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CHAPTER 7. MEDITATION IS THE SEED
the day after – don’t worry when you will reach, because the greater the hurry the more you will be
delayed. To hurry is the nature of the mind. If you hurry the mind will defeat you. If you keep your
patience and don’t hurry, if you are prepared to wait for the happening whenever it comes, you will
find that within six months the mind will become tranquil.
The state of ’just sitting’ means that there is no activity in the body, no thought in the mind. This
sutra of Shiva is revolutionary. It says that the moment you achieve the state of ’just sitting’ you find
yourself bathed in the lake of the supreme being. That lake is within you.
When all movements of the body stop the energy cannot flow out. When all activities of the mind
come to a halt, all outlets of energy are sealed. For the first time the bucket of your mind has no
holes. Now there is nothing to flow out. All the life-energy circulates within, and within is the great
lake. This energy flowing within you then meets the supreme lake. You – your drop – beings to
drown in the ocean. Then a natural bathing in the supreme lake occurs. And that is God Himself.
When you go outward you wander. As soon as you go within the goal is attained. You are seeking
outside what is hidden inside you. What you are seeking in fact is you, yourself; and therefore the
search never succeeds. That which you seek lies hidden forever within you. That is the difficulty.
That is the complexity of the whole thing, for you never look there. Where you look, there He is not,
and so you wander and wander endlessly.
One evening Mulla Nasruddin was out on the road with a lamp looking for something. He was frantic.
Darkness was closing in and his friends offered to help him.
”What are you looking for?” they asked.
”I have lost my needle,” said the Mulla.
After a while one of them said, ”Mulla, exactly where did you drop the needle? The road is so wide
and the needle is so small.”
Nasruddin said, ”Don’t ask that question. That is a sore point.”
The friends were puzzled. ”What do you mean?” they asked.
Nasruddin said, ”The needle was lost in the house, but there is no light inside. It is so dark there, so
terribly dark that I am afraid to go in even during the daytime. That is why I am looking outside.”
”Have you gone mad, Mulla?” they exclaimed. ”How can you find outside what was lost inside?”
Nasruddin laughed out loud. ”Everybody is doing the same!” he exclaimed. ”What is lost within we
seek without, and no one else is considered mad, only me!”
What is it that you seek? You are definitely seeking something, but what is it? If we were to find the
sum total of all our searching we should discover that it is bliss that we seek. We find some people
searching for wealth, but really they seek bliss; some seek love, but really they seek bliss; some
seek honor, but really they seek bliss; some seek fame, but really they seek bliss. In essence they
The Great Path 131 Osho