Osho - Weekly Meditation For The Here And Now
Weekly Meditation - Week 48. Clinging
November 25
Clinging
Mind always clings - and it is good to drop this clinging. Each day is new, each moment is new. And after each moment we move in a different world, and one should be prepared so that nothing has a hold on one.
Buddha used to tell his disciples to never stay in a house for more than three days, because by the fourth day one starts feeling at home. Before one feels at home, one should move on. Mind always clings - and it is good to drop this clinging. Each day is new, each moment is new, and after each moment we move in a different world, and one should be prepared so that nothing has a hold on one. The past should simply disappear; you should die continually to the past. So don't waste time. Die to what is gone; it is no more.
Otherwise, as you are clinging to that which is no more, even when a new thing arrives you will be clinging to the old. This is how the mind goes on missing. Always remain true to the present. Remain committed to this moment - there is no other commitment. One commitment is enough: commitment to this moment, to herenow.
November 26
Prayer
Prayer should be unlearned; it should be spontaneous.
Many people pray in the churches, in the temples, and nothing happens; nothing is going to happen. They can go on praying for lives together and nothing will happen, because their prayer is not spontaneous. They are managing it; it is through the mind. They are too wise, and for a prayer to function you have to be a fool.
Prayer is foolish - you may even feel awkward that you are talking to God. It is foolish, but it works. There are times when foolishness is wisdom, and wisdom is foolishness. So whenever you feel a moment when prayer is needed, use it. The more you use it, the more it will become available. And out of meditation your prayer will deepen.
You pray inside, and if something happens in the body, allow it, whatever it is. If any movement comes to the body, any energy starts waving in the body or if you become like a small leaf in a strong wind, just pray and allow it.
November 27
The Answer
There is no answer. There are only two ways for the mind to be: full of questions and empty if questions.
Maturity is coming to a point where you can live without answers; that is what maturity is. And to live without answers is the greatest and most courageous act. Then you are no longer a child. A child goes on asking questions, wanting answers for everything. A child believes that if he can formulate a question, then there must be an answer, there must be somebody to supply the answer.
I call this immaturity. You think that because you can formulate a question, there is bound to be an answer; maybe you don't know it, but somebody must know the answer, and some day, you will be able to discover it. That's not so. All questions are man-created, manufactured by man.
Existence has no answer. Existence is there, with no answers, completely silent. If you can drop all questions, a communication happens between you and existence. The moment you drop questions, you drop philosophy, you drop theology, you drop logic, and you start living. You become existential. When there are no questions, that state itself is the answer.
November 28
Shame
Whatever you are ashamed of, you hide inside, in the unconscious. It moves deeper into your being, circulates in your blood, goes on manipulating you from backstage.
If you want to repress, repress something beautiful. Never repress something you are ashamed of, because whatever you repress goes deep and whatever you express will evaporate into the sky. So whatsoever you are ashamed of, express it so you are finished with it. Whatever is beautiful keep as a treasure inside, so it goes on influencing your life.
But we do just the opposite. Whatever is beautiful we go on expressing - in fact too much-we express more than is there. You go on saying, "I love, I love, I love,” and you may not even mean it that much. You go on suppressing anger, hatred, jealousy, possessiveness, and by and by you find that you have become all that you have suppressed, and then deep guilt arises.
There is nothing to be ashamed of; everything is perfect as it is. There cannot be any more perfect a world than this. Right now, this moment, is the climax of the whole' existence, the very matrix around which everything revolves. Nothing can be more perfect, so simply relax and enjoy. Open your doors to the sun and the air and the sky.
Then new fresh air is always passing you, new sun rays are always passing you. Allow the traffic of existence to pass through you. Never be a closed road, otherwise only death and dirt gathers. Just drop all notions of shame, and never judge anything.
November 29
Totality
Whatever is if the total becomes beautiful. The partial is ugly, and the total is beautiful. So whatever is you, be total in it, and your being total will transform the very quality of it.
This is the alchemy of transformation, of inner transformation. Accept and move with the moment. If you really move, there will be no hangover. If you really go into anger you finish with it, because when you go into it totally it is finished. And then you are out of it, completely out of it, uncorrupted by it.
Watch a small child who is not yet corrupted by the society. When he is angry, he is really angry; he explodes. A tiny child, but he becomes so powerful-as if he will destroy the whole world. He becomes red hot, as if he is on fire. Just watch the child, how beautiful he is-so alive. And the next moment he is playing and laughing - the anger is no more there. You cannot even believe that he was angry just a moment before. Now he is so loving, so flowerlike - and just a moment before he was a flame!
This is the way to live. You are, so totally, that there is never any hangover left from any moment. You are always fresh and young, and the past is not like a load on you. This is what I call a spiritual life. A spiritual1ife is not a life of discipline. It is a life of spontaneity.
November 30
Desire
Become such an intense desire that the very fire if the desire burns you completely and nothing is lift.
Desire can have two forms: you can desire something but you remain away from the desire. You can drop the desire or you can fulfill it, but you are separate. If it is not fulfilled you will feel frustrated, but when you are separate, the desire is just accidental to you.
Abheepsa means when the desire has become your very soul. You cannot drop it, because if you do, you are dropped in it. When it becomes so existential that there is no separation between you and the desire, then desire has tremendous beauty. Then it takes a new dimension, moves into the timeless.
December 1
Inneranger
One part if anger is understandable because it is related to people, to situations. But when this superficial layer if anger is thrown away, then suddenly you come on a source if anger that is not related to the outside at all, which is simply part if you.
We have been taught that anger comes only in certain tense situations. That's not true. We are born with anger, it is part of us. In certain situations it comes up, in certain other situations it is inactive, but it is there.
So one first has to throw out the anger that is related, and then one comes on the deeper source of anger that is unrelated to anybody elsethat one is born with. It is unaddressed, and that's the trouble in understanding it. But there is no need to understand it. Just throw it - not on anybody, but on a pillow, on the sky, on God, on me.
This is going to happen with every emotion. There is a part of love that is related to someone. Then if you go deeper, one day you will come to the source of love that is unaddressed. It is not moving toward anybody, it is simply there, there inside. And the same is true of everything you feel. Everything has two sides.
One side, the unconscious, the deeper side, is simply with you, and the superficial is the functioning of this deeper layer in relationship. People who remain superficial always completely forget their inner treasures. When you throw out the inner anger, you come face-to-face with inner love, inner compassion. The rubbish has to be thrown out so that you can come to the purest gold within you.
