What is the relationship between meditation and patience?

Osho, what is the relationship between meditation and patience?

If you sit to meditate to remove mental restlessness, you will keep looking back again and again: “Has it gone yet?” And the irony is that when you begin to meditate, restlessness will increase. Because what has been repressed will start surfacing; catharsis will begin. The rubbish you have kept hidden within and never allowed to express—meditation will break open those doors too. It will clean the house. Dust piled up for years, for births, will rise again; there will be gusts and storms. For a while even the little peace you had will be lost. Then you will panic: “I came for peace, and even what I had is gone.” Without patience, you could even become unhinged, because meditation brings such a great storm. The disease is not from a day or two; it’s from lifetimes. Meditation will break through all the layers to reach your innermost core. In…

Life requires great patience. The deeper the treasure you seek, the more patience is needed. And the wonder is: the more patience, the sooner it comes; the more impatience, the longer it takes. If patience is infinite, it can happen this very instant. If there is no patience at all, even after infinite births it will not. How to create the situation? We cannot create meditation; we cannot produce it. But how to make the door through which meditation comes? I will give you three sutras. We will practice these three and wait. The day these three are fulfilled, you won’t even notice when your life changed—meditation will have arrived. And meditation does not come gradually, by degrees. It comes like an explosion. When your door is open and the sun rises, it is not that one ray comes, then a second, then a third.

Verse (Sanskrit): धैर्यं कन्था। उदासीन कौपीनम्‌। विचार दंडः। ब्रह्ममावलोक योग पट्टः। श्रियां पादुकाः। परेच्छाचरणम्‌। कुंडलिनी बंधः। परापवाद मुक्तो जीवनमुक्तः। Transliteration: dhairyaṃ kanthā| udāsīna kaupīnam‌| vicāra daṃḍaḥ| brahmamāvaloka yoga paṭṭaḥ| śriyāṃ pādukāḥ| parecchācaraṇam‌| kuṃḍalinī baṃdhaḥ| parāpavāda mukto jīvanamuktaḥ| Translation: Patience is the patched cloak. Dispassion is the loincloth. Discernment is the staff. The vision of Brahman is the yoga-belt. Riches are the sandals. Another’s will is the way. Kundalinī is the bond. Free from slandering others, he is liberated while living. Patience is his ragged quilt (the renunciate’s bag). A dispassionate disposition is the loincloth. Reflection is the staff. The vision of Brahman is the yoga-belt. Riches are his sandals. The longing for the Supreme alone is his conduct. Kundalinī is his bond. He who is free from speaking ill of others is liberated while living. Patience is the kanthā—patience is his ragged quilt.

[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.] Meditation needs tremendous perseverance. It is not like a seasonal flower, it is more like a cedar of Lebanon; it needs time to grow roots. That is one of the reasons why the contemporary man is missing the inner treasure: he is always in a hurry. Never before was man in such a hurry. Speed was never such an addiction. People were moving slowly, living slowly; there was a kind of unhurriedness in their life. As technology has progressed, it has given more and more speed to man, and everything is moving faster and faster. We are becoming more and more intoxicated with speed; it is a drug. It does not allow us to grow anything that takes time, patience, perseverance.

Beloved Osho, paltudas says, "every art takes place in its own time, so why get impatient? No matter how much you water it, the tree comes into fruition in its own time." Osho, please say something about impatience on the spiritual path. Is impatience an essential part of human growth? Please comment.

It is true that everything takes place in its own time -- but it is only half true. Paltudas says, "Every art takes place in its own time, so why get impatient? No matter how much you water it, the tree comes into fruition in its own time." But that does not mean that you need not water the tree; that does not mean that you have not to sow the seeds. The seeds have also to be sown in time -- only then will the fruits come in their own time. What Paltudas is saying is only half of the whole thing. From the seed to the fruit is a long journey, and great patience is needed on the part of the gardener. But the patience must not become laziness, because the difference is very delicate and very fine. The patience should remain, in its heart of hearts, very…