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CHAPTER 7. MEDITATION IS THE SEED absolutely nothing – simply sit – for if you do anything, the mind immediately becomes active. On the face of it this seems very easy, but in fact it is very very difficult to just sit. There is the trouble: you sit with the eyes closed and the mind begins to race. Your body looks still enough sitting there unmoving, but in your mind there is great commotion. If you just sit and do nothing that is meditation. If you just sit doing nothing – there is no Ram-Ram, no Krishna-Krishna, no ripple of thought – for that too is an activity. If you are simply doing nothing; if there is no attempt even to stop the thoughts – for you can only do that with another thought – if you neither repeat God’s name nor remember the world; if you are not saying ’I am the soul’ nor ’I am Brahma’, for such repetitions are also useless, they are mere thoughts; if you sit, just like a rock, nothing happening within, nothing happening without, then you are ’JUST SITTING’. This state is called ’zazen’ in Japan – just sitting. Zen masters use this method. The disciple requires twenty years, thirty years, to reach this state of just sitting. This apparently easy sutra is very difficult. The easiest things are the most difficult things in the world. If you are told to climb the Himalayas you will not find it that difficult. You may become weary, you may face the difficulties, but still you will climb; but as soon as you attempt to do nothing it will seem that a great calamity has befallen you. What happens when you sit quietly? You find that as soon as you sit all kinds of movements occur in different parts of your body. You feel needles pricking your feet, you feel itchy somewhere else; suddenly you feel a pain in the neck or the back. A moment before you felt none of this, you were absolutely all right. Suddenly your body revolts and tells you to do something; even if you were able to ignore everything else, you will feel compelled to change your position. Life is supported by action in this mundane world. As you begin to empty yourself of action, the world is lost. As soon as you try to be still, the body urges you into one activity or other. People come to me and complain: ”We suffer from no aches and pains, but as soon as we begin to meditate all kinds of troubles start.” You feel like coughing when there is no reason to do so. You are the master, and if you do not listen to the body it will quiet down, for how long can it remain agitated? It is the attention that you give it that acts as its nourishment. You must firmly tell the body: Whatever happens I am not going to do anything for this one hour. You feel itchy? What of it? How is it going to harm you? Have you noticed that if you do not scratch for a minute or two, the itching stops on its own? The itching sensation is never removed by scratching; rather, it increases. If you have made a firm resolution that you are the master and not the body, you will find the throat has settled down – there is no cough. You will have to assert your domination for a few days though. Too long have you allowed the slave to lord it over you, so when you begin to steal its power it is sure to rebel and defy you. You have decided to sit still for an hour. What is the worst that can happen? The feet turn numb... All right, let them! They feel itchy... So what! It is not a matter of life and death. You will find that if you remain firm in your resolve, the feet will stop being numb. This was only a ruse of the body to defeat your purpose. Had you listened to the feet your hands would have clamored for attention, then your neck and so on; but if you ignore the feet the itch will subside once and for all. A beggar The Great Path 128 Osho
CHAPTER 7. MEDITATION IS THE SEED does not beg for long before an empty house, but if you make the mistake of saying, ”There is no one here. Go elsewhere,” he will not budge from your door. Once you responded he is sure to say something. A beggar called out for alms before the house of a miserly Marwari. What a wrong place to go! He called out and begged for a loaf of bread. ”There is no bread here,” the Marwari called back. ”Then give me a paisa or two,” cried the beggar. ”There is no money here.” ”Then some old clothes!” ”Did I not say that there is nothing here?” shouted the Marwari. ”Then why stay here?” answered the beggar. ”Why don’t you join me and we can go begging together!” One reply – and you are caught. Your reply means that you are, and you are willing. At least you are responding. That is enough. You feel itchy! Just observe it and do nothing, do not react. In a short while you will be surprised to find that the sensation has gone. When there is a pain just observe it; it will go away. It takes about six months to make the body ’just sit’ like this. Choose any posture in which you can be comfortable. Don’t choose an unsuitable posture which might give you trouble. Therefore I say choose a comfortable, easy position. Don’t take an uncomfortable position that tortures the body unnecessarily. You don’t have to sit on pebbles or thorns. As it is, the body will give enough trouble: don’t increase your pains. Sit in an easy posture and resolve to sit like this for an hour. Then don’t listen to the body at all. If you stick zealously to your resolve and do not give in to the body, within three weeks you will find that the body will stop agitating. Then when the body stops disturbing you, turn to the mind. Don’t worry at all about the mind in the beginning. You have to make the body toe the line before grappling with the mind. The day you discover that the body has become passive and no longer give you trouble, that it is now prepared to sit still, know that half the journey is over. In fact, more than half the journey is over, because the mind is also a part of the body, and if the body has been subdued the mind cannot hold out for long. If the whole body has been trained into acceptance of a particular posture, this part of the body cannot wander for long; it too will have to settle down. To stabilize the body, to subject it to a particular posture, means to stop all the turbulence and disturbances of the body. Now you sit as if you have no body, as if you are bodiless. You are now aware of the body: you are just siting. Next concentrate on the mind. The method is the same: don’t do a single thing that the mind says. Don’t react to it. Watch the thoughts with an indifferent attitude, as if you have nothing to do with them, as if you are witnessing the thoughts of another person while you are standing apart, as if The Great Path 129 Osho
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