Osho Quote

The mind is always verbalizing.

You can know words, you can know language, you can know the conceptual structure of thinking, but that is not thinking.

On the contrary, it is an escape from thinking. You see a flower and you verbalize it; you see a man crossing the street and you verbalize it.

The mind can transform every existential thing into words. Then the words become a barrier, an imprisonment.

This constant transformation of things into words, of existence into words, is the obstacle to a meditative mind.

So the first requirement toward a meditative mind is to be aware of your constant verbalizing and to be able to stop it.

Just see things; do not verbalize. Be aware of their presence, but do not change them into words.

Let things be, without language; let persons be, without language; let situations be, without language.

It is not impossible; it is natural.

It is the situation as it now exists that is artificial, but we have become so habituated to it, it has become so mechanical, that we are not even aware that we are constantly transforming experience into words.

The sunrise is there. You are never aware of the gap between seeing it and verbalizing.

You see the sun, you feel it, and immediately you verbalize it. The gap between seeing and verbalizing is lost.

One must become aware of the fact that the sunrise is not a word.

It is a fact, a presence. The mind automatically changes experiences into words.

These words then come between you and the experience.

Meditation means living without words, living non-linguistically.

Sometimes it happens spontaneously. When you are in love, presence is felt, not language.

🙏OSHO🙏

Just watch....

Buddha's word is 'watch'. Be watchful.

Don't create any desire for desire-lessness, otherwise you are simply behaving in a very stupid way.

Now you are creating a new desire -- and this will create misery.

You simply go into the nature of the desire, look deep into it.

Watch... how it creates darkness, how it brings misery, how suddenly it takes you, overpowers you.

Just go on watching.

One day it is going to happen: a car will pass by and before the desire has arisen you will become watchful, and suddenly a laughter will come to you.

You have become watchful; the desire has not arisen.

It was just going to be, it was just ready to jump upon you and take you to hell -- but you were watchful.

And you will feel so happy.

For the first time you will have a key. You will know now that just being watchful, the desire has not arisen, the car has passed. The car has nothing to do with desire.

Desire arises because you are unconscious, unaware, sleepy; you are living the life of a somnambulist, drunk.

Awareness is desire-lessness. Awareness of the desire brings desire-lessness.

And this key has to be used to open many locks.

🙏OSHO🙏 - Learning Happiness #09 (The Discipline of Transcendence Vol 3)

You can move into meditation only by being indifferent, just a watcher. Whether it comes or not makes no difference; just let the thoughts flow on their own accord and you stand aloof, just watching. The word 'watching' simply means being a mirror, reflecting and not making any commentary. No mirror makes any commentary. No mirror says to you, "Aha, how beautiful!", It is not interested in whether you are beautiful or weird, sane or insane, standing on your feet or on your head. It makes no difference to the mirror; the mirror simply reflects.

The watcher is a mirror. It simply watches and remains empty. No content is caught by the mirror. Things come and go; the mirror does not cling to anything. The mirror is not in favor of something or against it. It has no notions about what passes before it.

As the watching grows, without any struggle, the thoughts disappear. And when the heart is empty, you are the buddha.

OSHO - The Emptiness of the Heart #03