Osho's perspective on Middle
When Osho Spoke About Middle
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Question: BELOVED OSHO, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE IN THE MIDDLE? Anand Niyama, it means many things to be in the middle. I will have to start my answer from Gautam Buddha, because he was the first man to use the words "to be in the middle," and of course nobody has been able to improve upon the meanings that he gave to the word `middle.' He called his path the middle path. The first meaning is that if you can avoid both the extremes, the rightist and the leftist -- if you can be exactly in the middle of both the extremes, you will not be in the middle, you will have transcended the whole trinity of extremes, and the middle. If you drop both the extremes, the middle disappears on its own accord. Middle of what...?
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…
दूसरा प्रश्न: ओशो, ध्यान और धैर्य में क्या संबंध है?
अगर मन की अशांति को मिटाने के लिए तुम ध्यान करने बैठे हो, तो तुम बार-बार लौटकर देखोगे, अब तक मिटी नहीं! और मजा तो यह है कि जब ध्यान शुरू करोगे, तो अशांति बढ़ेगी। क्योंकि जो दबी पड़ी है, वह भी प्रकट होगी। जो सदा-सदा से दबाई है, उसका भी रेचन शुरू होगा, कैथार्सिस होगी। जो कूड़ा-करकट भीतर छिपाकर बैठे रहे हो, प्रकट नहीं किया है, ध्यान उन द्वारों को भी तोड़ेगा। घर की सफाई करेगा। वर्षों की जमी धूल, जन्मों की जमी धूल उठेगी फिर से, अंधड़-तूफान होंगे। कुछ देर तो थोड़ी-बहुत जो शांति तुम्हारे पास थी, वह भी खो जाएगी। …
When the deep meaning of things is not understood the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail.
THE WAY IS PERFECT LIKE VAST SPACE WHERE NOTHING IS LACKING AND NOTHING IS IN EXCESS. INDEED, IT IS DUE TO OUR CHOOSING TO ACCEPT OR REJECT THAT WE DO NOT SEE THE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS. LIVE NEITHER IN THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF OUTER THINGS, NOR IN INNER FEELINGS OF EMPTINESS. BE SERENE WITHOUT STRIVING ACTIVITY IN THE ONENESS OF THINGS AND SUCH ERRONEOUS VIEWS WILL DISAPPEAR BY THEMSELVES. WHEN YOU TRY TO STOP ACTIVITY TO ACHIEVE PASSIVITY YOUR VERY EFFORT FILLS YOU WITH ACTIVITY. AS LONG AS YOU REMAIN IN ONE EXTREME OR THE OTHER YOU WILL NEVER KNOW ONENESS. THOSE WHO DO NOT LIVE IN THE SINGLE WAY FAIL IN BOTH ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY, ASSERTION AND DENIAL. ... Logic will say something absolutely different. Logic will say, "Practice rest the whole day, so in the night you can rest beautifully. Mulla Nasruddin went to his doctor. Coughing, he entered.
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