Osho on why 23 hours of unconsciousness defeats a single hour of meditation

[Ajay0]

Osho on why 23 hours of unconsciousness defeats a single hour of meditation, and the necessity for meditative awareness throughout the day.

https://iosho.co.in/notes/meditation-can-happen-only-if-you-are-meditative-for-twentyfour-hours-a-dayosho/

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Someone asked Buddha, "How shall we meditate?"

Buddha replied, "Whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles in the moment — this is meditation."

Meditation is not a separate process. Meditation is simply the name for life lived with awareness. Meditation is not an hour-a-day affair where you sit for one hour and then it is over till tomorrow. No, if twenty-three hours are empty of meditation and only one hour is meditative, then it is certain that the twenty-three hours will defeat the single hour. Non-meditation will win, meditation will lose. If you are living twenty-three hours a day without awareness, and only one hour with awareness, then you will never attain to the state of buddhahood. How can this single hour triumph over the other twenty-three hours?

Meditation cannot come about just because you visit a temple or mosque or gurudwara.. If you were not awake in the shop, in the marketplace, or at home, how can you all of a sudden be awake in the temple? Nothing is going to come about suddenly, when it is not part of an internal flowing. This is why Buddha has said that meditation can happen only if you are meditative for twenty-four hours a day.

 

 

[Someone here]

@Ajay0 I agree but how could you possibly not do things with awareness?  Does he mean paying extra attention to the act at the moment and not let the attention wander?

[Eskilon]

21 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Does he mean paying extra attention to the act at the moment and not let the attention wander?

Yes.

Are you aware of you body the whole day? When you move you arm during the day, are you aware of that? Chances are you are lost in thoughts and not aware.

Edited 1 hour ago by Eskilon

[Someone here]

2 minutes ago, Eskilon said:

Yes.

Are you aware of you body the whole day? When you move you arm during the day, are you aware of that? Chances are you are lost in thoughts and not aware.

I'm always aware of something.  If not my arm then my head or some thought . The point seems to be its not awareness anymore if your attention is on thoughts and not on a body part? 

[Hojo]

@Someone hereLike walking but using your phone. Or walking but thinking about something thats not happening.

Think like a dream.

Edited 1 hour ago by Hojo

[Eskilon]

1 minute ago, Someone here said:

I'm always aware of something.  If not my arm then my head or some thought . The point seems to be its not awareness anymore if your attention is on thoughts and not on a body part? 

Osho is saying that you need to merge with whatever you are doing.

For example, when you are drinking water, you need to be absolutely connected to that activity. No thoughts, not anything. Just drinking water is happening.

You need to merge with things such that only the act happens, without a self. This is what I intuit that the buddha meant --- reality is happening, but theres no self, no one behind. And for you to realize that you need to merge with reality deeply.

[Someone here]

@Eskilon @Hojo If thinking is happening and I'm totally engaged with thoughts and daydreaming..how is that different than being engaged with taste of food? 

[Eskilon]

2 minutes ago, Someone here said:

If thinking is happening and I'm totally engaged with thoughts and daydreaming..how is that different than being engaged with taste of food? 

Because thought is very messy and changes a lot, theres no focus or concentration, which is the bedrock of meditation.

Edited 1 hour ago by Eskilon

[Hojo]

@Someone hereI dunno stopping daydreaming and thoughts is too hard so I would say just focus on doing 1 thing at a time. Ive been daydreaming since I was a child. Maybe when you day dream be concious of the content.

Edited 1 hour ago by Hojo