Osho - Weekly Meditation For The Here And Now
Weekly Meditation - Week 37. Imagination
September 9
Imagination
Never deny imagination. It is the only creative faculty in human beings, the only poetic faculty, and one should not deny it.
Denied, imagination becomes very revengeful. Denied, it becomes a nightmare. Denied, it becomes destructive. Otherwise it is very creative. It is creativity and nothing else. But if you deny it, if you disown it, you start a conflict between your own creativity and yourself, then you are going lose.
Science can never win against art, and logic can never win against love. History can never win against myth, and reality is poor compared to dreams, very poor. So if you carry any idea against imagination, drop it. Because we all carry it-this age is very antiimagination.
People have been taught, to be factual, realistic, empirical, and all sorts of nonsense. People should be more dreamy, more childlike, more ecstatic. People should be able to create euphoria. And only through that do you reach your original source.
God must be a tremendously imaginative person. Just look at the world! Whoever created it or dreamed it must be a great dreamer… so many colors and so many songs. The whole of existence is a rainbow. It must come out of deep imagination.
September 10
Difficulties
Difficulties are always there. They are part of life. And it is good that they are there, otherwise there would be no growth.
Difficulties are challenges. They provoke you to work, to think, to find ways to overcome them. The very effort is essential. So always take difficulties as blessings.
Without difficulties, we would be nowhere. Bigger difficulties come - that means that existence is looking after you, it is giving you more challenges. And the more you solve them, the greater challenges will be waiting for you. Only at the last moment, difficulties disappear, but that last moment comes only because of difficulties. So never take any difficulty negatively. Find something positive in it. The same rock blocking the path can function as a stepping stone. If there were no rock on the path, you would never rise up. And the very process of going above it, making it a stepping stone, gives you a new altitude of being.
So once you think about life creatively, then everything is useful and everything has something to give you. Nothing is meaningless.
September 11
S0ng Of God
We are all different songs of the same singer, different gestures of the same dancer.
Each being is a song of God: unique, individual, incomparable, unrepeatable, but still coming from the same source. Each song has its own flavor, its own beauty, its own music, its own melody, but the
singer is the same. We are all different songs of the same singer, different gestures of the same dancer.
To start feeling it is meditation. Then conflict disappears, jealousies become impossible, and violence is unthinkable, because there is nobody other than our own reflections all over the world. If we belong to the same source, just like all the waves of the ocean, then what is the point of conflict, competition, feeling superior or inferior, and all that nonsense? Nobody is superior and nobody is inferior: Everybody is simply just himself or herself.
And everybody is so unique that there has never been any other individual like you before, and there is no possibility of there ever being an individual like you again. In fact, you yourself are not the same for two consecutive moments. Yesterday you were a different person, today it is just somebody else. Tomorrow, one never knows.
Each being is a flux: a constant change, a river flowing. Heraclitus says that you cannot step in the same river twice. And I say to you, you cannot step in the same river even once, because the river is constantly flowing. And the river represents life.
September 12
Hopelessness
You have all the gadgets that technology has provided for you, So what can tomorrow give to you that you don't have today?
The future flops, and with the future flopping great hopelessness arises. The world up to now has lived with great hope, but suddenly hopes are disappearing and despair is settling in. To me, this is of immense importance. This crisis in human consciousness is of great import. Either humanity has to disappear from the earth or it will have a totally new being, a new birth. And my work consists of giving a new birth to human consciousness.
The world has failed us; now there is nothing to long for here on the earth. Now the longing can soar high. Now the visible is finished, and we can search in the invisible. Now time is meaningless; we have to move into the nontemporal. Now the ordinary mundane life has no charm; it has lost all joy. We have fulfilled all the desires, all the possible desires, and they have not satisfied us. Now the real discontent is possible, and to be really discontented is a great blessing.
September 13
Talk
if you don't feel like talking, don't - don't say a single word that is not coming to you spontaneously. Don't be worried if people think you are going crazy. Accept it. if they think you have become dumb ,accept it, and enjoy your dumbness!
The real trouble is with people who go on talking and don't know what they are talking about and why. They go on talking because they cannot stop. But if you become a little aware of the whole nonsense and the trouble that goes on in the mind, if you become aware that there is nothing to say, that everything seems to be trivia, then you hesitate.
In the beginning it feels as though you are losing the capacity to communicate - it is not so. In fact, people talk not to communicate, but to avoid communication. Soon you will be able to really communicate. Just wait, and don't force anything. Don't be worried about the silence. One does worry, though, because the whole society exists on talking, on language, and people who are very articulate become very powerful in society - leaders, scholars, politicians, writers. One soon becomes afraid that one is losing one's grip on language, but don't be worried. Silence is the grip on God, and once you mow what silence is, you have something to talk about.
Once you have gone deeper into silence, then your words carry meaning for the first time. Then they are not just empty words, they are full of something of the beyond. They have a poetry to them, a dance. They carry your inner grace with them.
September 14
Dream
When you go to sleep, one thing should remain in the consciousness while you are falling into sleep-that everything is a dream, everything, unconditionally, is a dream.
That which you see with your eyes open - that too, is a dream. That which you see with closed eyes-that too, is a dream. Dream is the stuff life is made of. So with this climate fall into sleep; with this constant remembrance that everything, everything with no exception, is a dream. When everything is a dream, there is nothing to worry about.
That is the whole concept of maya - that the world is illusory. Not that the world is illusory - it has its own reality-but this is just a technique to help you settle deeply into yourself. Then nothing disturbs you. If everything is a dream, then it is pointless to be disturbed. Just think, if this moment you think that everything is a dream - that the trees, the night, the sound of the night is a dream - suddenly you are transported into a different world. You are there, the dream is there, and nothing is worth worrying about.
So starting tonight just fall into sleep with this attitude. And in the morning too, the first thing you have to remember is that everything is a dream. Let this recur many times in the day, and suddenly you will feel relaxed.
September 15
Intmacy
When you know how to relate-even how to relate with things — your whole life changes.
When you put on your shoes you can relate with those shoes in a very friendly way, or you can just be indifferent, or even inimical. Nothing will be different for the shoe, but much will be different for you.
Don't miss any opportunity to be loving. Even putting on your shoes, be loving. Those moments of being full of love will be helpful to you. Relate with things as if they are persons. People are doing just the reverse-they relate with people as if they are things. A husband becomes a thing, a child becomes a thing, a wife becomes a thing, a mother becomes a thing.
People completely forget that these are living beings. They use and manipulate. But you can relate even to things as if they are persons-even with the chair you can have a certain loving relationship, and so with the trees and with the birds and with the animals and with people.
When your quality of relating changes, the whole of existence attains a personality. Then it is no longer impersonal, indifferent - an intimacy arises.
