What is Meditation(4)

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Aloneness: your Self-Nature <br>Aloneness is a

flower, a lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is

positive, aloneness is health. It is the joy of being

yourself. It is the joy of having your own space.

Meditation means: bliss in being alone. One is really alive

when one has become capable of it, when there is no

dependence anymore on anybody, on any situation, on any

condition. And because it is one's own, it can remain

morning, evening, day, night, in youth or in old age, in

health, in illness. In life, in death too, it can remain

because it is not something that is happening to you from

the outside. It is something welling up in you. It is

your very nature, it is self-nature. <br>An inside

journey is a journey towards absolute aloneness; you

cannot take anybody there with you. You cannot share

your center with anybody, not even with your beloved.

It is not in the nature of things; nothing can be

done about it. The moment you go in, all connections

with the outside world are broken; all bridges are

broken. In fact, the whole world disappears. That's why

the mystics have called the world illusory, maya, not

that it does not exist, but for the meditator, one who

goes in, it is almost as if the world does not exist.

The silence is so profound; no noise penetrates it.

The aloneness is so deep that one needs guts. But out

of that aloneness explodes bliss. Out of that

aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way;

there has never been any and there is never going to

be. Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space,

and a great song will arise in your heart. And it

will be a song of awareness, it will be a song of

meditation. It will be a song of a lone bird calling in the

distance - not calling to somebody in particular, but just

calling because the heart is full and wants to call,

because the cloud is full and wants to rain, because the

flower is full and the petals open and the fragrance is

released...unaddressed <br>Let your aloneness become a dance.