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BE DETACHED AND INDEPENDENT.
When you are trying to meditate, put the phone off the hook, disengage yourself. Put a notice on the door that for one hour nobody should knock, that you are meditating. And when you move into the meditation room take your shoes off, because you are walking on sacred ground. And not only take your shoes off, but everything that you are preoccupied with. Consciously leave everything with the shoes. Go inside unoccupied. One can take one hour out of twenty-four hours. Give twenty-three hours for your occupations, desires, thoughts, ambitions, projections. Take one hour out of all this, and in the end you will find that only that one hour has been the real hour of your life; those twenty-three hours have been a sheer wastage. Only that one hour has been saved and all else has gone down the drain.
NOR MUST THE THOUGHT BE CONCENTRATED UPON THE RIGHT PROCEDURE.
And the second thing to be remembered: don't become too preoccupied with the right procedure, otherwise that becomes a preoccupation -- that one should sit in a certain posture. If you can sit, good, but if it becomes an unnecessary preoccupation, drop it. For example, if you cannot sit in a full lotus posture -- which is difficult for people who have been sitting for their whole lives on chairs; it is difficult because their musculature has developed in a certain way -- then your Legs will not feel good. They will go to sleep or they will start creating trouble for you. They will constantly hanker for attention, so there is no need to force a lotus posture. A lotus posture, if easy, is good. Otherwise any posture is a lotus posture.
If you cannot sit on the ground, if it is difficult, sit on the chair. Meditation is not afraid of chairs; it can happen anywhere.
Just the other day Renu had asked one question: "Can enlightenment happen on a rocking horse?" It can happen. It can even happen to the rocking horse! You need not be worried about it.
So, Lu-tsu says: NOR MUST THE THOUGHT BE CONCENTRATED UPON THE RIGHT PROCEDURE.
Just take a little care, that's all, but don't become too worried about it -- whether the spine is absolutely erect
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