OSHO: A Course in Meditation

A 21 – Day Workout for your Consciousness Mentors Channel

Meditation for Today

“Accept the Negative and the Positive”

We have to learn to live with the negative parts of our being too; only then do we
become whole. Usually we all want to live only with the positive part. But both need to
be accepted. This is how life is – both together. In this meditation you practice

understanding and accepting all the aspects, good and bad, and allowing a harmony to
arise.

When you do this meditation in your own time, take 5 minutes for each of the three
steps just a few moments for each step.

The Method

The first step:

Now close your eyes, and start by looking inside your body, your mind, your feelings: in this
moment where can you find the negative part? It is always there, so just find something

“negative,” however small it is. And when you find it, don’t do anything to get rid of it.

Maybe you are feeling restless: so be restless. Or maybe you are feeling cold: so shiver and
enjoy it. Or you are feeling hot: so perspire, and relax with that. Or you are unhappy about

something in your life: be unhappy, don’t make much fuss about it – just be unhappy. Or
there is a pain somewhere in the body: let it be there, relax with it. Whatever negative

parts you can find, for this moment: relax with them.

The second step:

Now let those negative parts go, and still with eyes closed, start looking inside your body,
your mind, your feelings: in this moment where can you find the positive part? It is there,

the other side of the polarity, so find it, however small it is. And when you find it, don’t do

anything to make it bigger or to hold onto it. Just relax with it, the “positive.”

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Maybe it is the feeling of sitting here comfortably, so enjoy it. Or the fact that you can feel

this moment is just for you: relax with it. A certain memory arises of well-being, or a feeling
of lightness – enjoy it…and don’t make much fuss about it. Accept it in the same way as

you did the negative.

The third step:

Now let the positive parts go also, and still with closed eyes, simply be – allowing the

harmony between your dark and light parts, allowing the contrasts, the polar opposites of
your being. Accepting the dark, accepting the light, understanding that because of the

contrasts life becomes a harmony. For these few moments, just be.

We’ve come to the end of today’s program. You can open your eyes again, and get ready
to enjoy the rest of your day with the understanding that balance is something that comes

out of the experience of

all

the dimensions of life.