what meditation is

[Guest guest]

what meditation is all about: creating a distance between you and your mind.

Once the distance is there, you will be surprised that the whole mind structure

is your imprisonment -- you are free from it because you are separate from it.

Once you start enjoying the freedom from the mind all goals will disappear, all

destinations will disappear.

 

Mind can only live in goals, because mind can only exist in the future. Mind

cannot exist herenow -- try to be herenow and try for the mind to continue. You

will find it impossible. Either the mind continues, then you are not herenow;

or, you are herenow and the mind is no more there. Mind has no present tense at

all; either it is past or it is future -- it is always in the non-existential.

And God is that which exists. God is not a goal, nirvana is not a goal,

enlightenment is not a goal, it is not an achievement -- just the contrary. When

you have forgotten all goals, when you have dropped the whole achieving mind,

enlightenment is -- enlightenment is a state of no-mind.

 

And enlightenment is nothing special. It is the most ordinary, natural

phenomenon. It looks special because you make a goal out of it. Buddha is the

most ordinary human being -- ordinary in the sense that he has no mind, he

exists in the sheer present. He has no ego, how can he be special? He cannot

compare himself with anybody else, he cannot be inferior or superior.

 

In the present moment, he is not -- but a totally different kind of presence

happens, which does not belong to the person; it is only a presence, not a

person at all. And how can he be special? -- Because in the present moment he

finds that there is no purpose in life. The whole purpose is mind-imposed.

 

The trees are there for no purpose at all, and the stars are there for no

purpose at all. Purpose is a man-created concept. Rivers are not flowing for any

purpose, and the oceans are there not for any purpose. Except for man there is

nothing like purpose anywhere else. Life simply is. Existence utterly is -- it

is not a means to some end; it is an end unto itself.

 

Osho: The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I wonder...

 

Can humans know what "purpose" other life forms may

conceive? Or can we only "know" our own mind's concepts,

whether of purpose or no purpose?

 

, Friends of Osho

<supraath> wrote:

> The trees are there for no purpose at all, and the stars are

there for no purpose at all. Purpose is a man-created concept.

Rivers are not flowing for any purpose, and the oceans are there

not for any purpose. Except for man there is nothing like purpose

anywhere else. Life simply is. Existence utterly is -- it is not a

means to some end; it is an end unto itself.

> Osho: The Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty

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> The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

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