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CHAPTER 9. MEANS AND ENDS
This shift is possible only if you become indifferent; otherwise this shift will never be possible. Even
if you have glimpses, those glimpses will be lost. You have had glimpses before – it is not only in
prayer and meditation that glimpses happen. Glimpses happen in ordinary life too. Making love to a
woman, the mind stops. That is why sex is so appealing: it is a natural ecstasy. For a single moment
suddenly mind is not there, you feel blissful and content – but only for a single moment. Immediately
the mind comes in and starts working on how to get more, how to stay longer. Planning, controlling,
manipulating comes in, and you have missed.
Sometimes, without any reason or rhyme, you are walking down the street under the trees and
suddenly a sunray comes and falls on you, a breeze touches your face. Suddenly it is as if the
whole world has changed and for a single moment you are ecstatic. What was happening? You
were walking, unworried, not going somewhere, just having a walk, a morning or evening walk. In
that relaxed moment, suddenly, without your knowing, consciousness shifted from the mind to the
no-mind. Immediately there is beatitude. But the mind comes in and says, ”I must get more and
more moments like this.” Then you can stand there for years, for lives, but it will never happen again.
It never happened because of the mind.
In ordinary day-to-day life, not only in temples, in shops and offices also, the moments come – the
consciousness shifts from the periphery to the center. But the mind controls again immediately.
Mind is the great controller. You may be the master but he is the manager, and the manager has
absorbed so much control and power that the manager thinks he is the master. And the master is
completely forgotten.
Be indifferent to mind. Whenever moments come which are wordless, silent, if the mind comes in,
don’t help and don’t cooperate with it. Just look. Let it say whatsoever it says, don’t pay much
attention. It will withdraw.
In meditation, moments happen every day to you. Many come to me and say, ”It happened on the
first day but since then it has not been happening.”
Why did it happen on the first day? You are more prepared now, on the first day you were not so
prepared. Why did it happen on the first day? It happened on the first day because the manager
was unaware of what was going to happen. He couldn’t plan. The next day the manager knows well
what is to be done: breathing fast, then crying, screaming, then Hoo, Hoo. Now the manager knows,
and the manager does it. Then the moment will not happen, the manager has taken charge.
Remember this: whenever a blissful moment happens, don’t ask for it again. Don’t ask for it to be
repeated, because all repetition is of mind. Don’t ask for it again. If you ask, then the mind will say,
”I know the trick. I will do it for you.”
When it happens, feel happy and grateful and forget. The fish is caught, forget the trap. The meaning
is caught, forget the word.
And the last thing: whenever meditation is complete, you will forget meditation. And only then, when
you forget meditation, will it have come to a fulfillment, will the climax have been reached. Now you
are meditative for twenty-four hours a day. It is nothing to be done; it is there, it is you, it is your
being.
The Empty Boat 170 Osho