Just a Small Step: Enter Meditation like a Shooting Star

Email

Whatsapp

Facebook

Pinterest

Twitter

Copy link

Our lives are constantly focused outward, busy with education and jobs, family and friends. This is how we are trained from the very beginning, and society continuously reinforces that this is the right way to be.

Osho introduces an entirely different outlook that it takes just a small step to bring meditation into your life, and once taken, you cannot go back. You will go on moving forward.

Experiment, turn inward, and discover an entirely new dimension. It has always been there; we have just never looked in that direction before.

"I will say something, but nothing is going to happen by my saying it. If you experiment with it, I assure you from my side that, whatever you have ever imagined attaining in your life, much more will be attained."

Osho's unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. Mystic and scientist, a rebellious spirit whose sole interest is to alert humanity to the urgent need to dis- cover a new way of living. To continue as before is to invite threats to our very survival on this unique and beautiful planet.

His essential point is that only by changing ourselves, one individual at a time, can the outcome of all our "selves" - our societies, our cultures, our beliefs, our world - also change. The doorway to that change is meditation.

Osho the scientist has experimented and scrutinized all the approaches of the past and examined their effects on the modern human being and responded to their shortcomings by creating a new starting point for the hyperactive 21" Century mind: OSHO Active Meditations.

Once the agitation of a modern lifetime has started to settle. "activity" can melt into "passivity," a key starting point of real meditation. To support this next step, Osho has transformed the ancient "art of listening" into a subtle contemporary method- ology: the OSHO Talks. Here words become music, the listener discovers who is listening, and the awareness moves from what is being heard to the individual doing the listening. Magically, as silence arises, what needs to be heard is understood directly, free from the distraction of a mind that can only interrupt and inter- fere with this delicate process.

Think about this: Whatever I accumulate by running my whole life - be it scholarliness or wealth, fasting for austerity, earning fame, writing novels, creating paintings, or singing songs - in the end, in the face of death when my whole life is put to the ultimate test, will these things have any significance or not?

If they won't, it is better to be aware of it this very day. And it is better to move in the direction where you can create such richness, such power, such energy within your being that when you encounter death you will have something within you that is unaffected by death, which even death cannot destroy.

It is possible. And if it weren't possible, all religions would be simply nonsense and futile. It has happened before, it can happen even today. It can happen in everyone's life. But neither does it fall from the sky nor can you get it through charity nor can it be stolen, and it can't be attained for free just by sitting at the feet of some awakened master. Nobody can hand it to you, it can only be given birth by you. It can only be created by your own efforts, by your own life and determination, by putting all your energy into it.

But as long as we feel that what we are doing is perfectly right, as long as the way we are living seems right to us, we can't take steps in that direction. Somewhere our life is deluded. somewhere it is wrong. We must be aware that our direction in life is taking us on paths which lead nowhere.

The way to give birth to this awareness is to appraise your life as if you are facing death. One day, you will have to appraise it anyway in the face of death, but then there is nothing you can do about it. Someone who starts appraising it beforehand will be able to do something about it. Then something will surely happen in his life, some revolution will intensify in his life. So it is essential to start assessing it from today onward, to evaluate it every day.

Book's Contents and Sample Pages