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Then his love is true, his seeing is true. Then whatsoever he does has a grace. And then he lives in freedom, absolute freedom, because now he knows that even death cannot destroy him, so there is no fear. When there is no fear then there is freedom.
I Am Not As Thunk As You Drink I Am
Chapter #4
Chapter title: None
4 October 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8010045
ShortTitle: THUNK04
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
(His new name contains the meaning of sannyas -- meditation and victorious peace, Osho tells Dhyan Siggi.)
Sannyas means entering into the inner world your being -- and that entry brings both meditation and peace. And wherever these two meet there is victory.
Meditation without peace is dead, forced, not really meditation but only some kind of concentration. And that is one of the greatest errors committed by many people: they think concentration is meditation. It is not. Meditation is just the opposite of it.
Concentration is a tense state of mind, meditation is a relaxed state of mind. And the miracle of relaxation is that when relaxation is total the mind disappears. Mind can only exist with tensions, anxieties worries. It feeds on them; hence concentration never leads you beyond the mind. It can manage to give you a certain strength of mind, it can make your mind function more efficiently, more powerfully, because you will be less distracted, but it won't help you to attain a state of no-mind.
Meditation is a state of no-mind. And only in meditation, in true meditation, does peace happen. It is just a natural fragrance of meditation.
One can also be peaceful without meditation -- then again something goes wrong. That peace remains only on the surface and deep inside there is always turmoil, one is sitting on a volcano -- sitting peace-fully, but the volcano is there and it can erupt any moment. Any excuse will do.
Never force yourself to be peaceful and never
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