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  • Alertness Awareness Mindfulness

  • We were told that the people who are working here at the commune

  • driving a bulldozer, for example,

  • that was their meditation. Do you agree with that?

  • You will have to understand what I mean by meditation.

  • Meditation means:

  • alertness,

  • awareness,

  • mindfulness.

  • So whatever you are doing,

  • just do it consciously,

  • don't do it mechanically.

  • I can move my hand mechanically.

  • I can move it very consciously,

  • fully alert.

  • And there is a difference of quality.

  • When you move it with consciousness there is grace.

  • When you move it just like machine,

  • there is no grace, no beauty.

  • When you

  • are doing any kind of work...

  • All the old religions have been telling you that

  • your religion is

  • a Sunday religion.

  • Every Sunday you have to go to church,

  • and for six days you are free.

  • This is very strange.

  • Six days God was creating

  • this world.

  • He was tremendously creative, in six days

  • he created this whole universe,

  • and seventh day there is no mention that he went to church!

  • In fact, after those six days

  • he has gone for a long weekend.

  • And it has been really long!

  • According to Christians, six thousand years have passed.

  • According to Hindus, ninety thousand years have passed.

  • The weekend seems to be unending!

  • Six days you do everything, and seventh day you go

  • to the church,

  • pray,

  • and your religion is finished.

  • Other religions

  • give you twenty minutes meditation -- sit in the morning

  • and meditate for twenty minutes.

  • These are not meditations.

  • Meditation has to be something like breathing,

  • you cannot go on holiday.

  • Even in sleep you have to continue breathing.

  • So whatever you are doing

  • even just breathing,

  • then breathe consciously in.

  • As you take the breath in, remain alert.

  • As the breath starts moving out, remain alert.

  • You are meditating.

  • Walking, just

  • go

  • consciously,

  • and you are meditating.

  • My meditation is not something separate from life;

  • it is something that has to be spread all over life.

  • Your whole life has to be colored by it.

  • So whatever you do,

  • you make love, but meditation

  • remains.

  • You cannot drop that even while making love.

  • It is not like your glasses, you cannot take it off!

  • It is like eyes,

  • they are always there,

  • you cannot just take them off and put them on again.

  • My meditation is

  • a method of being aware of whatever you are doing

  • thinking, feeling.

  • On all three layers you have to become aware.

  • A time comes

  • that when you are going to sleep...

  • even then

  • while you are sitting on the bed,

  • sit in awareness, lie down in awareness.

  • Wait for sleep fully watchful:

  • when it comes, how it comes,

  • how slowly it descends on you,

  • how your body starts relaxing,

  • in what points there was tension,

  • and now the tension is gone.

  • A day will come,

  • certainly comes,

  • when the body will have gone to sleep

  • and your meditation will be still there like a flame inside you,

  • burning, fully aware.

  • This is the moment

  • that I call your meditation is complete.

  • Now even in sleep you can meditate.

  • So there is no question,

  • while you are awake

  • you will be able to meditate, there is no problem.

  • And the man who can meditate in sleep

  • will be able to meditate while dying,

  • because the same is the process.

  • Just as in sleep

  • you slowly slowly

  • go deeper inside you, the body is left far away, relaxed,

  • the mind slows down, the thoughts go on disappearing

  • exactly the same happens in death.

  • A man who knows meditation,

  • never dies.

  • He remains alive, aware.

  • Death is happening,

  • he is there.

  • When Socrates was given poison,

  • he had gathered all his disciples.

  • One of the disciples asked,

  • "Before you leave us,

  • please tell us whether the soul survives or not."

  • Socrates said,

  • "Again you are asking the same stupid question.

  • Let me die and see!

  • I will die fully aware.

  • Only two are the possibilities:

  • either

  • I am gone,

  • finished with the body finishing,

  • and there is nobody left to be aware,

  • or

  • the body will be dying,

  • and I will be moving into some other form.

  • But before death, how can I say?

  • I am so excited."

  • And the man who is preparing the poison is delaying,

  • because he loves Socrates everybody loved the man,

  • even the man who is going to give him poison

  • is delaying. Socrates says, "This is not right.

  • It is exact now time that you should come.”

  • The man who was preparing the poison said,

  • "You must be crazy, Socrates.

  • I am simply delaying the process so you can live a little longer."

  • Socrates says, "I have lived long enough,

  • and I have lived so totally

  • that I don't think I have

  • left anything unlived.

  • My life is complete,

  • so don't waste time. I am excited to experience death.

  • I want to see death."

  • And that is exactly

  • the situation of every meditator:

  • he wants to see death too.

  • And seeing it means you are separate from it,

  • you are something eternal.

  • And this experience of eternity,

  • immortality,

  • is authentic religion

  • not worshiping a God, not a Holy Bible,

  • not a Gita.

  • Those are just

  • for retarded people.

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