Two thousand year ago  in China, when Tao was being widely accepted by the seekers of truth, someone asked the great Tao mystic Chuang Tzu, “We have heard that a man of Tao can walk through walls without obstruction, why?”
Osho explains this mysterious phenomenon today. If you don’t have any obstruction within you, no obstruction can obstruct you. This is the rule. If you have no resistance within you, in your heart, the whole world is open for you. There is no resistance. The world is just a reflection, it is a big mirror; if you have resistance, then the whole world has resistance.

This may seem to be very difficult for our ego to understand, but it is a fact. Human ego is always in conflict with others, and we cannot expect others also to be without ego. This is the reason that the world is full of violence. And a violent man is violent only towards others, he is violent towards nature also.

The man of ego is always fighting not only with other fellow men but his environment also. This fight has disturbed and killed his own inner ecology, and as a result, the outer ecology has also been destroyed on a large scale.

Explaining about this constant conflict and the vicious circle it creates, Osho adds: “Fight will give you a stronger ego. It will shape you. So fight the mother, fight the father, fight the teacher, fight the society. Life is struggle. The Eastern consciousness says: No individuality, no ego, no fight; become one with the mother; there is no enemy, the question is not of conquering. Science seems to be a struggle, a fight with nature: how to break the lock, how to open the secrets, how to grab the secrets from nature. The Tao, Zen and Dhamma consciousness, which has been nourished and flourished in the Eastern countries, was totally different. The mystics of the Eastern consciousness observe that ego is the problem, understand it and drop it. Do not let it become stronger. Guru Nanak proclaimed: “Be as humble as the grass and you would not be harmed during the strongest storms while the big trees will be felled”. Jesus also meant the same when he said: “Blessed are the poor because they shall inherit the kingdom of God”.

Osho says again and again to be natural. Do not fight with existence. Do not strengthen your ego. Love the inner and the outer nature. The nature will open your treasures to you if you are friendly towards it. Love nature, and nature gives you her secrets.

Love is the key. Conquering is absurd. So what has happened in the West? This conquering has destroyed the whole of nature. So now there is a cry for ecology, how to restore the balance. We have destroyed nature completely, because we have open all the locks and we have destroyed the whole balance. And now through that imbalance humanity will die sooner or later.”

The enlightened master reminds us and warns us: “The world is being poisoned very slowly. The rivers are being polluted, the oceans are being polluted, the lakes are dying. Nature is being destroyed. We are exploiting the earth so much that sooner or later we will not be able to live on it. We are not behaving well with nature. Our whole approach is wrong, it is destructive. We only take from the earth, and we never give anything back. We only exploit nature. The ecology is broken, the circulation is broken; we are not living in a perfect circle, and nature is a perfect circle. If you take from one hand and you give from another, you don’t destroy it. But we are doing it; we only go on taking, and all the resources are being spent. But this poisoning is happening slowly. And then there are politicians who go on gathering more and more atomic weapons — more atom bombs, more hydrogen bombs, super-hydrogen bombs — as if man has decided to commit suicide.”

Osho loved telling stories and had the gift of simply expressing the inexpressible. In Guida Spirituale, he tells a Sufi story: A man went in search of a master. Outside his village, he met an old man sitting under a tree. He asked the old man, “Have you ever heard in your long life — you look like a wanderer…” He said, “Yes, I am a wanderer. I wandered all over the earth.” The man said, “That is the right kind of person. Can you suggest to me where I should go? I want to be the disciple of a perfect master.”

The old man suggested a few addresses to him and the young man thanked him and went on. After 30 years he couldn’t find a master. The moment he returned to his village he saw the old man sitting under the tree. And he recognised that he was the master he was looking for! He fell at the old man’s feet and said, “Why didn’t you tell me that you are the master?”

The old man replied, “But that was not the right time for you. You needed some experience. Wandering gave you a certain maturity. The last time you met me, you had not seen me. You were asking me about some master. That was proof that you could not feel my presence, nor smell the fragrance. You were utterly blind. But even to be with wrong people is good, because that is how one learns. For 30 years I have been waiting for you here, I have not left this tree.”

The seeker was even more surprised when he looked at the tree. Because in his dreams, he has seen that tree and there was always a feeling that he would find the master sitting under it. Last time he didn’t see the tree at all. The tree was there, the master was there, everything was ready, but he was not ready. In the The Grass Grows By Itself, Osho explains the art of being a disciple. The greatest art in the world is to be a disciple, he says. It is unique and incomparable. Nothing like it exists in any other relationship.

To be a disciple, to be with a master, is to move into the unknown. You cannot be very aggressive there. To be near a master is to be just a passivity, absorbing whatsoever the master gives or whatsoever the master is — not asking. The moment you start asking you have become aggressive, the receptivity is lost, you have become active. The passive, the feminine, is no longer there. In fact, you wait and truth reaches you. The truth seeks you, like water seeks some hollow ground, moves downwards, finds a place and becomes a lake.

Yoga may have become very popular these days but the fact is most of the people are interested in meditation, as they are suffering from tension and stress. They think meditation can free them of stress. Today’s world, with its maddening speed and never-ending struggle to achieve certain goals, is creating tremendous tension in our lives.

Various methods of meditation are being offered to make people relax, rejuvenate and energise to deal with stress. At the same time, people are so busy that they cannot spare time for meditating. Therefore, meditation teachers are devising methods to give instant relief to people.

Spiritual coach Deepak Chopra’s one-minute meditation is a method of paying attention to your breath for 60 seconds. It is promised that you will regain mental clarity and be better equipped to handle the demands of the day. It sounds great to busy people, but it is certainly not enough. It is a momentary relief from tension, and it will not last long. One needs to have a lot of patience as far as meditation is concerned. Yes, what can work wonders is that you keep a tap on your breath for five or 10 minutes. Change the gestalt.

Remain watchful and alert — not aggressively, not doing anything, but in a mode of passive alertness.

This is the master key: Living meditatively moment to moment. There is no need to concentrate on anything, as it might create any kind of tension. Just being alert and aware without focusing on anything — being open to everything that surrounds you. Life is in totality, not in fragments.

Osho suggests not to take meditation as work. He says: “Meditation is not a work it is a play. Praying is not a business it is a play. Meditation is not something to be done to achieve some goal — peace, bliss — but something to be enjoyed as an end in itself. The festive dimension is the most important thing to be understood and we have lost it. By festive, I mean the capacity to enjoy, moment to moment, all that comes to you. We have become so conditioned and habits have become so mechanical that even when there is no business to be done, our minds are businesslike. Even when you are playing, you are not playing, you are not enjoying it. Even when you are playing cards, you are not enjoying it. You play for the victory and then the play becomes work; then what is going on is not important, only the result. In business the result is important. In festivity, the act is important. If you can make any act significant in itself, then you become festive and you can celebrate it. Whenever you are celebrating, limits are broken. They are not needed. You come out of your straitjacket, the narrowing jacket of concentration. Now you are not choosing; everything that comes, you allow. And the moment you allow total existence to come in, you become one with it. There is a communion.”

Osho adds: “This communion — celebration, choiceless awareness, non-businesslike attitude — I call meditation. The festivity is in the moment, in the act, not in bothering about results, not in achieving something. There is nothing to be achieved, so you can enjoy that which is here and now.”

We often feel alone when our heart is overflowing with love.

A disciple asked Osho about the feeling of love in her heart and
aloneness at the same time. How is it possible? It was too difficult
to understand.

This is one of the deepest mysteries of life. We often feel alone when
our heart is overflowing with love. This is the quality of love that
deepens meditation and in deep meditation one is left alone. The
alchemy of meditation is that even though one meditates in being
alone, one feels blissful that it overflows and seeks others to share
it with them.

Meditation connects the individual to the ultimate source and the
individual returns fulfilled from that flight. To the one who thinks
that aloneness and love are diametrically opposite and have nothing to
do with each other, this description may be shocking and unbelievable.
One cannot believe this, but can only experience.

People often think that when you are in love, you will not be alone.
The misunderstanding is between two words — loneliness and aloneness —
which means the same thing for many people They don’t differentiate
between these two words, hence, the confusion.

Osho points out: When you are in love, you cannot be lonely; that is
true. But when you are in love, you are bound to be alone — that is
even far truer… Aloneness is like a flower. I know your dictionaries
will say that loneliness and aloneness are synonyms — they are not.
They are totally different phenomena. Loneliness is a wound and can
turn into a cancer. Many people die of loneliness. The world is full
of lonely people, and because of their loneliness they go on doing all
kinds of stupid things to somehow cover that wound, hollowness,
emptiness and negativity. A lonely person starts eating too much, just
to feel full, s/he starts taking alcohol or other drugs, because s/he
wants to forget herself/himself.

Osho adds: Aloneness is totally different. Aloneness is a flower, a
lotus blooming in your heart. Aloneness is positive. It is the joy of
being yourself. It is the joy of having your own space. Yes, when you
are in love, you feel alone. Aloneness is beautiful, it is a blessing.
But only lovers can feel it, because only love gives you the courage
to be alone, only love creates the context to be alone. Only love
fulfils you so deeply that you are no more in need of the other — you
can be alone. Love makes you so integrated that you can be alone and
ecstatic.

Love becomes the contrast: love and aloneness are two polarities of
one energy. It is good to understand it, because sometimes it happens
that lovers don’t allow space enough to be alone. If lovers don’t
allow each other space to be alone, then love will be destroyed,
because it is out of aloneness that love gets fresh energy, juices.

When you are alone, you accumulate energy to a point from where it
starts overflowing. That overflowing becomes love — then you can go
and share with your friend, with anybody you love. You have enough to
share now; in fact, too much — you have to share.