Meditation happens to simple people very easily. It may take a long time to happen to those people who are too restless and too ambitious. Meditation requires us to sit for some time and settle into our being, experiencing pure consciousness beyond the constant chatter of our mind which is very monkeyish.<\/p>\n
Osho tells a profound Zen story that a monkey came to Buddha. The monkey represents our mind. Charles Darwin came to know it very very late, but we have always been aware that man must have come from monkeys because he is still monkeyish. You just watch the mind, it\u2019s constant chattering, and then watch a monkey in the tree. You will feel a similarity. The monkey said to Buddha, \u201cI would like to become a Buddha.\u201d Buddha said, \u201cI have never heard of anybody having ever become a Buddha while remaining a monkey.<\/p>\n
The monkey said, \u201cYou don\u2019t know my powers. I am no ordinary monkey. \u201cNo monkey thinks that he is ordinary, all monkeys think that they are extraordinary; that is part of their monkey-ness. He said, \u201cI am no ordinary monkey. What are you talking about? I am a king of monkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n
So Buddha asked, \u201cWhat exceptional or extraordinary powers do you have? Can you show me?\u201d<\/p>\n
The monkey said, \u201cI can jump to the very end of the world.\u201d He had been jumping all along in the trees. He knew how to jump.So Buddha said, \u201cOkay. Come onto the palm of my hand and jump to the other end of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
The monkey tried and tried, and he was really a very powerful monkey, a very intense monkey. He went like an arrow, and he went and he went… he went. Months and \u2014the story says \u2014 years passed. And then the monkey came to the very end of the world.<\/p>\n
He laughed; he said, \u201cLook! The very end!\u201d He looked down. It was an abyss: five pillars were standing there to mark the boundary. Now he had to come back. But how would he prove that he had been to these five pillars? So he pissed near a pillar \u2014 a monkey! \u2014 to mark it! Years passed and he came back. When he reached Buddha he said, \u201cI have been to the very end of the world, and I have left a mark.\u201d But Buddha said, \u201cJust look around.\u201d He had not moved at all. Those five pillars were the five fingers of Buddha. And they were stinking. He had been there with closed eyes… must have been dreaming.<\/p>\n
Osho says: The mind is a monkey with closed eyes, dreaming. You have never gone anywhere, you have always been here and now \u2014 because nothing else exists. Just open the eyes. Just open the eyes and have a look around, and suddenly you will laugh. You have always been rooted in the ultimate being, there is no need to merge. The only need is to become alert to where you are, who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Meditation happens to simple people very easily. It may take a long time to happen to those people who are too restless and too ambitious. Meditation requires us to sit for some time and settle into our being, experiencing pure consciousness beyond the constant chatter of our mind which is very monkeyish. Osho tells a … Continue reading Mystic Mantra: Don\u2019t just do something, sit there<\/span>