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WHAT is meditation? Is it a technique that can be practiced? Is it an effort that you have to do? Is it something which the mind can achieve? It is not.All that the mind can do cannot be meditation -- it is something beyond the mind, the mind is absolutely helpless there. The mind cannot penetrate meditation; where mind ends, meditation begins. This has to be remembered, because in our life, whatsoever we do, we do through the mind; whatsoever we achieve, we achieve through the mind. And then, when we turn inwards, we again start thinking in terms of techniques, methods, doings, because the whole of life's experience shows us that everything can be done by the mind. Yes. Except meditation, everything can be done by the mind; everything is done by the mind except meditation. Because meditation is not an achievement -- it is already the case, it is your nature.. It has not to be achieved; it has only to be recognized, it has only to be remembered. It is there waiting for you -- just a turning in, and it is available. You have been carrying it always and always.

WHAT IS MEDITATION

A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on the contrary, he has been trying to drop all barriers so that he becomes totally available to existence. Watch...existence is simultaneous. I am speaking here and the traffic noise is simultaneous. The train, the birds the wind blowing through the trees -- in this moment the whole of existence converges. You listening to me, I speaking to you, and millions of things going on -- it is tremendously rich.

MEDITATION IS AWARENESS

Remember, I don't teach concentration; I teach meditation. And the difference is this: concentration is a narrowing of the mind. And I tell you, that even a camel can pass through the eye of a needle, but one who is concentrating cannot pass through the gates of God -- because the mind becomes narrower and narrower. That is the whole meaning of concentration. Meditation is not concentration. Meditation is simple awareness -- widening of the mind, widening of consciousness -- expansion, not narrowing.

MEDITATION IS NOT CONCENTRATION

Meditation is the tree that grows without a seed: that is the miracle of meditation, the magic, the mystery. Concentration has a seed in it: you concentrate for a certain purpose, there is motive, it is motivated. Meditation has no motive. Then why should one meditate if there is no motive?Meditation comes into existence only when you have looked into all motives and found them lacking, when you have gone through the whole round of motives and you have seen the falsity of it. You have seen that the motives lead nowhere, that you go on moving in circles; you remain the same. The motives go on and on leading you, driving you, almost driving you mad, creating new desires, but nothing is ever achieved. The hands remain as empty as ever. When this has been seen, when you have looked into your life and seen all your motives failing....

MEDITATION HAS NO GOAL

"If you are ready to dive deep into the world&nbsp; that we are creating here - It is an invisible world,&nbsp; something of great value is possible"OSHO

OSHO MEDITATIONS

Meditation is being eternally present but we keep being identified with the mind and body. It is ironical that, in reality, we are not the one who can be seen, touched, heard or smelled but an awareness that is invisible and intangible. Meditation is the fast track to this our authentic reality.Because most modern human beings are just not able to sit silently in the present moment, the enlightened mystic Osho has devised numerous meditations to help quieten the mind and release suppressed emotions held in the body.Osho's active meditations begin with physically energetic stages that may involve dancing, shaking or any other cathartic activity and they end with a period of silence. All stages except the silent ones are usually accompanied by music. Osho has also devised passive meditations that lead the meditator to experience themselves as that invisible, intangible Watcher on the HillAll that is ‘painful’ in the world - wars, global warming, brutality and misery - is created by the mind. The mind is actually designed to be in service to the heart; the real master. Mind pretending and acting as a master is an ill. The medication for this ill is meditation, greater awareness and greater consciousness.Osho says“Take one method and play with it for at least three days. If it gives you a certain feeling of affinity, if it gives you a certain feeling of well-being, if it gives you a certain feeling that this is for you, then be serious about it. Then forget the others, do not play with other methods. Stick to it -- at least for three months. Miracles are possible. The only thing is that the technique must be for you. If the technique is not for you, then nothing happens. Then you may go on with it for lives together, but nothing will happen. If the method is for you then even three minutes are enough.”Osho Dham provides an opportunity for you to experience all meditations devised by Osho. It is a place where you can be both with other meditators and alone with nature thus find the way to your intrinsic potential.