What happens when there is no goal during an awareness practice?

Beloved Osho, during the awareness walk in the vipassana group today, I observed that my speed was slowing down and had stopped. There seemed to be no need for moving. To where, for what? There was simply no goal anymore. Osho, would you talk about the secret of being in a body and what keeps it moving?

This long, long friendship -- and suddenly you stop; the mind tries in every way to push you, to nag you into some new project. Old projects are no longer working; it is a great salesman. I have heard ... A man was complaining to a real estate agency, "Where is that old fellow who sold me land?" The owner of the agency asked, "What is the problem?" He said, "What is the problem? I am going to shoot him. He has sold me land which is at least twelve feet deep below the road. In the rainy season it will become a lake. And I have purchased it to make a house for myself. My house will be drowned. Just tell me where that old fellow is!" The owner said, "Right now, he is not in the office. But when he comes back I will talk to him and…

Osho, what is the goal of meditation?

Even Ananda, Buddha's closest disciple, asked one day when they were walking through a forest. It was autumn and leaves were falling from the trees and the whole forest was full of dry leaves and the wind was blowing those dry leaves about and there was a great sound of dry leaves moving here and there. They were passing through the forest and Ananda asked Buddha, "Bhagwan, one question persists. I have been repressing it, but I cannot repress it anymore. And today we are alone; the other followers have been left behind so nobody will know that I have asked you. I don't want to ask it before others. My question is: Are you telling us all that you have discovered or are you still hiding something? -- because what you are telling us does not clarify your bliss, your peace. It seems you are hiding something. " And…

Osho, you say that if there is awareness, then how are the two to be brought into harmony?

That is precisely the practice of active meditation: awareness. Awareness is the very means of going into emptiness in relation to all actions, to the movements of the mind as well. For example, if you lie there for half an hour—what will you do? In that half hour, whatever thoughts are moving in your mind, you are to be simply aware of them. Simply a witness—what else will you do? Just become a witness. Keep silently watching; let them move. But obstacles arise in our seeing. We become absorbed. We fail to remain a witness. We don’t even notice when we have become one with those very thoughts. That sense of awareness fades; a kind of stupor, a moorchha, comes in. A thought comes, a memory arises, and we stop being the watcher. We become part of that thought and of its flow. That is moorchha. And the opposite is…

It has been asked: Osho, why do we assume that the attainment of God is the goal of human life? Could it not be that human life has no goal—no purpose at all? Between these two points, the questioner must be seeing a contradiction. He has asked: Is the aim of human life to attain God? Or does human life have no aim at all?

And sit with a very light heart—no seriousness; you are not going to do some big task. We are going to spend a few moments, two or ten, in a playful mood, silently, in stillness. Keep no expectation that some great peace will come, some great bliss will be had. Keep no expectation. Drop all expectation. Become absolutely light; set aside the whole burden from the mind. And keep in mind, after closing the eyes, that there is no tension on the brain, the face is not drawn—leave it utterly loose. Let no furrow remain on the forehead—leave it utterly loose. Remember: as you were when you were a small child, sit just that light and buoyant. All right! Let the body be loose; let the eyes close. Become completely light, erase yourself—you are not. Now listen. There will be sounds all around: crickets are calling; the hush of the…

Osho, if we put it in the language of science, perhaps we could say this: suppose we have some goal to be attained in the future—should we take it as lila, as play, and let it go into the unconscious mind, while keeping the conscious mind only on what needs to be known in the present, in awareness? Like a scientist who stays with the process he is engaged in, the operation he is carrying out—remaining with that—and forgets what he is to achieve in the future?

No—he has to forget; otherwise he cannot do the process at all. The scientist has to forget; otherwise mistakes will happen right now. He forgets—only then can he arrive. He becomes totally present in what he is doing. For him there is no future, no result, no end. What is happening now is the peak. From that very happening, the end will also come—but that is secondary. That is not the point. A goal has come into your mind—then it has already sunk in. Why keep bringing it up again and again? You are engaged in some work, you are doing a research. The search has already become part of your consciousness. Why keep remembering it? Now plunge wholly into the work. And in fact we don’t notice that the very idea of the search also arose in some present moment. I do not call that the future. Imagine a…