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Is meditation impossible without purity of the body, purity of thoughts and purity of emotions?*

No, without them meditation is also possible, but it is possible only for a very few people. If you enter into meditation with total determination, then even without purifying any of these you can enter into meditation because the moment you enter, all of them will become pure. But if it is not easy for you to have so much determination – it is very difficult to have so much determination – then you will have to purify them one by one.

You will not attain to a state of meditation by making them pure, but you will attain to greater determination by making them pure. By purifying them, the energy which was wasted through impurity will be saved, and that energy will be transformed into determination. Then you will enter into meditation. Purifying these three is helpful, but not essential.

Purifying these three is essential for anyone who finds it impossible to enter into meditation directly, and who will otherwise not be able to enter into meditation. But they are not absolutely essential because if there is total determination, even for a moment, you can enter into meditation. Even for a moment, if someone gathers his total energy and takes the jump, then there is nothing that can stop him, no impurity can stop him. But only a few people have been fortunate enough to gather that much energy; only a few people have been fortunate enough to gather that much courage.

Only the kind of people that I am about to tell you about in this story can gather that much courage.

Once there was a man who thought that the world must end somewhere, so he set out to find the place where the world ends. He traveled thousands of miles, and kept asking people, “I have to find the place where the world ends.”

Finally he came to a temple where there was a sign on which was written: Here Ends the World. He became very afraid…the sign had appeared; a little further and the world would end. And below the sign this was written: Do Not Go Any Further. But he wanted to see the end of the world, so he went on.

A short distance from there the world came to an end. There was a shoreline and below it an infinite abyss. He just had a look and he was scared to death. He ran back; he could not even look behind him because there was such an abyss. Chasms which are not so deep are scary, but they have a bottom; this one was infinite – it was the end of the world. The abyss was the end and there was nothing beyond the abyss. In his fear he ran into the temple and said to the priest, “This final point is very dangerous.”

The priest replied, “If you had jumped, you would have seen that the end of the world is the beginning of godliness.” He said, “If you had jumped into that abyss you would have found the divine.”

 

But to gather enough courage to jump into the abyss, if you don’t already have it, some preparation for meditation is needed. Only a person who is ready to jump into the abyss needs no preparation. And how can there be any preparation? There can be no preparation, and this is why I have called these preparations the external disciplines. They are the external means and they will help you up to a point. Anyone who has the courage can jump in directly, and whoever does not have the courage can use these steps, remember this.

 

 

  * - excerpt from OSHO. The Path of Meditation.

Updated on 18-01-2016







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