Compilation of Osho Quotes on Meditation
| Meditation Is Enough | |
| The greatest miracle in life is to understand this, and to turn the energy towards home. It is a turning-in. It is not that you leave the world. You live in the world – there is no need to leave anything, or go anywhere else. You live in the world, but in a totally different way. Now you live in the world but you remain centered in yourself; your energy goes on returning to yourself. | |
| It is a very unreasonable, almost insane world in which you are living. If you can manage just to meditate, you have done more than is expected of the contemporary man. And your meditation is going good. Just go on saying, ‘Good Lord!’ In meditation there never comes any cliff. You don’t have to remember ‘Amen’ – there is no need. | |
| Meditation is a quality of being that you bring to the act. It is not a particular act, it is not that you do this then it is meditation – that you sit in a certain posture, siddhasana, and you keep your spine erect, and you keep your eyes closed or you look at the tip of your nose or you watch your breath, then it is meditation – no, these are just devices for the beginners… | |
| Meditation is a death – death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you. | |
| Enlightenment is not an experience. It is the state where you are left absolutely alone, nothing to know. No object, however beautiful, is present. Only in that moment does your consciousness, unobstructed by any object, take a turn and move back to the source.” ― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom | |
| “Meditation is a science, not a superstition. Meditation” ― Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom | |
| Love makes you meditative if it is on the right lines. Meditation makes you loving if it is on the right lines.’ | |
| It is a very unreasonable, almost insane world in which you are living. If you can manage just to meditate, you have done more than is expected of the contemporary man. And your meditation is going good. Just go on saying, ‘Good Lord!’ In meditation there never comes any cliff. You don’t have to remember ‘Amen’ – there is no need. | |