MEDITATION

(With acknowledgment to Baghwan Shree Rajneesh [Osho])

Meditation is like cleaning our mirror

Of everything we did not come with

When we were born ---

Ideas, ideals, ideologies,

Concepts, opinions, beliefs

Morals, values and rules,

All the detritus
Of the conditionings of state, religion, culture and family.

Meditation is like clearing away the weedy winter-growth from an overgrown garden,
And re-discovering long-forgotten beauties and treasures.
In meditation we re-discover

Our original, pristine innocence..

Our "I-know-sense"...

And becoming once again the undistorted mirror

In which others gaze

To see themselves.

Meditation is re-birth...

Man's reconnection with himself, with other men and with nature.

But in this Re-birth we are no longer helpless,

Or totally dependent on others or the environment

For our survival or nourishment.

In this rebirth we become sovereign in our own be-ing.

Meditation  is no-religion:
It is a practice of our pure spirituality.
Meditation is a way of getting through what we are not,
To what and where we are.