MEDITATIONS FOR BUSY PEOPLE: The Art of the Other

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Category:	Books
Genre:	Religion & Spirituality
Author:	OSHO

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself.

They are two aspects of the same coin. A person who does not know how to be with himself cannot truly relate with others. His relationship will be awkward, graceless, ugly, haphazard and accidental. One moment everything is going well and another moment everything is gone. It will always be going up and down; it will not gain depth. It will be very noisy. Certainly it will give you an occupation, but it will not have any melody to it and it cannot take you to the heights of existence or depths of being.

And vice versa: the person who is not capable of being with others, of relating, will find it very difficult to relate with himself, because the art of relating is the same. Whether you relate with others or you relate with yourself does not make much difference; it is the same art.

These arts have to be learned together, simultaneously; they are inseparable. Be with people, and not unconsciously but very consciously. Relate with people as if you are singing a song, as if you are playing on a flute; each person has to be thought of as a musical instrument.