The Miracle of Meditation

Individual Talk

From:Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Truth Godliness Beauty

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"It is not only you; almost everybody is running as fast as he can from himself. And the problem is, you cannot run away from yourself.
"Wherever you go you will be yourself.
"The fear..."
"It is not only you; almost everybody is running as fast as he can from himself. And the problem is, you cannot run away from yourself.
"Wherever you go you will be yourself.
"The fear..."

Osho continues:
"But if you look deep down, they are not running for anything, they are running from. That somebody is running after money madly is just an excuse; he is deceiving himself and the whole world. The reality is that money gives him a good excuse to run, and hides the fact that he is running from himself. That's why when he accumulates money, he comes to a point of tremendous despair and anguish. What has happened? That was his goal; he has achieved it – he should be the happiest man in the world.

"But the people who succeed are not the happiest people in the world. They are the most miserable. What is their anguish? Their anguish is that their whole effort has failed. Now there is nothing more to run after, and suddenly they are encountering themselves. At the highest peak of their success they meet nobody else but themselves. Strangely enough, this is the fellow they have been running from.

"You cannot run from yourself. On the contrary, you have to come closer to yourself, deeper into your being, and to drop all the condemnatory tones that have been handed over to you by everybody you have known in your life. The parents, the husband, the wife, the neighbors, the teachers, the friends, the enemies…everybody is pointing to something that is wrong in you. From no source comes any appreciation.

"Humanity has created a very strange situation for itself in which nobody is at ease, nobody can relax – because the moment you relax you face yourself. Relaxation becomes almost a mirror, and you don't want to see your face because you are so much impressed by the condemnatory opinions of others.

"You have not been allowed even the smallest pleasures by your church, by your priests, by your religion, by your culture. Only misery is acceptable, not pleasure. In this situation when from every source, from every direction comes only condemnation, it is very natural for you to feel that you are a sinner. Every religion has been shouting for centuries that you are born in sin, that suffering is your destiny – from so many sources without exception – that it is very natural for any individual to be impressed by this vast conspiracy."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 71 mins
File Size 14.13 MB
Type Individual Talks