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Meditation is ..... relaxation
 "When you are in such a deep rest that nothing stirs in you, when all action as such ceases, as if you are fast asleep yet awake, you come to know who you are. Suddenly the window opens."
"When you are utterly relaxed, for the first time you start feeling your reality; you come face to face with your being. When you are engaged in activity you are so occupied that you cannot see yourself.
Activity creates much smoke around you, it raises much dust around you; hence all activity has to be dropped, at least for a few hours per day. That is only so in the beginning.
When you have learnt the art of being at rest you can be both active and restful together, because then you know that rest is something so inner that it can not be disturbed by anything outer.
The activity goes on at the circumference and at the cen-ter you remain restful.
So it is only for beginning that activity has to be dropped for a few hours. When one has learned the art then there is no question: for 24 hours a day one can be meditative and one can continue all the activities of ordinary life.
But remember, the keyword is rest, relaxation. Never go against rest and relaxation. Arrange your life in such a way, drop all futile activity, because ninety percent is futile; it is just for killing time and remaining occupied. Do only the essential and devote your energies more and more to the inner journey.
Then that miracle happens when you can remain at rest and in action together, simultaneously.
That is the meeting of the sacred and the mundane, the meeting of this world and that, the meeting of materialism and spiritualism."
"But ~ mind is very cunning.
It can rationalize paralysis as meditation; it can rationalize dullness as transcendence: it can rationalize deadness as renunciation.
Watch out. Always remember that if you are moving in the right direction you will go on flowering."
Osho, will you say something more about relaxation?
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