at one's ego. That's what people call contemplation: they look into their...

..., speculating, philosophizing. This is not true contemplation. And this will never take you beyond the ego, beyond death, beyond time. And that is where one's goal lies. Let me repeat: if you want to meditate you will have to change the gestalt. Just closing your eyes and looking into the ego won't help. The great English philosopher, David Hume, wrote, 'Hearing and reading again and again the great maxim and...

... the advice of all the great Masters, "Know thyself, meditate," I also tried to meditate. But I found nothing inside except thoughts, memories, imagination, dreams. I have found nothing else.' He is right because he does not know what meditation is. He is a philosopher, and one of the most talented philosophers of the world, very very logical, consistent - but just a philosopher, not a...

.... Time will be wasted anyway whether you meditate or not - time will be wasted. Time is rushing by. Whatsoever you do, do anything, or don't do anything, time is going. You cannot save time so how can you waste time? You can waste only something which you can save. You don't possess time. Forget about it! And the best use you can have of time is to have these small glimpses - because finally you will...

... sex and don't avoid death. That's why Saraha went to the cremation ground to meditate - not to avoid death. And he went with the arrowsmith woman to live a life of healthy, full sex, of optimum sex. On the cremation ground, living with a woman, these two centers had to be relaxed: death and sex. Once you accept death and you are not afraid of it, once you accept sex and you are not afraid of it...

...: svadhisthan the second center. These two things are there in everybody's life, so society has destroyed both centers and tried to manipulate man, dominate man, through these two things. Tantra says: Meditate while you make love, meditate while somebody dies - go, watch, see. Sit by the side of a dying man. Feel, participate in his death. Go in deep meditation with the dying man. And when a man is dying...

... dying man, sit silently, meditate silently. When the man dies, in a sudden burst the energy will be all over, and you can have a taste of death. And that will give you a great relaxation: Yes, death happens, but nobody dies. Yes, death happens, but in fact death never happens. While making love, meditate so that you can know that something of Samadhi penetrates into sexuality. And while meditating on...

... things go in the world. One who is not money-minded will ignore. THIS ANGERED THE OTHER PUPILS, WHO DREW UP A PETITION ASKING FOR THE DISMISSAL OF THE THIEF, STATING THAT OTHERWISE THEY WOULD LEAVE IN A BODY. Now, these people were not there to meditate at all. If you have come to meditate, you understand a few requirements - that you have to grow into less money-mindedness, that you have to attain a...

... other way - because nobody comes with money into the world, we all come empty-handed. So all that we possess we must be possessing, claiming, as our own. Nothing belongs to anybody. If a person has really come to meditate, this will be his attitude - that nothing belongs to anybody. He should start having less and less attachment to things. But these people were money-minded. And when you are money...

... twice they had been ignored, they grew angry. They DREW UP A PETITION - politics comes in immediately, protest, petition - ASKING FOR THE DISMISSAL OF THE THIEF, STATING THAT OTHERWISE THEY WOULD LEAVE IN A BODY. Now, they were not there to meditate at all. If they were really there to meditate, their approach towards this problem would have been totally different. They would have felt a little more...

... compassion for this man, for his lust for money. If they were real meditators they would have contributed some money and given it to this man - 'You please keep this money, rather than stealing.' That would have been an indication that they were there to meditate, to be transformed. But now they drew up a petition asking for the dismissal of the thief. Not only that - with a threatening, that if he is not...

... RELIGION OF THE WEST. GUILT AND SIN WERE TAUGHT. WHY IS ADAM A SINNER? WHY ISN'T HE LIKE THESEUS OR JASON OR HERMES? IS THE CONCEPT OF SIN JUST A TRICK? TO MAKE MEN MEDITATE? The question is from Anand Mohammed. I am a pagan. There is no god for me, except this existence. God is intrinsic to life; God is not outside life. God is this very life. To live this life totally, is to live a divine life. To live...

... is of the priests. 'WHY ISN'T HE LIKE THESEUS OR JASON OR HERMES?' He is. 'IS THE CONCEPT OF SIN JUST A TRICK? TO MAKE MEN MEDITATE?' Yes, it is a trick, but not to make them meditate. It is a trick to make them slaves. Meditation is a totally different thing. Meditation never comes out of fear, meditation comes out of understanding. Meditation comes out of love, out of compassion. Meditation comes...

... irrational. There God is hidden. Below is the animal, above is God. If you fall below humanity you become animal, if you go above humanity you become divine. People are afraid of the irrational because they know only one kind of irrational - that which is below. And all great religions teach the irrational which is above. You have to go higher than yourself. You have to drop your logic. When you meditate...

... OWN IS WHAT YOU DON'T OWN AND WHERE YOU ARE IS WHERE YOU ARE NOT. These lines are perfect Zen, pure Zen. Meditate over these lines, find out what T. S. Eliot means. These are very profound. It can be a koan for you. AND WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW IS THE ONLY THING YOU KNOW... You don't know yourself, and that is the only thing you know. And if you don't know that, what else can you know? The knower knows...

... the mind. Meditate over these lines. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

..., sheer violence. If you want to meditate, meditate. But this IS a problem: if the husband wants to meditate he tries to force the wife also. If the wife does not want to meditate, she forces the husband also not to meditate. Can't you allow people their own souls? Can't you allow them to have their own way? This I call a religious attitude: to allow freedom. A religious man will always allow freedom to...