Osho on Meditation

Meditation is a totally different dimension: you simply watch the mind and in watching you come out of it. And slowly, mind with all its problems disappears; otherwise the mind is going to create strange problems...
Mind is your only problem - all other problems are just offshoots of the mind.

Meditation is not a solution of any problem in particular; it solves nothing. It simply helps you to get rid of the mind, the problem-creator. It simply helps you to slip out of the mind as a snake slips out of the old skin.

A meditative man has insight.
He can see how he himself created his problems.
And then, naturally he stops creating them.

Meditation starts by being separate from the mind, by being a witness. That is the only way of separating yourself from anything. If you are looking at the light, naturally one thing is certain: you are not the light, you are the one who is looking at it. If you are watching the flowers, one thing is certain: you are not the flower, you are the watcher. Watching is the key of meditation. Watch your mind.

The whole function of meditation is to see oneself,
to accept oneself,
to love oneself.

In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure. Pleasure is more distracting.... Pleasure tends to make you unconscious; pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance: you cannot forget pain. If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally.

Quotations on meditation: | Alan Watts on Meditation | Quotes on Meditation | Favorites on Meditation | Paul Brunton: Dangers in Meditation | Rajneesh (Osho) on Meditation| Yoga Meditation |

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