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life process. It is isolating yourself. It does have some good results -- you will feel more tranquil, more calm -- but those results are temporary. That's why you feel again and again that tone is lost. Once you don't have the conditions in which it can happen, it is lost.
A meditation in which you need certain prerequisites, in which certain conditions need to be fulfilled, is not meditation at all -- because you will not be able to do it when you are dying. Death will be such a distraction. If life distracts you, just think about death. You will not be able to die meditatively, and then the whole thing is futile, lost. You will die again tense, anxious, in misery, in suffering, and you create immediately your next birth of the same type.
Let death be the criterion. Anything that can be done even while you are dying is real -- and that can be done anywhere; anywhere, and with no condition as a necessity. If sometimes good conditions are there, good, you enjoy them. If not, it makes no difference. Even in the marketplace you do it.
[Osho went on to describe this breathing meditation in more detail. (See 'Above All, Don't Wobble' -- Jan 18th)
The visitor asked if there should be any attempt to control the breath.]
No, no attempt to control it, because all control is from the mind, so meditation can never be a controlled thing.
Mind cannot meditate. Meditation is something beyond the mind, or below the mind, but never within the mind. So if the mind remains watching and controlling, it is not meditation; it is concentration. Concentration is a mind effort. It brings the qualities of the mind to their peak. A scientist concentrates, a soldier concentrates; a hunter, a research worker, a mathematician, all concentrate. These are mind activities.
[The visitor asks: How many times a day would you suggest?]
Any time. There is no need to make a fixed time. Use whatsoever time is available. In the bathroom when you have ten minutes, just sit under the shower and meditate. In the morning, in the afternoon, just four or five times, for small intervals -- just five minutes -- meditate, and you will see that it becomes
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