Living life from a space of playfulness is a precious gift. Playful people are joyful, curious, and know how to flow between lightness and depth with ease and synchronicity. Playing carefree helps release tension and tap into inner resources. When we use our vital energy fully while playing, we are ready to fall into a deep relaxation where silence has an extremely nourishing fragrance.
«Meditation is not anything of the mind, it is something beyond the mind. And the first step is to be playful about it. If you are playful about it mind cannot destroy your meditation.
Otherwise it will turn it into another ego trip; it will make you very serious. You will start thinking, ‘I am a great meditator. I am holier than other people, and the whole world is just worldly — I am religious, I am virtuous.’ That’s what has happened to thousands of so-called saints, moralists, puritans: they are just playing ego games, subtle ego games.
Hence, I want to cut the very root of it from the very beginning. Be playful about it. It is a song to be sung, a dance to be danced. Take it as fun and you will be surprised: if you can be playful about meditation, meditation will grow in leaps and bounds». Osho