I Am The Gate (Tapoban) – Osho

“Meditation is an adventure, an adventure into the unknown – the greatest adventure that the human mind can take. And by adventure I mean that you cannot be cultivated in it. Unless you know it, you cannot know it. Meditation is something greater than the mind. It is not something which happens in the mind. It is something which happens to the mind, not in the mind; otherwise the mind will be capable of defining it, the mind will be capable of knowing it, understanding it. It is not something happening in the mind, but to the mind. The happening is just like death happens to life. Death never happens in life, it happens to life. Meditation is just like death to the mind, as death is to life. If you die psychologically, if the mind dies, then you are reborn. And this rebirth is not just like physical rebirth, because then the body is replaced; a new one replaces it. But when there is mental, psychic death, the mind is not replaced. Consciousness remains without the mind. . So meditation is a subtle death — a deep death of you, your mind, your ego, of all that makes you defined. But that which is within is there. That is pure consciousness.” -OshoI Am The Gate (Tapoban) – Osho