.... Meditation IS understanding. You are trying to figure it out intellectually, and that is not possible. You are trying to think about it, what it is all about. Whatsoever conclusion you arrive at will be wrong. It is not a question of thinking what is meant by it. Meditate, and experience. It is something to be experienced. You say, "How does one go about it...?" One does not go at all about it...

... meditate. You must be new here. Dance, sing, meditate, let the mind settle a little bit. Let this stream of the mind, which is full of dead leaves and dirt, settle down a little. Let it become clean and clear, transparently clear; only then will you be able to understand what I am saying. Then it is so simple. I am not talking very complicated philosophy - it is not philosophy at all - I am simply...

... the light. It starts demanding, it creates beautiful fantasies: alluring beauties surround you. How can you meditate? In fact, the old traditions have created all kinds of barriers to meditation, and then they say, "Meditation is very difficult." Meditation is not difficult; meditation is a simple process, a natural process. But if you create unnecessary hindrances, then you make it...

... past lives. I say, "Meditate." While you are meditating perhaps some door in the unconscious will open and a flood of memories will come. This is why I go on speaking - sometimes on the Geeta, sometimes on Ashtavakra, sometimes on Zarathustra, sometimes on Buddha, sometimes on Jesus, sometimes on Krishna - who knows which words will stir your heart. Who knows which words will become a key...

... cannot live without the worldly. Have you seen this conspiracy! A man came to me, saying I want to learn to meditate. He was a sannyasi - an old fashioned sannyasi. So I said, "Good, come to the morning meditation." He said, "That is a little difficult." I said, "Why, what's difficult in that?" He said, "The difficulty is, I cannot come without this man who has come...

..., then use a method, don't be afraid. Continuing to use the method will help you become capable of becoming the witness of the method too. This is why I say, meditate, and don't worry about it. Because I know, not meditating you will never come to witnessing, not meditating you will only continue thinking. So the choice is not between meditation and witnessing, the choice is between thinking and...

... meditation. Do you understand what I am saying? If you don't meditate - you have heard Ashtavakra - Ashtavakra said that meditation and methods are bondage (and he is absolutely right, one hundred percent correct!) so you quit meditating. What will you do? Will you become a witness now? You will go on repeating the same old rotten thoughts. It is so hilarious: because of Ashtavakra you have fallen deeper...

... into the world. This ladder is for you to climb up. You have started using it to descend. The same steps! I tell you to meditate. Because the alternatives before you are meditation and thinking: right now witnessing is not an alternative for you. Yes, if you continue to meditate your thoughts will be finished, a new choice will present itself. Now you can choose: witnessing or meditation? Then you...

... scholar, he proceeded to look up the syllable in Japanese and other Oriental dictionaries to determine a potential root meaning and habitual usage ... When the Master gave him mu to meditate on, he went to the dictionary. Naturally, a scholar goes that way. He must have gone to the library. The Master has said, "Meditate on mu": the Master has said, "Meditate on something nonsensical, so...

... that you can get out of your mind." The mind can manage the sensible, the mind can manage the rational, but the mind cannot manage the nonsensical. The nonsensical takes you out of the mind. So if you meditate on mu, what will happen? Nothing can happen, because mu means nothing. If I say, "Meditate on 'dog'." much will happen. You may start thinking about a dog you had in your...

... Buddha would have created trouble for people. Zen Masters say, "Buddha, why were you born? You created so much trouble for people, because everybody is trying to meditate since you came. Had you not come, the world would have been at peace. Nobody would have been meditating, nobody would have been into this trip of nirvana. Why did you come?" That is the meaning of Un-mun when he says, "...

..., Jesus is just exactly in the middle - a great synthesis. Sometimes he is very active, and then he goes to the mountains for forty days to fast, to sit silently with the trees, to meditate, to be with God. Then he comes back again to the world. He is a revolutionary, a rebel. But again and again he says to his disciples, "Now it is enough and I would like to go into seclusion." Again and...

... again he goes to meditate in the mountains, he disappears for days, and then again he is there in the world like a flame, a torch burning from both ends together. All these three possibilities are there. Simply relax and let things happen. But don't misunderstand trust as inactivity. That has happened in this country: trust became inactivity. This country has thought for centuries that if you trust in...

... blood needs a little circulation - so in Zen and in Sufism both, you meditate for a few hours sitting and then you start meditating walking. But the meditation continues; walking or sitting, the inner current remains the same. They both were smokers. They both wanted to ask for the permission of the Master, so they both decided, "Tomorrow. At the most, he will say no, but we are going to ask. And...

..., "Now I know what is the matter. I asked, 'Can I meditate while smoking?' He said 'yes.'" It all depends. Just a little difference, and life is totally something else. Now, there is a great difference. Asking, "Can I smoke while meditating?" is just ugly. But asking, " Can I meditate while smoking?" - it's perfectly okay. Good! At least you will be meditating. Life is...

... to keep balance with silence. The higher the music is, the more silence it contains. It contains silence through sound. It is paradoxical. All that is great is paradoxical. And if you really want to come to the peak of human consciousness, you will have to be paradoxical. Meditate/love, breathe in/breathe out, open up/close in - these things will become slowly, slowly, very natural. And don't be...

.... You are simply moving because you cannot contain yourself; it is too much, it can't be contained. You have to move! In fact, you are not doing anything in moving, the movement is happening to you. Out of sheer energy, the movement is growing in you. Meditate over the difference between these two. In the first there is tension, desire, planning, future. The present is missed, the present is rejected...

... an American who does not meditate. It is as difficult as it is difficult to find an Indian who meditates. Meditation is useless activity. But people are very clever in finding rationalizations. Now Morarji says that he is healthy because he drinks his urine. It reminds me of a story.... A man became one hundred years old, he completed a century. Newspaper reporters came, and the TV people and the...

... HAVE A BEARD? Ashoka, who told you? Somebody must be creating rumors. I don't have a beard; you have to look at me again. In fact, the right question would have been: Why DON'T you have a beard? That has been one of the koans in Zen. Bodhidharma had a great beard, and Zen people, Zen Masters, give their disciples this koan to meditate on: Why does Bodhidharma have no beard? Now they beat their heads...

..., because Bodhidharma's picture is given also, with the same koan to meditate on, and the picture is there with that great beard. He had a really great beard, his whole face was covered. That's why he was known in China as a 'barbarian Buddha'. The Chinese don't have big beards, they have tiny goat-like beards. Bodhidharma was very strange there. The Chinese have only a few hairs really. You can count...

...Meditate a little bit...

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... same orgasmic whole. It is an ecstasy, a bliss. It is a benediction. You can dance in it, you can sing in it, you can overflow with love through it, but it never becomes knowledge. Yes, sometimes it can become a song, a Song of Solomon.... Meditate over the Song of Solomon. It is one of the most beautiful songs ever sung - and it has not been understood by the Jews and the Christians. In fact, they...

... an unconsciousness, in a darkness. The ego exists only in the dark night of the soul. Bring a little light inside. Meditate a little bit. Sit silently, doing nothing, looking inwards. In the beginning you will find only rubbish. Don't be worried - go on looking. Within three to nine months the rubbish will be gone, and a silence will start dawning on you and a stillness will arise. In that...

... sitting silently for hours together, doing nothing, just being, you will never know who you are and you will never go beyond your anguish. So the first way is to become occupied, involved in anything, whatsoever it is, the only purpose being that you can keep the ultimate question of your life repressed. There is no time. People come to me, I tell them to meditate. They say, "But we don't have any...

... kill time." Time is killing you and you think you are killing time. Nobody has ever been able to kill time: time kills everybody. And when you tell them to meditate the immediate response is, "But where is the time to meditate?" And it is not that they are consciously saying it; it is a very unconscious reaction. It is not that they are deceiving, they are deceived. It is not that they...

...! He is simply a human being. His religion has no adjective to it, he is simply religious. Seek light! And the only way to seek light is to learn how to meditate, how to be aware, how to be more watchful. Buddha's way was VIPASSANA - vipassana means witnessing. And he found one of the greatest devices ever: the device of watching your breath, just watching your breath. Breathing is such a simple and...

... a balance, an equilibrium. He used to send his disciples, his sannyasins, to watch whenever a dead body was being burned: "Just go, sit there, meditate and watch and remember this is going to happen to your body too." Death has to be meditated upon; otherwise life can go on giving you false hopes. If you remember death, life cannot deceive you anymore. Death will keep you alert. Buddha...

... meaning is in the mind that uses them. Meditate on this anecdote. The business executive was told by his doctor that he had a heart condition. On the same day he was advised by mail that if he didn't meet a heavy mortgage payment, his home would be seized. Driving nervously down the highway in a new car on which five payments were due, he rammed into the compact car of one of his best customers and made...

... listen to what I say, meditate over it - all the nuances of it, all the meanings, subtle and gross, in it. You should have meditated. That hammer would have helped you tremendously. A thousand-pound sledge hammer had to be used because. Ananda Prem, you have a very thick head. It is almost a rock. In fact, when I use the hammer I am always worried whether the hammer is going to survive or not! And you...

... shocks that I am going to give - this is just the beginning - then there is a.possibility of a new light dawning in her soul. The second question: Question 2: WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY TO 'PONDER' OR 'MEDITATE ON' A PARABLE? WHAT IS THE PROCESS? PS. I CAN HARDLY EVEN REMEMBER THE PARABLE AFTER THE DISCOURSE. THAT means the discourse has succeeded. I don't mean you to memorise it. If you have...

... he will start beating me.' Then your mind starts bringing in the old pattern. Your heart is saying, 'Relax, this is the moment, smile.' All those beautiful parables and all that fragrance you have been accumulating in your heart is ready to explode, but your mind says, 'Wait, this is not the moment to meditate and this is not the moment to think about great things. This is dangerous. And you shrink...

... silence is a feeling, not a thought; because God is; feeling, not a thought. Let feeling be the supreme-most, the sovereign, and let the head serve it. This turn, this conversion. makes one religious. And then the third is even more easy - just don't obstruct. When your heart starts functioning in your day-to-day life. allow it, go with it. Take the risk. That's what I mean when I say, 'Meditate over...

... are guesses - one may be a little more close to the truth, another may not be so close. But what I said has not to be taken as a general statement. It has to be taken as an object for meditation. You just meditate over it. I am not concerned about general truths. I am talking to disciples! You have to look into yourself. If you are a woman disciple just look into yourself. Is there not somewhere a...

... dies. And that's exactly what happens: anything that goes on lurking in the unconscious, in the dark chamber of your soul - which is nine times bigger than your conscious mind - bring it into the conscious mind, bring it into sunlight and, if it comes there, it withers away. What I am saying here is meant for you to meditate on. If you felt offended, then this is very good for you to meditate over...

.... Go into it. Search into yourself, and don't conclude from the very beginning, don't say, 'This is wrong and has been proved absolutely wrong.' First meditate, and don't try to prove it wrong or right. Just go with an open mind into your own being and search for it. And you will be surprised that the desire is lurking there. It has a kind of charm in it. One woman went to the priest to confess. She...

... more interested in sex, your whole attention can be focused on death. Remember, sex and death are polar opposites. If you remain interested in sex, when will you prepare for death? Your attention will remain focused on sex, and you will die without any preparation. Meditation is a preparation for death. Now prepare for death. Meditate. You are no more interested in women - good. Now become interested...

... others say about it. Smoking can be such a beautiful meditation. Don't fight with it, smoke meditatively, create perfect rings, and enjoy the whole thing. And suddenly one day you will find the need has disappeared. The whole thing looks so foolish. Not that you judge, because when you judge then it is either good or bad. When you don't judge something simply drops if it is useless. If you meditate...

... will create the same world, the same miserable world there. Stars won't help, only an inner transformation can. Question 10: I FEEL SO MUCH FREEDOM AND LOVE TO HEAR YOU SAY: IF YOU DO NOT LIKE TO MEDITATE UNTIL THE TIME YOU FEEL LIKE DOING SO, THERE IS NO HARM IN DOING SOMETHING ELSE THAT INTERESTS YOU. BUT REGRETFULLY, HOW AND WHY IS IT THAT SOME OF YOUR DISCIPLES WHO DO NOT MEDITATE EXPECT OTHERS...

...: You are already that which is to be achieved - it feels very good, ego enhancing. And when my disciples say: Meditate; do something; it becomes difficult, because you don't want to do anything; you want to be lazy. And if this is the situation you will not be able to understand me - what I am saying. When I am saying: Nothing is to be done, I am saying the absolute truth. But you can misunderstand...

... listen; you become knowledgeable, you go home, you know more. Your ego is enhanced. But if somebody says to you: Meditate - then there is trouble, and particularly with Indians. They think that they know all about meditation just because they are born in India. You don't know! And remain alert - soon the West will be knowing more than you because you are too egoistic about it, believing that you know...