What happens when my mind is preoccupied with thoughts of desire during meditation?

Pragya has asked: “You and all the saints say the same...”

I don’t know about all the saints, because among your so‑called saints most are not saints at all. Out of a hundred of your saints, perhaps one is a saint; the other ninety‑nine are as sick as you are—and often far more chronically sick. But you understand the language of those ninety‑nine, because they speak the language of your disease. The one who is a real saint—you don’t understand his language. I am choosing to speak about those few, those one‑in‑a‑hundred saints, so I can sift for you who the real saints are. There are too many non‑saints; they’re not worth counting. I keep speaking on saints. They are not many. Your “all saints” are not saints—and certainly Pragya’s “all saints” cannot be. For her, those she calls saints will be the sick and deranged—because her mind, her way of thinking, her chain of logic is repression: anti‑body, anti‑world. “You…

Osho, my eyes are like the monsoon months of Sawan and Bhadon, yet my mind remains thirsty...

Your sorrow is so deep it could have awakened you. But there are many lullaby-singers, many patting you to sleep, saying, “So far it hasn’t worked? No problem—tomorrow it will. Trust in fate, in God. Worship, recite, perform havan and yajña. Until now you tried by yourself; now rope in God and try to get it. Your effort so far wasn’t total—now try with your whole being. Bring a deeper method, a more intense yoga, gather every tactic, fight unitedly and victory will be yours.” Such people say, “Nothing is impossible.” I had a teacher—he had no real clue. He taught me in matriculation. He quoted Alexander’s famous line: “Nothing is impossible.” And he delivered an impassioned oration to prove that nothing is impossible. I stood up and said, “However beautifully you speak, this is not true, because Alexander’s own life proclaims his defeat. What difference does his statement make?…

The fool is careless. But the master guards his watching. It is his most precious treasure.

HE NEVER GIVES IN TO DESIRE. HE MEDITATES. AND IN THE STRENGTH OF HIS RESOLVE HE DISCOVERS TRUE HAPPINESS. HE OVERCOMES DESIRE -- AND FROM THE TOWER OF WISDOM HE LOOKS DOWN WITH DISPASSION UPON THE SORROWING CROWD. FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP HE LOOKS DOWN ON THOSE WHO LIVE CLOSE TO THE GROUND. MINDFUL AMONG THE MINDLESS, AWAKE WHILE OTHERS DREAM, SWIFT AS THE RACE HORSE HE OUTSTRIPS THE FIELD. BY WATCHING INDRA BECAME KING OF THE GODS. HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO WATCH, HOW FOOLISH TO SLEEP. THE BHIKKHU WHO GUARDS HIS MIND AND FEARS THE WAYWARDNESS OF HIS THOUGHTS BURNS THROUGH EVERY BOND WITH THE FIRE OF HIS VIGILANCE. THE BHIKKHU WHO GUARDS HIS MIND AND FEARS HIS OWN CONFUSION CANNOT FALL. HE HAS FOUND THE WAY TO PEACE. She knew that these were to be her last few hours on this earth, so she called her husband to…

While a man desires a woman, his mind is bound as closely as a calf to its mother.

AS YOU WOULD PLUCK AN AUTUMN LILY, PLUCK THE ARROW OF DESIRE. FOR HE WHO IS AWAKE HAS SHOWN YOU THE WAY OF PEACE. GIVE YOURSELF TO THE JOURNEY. "HERE SHALL I MAKE MY DWELLING, IN THE SUMMER AND THE WINTER, AND IN THE RAINY SEASON." SO THE FOOL MAKES HIS PLANS, SPARING NOT A THOUGHT FOR HIS DEATH. DEATH OVERTAKES THE MAN WHO, GIDDY AND DISTRACTED BY THE WORLD, CARES ONLY FOR HIS FLOCKS AND HIS CHILDREN. DEATH FETCHES HIM AWAY AS A FLOOD CARRIES OFF A SLEEPING VILLAGE. HIS FAMILY CANNOT SAVE HIM, NOT HIS FATHER NOR HIS SONS. KNOW THIS. SEEK WISDOM, AND PURITY. To desire a woman or a man, or desire at all, both are expressed by the same word, kama. The reason is very psychological, profound. Sanskrit is one of the most profound languages of the earth, very deliberately evolved. That is exactly the…

Image spirit simultaneously within and around you until the entire universe spiritualizes.

WITH YOUR ENTIRE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE VERY START OF DESIRE, OF KNOWING, KNOW. O SHAKTI, EACH PARTICULAR PERCEPTION IS LIMITED, DISAPPEARING IN OMNIPOTENCE. IN TRUTH FORMS ARE INSEPARATE. INSEPARATE ARE OMNIPRESENT BEING AND YOUR OWN FORM. REALIZE EACH AS MADE OF THIS CONSCIOUSNESS. You are here listening to me. This very listening can become a transformation. If you are entirely here, this very moment here and now, if listening is your entirety, that listening will become a meditation: you will enter a different realm of ecstasy, a separate reality. But you are not entire. That is the problem with the human mind, it is always partial. A part is listening. Other parts may be somewhere else, or may be asleep, or may be thinking about what is being said, or arguing inside. That creates a division and division is a dissipation of energy. So when doing anything bring your entire…