Can one meditate too much?

Question: BELOVED OSHO, CAN ONE MEDITATE TOO MUCH? Shanti Animisha, there are things which you can never do too much. For example, you cannot love too much; more is always possible, and there is no limitation anywhere. I am taking the example of love because that will be easily understood. The same is true about meditation: you cannot meditate too much, because silence knows no bounds -- it is an abysmal depth. You can go on and on, and you will find there is always much more to be explored. There comes no point in meditation when you can say, "Now it is the full stop." There is no such thing as a full stop, because you are carrying the whole sky within your heart, a whole universe in your being. Meditation is trying to find the ultimate limit.

As you move into meditation this feeling starts becoming stronger every day. That does not mean that you start neglecting the body, on the contrary, you start caring about the body more carefully because it is a beautiful house, a gift of god. You have to keep it clean and beautiful and young and vital, energetic, alive, because you have to live in it for many many years. There is no need to make it ugly, poor, starved. Make it a palace, make it a marble palace, make it a temple, but remember "I am not it," so when it dies you are not dying. The body is born, the body dies; you are never born and you never die. And the method of meditation is very simple: just watching. Three things have to be watched. The first is the body and its actions.

Meditation gives you unbounded space. It makes you as vast as the ocean. Without it one is only a dewdrop, confined into a very small space, imprisoned. And that's our misery, that wherever we try to move there is a limitation. The body limits us, the mind limits us, even the heart limits us. One has to go beyond the body, beyond the mind, beyond the heart. Only then, these three concentric circles transcended, you become as vast as existence itself. You are no more in that vastness. You cannot be the way you have always been; there is no ego. The ego can exist only in the dewdrop. The ocean means egolessness. The moment you are infinite, you taste the truth for the first time; otherwise whatsoever we go on thinking about truth is not truth. Thinking about truth can never be truth.

Osho, when I sit near you, the emptiness, the hollowness that happens does not happen so much through meditation. Is there still a need to meditate? And I am very, very grateful. I cannot express what is in my heart.

Shab-e-gham—on the night of sorrow—their call has begun to be heard My night has begun to hum again The flowers have started stealing his smile The morning breeze has begun to bring her message Behold the supposed feebleness of my sigh— it has started to go beyond the stars What was drowned in the darkness of grief— that rainbow has begun to smile A new resonance has risen from the instrument of the heart Hope has begun to sing like a song Ecstasy has upturned the chessboard of love Reason has begun to suffer defeat upon defeat In such a state is Samadhi. In such a state many of my sannyasins here are. A distant sound has begun to come close. Some song is breaking forth within. Some melody is awakening. Some fragrance is appearing. Ecstasy has upturned the chessboard of love Intoxication, sweetness, a holy madness is appearing. Blessed…

meditation transforms you into a beloved of the whole existence as the meditator becomes centred, silent, aware the whole existence starts converging upward the same world but no more the same before it was cold, alien now it is cosy, a home a man without meditation lives in the world as a stranger as you enter meditation you enter a love affair with existence and for love everything is possible even the impossible is not impossible all that is needed is a deep, profound silence in your being that becomes a magnetic pull then whatsoever is beautiful in existence starts moving towards you meditation creates gravitation for truth for beauty, for love for freedom, for godliness for all that is really valuable one need not go searching for anything one has simply to rest in one's being and all that is needed follows in its own course meditation is the…