DON'T TRY TO CEMENT YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Then what is meditation? MEDITATION IS JUST BEING DELIGHTED IN YOUR OWN PRESENCE; meditation is a delight in your own being. It is very simple -- A TOTALLY RELAXED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense; the anxiety enters immediately. How to do? What to do? How to succeed? How not to fail? You have already moved into the future.

If you are contemplating, what can you contemplate? How can you contemplate the unknown? How can you contemplate the unknowable? YOU CAN CONTEMPLATE ONLY THE KNOWN. You can chew it again and again, but it is the known. If you know something about Jesus, you can think again and again; if you know something about Krishna, you can think again and again. You can go on modifying, changing, decorating -- but it is not going to lead you towards the unknown. AND GOD IS THE UNKNOWN.

MEDITATION IS JUST TO BE, NOT DOING ANYTHING -- no action, no thought, no emotion. You just are. And it is a sheer delight! From where does this delight come when you are not doing anything? It comes from nowhere, or, it comes from everywhere. It is uncaused -- because THE EXISTENCE IS MADE OF THE STUFF CALLED JOY. It needs no cause, no reason.

IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY, YOU HAVE A REASON TO BE UNHAPPY; if you are happy you are simply happy -- there is no reason for it. Your mind tries to find a reason, because it cannot believe in the uncaused, because it can not control the uncaused. Because with the uncaused, the mind simply becomes impotent. So the mind goes on finding some reason or other. But I would like to tell you that WHENEVER YOU ARE HAPPY, YOU ARE HAPPY FOR NO REASON AT ALL; whenever you are unhappy, you have some reason to be unhappy -- because happiness is just the stuff you are made of. It is your very being, it is your innermost core. JOY IS YOUR INNERMOST CORE.

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes, you will be able to see that THE WHOLE EXISTENCE IS JOYFUL. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents, and they are not going to become rich, and they will never have any bank balance. And look at the flowers -- for no reason; it is simply unbelievable how happy are flowers.

The whole existence is made of the stuff called joy. Hindus call it "satchitanand" -- ananda, joy. That's why no reason, no cause is needed. If you can just be with yourself, not doing anything, just enjoying yourself, just being with yourself, just being happy that you are, just being happy that you are breathing, just being happy that you are listening to these cuckoos -- for no reason; then you are in meditation. MEDITATION IS BEING HERE NOW.

And when one is happy for no reason, THAT HAPPINESS CANNOT BE CONTAINED WITHIN YOURSELF. It goes on spreading to others, it becomes a sharing. You cannot hold it; it is so much, it is so infinite. You cannot hold it in your hands, you have to allow it to spread.

THIS IS WHAT COMPASSION IS. Meditation is being with yourself, and compassion is OVERFLOWING WITH THAT BEING. It is the same energy that was moving into passion that becomes compassion. It is the same energy that was narrowed down into the body or into the mind. It is the same energy which was leaking from small holes.

—OSHO—
Dang Dang Doko Dang
Ch #5: Two ladies and a monk
am in Buddha Hall