Meditation Quotes of Osho

• Meditation is a state of no-mind. The mind is like hot, burning sun. Under mind you move -- shadow falls, shadow is created. When the hot, burning sun is not there, suddenly... silence.
  Meditation is a state of no-mind. Meditation is the interval when there are no thoughts floating in you, when the clouds of thoughts have disappeared. You are without thoughts, but not asleep. You are without thoughts, yet alert. An alert thoughtlessness is meditation.
   
• Nothing is more important than your own internal watchfulness.
   
• Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind.
   
• To transcend the mind is the whole art of meditation, and the East has devoted almost ten thousand years to a single purpose -- all its intelligence and genius -- of discovering how to transcend the mind and its conditionings. That whole effort of ten thousand years has culminated in refining the method of meditation.
   
• Meditation is the art of transforming madness into Buddhahood. Meditation is the art of taking you beyond logic and yet keeping your sanity intact. Meditation is the greatest discovery ever made, and I don't think there is ever going to be another discovery which can surpass meditation.
   
• Bodhidharma defines meditation as a state of no-mind. The moment the mind disappears, you know. Knowing happens only when there is no mind; mind is a barrier to knowing.
   
• Just live your sex moments with utter joy, silence, peacefulness, with celebration. Live your sex moments meditatively, and meditation transforms sex into love. Not only does sex become love: one day it becomes prayer, worship.
   
• All meditation techniques say that unless you are capable of being alone, you will never be able to know your being. It will take a certain time for the mind to slow down. But if you can sit silently for a few hours every day, unoccupied, doing nothing -- the mind will go mad in the beginning, will go very crazy, round and round it will run, but if you can go on patiently waiting and waiting and waiting -- you will see that slowly slowly the momentum of the mind is disappearing. Thoughts are moving but not so fast -- not running but limping, puzzled, looking at you: "What has happened to you?" They are not so powerful, as if their life has disappeared; not so self-confident, but shaky, looking at you, puzzled, wondering, "What are you doing?"
   
• The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts disappear. The future is also a thought; it disappears when you drop thinking. When you are in a state of no-thought -- there is no past, no future, there is only the present -- in that state of no-thought you are ONE, in tune with God. And suddenly the flood is there: you are flooded with light, with love, with grace. You are no more a man, you are divine. You have surpassed humanity.