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have gone wrong: it was a first attempt to land human beings on the moon. But they had never tried to go in, and they may never try to go in; the idea may not occur to them.
People take themselves for granted -- that is the difficulty, They think they know themselves already. and the reality of one's being is the most mysterious phenomenon, the most unknown and unknowable.
Meditation is the art of landing you at your very centre. We live on the circumference -- how to jump from the circumference to the centre? It is a whole art. I call it art rather than science because science is more mathematical and art is more artistic, more poetic. In science there are no exceptions, it follows universal laws. In art there are exceptions. In fact every individual reaches his centre in a slightly different way anybody else, because each individual has something unique in him. What is the divinity and the great grace of the universe, that it makes unique individuals only.
Meditation is the bridge between the circumference and the centre, between the outer and the inner, between mind and no-mind, between matter and consciousness.
Learn the art of meditation. My whole emphasis is on meditation. I don't want my sannyasins to become addicted to any other details of discipline, of food....
Where are a thousand and one things people become anxious about, worried about -- what to eat, what not to eat, how much to sleep, when to get up, when to go to bed? They are all nonessential things. The only essential thing is to know oneself. And the person who wants to know himself will naturally arrange his life in such a way that it helps. Slowly slowly he will change his food without any effort, without any enforcement. He will start becoming alert about what food helps him to be more silent. Just by watching one knows what is healthy, what is unhealthy, what gives you cramps in the stomach and what gives you heaviness, what makes you sleepy, what makes you alert, aware, light, what makes you sad and what makes you joyous.
Through watching, the meditator slowly becomes aware of what is the right time for him to sleep, and what is the right time for
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