What happens when there is a lack of desire to meditate?

As you have said, my life has been a misery -- but since coming to you the misery has gone. Though I know that my life is not yet blissful, a satisfaction has come with everything that happens to me. This has created a lack of desire to do meditation, to seek at all. I am just happy to float along. Am I just lazy?

This moment comes to every seeker: when the negative is no more but the positive has not come, when the misery has gone but the bliss has not happened, when the night is no more but the sun has not risen. This is a good indication that you are growing. And then, immediately, one starts feeling relaxed, floating, and everything as it happens is so beautiful. The mind says, 'Why bother? Why meditate at all?' If you listen to the mind, soon the night will be back, the misery will enter. Don't listen to the mind. You continue meditating but with a different attitude now: meditate as if you are floating in it. Don't make too much effort in it. That's all that is needed. Meditate effortlessly, but meditate. Don't be lazy. In laziness again the old will come back because the bliss has not yet happened. Once bliss happens…

Osho, in meditation a kind of dullness has begun to set in. Thoughts don’t particularly bother me, yet full awareness is also not there. What is this state, and what should I do?

Let only one remembrance remain—do not stop; keep going. There are many possibilities, because each person is different; so the stages cannot be described too precisely. It is uncertain where rivers and mountain gorges will be met. Guidelines can be given, but each person is very distinct, very different. Where you meet mountains, another may not. Where you meet dullness, another may not. It depends on your habits in life, on the structure of your living. One who has always lived in the mountains will not feel dullness there; for him the mountains are just fine. You go there and you feel dullness—you belong to the market. You are a creature of the bazaar. Then it will be very hard. Bring a mountain man to the market and he will feel derangement: this is madness. He will want to run away. Gurdjieff once experimented with his disciple Ouspensky. He kept…

Osho, the mind sometimes seems detached, but only for a moment. And in that moment there is a taste of joy and delight. Please shower a little more grace so that I may become detached; because momentary detachment feels dreamlike.

First thing: do not be filled with greed. Do not bring greed into meditation, otherwise meditation will be ruined; even the momentary glimpse you are getting will be lost. If you want to lose even that which comes for a moment, then bring in greed. I see this here every day. When the happening of meditation begins, naturally greed is aroused. Greed is already lying within. Greed is not only about money; there is greed for meditation too. Greed is greed; what it is for is irrelevant. Greed means: more. If there is money—more. If there is position—more. If there is prestige—more. Whatever there is, more. This greed is lodged in you. Send this greed out. Otherwise, when meditation arrives, this greed will immediately say, “More.” What can a moment do! The eternal is needed. Now understand a little. At any time, you only ever get a single moment. Two…

Osho! I am making tireless efforts to meditate, but success eludes me. What should I do?

In just such an evening Buddha decided—the night of the full moon—“Now I drop this. No more effort. Enough.” And when he told his five disciples, who had followed him like a shadow for six years, “I am tired of this asceticism, these austerities. All this seems to be foolishness. I have done what I was told, but meditation has not happened. So now I drop it,” the five disciples thought that Gautam Siddhartha had fallen. They left him that very evening! They said to him, “Gautam, you have become corrupt! Till now we accepted you as our master because you did what we could not. If we could stand on our heads for an hour, you stood for six. If we ate once a day, you ate once in two days. We were dazzled by you.” Someone had told Buddha to reduce his food each day until he came…

Beloved Osho, many years ago, it seems, I used to be able to meditate -- I think. A beautiful, silent, transparent state would arrive from somewhere; I presumed this was meditation. Now, nothing comes except a racing mind. What happened?

The answer that Junnaid gave to his disciples is worthy of being remembered. He said, "For these three days, do you think I cannot see that food has not been given to us, that we have been thrown out, that we have been stoned, that we are thirsty, that for three days we had to remain in the open desert...? Don't you see that I am also aware of it? But this does not mean that he is not taking care of us. Perhaps this is the way he is taking care of us; perhaps this is what we need at this time. "It is very easy, when life is going comfortably, to thank God. That thankfulness means nothing. These three days I have been watching. slowly, slowly, all of you have stopped thanking Him after the prayer; you failed the test. It was a beautiful test. Even if death…