Meditation purifies and enriches our life. It takes away from life all that is burdensome. It creates space for love and love is the ultimate nourishment for the human heart and soul.

Osho offers a simple method of meditation to allow love to fill the atmosphere. He says: “Create vibrations of love energy around you. And you will start feeling immediately that something is happening, something in your aura is changing, something around your body is changing; a warmth is arising around your body… a warmth like deep orgasm. You are becoming more alive. Something like sleep is disappearing. Something like awareness is arising.”

A journalist asked Osho: “How can people turn falling in love into meditation?”

Osho replied: “It is the easiest way. In human life, love is the closest phenomenon to meditation. The moment you fall in love with someone, what transpires between those two who have fallen in love? They drop their egos at least for each other. They drop their hypocrisies, their masks. That’s love. And this is a beautiful moment to change it into meditation. It’s just that nobody has ever told them this.”

Osho has often been condemned for teaching love. But it is his love for life and truth that matters most. He wants to liberate human beings from all falsities and hypocrisies and support people to live a life of love and meditation, fearlessly and courageously. He accepts and embraces love at all levels of existence from the mundane and the physical to the metaphysical and the transcendental and turn this vital force into meditation.

Osho concludes that love helps you relax, which is a part of meditation. Love helps you to be joyous, which is a part of meditation. Love helps you, for a few moments at least, to be silent, which is an essential part of meditation. And finally, making love, if you attain an orgasmic experience, gives you a glimpse of what meditation is, but it is millions of times more than this. So to me, love is a basic experience which can help you become meditators. The old religions have been preventing it, and they have been preventing it for a reason. If people can transform their love into meditation, then the priests and the churches and the synagogues are no more needed, then people are totally free.

Kabir, the mystic of saint of love, sings a song:
The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing
and its sound is love
When love renounces all limits,
it reaches truth.
How widely the fragrance spreads!
It has no end, nothing stands in its way.
The form of this melody is bright
like a million suns: incomparably sounds the veena, the vina of the notes of truth.

— The  Article written by Swami Chaitanya Keerti was published in The Asian Age and the Deccan Chronicle during summer 2014….

Meditation, living each moment with total awareness, in a relaxed way, has always been the central message of Osho discourses. Such insights of mindfulness have touched the hearts of many creative people around the world. This is indeed a modern term for meditation that has been known to spiritual seekers since the time of Gautama the Buddha, who practiced and taught Vipassana and Anapansatiyoga. It might have been there even before him, since the time of Upanishads and Lord Shiva. But what can be said very conclusively is this that Gautama the Buddha was the first spiritual scientist, who articulated it in such a way that the modern scientific world, without any blind faith, understands it and does research on it also. Recently the international Time magazine published a cover story on this subject. It was titled: The Mindful Revolution.

Gautama the Buddha is reported to have said in one of his gathas: Once a man came unto me and denounced me on account of my observing the way and practicing great loving kindness. But I kept silent and did not answer him. The denunciation ceased. I then asked him, if you bring a present to your neighbor and he accepts it not, does the present come back to you? the man replied, it will. I said, you denounce me now, but as I accept it not, you must take the wrong deed back upon your own person. It is like an echo succeeding sound, it is like shadow following object. You never escape the effect of your own evil deeds. Be therefore mindful and cease from doing evil.

One stops doing any evil when one is mindful, in a state of meditation each moment. In such a state we do not react, we simply respond meditatively. Reaction is most of the time very mechanical and automatic. Response takes place when there’s relaxed awareness, a watchfulness, a passive alertness. Response is from a state of consciousness, which is rooted in freedom. Reaction is born out of tension and leading to more tension. It creates entanglement, chain of actions and bondage. Mindfulness means being responsive to every situation in life each moment with total awareness.

Osho elaborates: So whenever there is a need to respond, the first thing, is become mindful, become aware. Remember your center. Become grounded in your center. Be there for a few moments before you do anything. There is no need to think about it because thinking is partial. There is no need to feel about it because feeling is partial. There is no need to find clues from your parents, Bible, Koran, Gita… there is no need. You simply remain tranquil, silent, simply alert — watching the situation as if you are absolutely out of it, aloof, a watcher on the hills. This is the first requirement — to be centered whenever you want to act. Then out of this centering let the act arise — and whatsoever you do will be virtuous, whatsoever you do will be right. Buddha says right mindfulness is the only virtue there is. Not to be mindful is to fall into error. To act unconsciously is to fall into error.

To conclude let us remember Louis L’ Amour who wrote in one of his books:  “Long since, I had learned that one needs moments of quiet, moments of stillness, for both the inner and outer man, a moment of contemplation or even simple emptiness when the stress could ease away and a calmness enter the tissues. Such moments of quiet gave one strength, gave one coolness of mind with which to approach the world and its problems. Sometimes but a few minutes were needed.”

Osho reminds us: “When one remembers one’s sacredness, one’s infinity, joy wells up. When one thinks oneself limited by a thousand and one limitations, misery arises, because a limitation is a kind of confinement; it is a prison. How can one be happy in such a small body? How can one be happy in such a petty mind? It is impossible. They don’t allow you space to dance, to sing, to celebrate. One is cluttered, one is like a junkyard. One needs the vast sky. In that vastness is freedom. In that freedom is joy.”
Fall in love with the transcendental… search for it. And I call it “falling in love” because the search has to be through the heart and not through the mind. If you search through the mind, you will never go beyond the mind. The mind is very jealous and it won’t allow you to surpass it; it is very possessive. The mind is the jailer, it guards the gate. It won’t allow you to go beyond the limits. You can function within the limits — it gives you all freedom within the limits — but don’t step outside; that is not allowed. The heart is not a prison, it is an opening; it is a door, not a wall. Hence I say “fall in love with the beyond”.