| Meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness: Meditation is a state of non-emotional, non-sentimental, non-thinking awareness. When you are simply aware, when you become a pillar of awareness. When you are simply awakened, alert, attentive. When you are just a pure awareness. How to enter into it? The Zen people have a special word for the entry, they call it hua t'ou. This Chinese word means ante- thought, or ante-word. The mind, before it is stirred by a thought, is called hua t'ou. Between two thoughts there is a gap, that gap is called hua t'ou. Watch. One thought passes on the screen of your mind – on the radar screen of your mind one thought passes like a cloud. First it is vague – it is coming, it is coming – then it is there suddenly on the screen. Then it is moving, then it has gone out of the screen, again it becomes vague and disappears... another thought comes. Between these two thoughts there is a gap – for a single moment or a split second the screen is without any thought. That state of pure no-thought is called hua t'ou – ante-words, ante-thought, before the mind is stirred. Because we are not alert inside, that's why we go on missing it – otherwise meditation is happening each moment. You have just to see it happening, you have just to become aware what treasure you are carrying always within you. It is not that meditation has to be brought from somewhere else. The meditation is there, the seed is there. You have just to recognize it, nurture it, take care of it, and it starts growing. The interval between two thoughts is hua t'ou. And that is the door to enter into meditation. Hua t'ou – the word literally means "word head." "Word" is a spoken word, and "head" is that which precedes the word. Hua t'ou is the moment before a thought arises. As soon as a thought arises it becomes a hua wei – hua wei literally means "word tail." And then when the thought has gone or the word has gone and there is a gap again, it is again hua t'ou. Meditation is looking into this hua t'ou. --Osho Zen: The Path of Paradox, Vol. 2, ch. 3 |
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| Osho gives his spin on " hua t'ou " |
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| Osho meets China |
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