Comprehension As Meditation

Let understanding be your meditation

Try to understand your misery.
Live it,
go to the very depth of it,
find out the cause,
why it is there.
Let understanding be your meditation.

Understanding also of contentment

Try to understand your contentment also, your happiness also, and you will see their superficiality. Once you know that your happiness is superficial and your anguish is very deep -- and it is in your hands -- you can change your whole style of consciousness.

Your contentment can become your whole being; not even a small space is left for discontentment. Your love becomes your very life. And it remains. Time passes, but what you have achieved goes on deepening. More and more flowers, more and more songs are born out of it.

That's what we call enlightenment.

Osho, excerpted from Beyond Enlightenment #5

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In this Osho Quote the connection between meditation and understanding is made clear. Osho describes how understanding of misery and contentment can become enlightenment.