OSHO MEDITATION TECHNIQUES - 8

Wordless Communication with Existence

Taken from:
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh,
Dynamics of Meditation,
Bombay, India, 1972
page 286

You are looking at a flower:
look at the flower,
feel the beauty of it,
but do not use the word 'beauty',
not even in the mind.
Look at it;
let it be absorbed in you;
reach to it, but do not use the word.
Feel the beauty of it but do not say
"it is beautiful"
not even in the mind.

Do not verbalize, and gradually you will become
capable
of feeling the flower as beautiful
without using the word.
Really it is not difficult,
it is natural.
You feel first, and then the word comes,
but we are so habituated with words
that there is no gap.
The feeling is there,
but you have not even felt,
and suddenly a word comes.
So, create a gap.
Just feel the beauty of it,
but do not use the word.

If you can disassociate words from feelings,
then you can disassociate feeling from Existence.
Then let the flower be there,
and you be there as two presences.
But do not allow the feeling to come in.
Do not even feel now,
that the flower is beautful.
Let the flower be there and you be there
arrowed in a deep embrace without any ripple of
feeling.
Then you will feel beauty without feeling.
Really, then you will BE the beauty of the flower.
It will not be a feeling, you will BE the flower.
Then you have existentially felt something.
When you can do this,
then you can really feel everything is lost -
thought, word, feeling...
Then you can feel existentially.