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CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
a past life somewhere, you must have smelled that smell; it is still there. You may hear music that
is not known to you. You may hear languages which you are absolutely unaware of. You may feel
the taste of strange foods. All the five senses will supply experiences of many, many lives. You have
simply to remain a seer, no judgment. Then these start disappearing.
And when the collective unconscious opens, then animals and trees and birds – all are available to
you. You are not separate from them. Stories like Saint Francis can be right. But there is no miracle
in it. This man is perhaps the most important man in the whole of Christian history, because he
talked to birds, animals, and they understood it. He would just sit on the bank of a river and start
calling the fishes, and the fishes would start jumping all around him, listening to him. And he would
talk to them. He would say, ”Sisters, how are you?” His disciples would think he was mad, but they
could not say that, because they could see that the fishes were listening, nodding their heads. Even
the donkey on which he used to move he used to call ”brother donkey”. He just had to say, ”Brother
donkey, move right” – and the donkey would move right.
When he was dying, his last words were not said to any man, they were said to the donkey. He said,
”Thank you, brother donkey; you have carried me your whole life and I am immensely grateful” –
and there were tears in the donkey’s eyes. As Francis died the donkey died. He could not bear the
separation.
Now, there is nothing miraculous in it. This man has moved through the collective unconscious;
perhaps just one life more and he will be able to enter the cosmic unconscious; and from there
begins the upward flight.
It’s very strange: if you want to go above consciousness, you have to go below consciusness. But
there is only one method.
My name for it is meditation.
But meditation is equivalent to watchfulness, awareness, alertness.
From Ignorance to Innocence 392 Osho