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CHAPTER 7. MEDITATION IS THE SEED
does not kill its host tree outright; the host is allowed to retain enough for its most basic needs. A
master treats his slave similarly: the slave is given just enough to stay alive.
Your mind gives you just enough to permit your survival. It gobbles up ninety-nine percent of your
energy and allows you just one percent so that you can maintain the body. In a non-meditating state,
the mind is ninety-nine percent and you are one percent; in a meditative individual the individual is
ninety-nine percent and the mind only one percent. If you become one hundred percent and the
mind is zero, that is the state of samadhi.
Then you are completely liberated; the seed has developed into a full-grown tree. There is nothing
left to be achieved now. All that was to be attained is already attained. All potentiality has turned
into reality; all that was hidden is now manifest. Then existence becomes filled with your fragrance;
then the music of your dance is heard in all corners of the earth, and even far away in the moon and
the stars. It is not that you alone are thrilled – the life-stream of all existence throbs within you. Then
existence becomes filled with celebration. Whenever a Buddha is born all of existence celebrates.
All of existence yearns to see your seed turn into a spreading tree.
Meditation means: where the mind is as good as gone. Samadhi means: where the mind is
completely void and only you remain.
This sutra of Shiva says: MEDITATION IS THE SEED.
Therefore we have to start with meditation. Right now, in sleeping and in wakefulness, in
consciousness and unconsciousness, the mind has you in its grip. Thoughts invade you in the
day and dreams in the night. All the twenty-four hours the mind argues and debates and the most
amazing thing is: it all leads to nothing. What have you attained by all your reasoning and thinking?
Where has it taken you? What goals have you reached?
The great philosopher, Immanuel Kant, was returning home one evening when a small boy stopped
him on the road and said, ”Good evening, uncle. I have just been to your house. Tomorrow a few
boys are going for a picnic, and I came to borrow your camera. You were out so I asked your servant.
He refused me flatly. Is it right, uncle, that a servant should say no like that?” The child was boiling
with anger.
Kant said, ”The servant was certainly not right. Who is he to refuse when I am here? Come along
with me.”
The child was pleased. They reached Kant’s home. The servant was called and reprimanded
before the child. Then Kant turned to the child and said, ”Now I shall tell you. The fact is, I don’t
own a camera.” All the joy, the thrill, the hope that the child was nourishing of getting the camera, all
vanished into thin air when he learned that his uncle didn’t even own one.
This is the state of your mind. All your life you toil, you slave, you groan with the load that you carry
because you still hope. In the end the mind will admit that it does not possess what you seek. This
has always been the story. It does not have what you are actually seeking, but it keeps hoping:
”Maybe today, or tomorrow... tomorrow.”
The Great Path 125 Osho