Dear friends, I am now re-reading the wonderful book of Osho: From Meditation to Meditation. Everytime I read it, I am amazed at the profound insight of Osho about meditation. I'd like to share with you what I love from this book, and try to post one piece a day. Hope some of you will find it helpful:
To me, the first principle of life is meditation. Everything else comes second... Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the Sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a prilgrimage. The second principle is the prilgrimage. Life must be a seeking, not a desire, but a search; not an ambition to become this, to become that...but a search to find out "who am I?" It is very strange that people who don't know who they are, are trying to become somebody. They don't even know who they are right now! They are unacquainted with their being but they have a goal of becoming. Becoming is the disease of the soul. Being is you, and to discover your being is the beginning of life. Then each moment is a new discovery, each moment brings you a new joy, a new mystery opens its doors, a new love starts growing in you, a new compassion that you have never felt before, a new sensitivity about beauty, about goodness.
