What is Meditation(1)

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What is Meditation ? <br>Osho:<br>Meditation is

not an Indian method; it is not simply a technique.

You cannot learn it. It is a growth: a growth of your

total living, out of your total living. Meditation is

not something that can be added to you as you are. It

cannot be added to you; it can only come to you through

a basic transformation, a mutation. It is a

flowering, a growth. Growth is always from the total; it is

not an addition. Just like love, it cannot be added

to you. It grows out of your totality. You must grow

towards meditation. <br>The Great Silence <br>Silence

usually is understood to be something negative, something

empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This

misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever

experienced silence. All that they have experienced in the

name of silence is noiselessness. But silence is a

totally different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It

is existential, it is not empty. It is overflowing

with a music that you have never heard before, with a

fragrance that is unfamiliar to you, with a light that can

only be seen by the inner eyes. <br>It is not

something fictitious; it is a reality, and a reality which

is already present in everyone - just we never look

in. Your inner world has its own taste, has its own

fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

immensely silent, eternally silent. There has never been

any noise, and there will never be any noise. No word

can reach there, but you can reach. <br>Your very

center of being is the center of a cyclone. Whatever

happens around it does not affect it. It is eternal

silence: days come and go, years come and go, ages come

and pass. Lives come and go, but the eternal silence

of your being remains exactly the same - the same

soundless music, the same fragrance of godliness, the same

transcendence from all that is mortal, from all that is

momentary. <br>It is not your silence. <br>You are it.

<br>It is not something in your possession: you are

possessed by it, and that's the greatness it. Even you are

not there. because even your presence will be a

disturbance. The silence is so profound that there is nobody,

not even you. And this silence brings truth, and

love, and thousands of other blessings to you.

<br>Growing In Sensitivity <br>Meditation will bring you

sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is

our world - the stars are ours, and we are not

foreigners here. We belong intrinsically to existence. We

are part of it, we are the heart of it. <br>You

become so sensitive that even the smallest blade of

grass takes on an immense importance for you. Your

sensitivity makes it clear to you that this small blade of

grass is as important to existence as the biggest star:

without this blade of grass, existence would be less than

it is. This small blade of grass is unique, it is

irreplaceable, it has its own individuality. And this

sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships

with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains,

with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes

richer as love grows, as friendliness grows.