How to take care of the meditative experience

How to take care of the meditative experience

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Beloved Osho,
If a seeker finds a ray of light, how should he take care of this experience?

As I said this morning, whatever feelings of joy, peace or happiness you experience must be kept and carried within you continuously, twenty-four hours a day. How to do this? There are two ways: one is to remember and recreate that particular state of consciousness you experienced while you were meditating.
For example, during meditation you breathe slowly, so during the day, whenever you have time, when you are not doing something in particular, slow your breathing and keep your attention on the part under your nose where the air enters. And remember those sensations. Picture yourself feeling happy, joyful, silent and nourished. Bring these sensations back. Whenever you remember – going to bed, waking up, walking down the street, wherever you are – bring those feelings back. The result will be that many times during the day, this memory will touch something inside you. And the time will come when you won't even have to make any special effort to remember, the sensations will be with you constantly, just like your breath.
So, first, you will have to continually remind yourself of these sensations within you, whenever the thought arises. For example, while lying in bed, remember the state you were in while meditating. When you are walking, when you see the moon in the sky, when you sit under a tree and no one is around, when you are alone in your room, remember the sensations. Traveling on a bus or train, sitting alone, close your eyes and remember these sensations. Even during the day, when you are busy with your work, even in your office, get up for a few minutes and go to a window, breathe deeply and try to remember that state of being.
If you do this ten or fifteen times a day, remembering for a minute or two, it will become more and more continuous. Gradually you will find that there is no need to remember – the feeling will remain with you. So this is one way: carrying into your thought what you experience in meditation, letting it come into your awareness.
The second way is the one I have already suggested to you(*): when you go to bed at night, make your resolution. Exercise to make your resolve stronger is also used to make your meditative state continuous. On a day when you have a meditation experience, when you go to bed at night, do the same exercise: internally remember what you have experienced during meditation, and the same experience will stay with you twenty-four hours a day.

The exercise I gave you for making your resolution, exhaling all the breath and making the resolution and then breathing in and making the resolution... Use this same procedure, when you experience a state of silence, bring it to mind. the thought that what you felt during meditation will remain with you all the time, like an inner current. By repeating this thought, you will regain the feeling of meditation without any effort. And it will be more beneficial if both things are done simultaneously. Later, when we talk about the purification of thoughts and emotions, it will be possible to discuss this in more depth. But you can experiment with these two exercises. During the twenty-four hour period, you have a lot of free time on your hands, moments when you have nothing worth doing to do. If this free time can be used to remember those moments of meditation, it can make a tremendous difference. Look at it this way: two years ago someone insulted you or you had a tragic accident. If you try today to remember that accident, you will be 

surprised to find that as you remember the entire accident, your body and mind will slowly get into the same state they were in when you actually had that experience two years ago. If you were insulted two years ago and you try to remember the incident now, how that fact touched you, how you were insulted, you will also be surprised to see that your body and mind will experience the same state they did, as if you was being insulted again.
Everything is being collected in our consciousness and does not disappear. What you have experienced is stored there. If you bring those memories back, you can experience the same things again, and you can get into the same emotions. Nothing is erased from the human mind.
But if you felt good while you were meditating today, it is essential that you remember this experience at least five or ten times during the day. In this way, the memory of this experience will sink into your consciousness, and by remembering it over and over again, it will become a permanent part of your consciousness. So, in answer to what was asked, this is how it can be done. And it's important that you do.
Many people make the mistake of only remembering the negative and forgetting all the positive. The basic mistake people make is that in remembering everything that was worthless and negative, they forget about everything that has true value. You rarely remember times when you were filled with love, when you felt your body fully alive. You rarely remember times when you felt silence, but you always remember when you were angry and upset, when you were insulted and reacted with revenge against someone. You will always remember times when you were injured and rarely times when you felt nourished. And it's very important to remember those moments that nurtured you.
Reminding yourself of them continually will help you in two ways. Most importantly, remembering these moments will create the possibility of them happening again. If someone constantly remembers negative things, it is very likely that they will go through the same kind of experiences again. If someone constantly remembers sad things, it is very likely that he will be sad again, because he will develop an inclination towards those things, and these incidents will keep repeating in his life. All these feelings are stored inside you, and it becomes easier for these emotions to repeat themselves.
Try to observe in yourself what kind of emotions you tend to keep remembering. We all have memories. What kind of experiences do you tend to remember? And know that whatever memories you have from the past, they are being planted as seeds for the future, and you will reap the same experience in the future. Your memories of the past pave your way to the future.
Consciously forget everything that is worthless. And when such things come to your mind, stop and ask those memories to go away. They are of no use to you. Forget all the thorns and remember the flowers. There must be a lot of thorns, but there are also flowers around. If you remember the flowers, the thorns in your life will disappear, and your life will be filled with flowers. If you remember the thorns, it is possible that the flowers in your life will disappear and you will only be left with the thorns.
It depends on the individual, what height he wants to reach. It depends on us whether we want to live in heaven or hell. Heaven and hell are not geographical places, they are subjective, psychological states. Most of you are in hell many times in one day, and many times you are in heaven. But most are in hell most of the time, and some have even forgotten their way back to heaven.
But there are people who are in heaven twenty-four hours a day. People on this same planet are living in the sky. You too can be one of them. There is nothing to stop it. Just understand some basic and scientific principles. (...)
You asked how to take care of the light experience. If I gave you some diamonds, how would you take care of them? If you found a valuable treasure, how would you take care of it? How would you safely store it? Where would you keep it? You would want to keep it hidden; you would want to keep him close to your heart. (...)
Protect these experiences... They are the real coins. They may have inspired you, they may have given you renewed energy, they may have transformed something within you, something new may have been unleashed in you, a yearning for the sublime may have arisen in you. So, take care of those experiences. I explained two methods to you. If you experiment with them, you will understand.”

OSHO – The Path of Meditation –




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