Osho, Is meditation enough to be whole and healthy? Please explain.

“The word ‘meditation’ and the word ‘medicine’ come from the same root. Medicine means that which heals the physical, and meditation means that which heals the spiritual. Both are healing powers.

“Another thing to be remembered: the word ‘healing’ and the word ‘whole’ also come from the same root. To be healed simply means to be whole, not missing anything. Another connotation of the word – the word ‘holy’ – also comes from the same root. Healing, whole, holy, are not different in their root.

“Meditation heals, makes you whole; and to be whole is to be holy. Holiness has nothing to do with belonging to any religion, belonging to any church. It simply means that inside you, you are entire, complete; nothing is missing, you are fulfilled. You are what existence wanted you to be. You have realized your potential.”

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Even if we have not realized our potential, how come sometimes things are going so well?

“The question is not a laughing matter. It touches something of tremendous value in human misery, in human anguish, in human reality. It creates laughter because it looks absurd to ask why things are going so well.

“We have become accustomed to things never going so well.

“We are well acquainted with the misery, the pain, the darkness, the meaninglessness, the whole tragedy of human existence. It has gone to our very bones, blood and marrow; we accept it as if it is our nature.

“If things are going wrong, it seems natural.

“If things are not going wrong, then something must be wrong – how come things are going so well? We have forgotten the language of well-being, we have forgotten the taste of blissfulness.

“We have forgotten our own nature. The natural thing is that things should go well; for their going well, no reason is needed.

“You are healthy – you don’t go to the doctor to ask him, ‘What is the matter with me? I am healthy.’ You go to the doctor when you are not healthy, when you are sick….

“Everything should go beautifully, easily, with a wellbeing. It is natural.

“If something is not going well that means something is sick, something is ill.”

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Is there a reason when things are not going well?

“All the great moralists of the world, all the theologians, all the prophets and messengers of God have really messed you up. They have made such demands on you. They have taken away all your freedom. They have asked you to do impossible things, and naturally you have failed in doing them. It has left wounds in you – wounds of failure, inferiority, wounds of unworthiness – and you are living with all those wounds. Naturally, everything goes wrong.

“It is not nature, it is your great benefactors – the people who have been promising you that ‘We are the saviors.’ In fact, they are the people who have created a sick humanity, a diseased human mind, a psychology that is not sane.

“Demanding anything unnatural is bound to create guilt. If you do not do it, you feel guilty that you are not really a human being, that you are behaving like subhuman beings, animals; that you are a sinner, that you are doing things against the prophets and the messengers who represent God.

“And if you try to follow them, you get into a trap. If you follow them you have to go against nature, and nature is all that you are.

“You cannot go against yourself, so on each step there is failure….

“And that’s how man has lived for thousands of years: a life which could have been a beautiful experience has been turned into an unbearable torture, a nightmare.

“Even if you want to wake up you cannot. The nightmare is heavy and long – it is not only yours, it is coming from your forefathers; generation after generation has cultivated it. It has roots as ancient as man; you cannot fight with it.

“You are torn apart. You cannot fight with your nature, you cannot fight with your sick heritage.

“And I say that on the whole earth every man is living under the burden of a sick heritage. It does not matter whether he is Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan – those are different names for the same sickness.

“If you follow your nature, you yourself condemn yourself. The whole society condemns you. The whole world is against you, and you are also against yourself.

“But you have to live your nature.”

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How does not living our nature make us sick?

“Whenever your heart falls out of line with the whole you are in trouble, you are ill. Whenever the heart is in rhythm with the whole, you are healthy. Let this be the definition of health. Whenever there is no conflict between you and the whole, not even a rumor of conflict, you are healthy. To be whole is to be healthy. To be whole is to be holy.

“And what is the way to be holy, healthy, whole? Your heart should beat in the same rhythm as the heart of the whole. You should not fall out of line, out of step – it is a great cosmic dance. It is a great harmony. When you sit still, silent, not doing anything, meditative, prayerful, suddenly you start merging into the whole. You come closer and closer and closer and your steps are no longer heard as separate from the whole. You become part of this great symphony. Suddenly you are healthy, holy, whole.

“How to come to this tuning with the whole? Why are you missing it?

“You are constantly in discord, you have many contradictions within you. Those contradictions go on like a tug of war within continuously, day and night, awake and asleep. You are constantly pulled into opposite directions. This tense state of affairs does not allow you to listen.

“Even when you are in love you go on fighting. Even in love, you don’t fall into step with the whole. Even lovers go on fighting with each other – otherwise love can become a door to the ancient music.”

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Is there a way to stop fighting and start fulfilling our nature?

“To me, your physical needs have to be fulfilled first. Your body has to be in a deep contentment, a well-being. When the body is perfectly well, healthy, has a pleasure of its own, is like a beautifully humming car – no disturbance, no noise….

“When the car is really beautifully humming and the mechanism has a rhythm to it, there is well-being. When your body is humming in a musical, harmonious way, when everything fits together, when there is nothing wrong and you are simply happy with the body, suddenly there is an upsurge of energy. You start seeking aesthetic objects: art, music, poetry, painting. Suddenly you become interested in Picasso, Michelangelo, Mozart. Suddenly your taste starts growing for something beautiful.

“When your mind is also humming, when your mind is also in a well-being – the music is there, the poetry is there, the beauty is there, and you are satisfied – again another jump, another quantum leap, and you start asking about truth, you ask about godliness. You ask the ultimate question only in an ultimate state of well-being, not before it. And then the search starts.”

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Going on the search is helping our well-being?

“Just see…. If you are sitting here and if you are contented in this moment – and I don’t see why you should not be contented in this moment – then there is no desire. And when there is no desire, there is such calm, such quiet. The silence becomes so solid that you can almost touch it, you can taste it, you can hold it in your hands.

“Whenever there is contentment, there is no desire. When there is no desire, you are at home, relaxed. In that relaxed state, there is no mind. Mind is the accumulated tensions. Mind is not a faculty, mind is just a bundle of all your desires, all the waves that you go on creating. One passion is lost; before it is lost you get involved in another passion. One desire is finished, and even before it is finished you start planning for another trip in the future.

“So you go on rushing into the future and you go on missing the present. And presence is possible only in the present. And when you are present there is no mind. And this state of no-mind is the goal….

“When there is no tension, no thought, no desire, no passion, a great well-being arises in your soul; it wells up. That’s what benediction is. You feel tremendously happy, and you feel happy for no reason. You feel tremendously high – but this high has no cause to it. It is not that you have taken some drug, or alcohol. It is not that you have been chanting a mantra.”

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Is there anything I can do for my well-being?

“If everything is going well, be happy. And remember why things are going well so they can continue to go more and more well, because wellness also has depth. Just find out what it is that is making your life blissful, peaceful, silent, happy – simple arithmetic – and your life can become a holy life.

“According to me, if you are living joyously, you are a holy man.

“Only one thing you have to do: die to the past so that you can be reborn in a fresh present and a free future.”

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How to die to the past and be reborn?

“Meditation is the way to the mastery of your own being. No God is needed, no catechism is needed, no holy book is needed. Nobody needs to become a Christian or a Jew or a Hindu – all that is sheer nonsense. All that is needed is to find your center, and meditation is the simplest way to find it. It will make you whole, healthy spiritually, and it will make you so rich that you can destroy all the spiritual poverty of the world.”

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So, meditation is the medicine to attain to well-being?

“Problems may be a thousand and one, but the medicine is only one…. Meditation is a medicine; it is the only medicine. So forget about your problems; just move into meditation. And the deeper you move, the more the false things will disappear.”

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“Meditation is a healing force, because it relaxes you and allows nature to heal you. But that is not the primary benefit of meditation. It is just a side effect. The basic benefit is the entry into the divine. Self-realization. Realization of godliness. Oh! the ecstasy of it, the blessing and the benediction.”

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“Meditation is medicine.
It keeps the disease of knowledge out of you
It prevents the disease from getting in
From getting roots in you
From making roads in you.
It uproots the weeds, and once the soil is clean
Roses start sprouting of their own accord.”

Osho, Eighty Four Thousand Poems, Talk #18

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