One morning Gautam Buddha is talking to his disciples.
The king, Prasenjita, has also come to listen to him; he is sitting just in front of Buddha.
He is not accustomed to sitting on the floor – he is
a king – so he is feeling uncomfortable, fidgety, changing sides, somehow trying not to disturb and
not to be noticed by Buddha because he is not sitting silently, peacefully. He is continuously moving
the big toe of his foot, for no reason, just to be busy without business. There are people who cannot
be without business; they will still be busy.
Gautam Buddha stopped talking and asked Prasenjita, ”Can you tell me, why are you moving your
big toe?” In fact, Prasenjita himself was not aware of it.
You are doing a thousand and one things you are not aware of. Unless somebody points at them,
you may not take any note of it.
The moment Buddha asked him, the toe stopped moving. Buddha said, ”Why have you stopped
moving the toe?”
He said, ”You are putting me in an embarrassing situation. I don’t know why that toe was moving.
This much I know: that as you asked the question it stopped. I have not done anything – neither
was I moving it, nor have I stopped it.”
Buddha said to his disciples, ”Do you see the point? The toe belongs to the man. It moves, but he
is not aware of its movement. And the moment he becomes aware – because I asked the question
– the very awareness immediately stops the toe. He does not stop it. The very awareness, that ‘It is
stupid, why are you moving it?’ – just the awareness is enough to stop it.”
Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out.
Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind.
Just be an observer, as if you are standing by the side of the road watching the traffic – no judgment,
no evaluation, no condemnation, no appreciation – just pure observation.
-OSHO (OSHO Upanishad)
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