... ordinary. The words may be ordinary, but his meaning never is. He is saying to his disciples,'Be in zazen.' Let me explain to you what zazen is. Zazen is a deep unoccupiedness - not doing anything outwardly, not doing anything inwardly. It is not even meditation because when you meditate you are making some sort of effort, you are trying to do something: chanting a mantra, remembering God, or even...

... like high waves in the ocean to touch the beyond. In meditation you simply wait. Meditation is passive, prayer is not; prayer is active. In meditation, you simply open the doors of your heart and you wait. In prayer that is not enough - you open the doors and you run towards the height. That's why Jesus says,'While I GO and pray yonder. You meditate while I pray.' When a Master is praying, if the...

... disciples can simply wait and meditate, much will happen to them. Because, when the love of the whole descends on the Master, it will naturally shower on the disciples also. Only a Master can pray; a disciple can only meditate. Because prayer is possible when you have known what God is. Prayer is possible when you have known the whole. Meditation is possible without knowing anything about God. In fact...

.... Then prayer becomes possible, not before it. A real touch is needed, a contact is needed. God has to be touched, one has to be touched by God; only then, trust arises. Meditation does not need God. You can discard the hypothesis and meditate. If you go on meditating, then one day God will fill your heart. But if you have a Master who can pray on your behalf, who can pray for you, who can simply pray...

...; it is a meeting of two lovers. Nobody should be a witness to it, nobody should be a bystander to it, nobody should observe it. Otherwise, the very fact that somebody is there will become a jarring note. Prayer is always in the alone. And look at the foolishness: people meditate alone, and pray together. Meditators move into loneliness, and when you want to pray you go to the church, you go to the...

... temple and you pray together. Prayer has to be in absolute aloneness, because prayer is love. Meditation can be done in a group: it is a technique. In fact, if you meditate in a group, you will meditate deeply because the group helps, enhances. It fosters confidence. A group mind is created, a great wave of group consciousness is created and you simply move on the wave. But to pray is to love. One...

... beauty, the beauty of the earth. And Jesus is something: Epicurus plus Buddha - the beauty of this earth and of that sky - a great synthesis, an infinite harmony. MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, - EVEN UNTO DEATH. TARRY YE HERE, AND WATCH WITH ME. He had left the other disciples a little behind. He told them to sit quietly, to be in zazen, to meditate. He had brought the closest ones near him, and he...

... to destroy it. In the world it is difficult. Somebody, from somewhere, treads to your toe; somebody, from somewhere, hurts you. You have to drop anger. My whole effort is so that you change. Don't try to change the scene, please change yourself. The change of the scene not going to help anybody; it has never helped anybody. And you think... MEDITATION SEVERAL HOURS A DAY. Even if you meditate...

... twenty-four hours a day it is not going to help unless meditation becomes a way of life - not that you meditate. Whether you meditate one hour, or two hours, or three hours, or six hours, or many hours - you may meditate twenty-four hours: you will go mad, but you will not attain to SAMADHI. SAMADHI is when you completely forget what meditation is. You don't meditate; just the way you live is...

... meditative. The way you may, the way you walk, the way you eat: that becomes meditative. Meditation becomes a quality of your life; it is not a question of quantity. Don't be quantitative. Don't think that if you meditate more, then more meditation will happen to you... foolish. The more is not the question - quality, not quantity. Meditation is not money that you can go on gathering and piling up...

... my whole effort: that's why I don't send you to isolation, I don't send you to mountains so that you can meditate the whole day; because that would give you a wrong notion about it, the notion of quantity. GOING DEEPER AND DEEPER WITHOUT DISTRACTION: you can never go deeper and deeper if you don't understand what distraction is. If you are trying to avoid distraction, you can never go deeper...

... meditate without distraction, don't reject anything. the traffic noise has to be accepted - it is part of this world, and perfectly okay; the child crying and weeping is part of this world, and perfectly okay. Once you say that everything is okay, just watch the feeling that everything is okay and accept it. Something within you melts. Then nothing distracts. And unless this happens, you can go anywhere...

... can penetrate a body deeply, so that you can become aware of the soul which is hidden behind it. And, "Meditate," so that you can attain to your own innermost soul. And let both be together: don't create any dichotomy between the two. It has always been a dichotomy. People who have been teaching meditation have always been against love; and poets and artists, who have been teaching love...

... love become lopsided. Their inner being becomes rich, but their outer being becomes very poor. Lovers who are not also meditators - their outer being becomes richer, but their inner being becomes very poor. I would like you to become richer in both ways love, and meditate. Question 2: OSHO: YOU ARE THE ONLY MAN, IF I CAN CALL YOU MAN, WHOM I HAVE LOVED WITHOUT RESERVATION. WITH OTHER MEN I HAVE...

... Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BEING BEYOND THE LIMITS OF TIME HE IS THE MASTER OF MASTERS. HE IS KNOWN AS AUM. REPEAT AND MEDITATE ON AUM. REPEATING AND MEDITATING ON AUM BRINGS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OBSTACLES AND AN AWAKENING OF A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. Patanjali is talking about the phenomenon of God. God is not the creator. For Patanjali, God is the...

... not use a single word more... REPEAT AND MEDITATE... Wherever he says repeat aum, he always adds meditate. The difference has to be understood. REPEAT AND MEDITATE ON AUM. REPEATING AND MEDITATING ON AUM BRINGS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OBSTACLES AND AN AWAKENING OF A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. If you repeat and don't meditate, it will be Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation - TM. If you...

... repeat and don't meditate, then it is a hypnotic device. Then you fall into sleep. It is good because falling into sleep is beautiful. It is healthy: you will come out of it more calm. You will feel more well-being, more energy, more zest. But it is not meditation. It is like a tranquilizer and a pep pill together. It gives you a good sleep, and then you feel in the morning very good. More energy is...

... okay; but nothing is gained - it has become a habit. If you don't do, you feel miserable. If you do, no bliss comes out of it. Repeat and meditate - repeat aum, aum, aum - and stand aloof from this repetition. Aum, aum, aum; the sound is all around you and you are alert, aware, watching, witnessing. That is meditating. Create the sound within you and still remain a watcher on the hill. In the valley...

... evil. If you don't feel sleepy, it is better to do TM than take a tranquilizer. It is less dangerous, less harmful. But it is not meditation. So Patanjali continuously insists, REPEAT AND MEDITATE ON AUM. Repeat and create all around you the sound of aum, but don't be lost in it. It is such sweet sound, you will be lost. Remain alert - remain more and more alert The more sound goes deeper, you become...

... you become a superconscious being. Then your body reaches to the bottom and you reach to the peak. Your body becomes the valley and you become the peak. And this is the point to be realized. Repeat and meditate. REPEATING AND MEDITATING ON AUM BRINGS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OBSTACLES AND AN AWAKENING OF NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. The new consciousness is the fourth - the super-consciousness. But...

... remember, only repetition is not good. Repetition is just to help to meditate. Repetition creates the object, the most subtle object is the sound of aum. And if you can be aware of the most subtle, your awareness also becomes subtle. When you watch a gross thing, your awareness is gross. When you watch a sexual body, your awareness becomes sexual. When you watch something - an object for greed - your...

...: N.A. Short Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [A sannyasin who is leaving for Goa says: Thank you.] Meditate in Goa, mm? Goa is very related to me! Either the sannyasin has first to go to Goa then come to me or has to come to me and then go to Goa! This way or that but Goa is related. It is a beautiful place, so be on the beach in the sun and meditate, mm? And...

...... crack up anywhere, and you will meet god there. Just crack up! I can understand - it is very frightening. I know it is frightening, and when for the first time it happens nobody has courage enough to continue it. So you have not done anything abnormal; it is normal, mm? But now how are you feeling? Is some disorientation still there?... You meditate again and things will be okay. Disorientation...

... why you are still a little disoriented. But it is good. You are fortunate - it is still there; you have not lost track of it. It can explode any moment. So continue to meditate.... Do Vipassana and you join Sufi dancing also, mm? - that will be helpful. That will teach you a little celebration. That is one of the problems with Vipassana: it is a non-celebrating meditation. It is a buddhist...

... basic problems in the human mind: Buddhism has the greatest meditation but without celebration: Sufis have great celebration but don't have that great meditation. My effort here is to give you both together because if you only meditate and you don't know how to celebrate, you will become sad - silent, but sad; that's what buddhists become. Very silent - no comparison to their silence - but very sad...

... periodical. When you don't feel like going into deep relationship, if you force yourself to, it will be ugly; it won't make any sense. If you don't force and still go with people because of what they feel, then they will feel rejected. There is no need! If you are not feeling in that space, just be with yourself more and more, meditate more. These are the two things - meditation and love - and they are...

... searched through meditation. Meditation brings you to the real experience, and drug gives you just a hallucination, a dream-like experience but very similar. To meditate is difficult. The drug is cheap. But the attraction for drugs is spiritual. Man is not satisfied with his mundane existence. He wants to know something more. He wants to be something more. Just the ordinary life seems so flat, so...

..., they are not the end. And if we can hope a future free of drugs, if man becomes naturally meditative.... And that is possible. If a child finds his father is meditating, his mother is meditating, everybody is meditating, he will start being curious about it. He also wants to meditate. And that is the age when meditation is very simple because he is not yet corrupted by the society. Yet he is innocent...

... meditating. He should take the drug and meditate under the impact of the drug. He cannot just drop the drug and start meditating. Drugs get so deep in your body chemistry that now it is no more in your hand. So one has to be very skillful. Take the drug, be initiated into some kind of meditation, and under the impact of the drug, meditate. Slowly slowly cut the dose of the drug and grow the time for...

... be able to meditate because your whole body will be crying for the drug, your whole mind will be gravitating towards the drug. How can you meditate? And in this situation never tell anybody to meditate, because that may put him off. The change has to be very slow, very smooth, and the drug has to be used for the change. And he has been taking so long, so three weeks more. But while he is in drug...

..., he can do anything. He can meditate, he can accept any post-hypnotic suggestion. The post-hypnotic suggestion is the most important thing for changeover. It is really one of the greatest techniques, which has not been used generally to change man about anything: drugs, habits, crime, morality, intelligence - anything. The post-hypnotic suggestion is such a great technique, but hypnotism has been...

...Meditate on the early morning.......

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..., this moment is for prayer, for meditation. The same happens inside, a gap arises, and the outer gap can be of help for the inner gap, because outer and inner are not really two; they are joined together. So whenever it is possible, get up early in the morning and meditate on the early dawn. Once the sun has come up there is no need, but just before the sun is coming up look to the east and be filled...

...: No Length: 98 mins TRAIN IMPARTIALLY IN EVERY AREA; IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE TRAINED DEEPLY AND PERVASIVELY IN EVERYTHING. ALWAYS MEDITATE ON SPECIFIC OBJECTS. YOU SHOULD HAVE NO CONCERN FOR OTHER FACTORS. THEREFORE, APPLY YOURSELF TO IMPORTANT MATTERS. DON'T DO THINGS BACKWARDS. DON'T VACILLATE. TRAIN AS THOUGH CUT OFF. Once a jaina monk came to see me. He asked, "Is hell real? Is there really...

... written as a book, these sutras were given to his disciples to meditate on. The first sutra: TRAIN IMPARTIALLY IN EVERY AREA; IT IS IMPORTANTTO HAVE TRAINED DEEPLY AND PERVASIVELY IN EVERYTHING. The first thing is impartiality: one should be unprejudiced, and nobody is unprejudiced. And that is a basic requirement to grow into a greater vision. To come out of the prisons, the first thing is to drop...

... also of depth and totality. Live totally and die totally, and God is yours and truth is yours. The second sutra: ALWAYS MEDITATE ON SPECIFIC OBJECTS. First thing: by meditation Atisha never means concentration, remember. Concentration and meditation are polar opposites. Concentration narrows down your mind; it is focusing on one point. It includes only something and excludes everything else...

..., because it is relaxation. So remember, Atisha says: ALWAYS MEDITATE -- he means always relax -- ON SPECIFIC OBJECTS. What does he mean by "specific objects"? Sadness, anger, greed, lust -- the negatives; love, beauty, joy, freedom -- the positives. Begin with the negative, because you are living in the negative. When sad, meditate on it. Don't be in a hurry to get rid of it, don't be in a...

... being. And you will be surprised: if you can meditate on sadness, sadness will reveal its secrets to you -- and they are of tremendous value. And sadness, once it has revealed its secrets to you, will disappear. Its work is done, its message delivered. And when sadness disappears, joy arises. Joy arises only when sadness disappears out of meditation; there is no other way. Joy wells up when you have...

... broken the ice of sadness that surrounds it. In fact, sadness is like the shell that surrounds the seed; it is protective, it is not the enemy. Once the seed has dropped its protection, is surrendered into the soil, the shell has died, only then the sprout is born. It happens inside exactly like that. Meditate on anything negative, and slowly slowly you will be simply taken by surprise -- that sadness...

... with joy? You may start smiling, but that smile will be painted: it will be just on the lips, not even skin-deep. Start with the negative and you don't need to think about the positive at all. If you meditate on the negative, if you go deeply into it, to the deepest root of it, suddenly an explosion happens: the negative disappears and the positive has arrived. In fact it has always been there...

... MEDITATE ON SPECIFIC OBJECTS. Start with the negative and you will find the positive. Dig a well. First you find only earth, rocks, garbage. Slowly slowly you come to the water. First it is very dirty, then it becomes purer and purer and purer. Exactly the same way one has to dig a well within one's own being. The beginning has to be negative, and the end is of itself positive. Your work has to be with...

... disappear. Exactly like that the sadness will disappear, and suddenly, out of nowhere, joy has arrived, the guest has arrived. Now be a host to it. Now meditate on it, again be one with it. Now be joy. Don't stand aloof again. Don't start thinking, "Such a beautiful experience is happening, I am having the experience of joy." Don't start creating a distance between you and the joy. Be the joy...

..., THE MIND GAINS CONFIDENCE AND THIS HELPS PERSEVERANCE. ALSO, MEDITATE ON THE INNER LIGHT WHICH IS SERENE AND BEYOND ALL SORROW. ALSO MEDITATE ON ONE WHO HAS ATTAINED DESIRELESSNESS. THE MIND BECOMES TRANQUIL BY CULTIVATING ATTITUDES OF FRIENDLINESS TOWARDS THE HAPPY, COMPASSION TOWARDS THE MISERABLE, JOY TOWARDS THE VIRTUOUS AND INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS THE EVIL. MANY THINGS HAVE TO be understood before...

... perseverance comes to your effort. ALSO, MEDITATE ON THE INNER LIGHT WHICH IS SERENE, BEYOND ALL SORROW. This can be done only when you have attained a certain quality Of perceptivity. Then you can close the eyes and you can find a flame - a beautiful flame near the heart, a blue light. But right now you cannot see it. It is there, it has been always there. When you die, that blue light goes out of your body...

.... Nothing is more blissful than that. Nothing is more dancing, singing, musical, harmonious like that inner blue light within your heart. And the more you concentrate, the more you become tranquil, silent, calm, collected. then there is no darkness for you. When your heart is filled with light, the whole universe is filled with light. ALSO, MEDITATE ON THE INNER LIGHT WHICH IS SERENE AND BEYOND ALL SORROW...

.... ALSO, MEDITATE ON ONE WHO HAS ATTAINED DESIRELESSNESS. That tool All alternatives Patanjali is giving you A veetaraga, one who has gone beyond all desires - also meditate on him. Mahavira, Buddha, Patanjali - your own - Zarathustra, Mohammed, Christ or anybody you feel an affinity and love... Meditate on one who has gone beyond desires. Meditate on your Master, on your guru, who has gone beyond...

... desires. How it will help? It helps, because when you meditate on someone who has gone beyond desires he becomes a magnetic force in you. You allow him to enter within you; he pulls you out of yourself. This becomes your availability to him. If you meditate on someone who has gone beyond desires, you will become like him sooner or later, because meditation makes you like the object of meditation itself...

.... If you meditate on money, you will become just like money. Go and look at a miser; he has no more a soul. He has only a bank balance; he has nothing inside. If you listen, you will just hear notes, rupees: you will not find any heart there. Whatsoever you pay your attention, you become like it. So be aware. Don't pay attention to something you would not like to become. Only pay attention to...

... want to become dark. Says Patanjali: ALSO, MEDITATE ON ONE WHO HAS ATTAINED DESIRELESSNESS. Seek a Master; surrender to a Master. Be attentive to him. Listen, watch, eat and drink him. Let him enter you; allow your heart to be filled with him. Soon you will be on a journey, because the object of attention ultimately becomes the goal of your life. And attention is a secret relationship. Through...

... THAT I HAVE TO DIE. I REMEMBER NO OTHER DREAMS. WHAT IS HAPPENING? Anand Sunno, MEDITATE first over this small anecdote.... The young man had been keeping company with a girl for over two years, but still had given no indication of serious intentions. "I had a strange dream last night," he remarked one day. "I dreamt I proposed to you. I wonder what that is a sign of?" "It is...

... the ego. It happens to every meditator: the more you meditate the more your inner voice says, "Let the ego die." The more you meditate, the more you become aware that a certain death is going to happen. And you know only one kind of death, so naturally you misinterpret; you think, "I am going to die." You are not going to die, only the 'I', the ego, the personality is going to...

... can meditate without belief because meditation is a scientific method. It happens many times: an atheist comes to me and he asks, "Can I also meditate?" - because the idea has become prevalent that unless you believe in God you cannot meditate. Now that is a very foolish notion. Meditation has nothing to do with God. In fact the truth is that if you believe in God, it will be difficult to...

... meditate. Your very belief will become a disturbance. The person who does not believe in anything can simply move beyond thoughts; the person who believes clings to thinking, because his belief is a thought. Belief is part of the mind! If you believe too much in God you cannot leave the mind, because leaving the mind will mean, obviously, leaving your belief The man who cannot believe is in a better...

... situation. Krishna Kant, you should be happy that you cannot believe in God. So far, so good! Now meditate. And remember, the English word 'meditate' gives a wrong connotation. In English there is no word really which can translate the word DHYANA. From DHYANA the word arose in China, CH'AN, and that CH'AN moved to Japan and became Zen, but the root is DHYANA. When we use the word 'meditation' it gives a...

... feeling that you are meditating UPON something. To meditate means... on what? You have to have some object. And that is the problem. DHYANA simply means it is not a question of focusing, concentrating on something; rather, it is dropping all contents of the mind and just being. Meditation in the sense of DHYANA needs no object; it is an objectless, contentless state of consciousness. You go on dropping...

... stories too, so why be worried? For Godless people too there is a way. And my way is for all. Whosoever comes is accepted. The Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian, the Jain, the Sikh, the Buddhist, the Parsee - whosoever comes is accepted. I love all kinds of stories! Any kind of beginning is good, but begin. Don't remain stuck where you are, move towards the center. Meditate, and that will bring you...

... time is there they don't know how to meditate and they don't believe that they can meditate. They say they are worldly -- how can they meditate? They are materialistic -- how can they meditate? They say, "Unfortunately, we are extroverts -- how can we go in?" They have chosen only one wing. And, of course, if frustration comes out of it, it is natural. With one wing frustration is bound to...

... periphery is not to be lost permanently. You have to come to the periphery again and again so the route remains clear and the path remains there. Hence my insistence to meditate but not to renounce the world. Meditate in the morning and then go to the market; meditate in the morning and then go to your office. Meditate and then make love! Don't create any dichotomy, don't create any conflict. Don't say...

...: alive in between; go on moving from the center to the periphery, from the periphery to the center. They are enriching to each other; they are enhancing to each other. Just watch! If you meditate and then make love, your love will have a tremendously new depth to it. Love and then meditate and suddenly you will see: when your energy is full of love, meditation goes so deep and so easily. You simply...