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If Zen mystics can make a meditation out of drinking tea and transform it into a ceremony, then modern man can also transform smoking cigarettes into a beautiful meditation, according to the enlightened mystic Osho. On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day (May 31) Osho Commune spokesperson Chaitanya Keerti drew attention to Osho’s remarks concerning the habit of smoking, which continues to be a problem worldwide in spite of the enormous evidence of health risks associated with it (for example, a just-published study from researchers in San Diego, USA, shows that a combination of depression and smoking significantly increases cancer risks). In an excerpt from one of his discourses, Osho explains that people who want to quit smoking and who are unable to do so, simply lose self-confidence and self-respect and become depressed: “You have to understand. Smoking is not only a question of your decision now. It has entered into your world of habits; it has taken roots in your body, in your chemistry; it has spread all over. “It is not just a question of your head deciding; your head is impotent; it can start things, but it cannot stop them so easily. It has become autonomous; you will have to de-automatize it. And that’s what meditation is all about, de-automatization. “You do one thing: forget about stopping smoking. Rather, you are going to make it a meditation. When you are taking the packet of cigarettes out of your pocket, move slowly. Enjoy it, there is no hurry. Be conscious, alert, aware; take it out slowly, with full awareness. “Then take the cigarette out of the packet with full awareness, slowly-not in the old hurried way, unconscious way, mechanical way. Then start tapping the cigarette on your packet-but very alertly. Listen to the sound, just as Zen people do when the samovar starts singing and the tea starts boiling…and the aroma. Then smell the cigarette and the beauty of it… “Then put it in your mouth, with full awareness, light it with full awareness. Enjoy every act, every small act, and divide it into as many small acts as possible, so you can become more and more aware. “Then have the first puff: God in the form of smoke. Hindus say, ‘Annam Brahm’-'Food is God’. Why not smoke? All is God. Fill your lungs deeply-this is a pranayam. I am giving you the yoga for the new age! Then release the smoke, relax, another puff-and go very slowly. “If you can do it, you will be surprised; soon you will see the whole stupidity of it. Not because others have said that it is stupid, not because others have said that it is bad. You will see it. And the seeing will not just be intellectual. It will be from your total being; it will be a vision of your totality. And then one day it drops.”

For Further Information Contact Chaitanya Keerti

FirstName: Chaitanya
LastName: Keerti
Organization: Osho Commune International
StreetAddress: 17 Koregaon Park
City: Pune
State: MS
ZipCode: 411001
Country: India
WorkPhone: 91-20-628562
HomePhone: 91-20-628562
FAX: 91-20-628562
Email: keerti@osho.net
URL: http://www.osho.org

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