meditation/the beloved

meditation transforms you

into a beloved of the whole existence

as the meditator becomes centered, silent, aware

the whole existence starts converging upward

the same world, but no more the same

before it was cold, alien

now it is cosy, a home

a man without meditation

lives in the world as a stranger

as you enter meditation

you enter a love affair with existence

and for love everything is possible

even the impossible is not impossible

all that is needed is

a deep profound silence in your being

that becomes a magnetic pull

then whatsoever is beautiful in existence

starts moving towards you

meditation creates gravitation for truth

for beauty, for love

for freedom, for godliness

for all that is really valuable

one need not go searching for anything

one has to simply rest in one’s own being

and all that is needed follows in its own course

meditation is the only magic

that has yet been known

and I don’t think it can ever be transcended

there will not be any magic greater than meditation

Osho

painting credit: Candy Matthews 

Gangotri/The source

deep in the Himalayas, from virgin peaks

where snow has never melted, the Ganges starts

the point where Ganges starts is called Gangotri

it is a very small place

just a small face of a cow

somebody has sculpted a rock into the face of a cow

and from that face of the cow

the great river Ganges starts

it starts as a small stream and then goes on

becoming bigger and bigger

finally it becomes the very ocean itself

that is also the way of love

it starts in a very small way

but one should not stop there

one should go on flowing, moving

love should never become static

it should remain dynamic

the moment it becomes static it starts stinking

the moment it becomes static it loses

the freshness of a river, the aliveness of a river

it becomes just a muddy pool

people call it marriage

it was just a muddy pool and such a small pool

and they go on round and round chasing each other

and creating more mud

and throwing mud at each other

love should be a river, always moving

from the known into the unknown

and from the unknown to the unknowable

the beginning has to be small

but the end has to be the infinite, the oceanic

if one can remain aware of it

then love is all that there is to spirituality

except love, whatsoever goes on

in the name of spirituality is all bullshit

esoteric bullshit, occult bullshit

remember it - beause it is very easy

to fall into that bullshit

it has great attraction

it has great systems of thought and strange ideas

and all inventions of crafty people

life is very simple - so is love

and if you can remember these three l’s:

life, love, light

nothing else is needed to be remembered

live totally, live lovingly

and live not in a state of unconsciousness

live consciously - that is living with light

just these three words are enough

and one need not bother about anything else

Osho

The sacred

love is sacred

in fact the only thing that can give you

the feeling of the sacred is love

love exists on the earth but is not part of the earth

it is a ray from the beyond

so those who can catch hold of the ray

they can go on moving in the direction

from which the ray is coming

and ultimately can find the source of all love

the religions have called that source god

it is better to call it godliness

so the idea of a person is dropped

and only the idea of energy remains

love is sacred, divine, godly

and also, love is a noble giver

one can give but there is an expectation

of something to gain out of it

then it is not noble, then it is just pure business

it has no nobility about it

one can give with certain conditions

then it loses all nobility

love is a noble giver

because it gives for the sheer joy of giving

there is no desire for any return

not that rewards don’t come

thy come - they come thousandfold

but that is another matter

that is not your expectation

you were not desiring it, you were not demanding it

you had no idea of any return

in fact the lover is surprised when the gifts come

what he had given was nothing

and what comes is almost infinite, immeasurable

love is sacred

it is really sacred

because it is the art of noble giving

give for the sheer joy of giving

share for sharing’s sake, for no other reason

and you will be rewarded immeasurably

you will come to the inexhaustible source

just by giving you will become everytime

more and more rich - that’s the economics of love

a totally different economics

if you give you will be poor

in the ordinary economical world

if you go on giving soon you will be a beggar

but in the inner world the laws are just the reverse

give and you become richer

the more you give, the more you have

the less you give, the less you have

if you don’t give you are poor, you are a beggar

one has to learn it, but the oly way to learn

is to give and see what happens

to share and see what happens

there is no other way to learn except experiencing it

Osho