27/10/2025
Q. The deeper and deeper I go into meditation, the fatter and fatter I am getting. Am I in danger of exploding?
O`s~ho`:
I hope so!
That's the whole purpose of your meditation - exploding! But becoming fat is not because of meditation. Perhaps you are meditating too much and not doing enough exercise. You will have to do one of two things: exercise or reduce your calories. I hate exercise; I have to live on only six hundred calories per day. If you don't want to exercise, then you will have to cut down on the stuff that you go on putting in your mouth. Meditators are known to become fat because they forget completely that meditation is sitting silently, doing nothing, and the fat grows. So either start doing some exercises or cut down on your food.
We make our meals as comfortable as possible: comfortable chairs, beautiful plates, candlelight, some fragrance, flowers, and then you go on, course upon course. If you are meditating as well, then naturally you will become more and more fat.
There is also a reason for this fatness other than the food: a meditator slowly becomes less and less interested in s*x. That has two by-products: one is, the little gymnastics that you used to do in s*x are dropped and that may have been your only exercise; secondly, the moment you drop s*x, you become more interested in food. People who drop s*x, automatically start eating a little more, because eating is connected with s*xuality.
You have to be aware: exploding is perfectly good, but that is an exploding of consciousness, of your inner being, not an explosion of your body. So please, be kind towards yourself. Cut down on your food, make an alternating system: MEDITATION and WALKING, JOGGING, RUNNING - anything that gives your body enough exercise to absorb your food. If you can do this your MEDITATION will go even deeper, because when the body is tired, it relaxes quickly.
Q. The deeper and deeper I go into meditation, the fatter and fatter I am getting. Am I in danger of exploding?
I hope so!
That's the whole purpose of your meditation - exploding! But becoming fat is not because of meditation. Perhaps you are meditating too much and not doing enough exercise. You will have to do one of two things: exercise or reduce your calories. I hate exercise; I have to live on only six hundred calories per day. If you don't want to exercise, then you will have to cut down on the stuff that you go on putting in your mouth. Meditators are known to become fat because they forget completely that meditation is sitting silently, doing nothing, and the fat grows. So either start doing some exercises or cut down on your food.
We make our meals as comfortable as possible: comfortable chairs, beautiful plates, candlelight, some fragrance, flowers, and then you go on, course upon course. If you are meditating as well, then naturally you will become more and more fat.
There is also a reason for this fatness other than the food: a meditator slowly becomes less and less interested in s*x. That has two by-products: one is, the little gymnastics that you used to do in s*x are dropped and that may have been your only exercise; secondly, the moment you drop s*x, you become more interested in food. People who drop s*x, automatically start eating a little more, because eating is connected with s*xuality.
You have to be aware: exploding is perfectly good, but that is an exploding of consciousness, of your inner being, not an explosion of your body. So please, be kind towards yourself. Cut down on your food, make an alternating system: MEDITATION and WALKING, JOGGING, RUNNING - anything that gives your body enough exercise to absorb your food. If you can do this your MEDITATION will go even deeper, because when the body is tired, it relaxes quickly.
OSHO
Sat* Chit* Anand*.
