What is meditation?
The physiological part is ordinary, the psychological part is ordinary. Both can give power, but power is not the goal of meditation.
Power is politics, all kinds of power is politics.
And power corrupts all kinds of power it corrupts unconditionally and absolutely; it always corrupts. And the moment you know something of meditation not about it, but the very taste of it a great release comes.
A great relief comes.
Suddenly all tensions disappear: anxieties, anguishes, are found no more. Once you have tasted meditation it is impossible for you to be in any misery.
Bliss becomes inevitable, a natural showering, and it goes on showering like flowers showering from the sky.
Meditation, as such, needs no technique at all. But techniques are needed to remove the obstacles in the way of meditation.
So it has to be understood very clearly: meditation itself needs no techniques, it is a simple understanding, an alertness, an awareness.
Neither alertness is a technique, nor awareness is a technique. But on the way to being alert, there are so many obstacles.
For a long time, a life time you have been gathering obstacles, they need to be removed. Techniques are needed to remove the mind out of the way, to create a space in which the mind becomes quiet, silent, almost absent.
Then meditation happens on its own accord.
Socrates said, ’Don’t be worried about me.
You just do your duty and let me do my work.
If I live then I have to sing my song.
And I cannot dance to anybody else’s tune, I will create my own music and I will live my own life. And whatsoever the price I have to pay for it I am ready to pay.
Even if life has to be taken away, it’s perfectly okay, I am happy about it, in fact, tremendously joyous because I can feel great respect for myself.
I am dying a noble death for truth. Truth is a higher value than life itself.
A life without truth is not life, it is vegetating.
You have to put aside all the programming that has been done on you, you are capable of doing it, you just need guts.
You have to rebel if you really want to live, you have to rebel. You have to rebel against all kinds of superstitions, against all kinds of stupidities.
Unless you do that you will not know anything of the ecstasy that this life contains.
There is no heaven anywhere, it is here. It is always here, it is never there.
It is always now, it is never then. Meditation is the now.
The very idea of paradise somewhere else there, then is a strategy of the mind to deceive you, to keep you ignorant of the paradise that surrounds you every moment. The only time existence knows is now, and the meditator has to enter this ’nowness’ of things.
This is heaven. This very moment we are in it. You are of aware, I am aware of it.We exist in the same space.There is nowhere to go! Paradise is not where you are but who you are. Metaphysically to fall asleep means to become a mind.
Meditation is to come out of the mind, to come out of knowledge and again become innocent. That’s the whole alchemy of meditation.
Hell simply means disharmony within you within you and with existence too.
The moment you are harmonious within yourself and with existence and they are two sides of the same coin immediately you are in heaven. Heaven and hell are not geographical. You are never born and you never die.
You certainly enter into a body that is a birth and one day you leave the body that’s what you call death but as far as you are concerned, you were before your birth and you will be after your death.
You not going to die. Certainly, one day you will leave the body, its a fact. There is no longer any connection with the body. You are just a guest, you don’t own it. You are no longer part of it, it is no longer part of you.
Quelle: Osho