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Chapter 3 - Seek nothing outside
drugs. And I am saying that something that has not been solved for centuries and has disturbed millions of people's lives ... It is time that somebody points out to the scientists and to the governments of the world that they are unnecessarily torturing millions of people in jails. The simple thing will be to change the composition of the drugs and make the drugs healthier.
But the trouble is, the government is interested in violent people, not silent people. And the priest is interested in tense, anxiety ridden, miserable people. Otherwise, who is going to pray for whom? This is the basic reason why nothing has been done; otherwise it is a simple matter, nothing can be more simple. And the same is the situation with other matters.
And, Maneesha, I understand that you can listen about nirvana or anything else that your minds do not know. Do you want me to talk only about things which you don't know? That will simply mean that I do not talk. Because in fact I have talked so much about nirvana that you know about it already as much as you know about drugs -- perhaps more about nirvana than about drugs.
And don't you want me to talk about your practical life? You simply want me to talk about things you have nothing to do with -- just have an entertainment and move towards the canteen.
No, I will talk about your practical life and I will talk about the beyond together, because half is not possible. If you only talk about the beyond then your actual life remains the same and the beyond cannot be reached; it can never become your experience.
I have to talk about the beyond so that slowly, slowly it sinks into every fiber of your being. And I have to talk about your practical life so that you can start changing that according to your life beyond. They have to become one. But right now nirvana has no meaning to you --
it is just a word.
People like to talk about things which make no difference in their life. But I am not interested in that kind of gathering. If you are not interested in transforming
your life, you are wasting your time here unnecessarily.
Your practical life and your life beyond are one single whole; they both have to be discussed. And you have to learn not to interpret, but to listen clearly to what I am saying.
Question 2
Maneesha has asked another question:
OUR BELOVED MASTER,
SOMETIMES DURING MEDITATION THERE IS THE SENSATION OF
CONSCIOUSNESS ARISING AND EXPANDING. IS THAT THE SAME PHENOMENON
THAT IS INVOLVED IN WATCHING?
Maneesha, watching is the highest point. What arises in meditation is the beginning, it is just a dewdrop. When you will go farther and farther and farther and reach the ocean, then you will know the tremendous vastness and greatness and grandeur of watchfulness. Meditation is only a technique; watchfulness is your nature.
Meditation is a way to reach to watchfulness. Osho - The Language of Existence
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