... the train goes nowhere anymore." In my village we had a beautiful graveyard just by the side of the river. It was a very silent place, and nobody came there unless he was brought. Nobody wanted to come there. I had found it a beautiful place to meditate, to relax, to rest. Beautiful marble graves - big trees with great shadow. It was a beautiful place. My father was very angry when he came to...

... meditated over it; and he would find something, and he would come to the master. And the master just seeing his face would say, "No, no! Get lost! Meditate; don't waste time." He wouldn't even listen - that he had brought a conclusion. And Rinzai would go again and sit in his bamboo grove to meditate. Again it had gone wrong. It continued to happen. One day he insisted, he said, "You have...

... to listen to me. I have heard it! And you are simply just looking at me and don't even allow me to enter the room. You say, 'No, no, just go and meditate. Don't waste time.' Now it is too much. For months I have been meditating. I have to say it." The master said, "Okay, say what you have found." He said, "Sitting in my bamboo grove, I heard the breeze passing through the bamboo...

... unnecessarily harassing me for months?" The master said, "This is not the sound. This is the reward for your insistence on wasting my time and your time. Now get lost and meditate. Find it out." This was very insulting. Rinzai was very well educated, connected with the royal family. With great determination he went back and sat in his grove. And he said, "I am not going to move from here...

...! Why should I try? But I know from where the question comes: you are always trying. People are trying to love, trying to pray, trying to meditate, and BECAUSE they are trying, they never love. How can you love when you are trying to love? If you are trying to pray, YOU CANNOT pray, because your energy will be moving in your trying. When you are trying to meditate, who will meditate? You are involved...

... disciple is puzzled as to what he means. Then suddenly the idea struck him: "The Master is saying try to get it." He said, "But how can I try? Either I pick it up or I don't. How can I try?" And the Master said, "That's what you have been doing for three years - trying to meditate. Either you meditate or you don't! How can you try?" Trying is a device. Trying is a trick...

... desire can that state be attained. But Mahavir also has a point. He says: If you talk about no-misery, no-self, people will not feel enthusiasm. Now what Buddha thinks will not create desire, Mahavir thinks people will feel no enthusiasm for. Who feels enthusiasm for no-misery? Why should one meditate for years and years just to attain a state of no-misery? That does not look very appealing. Why should...

... not given you any objects to meditate upon. He has not told you to meditate on God, he has not told you to meditate on a mantra, he has not told you to meditate on an image. He has told you to do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavour. Chew...

..., will have to protect himself because the rain is there, will have to think of something because in the night the wild animals are there. Even in that cave he will have to do a thousand and one things. YOU cannot simply meditate for twenty-four hours, it is not possible. But Buddha makes it possible. He says: DON'T separate meditation from life - let them be together. Turn each opportunity of life...

... disciple was refused. Ikkyu said, "Then go and meditate for seven years more." "Seven years?" the disciple said. "Just for this small fault? Ikkyu said, "This is not a small fault. Faults are not small or big - you are just not yet living meditatively, that's all. Go back, meditate for seven years more, and come again." This is the essential message of Buddhism: Be...

... on looking in the mirror, you become the body. That's why women age faster than men - the mirror. And the miracle is, basically they live longer than men, but they age faster. On average, all over the world, they live four years longer than men, but they age faster. They lose their beauty and their youth quickly. The mirror kills them; continuously meditating on the body. Meditate on the inner...

... being, not on the body. Find a mirror which reflects you, not the body. That mirror which reflects you is meditation. The more you meditate, the more ageless you become. JOSHU WAS A MASTER WHO STARTED TO STUDY ZEN WHEN HE WAS SIXTY. So it is never too late. Don't be worried. Whenever you come, it is okay. It is never too late, it is always early, so don't think about it. Many people come to me and...

... they say: Now we are very old. And the mind is so cunning. Young people come to me and they say: Now how can we meditate? We are too young. And old people come and they say: How can we meditate? We are too old. Others come to me and they say: Don't initiate children, they are just children. Don't give them sannyas - don't initiate them. So who am I to initiate? - dead men? Nobody is left. Some are...

... everything, into the terms of action. Action is our language. say to people: Be meditative. And what do they hear? They hear that I teach that you should meditate. There is a vast difference. When I say: Be meditative, I am not saying that you should meditate, because meditation is not an act, you cannot do it. You can be in it, you cannot do it; it is a state, not an act. I say: Be love, and what do you...

... positive pole. The negative pole can be achieved through shock, through electric shock. The positive pole is achieved, through meditation and observation. If too many thoughts are there and you cannot meditate, you will go mad. And then there is only one way: some type of deep shock so your mind loses energy - shattered. Then you will not go mad, but you will not become Enlightened. You will remain on a...

... meaningful. I insist for ochre robes. Sometimes you think, "Why? What is the point? Can't I meditate without ochre robes?" You can meditate; that is not the point at all. I am putting a few things to you which are not rational. There is no reason for ochre robes, there is no scientific reason for it. One can meditate and become enlightened in any color. I am giving you something irrational just...

..., you can listen to the radio, you can sing a song, or you can meditate, and then there is no problem. Now driving has become a spontaneous thing. You know it, so there is no need to be self-conscious about it. The same happens when you meditate. In the beginning you have to be conscious about consciousness. It brings a strain, a tiredness. By and by, as consciousness grows, there is no need to be...

... meditate, rather than going into the books and learning what meditation is all about, go directly into meditation. Feel it, enjoy it, enter into it, allow it to happen around you, allow it to happen within you; then you will know. How can you know what dancing is without dancing? It is impossible to know from the books, and it is even difficult to know seeing a dancer dance. Then too it is not knowing...

..., it will come in subtle ways, so make your watching more accurate, exact, alert. Yes, meditation will do. Nothing else is needed. Just meditate more, so you can see things clearly. Question 4 OSHO, SLOWLY I FEEL THAT YOU ARE ME. BUT THEN WHO IS THIS GUY IN WHITE SITTING EVERY MORNING ON THAT CHAIR? G.O.K. Now let me explain to you this code word "G.O.K." This is my answer. A doctor was...

... nobody goes - when one feels a little better there is no need. Go to the doctor when you are suffering, pray when there is suffering, meditate when there is suffering. Don't say, "I will meditate when I feel a little better." That won't help - you won't meditate and you will have missed a blissful moment, a moment of suffering. Meditate, become alert and aware. Don't miss the opportunity, it...

... country or of the whole of the world. They are very tricky, they are using suffering to exploit others. But this is what everybody is doing, only they are doing it to its climax. Don't do it, don't try to be a martyr, it is futile. Don't be an exhibitionist. Suffer privately, suffer so privately that nobody ever becomes aware that you are suffering. And then meditate on it: don't throw it out...

..., accumulate it within and then close your eyes and meditate on it. Then the bridge will be broken. This is what Jesus means when he says: BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO HAS SUFFERED - this is the technique for suffering: use suffering as a method - HE HAS FOUND LIFE. Suffering belongs to the realm of death, awareness belongs to the realm of life. Break the bridge and you will know that something in you, around you...

... and work, and get tired and then give the body food. And when you give it food, to absorb the food, to digest it, your whole energy is needed. That's why, immediately you eat food, your head feels sleepy: because the energy that was working as consciousness is required in the stomach to work as a digestive force; it immediately moves. So people who eat too much cannot meditate well, impossible! They...

.... Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [NOTE: This is a translation from the Hindi series BHAJ GOVINDAM, literally: Singing the Song of the Divine. This version is the final edit pending publication, and is for research only.] DROPPING SEX, ANGER, GREED AND ATTACHMENT, MEDITATE UPON YOURSELF: WHO AM I? BECAUSE IDIOTS WITHOUT SELF-REALIZATION SUFFER THE ANGUISH OF DEEP HELL HERE. ONLY THE GITA AND THE...

.... Actually, there will be no need for you to go to the temple or the mosque; you will be able to see the divine in your own house, you will see him everywhere. You can understand this last sutra of Shankara only if you keep in mind that religion is the ultimate freedom. DROPPING SEX, ANGER, GREED AND ATTACHMENT, MEDITATE UPON YOURSELF. Sex, anger, greed and attachment, these are the four bondages which...

... have searched enough in the other; now repent it and return home. DROPPING SEX, ANGER, GREED AND ATTACHMENT, MEDITATE UPON YOURSELF. Shankara is deliberately saying that you can meditate on yourself only when you give up these four. If sex is given up, if the hope of getting happiness from the other is over, if it can be realized that happiness is not in the other, then the revolution has happened...

..., its by-product. Then attachment, its last conclusion. After giving them up, meditate on yourself. One can meditate on oneself only after giving them up, because then the mind is not on others. When desire is no more, then the mind is not attracted towards the subjects of desire. When anger is not there, then all the subjects of anger disappear. When there is no greed, then the anxiety involved in...

... greed is also over. When you are free from all these, then the inner journey starts. And this inner journey is the only pilgrimage; the other pilgrimages are just deceptions. One who goes within has really reached the pilgrimage. The others who are wandering outside are fooling themselves. MEDITATE UPON YOURSELF: "WHO AM I?" BECAUSE IDIOTS WITHOUT SELF-REALIZATION SUFFER THE ANGUISH OF DEEP...

... barrier has gone, the boundary disappeared, and the conscious and unconscious become one - as they are really, as they should be. And when your conscious and unconscious are one you can meditate, never before it. Once your inner divisions disappear, once you become one inside, a deep silence descends upon you, a great blissful moment is reached - just by the disappearance of the boundaries, divisions...

... the whole night becomes samadhi, the whole night becomes a deep meditation - relaxed. Six, seven, eight hours - it is a long time. If you live for sixty years, twenty years you will be in your bed. Twenty years is a long time, and if you can change the quality of sleep you need not go to a forest to meditate; twenty years - enough! No need to go anywhere, no need to do anything. If you can change...

... sound. No one is creating it, it is there. It is the very existential sound; it is how existence happens to be - just a humming sound of existence. Existence is there, alive - that aliveness creates a sound; or, to that aliveness a sound happens. That sound is not created by anybody; it is uncreated, anahat. If you have heard about Zen masters... they go on telling their disciples to go and meditate...

..., meditate on the sound of one hand clapping. We can create a sound by clapping two hands. Zen masters say to their disciples, "Go and find out that sound which comes out of only one hand: the clapping of one hand, not with anything else." We know this is absurd. A sound can come only with conflict, with two things clashing. Two hands can create sound, not one hand. Zen masters also know that...

..., but still they have been giving this meditation for centuries. From Buddha up to now, Zen masters go on giving it. They know, their disciples know, that this is absurd. Then what is the significance? One has to watch, meditate, and move towards a sound which is already there, which is not created. That is the meaning of the sound of one hand. I have heard a story. A small boy, just ten or twelve...

..., because everybody he heard came and asked the same questions, so just jokingly the master said, "Toyo, you go and meditate. Two hands clapping can create a sound. What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Toyo bowed down seven times again, went back to his room, started meditating. He heard a geisha girl singing, so he said, "Right, this is the thing." He came immediately, bowed down...

.... The master was laughing. He said, "Did you meditate, Toyo?" He said, "Yes sir, and I have found it: it is like a geisha girl singing." The master said, "No, this is wrong. Go again, meditate." So he went again, meditated for three days. Then he heard the sound of water dripping, so he said, "Right now, this is the thing - I have got it." He came again, the...

... master asked... he said, "The sound of the water dripping." The master said, "Toyo, that too is not it. You go and meditate." So he meditated for three months. Then he heard locusts in the trees, so he said, "Yes, I have got it." He came again. The master said, "No, this too is not right." And so on and on. One year passed. Then for one year continuously he was...

... solutions, and all will be meaningless, and the Master will send you back again and again. Again listen. Meditate. The solution will happen one day when the mind disappears. When you work hard with the mind and the mind finds no way to reach any solution, out of sheer tiredness the mind falls flat on the ground. Suddenly you are in a state of no-mind, and you hear the sound of one hand clapping. The mind...

... made him their guru or their Master. He instructed his pupils to meditate as he did. Soon each pupil could be observed meditating with a cat tied to a post by his side. The Master died, so what did the pupils do? They had known always of one cat being tied to a post by the side of the Master. Naturally they thought the cat must have something to do with meditation. And cats are very esoteric people...

... something which you think will be gained out of meditation. These phases come and go. These cults arise and disappear. These are just like fashions. The real meditator has not come to meditate because others are meditating, but a deep need has arisen in him, has become a knocking in his heart, a continuous knocking. The whole world seems to be meaningless; he wants to go in. He wants to know who he is...

.... Not because others have known! If there is nobody propagating meditation and no books are available and all books are destroyed and all Masters go and hide in the caves in the Himalayas, then too there will be a few people who will meditate, who will find out how to meditate on their own accord. Those will be the real meditators. And for them meditation will be just as easy as anything. It will be...

... just like breathing. When such a man comes, then any technique functions for him. I observe it every day. If somebody whose time has come to meditate ... It is just like sexual maturity. A boy of three years has no idea about sex, and even if the boy of three years comes to see a man making love to a woman, he will not understand what is happening. At the most, he will think the man is trying to kill...

... small children. Torture them, test them, examine them -- and for their own good! And nobody can prevent you, because you are doing it for their own good. God is not in any way interested in testing you. The problem is not arising because of God. The problem is arising because of your society, your politics, your priesthood. They have made you in such a way that you cannot meditate. They have made such...

... difficult to find a miserable man. Why? There seems to be no need to be miserable. Buddhas will be just common. Rarely will you find a man who is not a Buddha, if things go naturally. But things are not natural. That's why you even have to learn how to meditate, and you have to learn how to love, and you have to learn how to be happy, and you have to learn how to know God. Question: WHY ARE ALL THE...

... repressions -- they are never free of sex. A beautiful story. Meditate over it: The time is the not too distant future. We have finally destroyed ourselves by means of a nuclear holocaust. Everyone is waiting restlessly in a seemingly endless line leading up to the gates of heaven. At the head of the line, Peter is deciding which souls shall enter and which shall be turned away. Some distance from the gates...

... is born with the faculty of dance. Because we have stopped dancing naturally, the body is suffering very much. There are a few things that can happen only through dance: flow is possible only through dance. So help her to participate in dancing meditations. If she can get into dance, meditation will happen of its own accord.] And meditate on Christ, think of him. He is one of the doers to god...

... religion. Meditate, just silently sitting think of him and slowly slowly, you will be surprised: you start feeling many things about him. You will see him walking again, you will see him talking to his apostles again, you will see him on Lake Galilee, and you will see him on Golgotha. I am saying this to you because you have seen him once. You have been a contemporary of Christ's, so all those memories...

... case with religion: it is the science of the divine. k is experimental, it is experiential, it is existential. You cannot only think about god; you have to do something. You have to meditate, you have to pray, you have to search and seek, you have to go withinwards. And all that you start with is only hypothetical; it is always 'perhaps'. The truth is to be proved only when you have arrived through...

...: if you don't drop your misery, you will have to go into groups. If you think that a group is more miserable, then drop your misery. These groups are simply an opportunity to become more miserable so you can choose, whatsoever you want to. [The primal therapist] will be away for six weeks, so for six weeks you can meditate over it. If you can drop your misery on your own, perfectly good; if you...