Meditation for Holy Days
January 2, 2009
Only do what you enjoy
Try this rebellious celebration – meditation!
Only do that which you enjoy. If you don’t enjoy, don’t do it. Try it — because enjoyment comes only from your center. If you are doing something and you enjoy it, you start getting reconnected with the center. If you do something which you don’t enjoy, you are disconnected from the center. Joy arises from the center, and from nowhere else. So let it be a criterion, and be a fanatic about it.
You are walking on the road; suddenly you recognize that you are not enjoying the walk. Stop. Finished — this is not to be done.
Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. Whenever you are not enjoying something, you are off-center. Then don’t force it; there is no need. If people think you crazy, let them think you crazy. Within a few days you will, by your own experience, find how you were missing yourself. You were doing a thousand and one things which you never enjoyed, and still you were doing them because you were taught to. You were just fulfilling your duties.
The center is available when you are warm, when you are flowing, melting, in love, in joy, in dance, in delight. It is up to you. Just go on doing only those things which you REALLY love to do and you enjoy. If you don’t enjoy, stop.
Find something else that you will enjoy. There is bound to be something that you will enjoy. I have never come across a person who cannot enjoy anything. There are persons who may not enjoy one thing, then another, then another, but life is vast. Don’t remain engaged; become floating. Let there be more streaming of energy. Let it flow, let it meet with other energies that surround you.
Osho, excerpts from The Discipline of Transcendence, Vol.4 #4
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