Meditation with Family

Meditation: How to share this experience with family

Let the people around you see that you have become more tranquil and collected and calm. Let them see that you don't react so easily. Let them feel your being – and that will be their change.

Remember one thing, there are a few things that can be done only in a very indirect way, never directly. If you try to do them directly, you will fail.

For example, if you have seen something, tasted something, then it is very natural that you would like to share it with your friends, your family. But don’t be too aggressive about it because that will become a barrier. In fact, don’t try to convince anybody about it. You simply go there and let them see what has happened to you.

If you become too concerned about them, you become nervous. If you are nervous, you will become tense. If you become tense, you may say that meditation gives silence, but your whole presence will show something else: that you are tense, nervous, anxious. It will be a self-defeating thing. Don’t be worried about them.

If you can carry whatsoever you have felt, that’s enough. Just enjoy in their presence. Let them see that you are smiling more, that you can laugh deeply. Let them see that you have become more tranquil and collected and calm. Let them see that you don’t react so easily. Let them feel your being – and that will be their change. They will start asking what has happened. Then too, don’t become too aggressive because whenever you are aggressive the other becomes too defensive; that’s natural.

If you are not aggressive, the other is defenseless – and it is easier to enter in a defenseless person. When he becomes defensive then he starts protecting, arguing, rationalizing, and then it is difficult, almost impossible.

It is particularly difficult with people who have been intimately related to you – family and friends who have known you from your very childhood. They simply cannot believe that you have changed. That is too much for their egos. They have not changed in their whole lives – and suddenly you have changed. Something must be wrong: either you have been hypnotized, or you are befooling yourself, or you have gone mad. First they will think about these things.

Don’t be too concerned about anybody’s conversion. Never be a missionary – that is one of the ugliest things a person can be. Just be yourself, but present yourself in a totally different dimension that they have not known before. And they will see it; it is something which cannot be hidden.

So simply go, and be more loving, be more friendly, less argumentative.
If they ask, then say something; but that too, never say with aggression. Say it with no effort to convert anybody; be humble and polite. Then you will see that a few friends are going to come here. That’s how many people come by and by.

Carry the message of love, not in words, but in being. Continue to meditate.

Excerpted from Above All Don’t Wobble by Osho

Osho is known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, with an approach to meditation that acknowledges the accelerated pace of contemporary life.

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