Meditation changes the feeling of being weighed down into a gentle sense of being lifted.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Watching you sit in your chair, I get more and more puzzled. You are sitting there so incredibly comfortable, you seem to be weightless. What are you doing to the law of gravity?
There is no need to do anything with the law of gravity. Once you become meditative, a different law applies to you; the law of grace. You become available to a different world; the world of grace. Something goes on pulling you upwards. Just as gravitation pulls you downwards, something goes on pulling you upwards. No need to do anything with the law of gravitation. You have just to open a new door into your being from where the law of grace becomes available to you.
A few times recently I have felt that I could fly, felt curiously exonerated from gravity and looked with boredom on the 150 pounds' truth of my body. Is this just craziness...?
No. You are a meetingplace of two dimensions. One dimension belongs to the earth the dimension of gravity, which pulls you down -- that 150 pounds' truth of your body. Another dimension belongs to grace the dimension of God, the dimension of freedom, in which you can go on rising high and high and high and there is no weight in it. Meditating, this will happen. Many times in deep meditation you will suddenly become aware as if the gravitation has disappeared that now nothing holds you down, that it is now up to you to decide whether to fly or not, that now it is up to you -- if you want, you can simply fly into the sky... and the whole sky is yours. But when you will open the eyes, suddenly, the body is there, the earth is there, the gravitation is there. When you were with…
10. While being caressed, sweet princess, enter the caress as everlasting life.
11. STOP THE DOORS OF THE SENSES WHEN FEELING THE CREEPING OF AN ANT. THEN. 12. WHEN ON A BED OR A SEAT, LET YOURSELF BECOME WEIGHTLESS, BEYOND MIND. Now you come every day with expectations, with a closed mind. It cannot happen. It always happens in an open mind; it always happens in a new situation. That doesn't mean that you have to change your situation daily, it only means: do not allow your mind to create a pattern. Then your wife will be new every day, your husband will be new every day. But do not allow the mind to create a pattern of expectations; do not allow the mind to move in the future. Then your master will be every day new, your friend will be every day new. And everything is new in the world except the mind. Mind is the only thing which is old.…
The key from thought to thoughtlessness is his Name. Let the melody of Omkar fill you. First, the chanting of Omkar. Rise early, or sit at night alone in the dark, and utter Omkar aloud so that its resonance surrounds you. Omkar carries a very sweet music, because it is the music of the infinite—it is not a man-made sound; it is the rhythm resounding in existence. As you chant aloud, its impression will be stamped on every hair of your body. This is the stage of japa—repetition. Then slowly close the lips and let Omkar resound inside as it was resounding outside. The lips will be closed, the tongue silent, the throat quiet—only an inner humming. This is the bridge between japa and ajapa. Let the inner humming grow, grow, grow. Inside, both doings: create the humming and listen to it. Then gradually stop creating and increase the listening.
Beloved master, the other day you said it was easier for one to meditate when one was elevated from the earth, such as on a tree. In aikido, one of the fundamental principles is to feel the body connected with the gravity of the earth. Is there any contradiction in it? Aikido also teaches one to be always aware of the point a few centimeters below the navel. What is the relation between this point and our being?
For the first time the master said, "I can certify -- you have achieved. You were trying with your mind, tense. Today it was just accidental -- you were sitting relaxed, it was not your business, you were finished with it... And because you were finished with it, your eyes were clear, your heart was silent, you were watching in deep peace and silence, and you could see. For three years I was trying to show it to you, but because you were in a hurry to learn quickly and go to Germany... And just now there was no hurry -- you were going to Germany. "I can certify that you have achieved not only the art of archery, but simultaneously the art of grounding. And the moment you are grounded, as the trees are grounded -- with deep roots in the earth -- when your body is receiving forces…