Osho - When you
are not doing anything at all -- bodily, mentally,
on no level -- when all activity has ceased and you
simply are, just being, that's what meditation is.
You cannot do it, you cannot practice it; you have
only to understand it.
Whenever you can find time for just being, drop all
doing. Thinking is also doing, concentration is also
doing, contemplation is also doing. Even if for a
single moment you are not doing anything and you are
just at your center, utterly relaxed -- that is
meditation. And once you have got the knack of it,
you can remain in that state as long as you want;
finally you can remain in that state for twenty-four
hours a day.
Once you have become aware of the way your being can
remain undisturbed, then slowly you can start doing
things, keeping alert that your being is not
stirred. That is the second part of meditation.
First, learning how just to be, and then learning
little actions: cleaning the floor, taking a shower,
but keeping yourself centered. Then you can do
complicated things.
For example, I am speaking to you, but my meditation
is not disturbed. I can go on speaking, but at my
very center there is not even a ripple; it is just
silent, utterly silent. So meditation is not against
action. It is not that you have to escape from life.
It simply teaches you a new way of life: You become
the center of the cyclone.
Your life goes on, it goes on really more intensely
-- with more joy, with more clarity, more vision,
more creativity -- yet you are aloof, just a watcher
on the hills, simply seeing all that is happening
around you. You are not the doer, you are the
watcher.
That's the whole secret of meditation, that you
become the watcher. Doing continues on its own
level, there is no problem: chopping wood, drawing
water from the well. You can do all small and big
things; only one thing is not allowed and that is,
your centering should not be lost. That awareness,
that watchfulness, should remain absolutely
unclouded, undisturbed.
