“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you
can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by
being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
― Osho
Of course in Zen Buddhism there is no God, only the space of the Universe. But I am very grateful for having been taught how to meditate by Zen Buddhists.
To be in the Quaker Meeting and be a silent witness and to watch thought is to be open to God. It is through this discipline that I have found God.
I am also grateful to Felicity Kaal who talked about mother religious language. Mine is Christianity. I do not want to become a Buddhist, I am beginning to accept my Christianity. I don't think I will be ever comfortable with the word Christ but I have joined the Contemplative Christian website and get a daily devotional text. I am becoming whole.
I include an example of my meditation text for today.
I greet this final day of September with the wish to be filled with Grace that leads to miracles of love.
In recognizing I am an embodied vessel of Spirit, I discover joy in the giving and gratitude in the receiving.
Amen
