Treasures: Don’t come into the same house from a different door again and again!

"Whatsoever you are doing, even meditation; I make no exception. Don’t cling to meditation either because a day has to come when even that clinging has to be dropped. Meditation becomes perfect when it too is dropped.

When there is perfect meditation, you need not meditate.

So, keep it constantly in your awareness that meditation is just a bridge; it has to be passed over. A bridge is not a place to make your house. You have to pass it and go beyond it. Meditation is a bridge; you have to be watchful about it also, otherwise you may stop being identified with anger, greed, and you may start being identified with meditation, compassion. Then you are in the same trap again; from another door you have entered the same house.

It happened once…

Mulla Nasruddin came to the town bar and he was already much too drunk, so the barkeeper told him, “Go away! You are already drunk and I cannot give you any more. Just go back to your house.”

But he was insisting, so the barkeeper had to throw him out.
He walked a long distance in search of another bar. Then he came to the same bar from another door, entered, and looked at the man with a little suspicion because he looked familiar.

The barman said, “I have told you once and for all that this night I am not going to give you anything. Get away from here!”

Again he was insisting, again Mulla Nasruddin was thrown out.
He walked a long distance in search of another bar, but in that town there was only one. Again, from the third door, he entered, looked at the man, who looked too familiar.

He asked, “What is the matter? Do you own all the bars in the town?”

This happens. You are thrown out from one door; you enter through another door. You were identified with your anger, your lust; now you become identified with your meditation. You were identified with your sexual pleasure; now you become identified with the ecstasy that meditation gives. Nothing is different; the town has only one bar. Don’t try to enter the same bar again and again. And from wherever you enter you will find the same owner.

That is the witness. Be mindful of it, otherwise much energy is unnecessarily wasted. You travel long distances to enter into the same thing again." - Osho