What happens when I meditate for an extended period?

When your consciousness starts reflecting your mind with all its ugliness and all its beauties, with all its pleasures and with all its pains; with no choice... when your mind is reflected in your consciousness in a choiceless way, you have started meditation. Choiceless awareness is meditation. And then you have to go on doing the same, slowly slowly deepening the process. And one day, the ultimate flowering happens: the inner lotus opens up. That's the state of the awakened one, the state of a Buddha, Christ, Lao Tzu. Unless we achieve it there is no possibility of rest. something inside will go on goading us. And it is good that something inside goes on goading us. If it stops goading us we will remain unfulfilled, immature, ungrown-up. There is an inner guide who goes on goading, who says 'This is not enough -- something has to be done.

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…

[The man who has never known anything of meditation lives a barren life, just like a desert, Osho told someone else. Then he recounted a joke.] I have heard about an American tourist dressed in his swimming suit, running towards the ocean, perspiring. He met a man and he asked, "How far is the ocean?" The man looked at the American, felt very sorry for him and said "It will be difficult to reach it -- this is the Sahara and the ocean is at least eight hundred miles away from here." The American said "Then I will have to rest here on the beach!" You can believe your desert to be a beach. That's how people are living, believing their desert is a beach. It is simply desert.

I am not saying to do anything. Meditation is not a doing at all, it is pure awareness. But a miracle happens, the greatest miracle in life. If you go on watching, tremendous and incredible things start happening. Your body becomes graceful, your body is no more restless, tense; your body starts becoming light, unburdened; you can see great weights, mountainous weights, falling from your body. Your body starts becoming pure of all kinds of toxins and poisons. You will see your mind is no more as active as before; its activity starts becoming less and less and gaps arise, gaps in which there are no thoughts. Those gaps are the most beautiful experiences because through those gaps you start seeing things as they are without any interference of the mind. Slowly slowly your moods start disappearing. You are no more very joyous and no more very sad.

Question: BIJAVDHANAM ASNASTHAH SUKHAM HRIDAE NIMAJJATI SVAMATRA NIRMANAPADAYATI VIDYA-AVINASHE JANMAVINASHAH. MEDITATION IS THE SEED. JUST SITTING, RELAXED WITHIN HIMSELF, HE ENTERS SPONTANEOUSLY INTO THE LAKE OF SUPREME BEING. HE ATTAINS TO SELF-CREATION OR BECOMES 'TWICE-BORN'. ETERNAL KNOWLEDGE LEADS TO CESSATION You have decided to sit still for an hour. What is the worst that can happen? The feet turn numb... All right, let them! They feel itchy... So what! It is not a matter of life and death. You will find that if you remain firm in your resolve, the feet will stop being numb. This was only a ruse of the body to defeat your purpose. Had you listened to the feet your hands would have clamored for attention, then your neck and so on; but if you ignore the feet the itch will subside once and for all.