Osho - Weekly Meditation For The Here And Now
Weekly Meditation - Week 30. Just This
July 22
Just This
It is the very essence of meditation: Just this. To remain aware of just this is meditation - watching it, observing it, with no condemnation, with no evaluation, just remaining like a mirror.
The mind can live only in the past and through the past, or in the future and through the future. The present moment becomes its grave: The mind cannot exist in this-ness. And to be in a no-mind state is to be in meditation. This can become one of the greatest secrets. It can become the very key that unlocks the door of the divine. When something is passing through the mind, remember: just this. Don't say it is good, don't say it is bad; don't compare it. Don't desire that something be otherwise. Whatever is, is, and whatever is not, is not.
Everybody creates much misery out of this tension. People try to attain that which is not and tend to forget that which is. For example, when you cry, just deep inside make it a meditation. Just say deep down, just this. Don't evaluate it, don't think it should not be. Don't think about what others will think. Let it be, and you just be a cool, distant watcher. Crying is neither good nor badnothing is ever good or bad; things simply are. If we don't judge, the mind starts disappearing. And to see reality without the mind is to see the truth.
July 23
Beyond Therapy
Therapy suggests that you slowly unburden yourself. What I am teaching is beyond therapy, but therapy does prepare you.
Therapy's work is limited: It helps you to be sane, that's all. My work goes beyond therapy, but therapy has to prepare the way. Therapies clean the ground; then I can sow the seeds. Just cleaning the ground is not going to make the garden. That's where therapy is missing in the West. You go to the therapist-he or she cleans the ground, helps you to unburden, and then you start accumulating the same things again, because the garden is not really prepared. What are you going to do with clean ground? You will gather all kinds of rubbish again.
Therapy prepares the ground, and then roses can be grown in you. So the therapist is right: aggression, anger, sadness, despair, love - everything has to be expressed, accepted. Then my work starts; then I can tell you how to drop the ego. Now there is no need to carry it.
July 24
Union
Start making as many contacts with existence as possible. Sitting by a tree, hug the tree and feel that you are meeting and merging with it.
Swimming, close your eyes and feel you are melting into the water; let there be a union. Find ways and means wherever you can to relax and unite with something. The more you unite your energy with some other energy, in any form - a cat, a dog, a man, a woman, a tree - the closer home you will be. It is pleasant work; in fact, it is ecstatic work.
Once you have come to feel it, once you have come to know the knack of it, you will be surprised at how much you have missed in your life. Each tree that you have passed could have given you a great orgasm, and each experience - a sunset, a sunrise, the moon, the clouds in the sky, the grass on the earth-could have been ecstatic experiences. Lying down on the lawn, feel you are becoming one with the earth. Melt into the earth, disappear into it; let the earth penetrate you.
This is a meditation: Attain union in as many ways as possible. God has ten thousand doors, and from everywhere he is available. But he is available only in the state of union. That's why sometimes it happens that lovers come to know of meditation in deep orgasm. That is one of the ways of creating union, but that is only one of the ways; there are millions. If one goes on searching, there is no end to it.
July 25
Yes
Say yes to life; drop as many no's as possible. Even if you have to say no, say it, but don't enjoy saying it. And if it is possible, say it also in the form of yes. Don't miss a single opportunity of saying yes to life.
When you say yes, say it with great celebration and joy. Nourish it; don't say it reluctantly. Say it lovingly, say it with enthusiasm, with zest; pour yourself into it totally. When you say yes, become yes! You will be surprised to know that ninety-nine out of a hundred no's can be dropped very easily. We say them only as part of our ego; they were not needed, they were not inevitable. The one no that remains will be very significant; that one need not be dropped. But even when saying that essential no, one has to be very reluctant, very hesitant, because no is death, and yes is life.
July 26
Domination
The idea if dominating arises out if an inferiority complex; people dominate because they are afraid, because they are uncertain about themselves.
There is a very famous Eastern story... A blind man is sitting under a tree. A king comes, touches the feet of the blind man, and says, "Sir, where is the way to the capital?" Then the prime minister of the king comes, and without touching the blind man's feet he says, "Mister, where is the way to the capital?" Then comes an orderly. He hits the old blind man on the head and says, "You fool, where is the way to the capital?" The king's party had lost its way. When they had all gone, the blind man started laughing. Somebody else was sitting by his side, and he asked, "Why are you laughing?"
The blind man said, "Look, the first man must have been a king, the second man must have been the prime minister, and the third was a poor constable."
The man was puzzled; he asked, "How could you know? You are blind." The blind man said, "Just by their behavior... The king was so certain of his superiority that he could touch my feet. The orderly was feeling so inferior that he had to hit me. He must be in a poor situation."
There is no need to dominate; there is no need at all.
July 27
Foolishness
Those moments when you feel that what you are doing is foolish are very rare moments if wisdom.
To be seeking is foolish, because that which 'we are seeking we already have. To meditate is foolish, because meditation is a state of non-doing. To ask is foolish, because the answer cannot come from the outside - it can only come from your own heart. In fact, it cannot come as an answer, it will come as a growth. It will be a blossoming, a blooming of your being. But those moments when you feel that what you are doing is foolish are very rare moments of wisdom. You cannot always feel foolish, otherwise you will become enlightened!
In the Zen tradition this incident is repeated again and again, in every age with every master: Somebody comes and says he wants to know how to become a Buddha and the master hits him very hard - because the question is foolish. Sometimes it has happened, if he is really ready and on the verge, that with the first hit of the master the person has become enlightened. He was able to see in that hit that it was foolish to ask how to be a Buddha, because he was one already!
These things are going to happen to every seeker by and by. While you are meditating, suddenly there is a ray of light and you see that it is foolish. But those are very rare moments of wisdom. It is only a wise man who can feel foolish. Fools never feel that they are foolish; they think that they are wise. That is the definition of a foolish man: he thinks he is wise. And a wise man is one who has come to know that everything is foolish.
July 28
Children
Think if each child as a miracle. Respect children, revere them; don't take them for granted.
Each child is a meeting of the sky and the earth. Each child is a miracle. Something happens that should not ordinarily happen: the meeting of matter and consciousness, the meeting of the visible and the invisible. So think of each child as a miracle. Respect, children, revere them; don't take them for granted.
The moment we take a child for granted, we start murdering him or her. And each child is murdered; that's what is happening all over the world and has happened through the ages: it has been a great massacre. It is not only that Herod killed all the children in Israel, it is happening every day; it was happening before Herod, and it has been happening since him.
Each child passes through a psychic murder; the moment the child is not respected and is thought to belong to you like a possession, the child has been killed, effaced. The child has to be respected as a God, because the child is the coming of God into the world again. Each child is a statement from God that he is not yet tired, that he is not yet weary of humankind, that he still hopes, that he will continue to create new human beings, whatever 'we become. Sinners and saints, whatever we do, he still hopes that the real human being will be created. God has not failed yet! That is the declaration in each child's coming onto the earth, into existence.
