就这样，看着。存在不是在做，观看也不是在做。你静静地坐着，什么也不做，见证着正在发生的一切。思想会在你的脑海中移动；你的身体可能在某处感到紧张，你可能有偏头痛。做个证人就好。不要认同它。观察，成为山上的观察者，其他的一切都在山谷中发生。
这是诀窍，不是艺术。
冥想不是一门科学。这不是艺术，而是诀窍——就这样。你所需要的只是一点耐心。
旧习惯将会继续；这些想法将会不断涌现。你的大脑总是在高峰时间，交通总是堵塞。你的身体不习惯静静地坐着——你会辗转反侧。没什么好担心的。只要注意身体在辗转反侧，头脑在旋转，满脑子都是想法——一致的、不一致的、无用的——幻想、梦想。你留在中间，只是看着。
世界上所有的宗教都教会人们做一些事情:停止思考过程，强迫身体保持静止的姿势。瑜伽就是这样——强迫身体静止的长期练习。但被强迫的身体并不静止。所有宗教的祈祷、专注和沉思都是用头脑做的:它们强迫它，它们不允许思想移动。是的，你有能力做到。如果你坚持，你也许可以停止思考过程。但这不是真的，绝对是假的。
当寂静自己到来时，当寂静不经你的努力而降临时，当你观察思想时，当思想开始消失、寂静开始发生时，那是美好的。如果你不认同，如果你继续做证人，并且不说“这是我的想法”，这些想法会自动停止
你不会说，“这不好，这好”，“这应该在那里……”“这不应该在那里……”那么你不是观察者；你有偏见，你有一定的态度。观察者没有偏见，他没有判断力。他只是看起来像一面镜子。
当你把某物带到镜子前时，它会反射，只是反射。没有人判断这个男人是丑的，这个男人是漂亮的，还有，“啊哈！你的鼻子真好。”镜子无话可说。它的本质是镜像；它是镜子。这就是我所说的冥想:你只是简单地反映了内在或外在的一切。
我向你保证....我可以保证，因为它发生在我和我的许多人身上；只是耐心地观察——也许几天，也许几个月，也许几年。没办法说，因为每个人都有不同的收藏。
你一定见过人们收集古董、邮票。每个人都有不同的收藏；数量可能不同，因此需要的时间也不同——但是继续尽可能多地做证人。这种冥想不需要特殊的时间。你可以洗地板，静静地看着自己洗地板。
我可以无意识地移动我的手，而不用看，或者我可以完全意识到地移动它。这有质的区别。当你无意识地移动它时，它是机械的。当你有意识地移动它时，就有了优雅。即使在你身体的一部分——手里，你也会感到沉默和凉爽——关于心灵该说些什么呢？
随着你的观察和注视，慢慢地，思绪开始变得越来越少。沉默的时刻开始出现；一个想法来了，然后在另一个想法出现之前会有沉默。这些空白会给你第一次冥想的机会和回家的第一次快乐。
osho
Just be, and watch. Being is not doing, and watching is also not doing. You sit silently doing nothing, witnessing whatsoever is happening. Thoughts will be moving in your mind; your body may be feeling some tension somewhere, you may have a migraine. Just be a witness. Don't be identified with it. Watch, be a watcher on the hills, and everything else is happening in the valley. It is a knack, not an art.
Meditation is not a science. It is not an art, it is a knack -- just that way. All that you need is a little patience.
The old habits will continue; the thoughts will go on rushing. And your mind is always in a rush hour, the traffic is always jammed. Your body is not accustomed to sitting silently -- you will be tossing and turning. Nothing to be worried about. Just watch that the body is tossing and turning, that the mind is whirling, is full of thoughts -- consistent, inconsistent, useless -- fantasies, dreams. You remain in the center, just watching.
All the religions of the world have taught people to do something: stop the process of thought, force the body into a still posture. That's what yoga is -- a long practice of forcing the body to be still. But a forced body is not still. And all the prayers, concentrations, contemplations of all the religions do the same with the mind: they force it, they don't allow the thoughts to move. Yes, you have the capacity to do it. And if you persist you may be able to stop the thought process. But this is not the real thing, it is absolutely fake.
When stillness comes on its own, when silence descends without your effort, when you watch thoughts and a moment comes when thoughts start disappearing and silence starts happening, that is beautiful. The thoughts stop of their own accord if you don't identify, if you remain a witness and you don't say, "This is my thought."
You don't say, "This is bad, this is good," "This should be there...." and "This should not be there...." Then you are not a watcher; you have prejudices, you have certain attitudes. A watcher has no prejudice, he has no judgment. He simply sees like a mirror.
When you bring something in front of a mirror it reflects, simply reflects. There is no judgment that the man is ugly, that the man is beautiful, that, "Aha! What a good nose you have got." The mirror has nothing to say. Its nature is to mirror; it mirrors. This is what I call meditation: you simply mirror everything within or without.
And I guarantee you.... I can guarantee because it has happened to me and to many of my people; just watching patiently -- maybe a few days will pass, maybe a few months, maybe a few years. There is no way of saying because each individual has a different collection.
You must have seen people collecting antiques, postal stamps. Everybody has a different collection; the quantity may be different, hence the time it takes will be different -- but go on remaining a witness as much as you can. And this meditation needs no special time. You can wash the floor and remain silently watching yourself washing the floor.
I can move my hand unconsciously, without watching, or I can move it with full awareness. And there is a qualitative difference. When you move it unconsciously it is mechanical. When you move it with consciousness there is grace. Even in the hand, which is part of your body, you will feel silence, coolness -- what to say about the mind?
With your watching and watching, slowly the rush of thoughts starts getting less and less. Moments of silence start appearing; a thought comes, and then there is silence before another thought appears. These gaps will give you the first glimpse of meditation and the first joy that you are arriving home.
osho
