Don't Just Do Something
...... sit there. This is one of Osho's brilliant phrases that's grown with me. It turns our western addiction to activity on its head. We've internalised the command to keep busy so well, we don't need someone else to tell us. But it's not simple, I know. I lived - or maybe I didn't really live - trying to squeeze in more and more activity to less and less time. With a background anxiety that if I didn't, time would run out and my dreams would stay unfulfilled. Then I was drawn to meet Osho, one of the greatest commentators and teachers of meditation, when I was 23 and I knew the wisdom he was offering was food for my soul. He said that all his discourses were different ways of saying 'meditate', 'know yourself'. But outside the structure of an ashram or meditation retreat, it's much harder to just sit. Apart from the necessities of life - and who decides what they are - the desire for distraction...