DO NOT LET PLEASURE DISTRACT YOU FROM MEDITATION, FROM THE WAY…..

Sannyas has to be a real break away. A loving surrender to the new....

DO NOT LET PLEASURE DISTRACT YOU FROM MEDITATION, FROM THE WAY.....

 

Just think of yourself as a being whose whole life is nothing but "Eat, drink and be merry."

It will be meaningless, it will be without any significance, it will be utterly mediocre.

It will not have any ecstasy.

 

Yes, there will be pleasures when you get lost into the body chemistry and there will be pains when you have to come out of that forgetfulness. So you will go on moving between pain and pleasure.

 

Pleasure is getting lost, getting unconscious into the body; and pain is again becoming aware of the nonbody reality, again becoming aware of the world that surrounds you. So pleasure means forgetfulness and pain means remembrance. Have you observed that you remember only when there is pain? If you have a headache you become aware of the head, otherwise who thinks of the head?

 

Only a headache makes you remember the head. If your shoe pinches, then you become aware of the feet; if the shoe is not pinching, you remain unaware of the feet. When your stomach is disturbed, you become aware of the stomach. When everything is going well, smoothly, you don't become aware.Pain brings awareness; awareness makes you aware of pain. Losing awareness gives you a false idea that there is no pain anymore. And many people have found many ways of how to become unconscious?.

 

Buddha says: DO NOT LET PLEASURE DISTRACT YOU FROM MEDITATION, FROM THE WAY. Beware that pleasure can distract you: it can distract you from meditation and it can distract you from the way. And what is meditation in Buddha's vision? Meditation is awareness, so anything that makes you unaware is a distraction; where it comes from does not matter.

OSHO