Osho - Weekly Meditation For The Here And Now
Weekly Meditation - Week 11. Strong Winds
March 12
Strong Winds
Those strong winds that hit hard are not really enemies. They help to integrate you. They look as if they will uproot you, but in fighting with them you become rooted.
Think of a tree. You can bring a tree inside the room and, in a way, it will be protected; the wind will not be so hard on it. When storms are raging outside, it will be out of danger. But there w ill be no challenge; everything will be protected. You can put it in a hothouse, but by and by the tree will start becoming pale, it w ill not be green. Something deep inside it will start dying - because challenge shapes life.
Those strong winds that hit hard are not really enemies. They help to integrate you. They look as if they will uproot you, but in fighting with them you become rooted. You send your roots even deeper than the storm can reach and destroy. The sun is very hot and it seems it will burn, but the tree sucks up more water to protect itself against the sun. It becomes greener and greener. Fighting with natural forces, it attains to a certain soul. The soul arises only through struggle.
If things are very easy, you start dispersing. By and by you disintegrate, because integration is not needed at all. You become like a pampered child. So when a challenge happens, live it courageously.
March 13
Start Again
Just look around: Whatever you have been doing, that is not the end. Open it up again, let the journey start again. Bring in new things sometimes bizarre, eccentric, sometimes almost crazy; they all help.
All inventors are thought to be crazy people, eccentric. They are, because they go beyond the limit. They find their own path ways. They never walk on the superhighway, that is not for them; they move into the forest. There is danger: They may be lost, they may not be able to come back again to the crowd, they are losing contact with the herd...
Sometimes you may fail. I am not saying that you may not fail with the new there is always danger-but then there will be thrill. And that thrill is worth the risk—at any price it is worth it. So either bring something new into the old work so that it becomes new and growing, is not mechanical but becomes organic, or change: Change the whole thing arid start doing something absolutely new. Go back to the ABCs and become a potter or a musician or a dancer or a vagabond-anything will do!
Ordinarily the mind will say that this is wrong - you are now established, you have a certain name, a certain fame, and so many people know you, your work is going well and is paying you well, things are settled, why bother? Your mind will say this. Never listen to the mind; the mind is in the service of death.
March 14
Love
Every lover feels that something is missing, because love is unfinished. It is a process, not a thing, Every lover is bound to feel that something is missing. Don’t interpret it wrongly. It simply shows the love in itself is dynamic.
Love is just like a river, always moving. In the very movement is the life of the river. Once it stops it becomes a stagnant thing; then it is no longer a river. The very word river shows a process, the very sound of it gives you the feeling of movement.
Love is a river. So don't think that something is missing; it is part of love's process. And it is good that it is not completed. When something is missing you have to do something about it - that is a call from higher and higher peaks. Not that when you reach them you will feel fulfilled; love never feels fulfilled. It knows no fulfillment, but it is beautiful because then it is alive forever and ever.
And you will always feel that something is not in tune. That too is natural, because when two persons are meeting, two different worlds are meeting. To expect that they will fit perfectly is to expect the impossible, and that will create frustration. At the most there are a few moments when everything is in tune, rare moments.
This is how it has to be. Make all efforts to create that intuneness, but always be ready if it doesn't happen perfectly. And don't be worried about it, otherwise you will fall more and more out of tune. It comes only when you are not worried about it. It happens only when you are not tense about it, when you are not even expecting it - just out of the blue.
March 15
Insight
Every insight, even if it is very hard to accept, helps. Even if it goes against the grain, it helps. Even if it is very ego shattering, it helps. Insight is the only friend.
One should be ready to see into any fact, without rationalizing in any way. Out of this insight, many things happen. But if you have missed the first insight into the matter, you will be puzzled and confused. Many problems will be there, but there will be no solution in sight, because from the very first step a truth has not been accepted. So you are falsifying your own being.
There are many people who have so many problems, but those problems are not real. Ninety-nine percent of problems are false. So if they are not solved, you are in trouble, and even if they are solved, nothing will happen, because they are not your real problems. When you have solved some false problems, you will create others. So the first thing is to penetrate into what is the real problem and to see it as it is. To see the false as false is the beginning of being able to see truth as truth.
March 16
Withdraw Unlove
We don't love. But that is not the only' problem. We unlove. So first start dropping anything that you feel is unloving. Any attitude, any word that you have used out if habit but that now suddenly you feel is cruel-drop it!
Always be ready to say, "I am sorry." Very few people are capable of saying this. Even when they appear to be saying it, they are not. It may be just a social formality. To really say "I am sorry" is a great understanding. You are saying that you have done something wrongand you are not just trying to be polite. You are withdrawing something. You are withdrawing an act that was going to happen, you are withdrawing a word that you had uttered.
So withdraw unlove, and as you do you will see many more thingsthat it is not really a question of how to love. It is only a question of how not to love. It is just like a spring covered with stones and rocks. You remove the rocks, and the spring starts flowing. It is there. Every heart has love, because the heart cannot exist without it.
It is the very pulse of life. Nobody can be without love; that is impossible. It is a basic truth that everyone has love, has the capacity to love and to be loved. But some rocks-wrong upbringing, wrong attitudes, cleverness, cunningness, and a thousand and one things are blocking the path. Withdraw unloving acts, unloving words, unloving gestures, and then suddenly you will catch yourself in a very loving mood. Many moments will come when suddenly you will see that something is bubbling-and there was love, just a glimpse. And by and by those moments will become longer.
March 17
Not Instant Coffee
Love is not a thing you can do. But when you do other things, love will happen.
There are small things you can do - sitting together, looking at the moon, listening to music - nothing directly to do with love. Love is very delicate, fragile. If you look at it, gaze at it directly, it will disappear. It comes only when you are unaware, doing something else. You cannot go directly, arrowlike. Love is not a target. It is a very subtle phenomenon; it is very shy. If you go directly, it will hide.
If you do something directly, you will miss it. The world has become very stupid about love. They want it immediately. They want it like instant coffee - whenever you want it, order it, and it is there. Love is a delicate art; it is nothing you can do. Sometimes those rare blissful moments come... then something of the unknown descends. You are no longer on the earth; you are in paradise.
Reading a book with your lover, both deeply absorbed in it, suddenly you find that a different quality of being has arisen around you both. Something surrounds you both like an aura, and everything is peaceful. But you were not doing anything directly. You were just reading a book, or just going for a long walk, hand-in-hand against the strong wind - and suddenly it was there. It always takes you unaware.
March 18
Togetherness
People have completely forgotten the language of doing things together or not doing anything but just being together.
People have forgotten how to just be. If they have nothing to do, they make love. Then nothing happens, and by and by they are frustrated by love itself. Man and woman are different - not only different, they are opposite; they cannot fit together. And that's the beauty - when they fit together it is a miracle, a magic moment. Otherwise they conflict and fight. That's natural and can be understood, because they have different minds. Their outlooks are polar opposites. They cannot agree on anything, because their ways are different, their logic is different.
To fit in a deep attunement, to fall in deep harmony, is almost miraculous. It is like a Kohinoor, a great diamond, and one should not ask for it every day. One should not ask for it as part of a routine. One should wait for it. Months, sometimes years, pass, and then suddenly it is there. And it is always out of the blue, uncaused.
Don't be worried - it will take care of itself. And don't become a seeker of love, or else you will miss it completely.
