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am making a big boat a big orange boat. You need not travel in your small boat!
[Sannyasins who had taken part in the tathata group were at darshan. One group member said she had been bored. Previously Osho had talked about the use of boredom as a device to drop the mind (see 'God is not for Sale', Thursday October 8th). Tonight he expanded on that, saying that a group devoted to boring people would have to be introduced into the ashram!... ]
Sometimes it can help tremendously, because being bored means that your mind is not getting any excitement -- and the mind is always hankering for excitement, something new, some sensation.
When you say that you are feeling bored, you simply mean that your mind -- which is constantly after new sensations -- is feeling frustrated; nothing new is there. But if you can continue and remain in that boredom and accept that boredom, a moment comes when the mind stops completely, because the mind has nothing to do now.
The mind lives on excitement... the novel, novelty, something new. When there is nothing exciting, the mind disappears. It has no reason to function, and in that state, for the first time you have penetrated into meditation.
In the past, many more people attained to meditation because the ancient world was very boring. The modern world is very exciting. Mm? just think of an old village in india. Even now it is boring, but three thousand years ago it was absolutely boring! Nothing ever happened. The same people, the same world, the same castes -- the brahmin, the sudra -- and the same divisions and everything was just mechanical.... The same poverty, the same illness, the same... everything the same.
The village never used to change. For centuries it would remain the same. Automatically the mind had nothing to function for. There were no newspapers, and no radios, and no TV. There was simply no reason for the mind to function, so the mind could rest. Meditation was very easy.
In the modern world it is becoming more and more difficult because things seem so fast.' And the whole world has almost become a small village. News arrives from everywhere: whatsoever happens in tehran,
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