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Meditation Is Not Concentration
Meditation is not concentration. Concentration consists of focusing on the self and focusing on an object.
There is duality. In meditation there is neither inside nor outside. This is not concentration. There is no division between inside and outside.
Then the inside goes on flowing to the outside, the outside goes on flowing to the inside. The demarcation, the boundary, the frontier, no longer exists.
Inside is outside, outside is inside; This is Advaita consciousness.
Concentration is a double consciousness: that is why concentration creates fatigue; That’s why you feel exhausted when you try to concentrate.
And you can’t concentrate twenty-four hours a day, you have to take holidays to rest. Concentration can never become your nature.
Meditation doesn’t tire, meditation doesn’t tire you. Meditation can become a twenty-four-hour thing – day after day, year after year. This can become an eternity. This is relaxation itself.
Concentration is an act, a willful act. Meditation is a state of desirelessness, a state of passivity.
This is relaxation. One has simply descended into his own existence, and that existence is identical with the existence of all.
In concentration the mind acts on one conclusion: you are doing something. Concentration comes from the past.
In meditation there is no conclusion behind it. You’re not doing anything in particular, you’re just happening. It has no past, it is not contaminated by the past.
It has no future, it is pure from all future. This is what Lao Tzu calls wei-wu-wei, action through inaction.
This is what the Zen masters have been saying: By sitting quietly doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Remember, ‘n’self – nothing is being done. You are not pulling the grass uphill; Spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
Then one can continue with it, but he is going in circles; It cannot go beyond that.
That’s why let happiness be the criterion. If there is joy, then go on, go on till the last drop of joy.
It has to be squeezed out completely. There shouldn’t be any juice left… not even a drop. And then be able to drop it.
Choose some other way that brings joy again. Sometimes a person has to change.
It varies from person to person but it is very rare that a single method covers the entire journey.
There is no need to meditate too much because you can do confusing things, contradictory things, and then pain will arise.
Pick two meditations and stick to them. In fact I would like you to choose one; That would be the best. It is better to repeat several times what you like.
Then it will go deeper. You try many things – one day something, the next day something else.
And you invent your own, so you can create many illusions. There are one hundred and twelve meditations in the book of Tantra. You may be crazy. You’re already crazy!
| Author | Rajneesh Osho |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 225 |
| PDF Size | 1 MB |
| Category | Self Improvement |
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