Mind is very serious and meditation is absolutely nonserious. When I say this you may be bewildered, because people go on talking about meditation very seriously. But meditation is not a serious thing. It is just like play- nonserious. Sincere, but not serious. It is not something like work; it is more like play. Play is not an activity. Play is just pleasure.
But it is difficult, because we are so involved in activity. We have always been so active that activity has become a deep-rooted obsession. We even make relaxation an activity; we make an effort to relax. This is absurd! But it happens because of the robotlike habits of the mind.
So, what to do? Only nonactivity leads you to your inner center, but the mind cannot conceive of how to be nonactive.
I have devised a means. And the means is to be active to such an extreme that activity simply ceases; to be so madly active that the mind that is hankering to be active is thrown out of your system. Only then, after a deep catharsis, can you fall down into inactivity and have a glimpse of the world that it is not the world of effort.
Once you know this world, you can move into it without any effort.
Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, it looks gloomy, it has something of the church in it; it looks as if it is only for people who are dead or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces- who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration. These are the qualities of meditation. A really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play. He enjoys it tremendously, he is not serious, he is relaxed.
Meditation is a function of being happy. Meditation follows a happy man like a shadow. Wherever he goes, whatsoever he is doing, he is meditative.
You have to dance in an ecstatic mood. All your life energy is to be flowing, laughing, singing. Celebrate life.
Only meditation can uncondition you.
I am not saying meditation will solve your life problems. I am simply saying that if you are in a meditative state, problems will disappear- not be solved. There is no need to solve problems. In the first place the problem is created by a tense mind.
Meditation is adventure, the greatest adventure the human mind can undertake.”
OSHO, The Orange Book
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