What is Meditation(2)

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Love, the Fragrance of Meditation <br>If you

meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you

meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a

tremendous love arising in you that you have never known

before - a new quality to your being, a new door

opening. You have become a new flame and now you want to

share. If you love deeply, by and by you will become

aware that your love is becoming more and more

meditative. A subtle quality of silence is entering in you.

Thoughts are disappearing, gaps appearing...silences! You

are touching your own depth. Love makes you

meditative if it is on the right lines. Meditation makes you

loving if it is on the right lines. You want a love

which is born out of meditation, not born out of the

mind. That is the love I continually talk about.

Millions of couples around the world are living as if love

is there. They are living in a world of 'as if'. Of

course, how can they be joyous? They are drained of all

energy. They are trying to get something out of a false

love; it cannot deliver the goods. Hence the

frustration, hence the continuous boredom, hence the

continuous nagging, fighting between the lovers. They are

both trying to do something which is impossible: they

are trying to make their love affair something of the

eternal, which it cannot be. It has arisen out of the mind

and mind cannot give you any glimpse of the eternal.

First go into meditation. because love will come out of

meditation - it is the fragrance of meditation. Meditation

is the flower, the onethousand-petaled lotus. Let it

open. Let it help you to move in the dimension of the

vertical, no-mind, no-time, and then suddenly you will see

the fragrance is there. Then it is eternal, then it

is unconditional. Then it is not even directed to

anybody in particular, it cannot be directed to anybody

in particular. It is not a relationship, it is more

a quality that surrounds you. It has nothing to do

with the other. You are loving, you are love: then it

is eternal. It is your fragrance. It has been around

a Buddha, around a Zarathustra, around a Jesus. It

is a totally different kind of love, it is

qualitatively different.<br>Compassion <br>Buddha has defined

compassion as "love plus meditation." When your love is not

just a desire for the other, when your love is not

only a need, when your love is a sharing, when your

love is not that of a beggar but that of an emperor,

when your love is not asking for something in return

but is ready only to give - to give for the sheer joy

of giving - then add meditation to it and the pure

fragrance is released, the imprisoned splendor is released.

That is compassion; compassion is the highest

phenomenon. Sex is animal, love is human, compassion is

divine. Sex is physical, love is psychological,

compassion is spiritual.