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through cultivating character.
This is a human kind of peace. But there is a totally different kind of peace, god's peace, that comes only through meditation, not through cultivating a certain character.
Meditation means a state of no-mind. When your mind stops functioning you open up towards god. Mind is a barrier, it is not a bridge, it is a wall. And the whole art of religion is how to put the mind aside. It can be put aside -- it is a mechanism.
It is just as when you are walking you use your legs but when you are sitting there is no need to go on moving your legs continuously, day in, day out. When you are walking you need them, when you are not walking you put them aside, you forget all about them.
Mind is also an inner mechanism; when you need it use it. For example, I am talking to you and I am using it, but when I am sitting in my room there is no need to use it. When I am alone the mind has to be put aside. Once the mind is put aside you are available to god, to the whole, and immediately a new quality of peace descends on you which goes to the very rock-bottom of your being, which is indestructible -- nothing can destroy it. You can be killed but your peace will not be disturbed.
That's why Jesus could pray on the cross, "Father, forgive these people because they know not what they do". This is divine peace, even crucifixion is not able to waver his inner centering.
Learn the art of meditation because that is the only thing in my sannyas to be learned -- everything else follows of its own accord.
[To the last initiate Osho spoke of prayer.]
Praise can happen in two ways, the right and the wrong. And ninety-nine per cent of people who are praising god in the churches, in temples, in the mosques, are doing it absolutely wrongly. It is not praise, rather it is a kind of bribe they are trying to persuade; to buttress god, to do something for them. They have certain desires, ambitions to be fulfilled and they are asking for his help. They are trying to exploit him.
These are not religious people, not at all. They want to use god -- that is one of the ugliest ideas. They want to use god as a means
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