What happens after years of practicing meditation?

How many years did it take you to enter meditation?

If then the man reaches the center, and you ask him, “How much of the circle did you travel to get here?”—what will he say? He will say, “I traveled a lot on the circle, but that did not bring me to the center. I walked a great deal, but I did not arrive through that.” You ask, “How many miles did you cover to arrive?” He will say, “No matter how many miles I walked, that did not take me there. I walked a lot, but arrival did not happen through that. When I did arrive, it was by leaping off the circle.” And there, miles have no meaning. Exactly so. The event does not happen in time. And time—we have wasted plenty of it. All of us have. The day it happens to you, you too will not be able to say how long it took. No—the question…

Osho, what happened in a split second—the “I” is gone, the mind is gone! My veil says, listen, O breeze, the monsoon has come this time, beloved. Again and again, thank you, Osho!

Hansa, in this world everything else takes time to happen, but meditation is timeless. It doesn’t even take a moment. The gap between two moments—that is the realm of meditation. When meditation happens, it happens in such a way that not even a moment is needed. Meditation is not a process in time. Meditation has no steps. Meditation is revolution, not evolution. And why is it so? Because the whole arrangement of the mind is fundamentally an arrangement of time. Mind means: past and future—with a tiny present squeezed in between. The mind lives in the past, in what has already happened; it keeps digging there, searching there, rummaging through memories. Or it lives in their reflections, the echoes projected into the future: what happened yesterday should happen again tomorrow—it was sweet, it was delightful; or what happened yesterday was very bitter—let it never happen again. The mind wants to…

It is saying that blissfulness is always young. The body may become old, the body may die, but bliss-fulness never dies. It never becomes old -- how can it die? It is impossible. Death never happens to blissfulness. In fact blissfulness is not part of time at all. Anything that is part of time is bound to become old sooner or later, because time always becomes past. It is always on the way towards the past. But bliss is part of eternity. So is now part of eternity. What I call meditation is nothing but being utterly herenow, putting the past aside, dropping all dreams of the future, abiding in the moment... and suddenly, the spring bursts forth, suddenly there are flowers and flowers in your being. Suddenly life has taken a quantum leap, from time to eternity, from the physical to the metaphysical, from the outer to the inner.

A friend has asked, Osho, can there not be sudden self-realization without any practice?

Go sit by the Neranjana River. That bush is still there. Go sit under it at your ease. The morning star still sets. Set an alarm for the right time; your eyes will open at dawn. Watch the star and become a Buddha! You will not become a Buddha. Those six years of running were necessary for that sitting. That man had run so much; that is why he could sit. You have not run at all—how will you sit? Understand it like this: a person who works hard all day falls into deep sleep at night. Sleep is the other side. You say, “Why don’t I fall asleep?” You rest all day—and at night when sleep doesn’t come, you think, “I should be even sleepier; I practice sleeping all day! And that man has no time to practice sleep in the day, and yet he sleeps so well at…

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…