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Be conscious about stopping your habit of continuously talking*

The third thing is that during these three days of meditation you will not be living in the same way that you have been living up until this evening. Man is a robot, full of habits, and if one remains within the confines of one’s habits, the new path to meditation will be very difficult. Hence, I suggest that you make a few changes.

One change will be that during these three days you are to talk as little as possible. Talking is the greatest affliction of this century! And you are not even aware of just how much you talk. From morning to night, until you go to sleep, you go on talking. Either you are talking to somebody else, or if there is nobody to talk to, you talk to yourself.

  

During these three days be conscious about stopping your habit of continuously talking. And it is just a habit. For a meditator, this is vital. During these three days I would like you to talk as little as possible, and when you do talk, it should be pure, not the ordinary chitchat that you do every day. What in fact do you talk about every day? Does it have any value? Would it be harmful to you if you didn’t talk? You are simply chattering; it is not worth much. And if you didn’t talk would it be harmful to others? Would others feel something is missing by not hearing what you have to say?

During these three days remember that you are not to talk much with anyone. This will be tremendously helpful. And if you do talk, it would be better if it were connected with meditation and nothing else. But it would be so much better if you did not talk at all: be in silence as much as possible. I don’t mean it to be so strict that you force yourself to be in silence, that you write what you want to say. You are free to speak, but not to chitchat. Talk consciously, and only when necessary.

This will help you in two ways. One benefit will be that you will save all the energy that is wasted by talking. Then that energy can be used for meditation. And the second benefit will be that it will disconnect you from the others and you will be in your aloneness during this time. We have come to this mountain place, and it would be a waste if all two hundred people that are gathered here were to just talk with each other, chat with each other. Then you would still be in a crowd, as you were before, and you will not be able to experience silence.

To experience silence just to be in the mountains is not enough. It is also necessary to separate yourself from others and be alone. You should make contact only if it is absolutely necessary. Imagine that you are the only person on this mountain and there is no one else around. You have to live as if you have come here alone, you are staying alone and moving around alone. Sit under a tree, alone. Don’t go about in groups of people. Live separately and alone for these three days. The truth of life has never been known through living in a crowd, and it cannot be experienced like that. No experience of any significance has ever happened in a crowd. Whosoever has had a taste of silence has tasted it in absolute solitude, in aloneness.

When you stop talking to others and when all your chattering inside and outside stops, nature starts communicating with you in a mysterious way. Nature is continuously communicating with you, but you are so engrossed in your chatter that you don’t hear her soft voice. You will have to quieten yourself so that you can hear the voice speaking within you.

So in these three days, talking has to be consciously reduced. If you forget and start talking out of habit and then remember again, stop right then and apologize. Be alone. You will be experimenting with this here, but you will also have to try it on your own.

Go anywhere you like, sit under a tree; you have completely forgotten that you are part of nature. You also don’t know that being close to nature makes it easier to experience the ultimate; nowhere else is it easier.

So make full use of these three incredible days. Be in isolation, solitude, and don’t talk unless necessary. And even if everyone is quiet, continue to be alone. A meditator has to be alone. There are very many people here, so when we all sit for meditation it may look as if there is a gathering of people meditating. But all meditation is individual, a group cannot meditate. Sitting here you are in a large group, but when you go inside yourself you will all feel alone.

When you close your eyes you will feel alone, and when you are silent there will no longer be any group. There will be two hundred people here, but each one will be only with himself and not with the other one hundred and ninety-nine meditators. Meditation cannot be done collectively. All prayer, all meditation is individual, is private.

Be alone here, and also when you leave here. And spend most of your time in silence. Don’t talk. But it will not be enough to simply stop talking, you will also need to make a conscious effort to stop the constant chattering that goes on inside you. You talk to yourself, you answer yourself – quieten yourself and drop that too. If it is difficult to stop this inner chatter, then firmly tell yourself to stop this noise, tell yourself that you don’t like the noise.

Talk to your inner self. As a meditator, it is important to give suggestions to yourself. Try this sometime. Sit alone somewhere, tell your mind to stop its chatter, tell your mind that you don’t like it, and you will be surprised to see that for a moment your inner chattering will stop.

For three days give yourself the suggestion that you will not talk. In three days you will notice the difference…that step by step, slowly, slowly the chatter is lessening.

 

* - excerpt from OSHO. The Path of Meditation.

Updated on 18-03-2019







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