Meditation Is No Concentration

Polar Opposites

 by Osho

By meditation Atisha never means concentration.
Concentration and meditation are polar opposites.
Concentration narrows down your mind;
it is focusing on one point.
Concentration includes only something and excludes everything else.

Meditation is all-inclusive,
it excludes nothing.
It is not a narrowing down of the mind,
it is an expansion of consciousness.
Concentration is of the mind,
meditation is of consciousness.

Concentration is mind,
meditation is no-mind.
Concentration is a tension:
you will be tired of it sooner or later.
You cannot concentrate for a long time,
it is effort.
But one can be meditative twenty-four hours,
because it is relaxation.

Osho, The Book of Wisdom #21