Unidentified and Silent

Meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way, and not interfering in any way whatsoever -- just remaining watchful, witnessing. It silences, by and by, it becomes still. One day it is gone. You are left alone **Leaving thoughts aside** Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you. **No concentration, no contemplation, only watching** Meditation does not mean concentration, it does not mean contemplation: it means getting beyond the mind. Concentration, contemplation, are both of the mind. Meditation means getting unidentified with the mind, seeing the mind as separate, knowing the mind as separate, witnessing the mind but not getting identified with it. Slowly slowly as witnessing grows, the distance grows between you and the mind. Soon the mind is a faraway echo, and finally you cannot even hear the echo; then you are left utterly alone. That needs courage, hence very few people have been able to know their own selves, and very few people have been able to become Buddhas. Before one can become a Buddha, one has to pass through a death -- of the mind, of the ego, of all that we think we are. We have to lose all that we think we possess, then only can we possess the eternal. **Being in silence** Meditation is not contemplation either because it is not thinking at all -- consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is witnessing. It is just sitting silently deep within yourself, looking at whatsoever is happening inside and outside both. Outside there is traffic noise, inside there is also traffic noise -- the traffic in the head. So many thoughts -- trucks and buses of thoughts and trains and airplanes of thoughts, rushing in every direction. But you are simply sitting aloof, unconcerned, watching everything with no evaluation. [Osho](http://www.osho.com"Title" target= '_blank'), excerpts from different sources ************************* **Osho book recommendations on meditation** <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312180586?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312180586">The Book of Secrets: Keys to Love and Meditation</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312180586" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312275633?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312275633">Awareness: The Key to Living in Balance (Osho, Insights for a New Way of Living)</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312275633" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670894575?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0670894575">Lunchtime Enlightenment: Modern Meditations to Free the Mind and Unleash the Spirit - at Work, at Home, at Play</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0670894575" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312336632?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312336632">Meditation: The First and Last Freedom</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312336632" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931412901?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1931412901">Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1931412901" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312343027?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312343027">Meditation For Busy People: Stress-Beating Strategies To Calm Your Life</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312343027" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0981834140?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0981834140">Discover the Buddha: 53 Meditations to Meet the Buddha Within</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0981834140" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804819769?ie=UTF8&tag=findyournosec-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804819769">The Everyday Meditator: A Practical Guide</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=findyournosec-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0804819769" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

2008-10-19T15:45:14Z

About meditation the masters of meditation have said mainly one thing: whatever is said is not the truth. Some pointers to the moon... 26 methoden

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