Right-mindfulness Is Not a Goal

Right-mindfulness Is Not a Goal

Osho,
Please explain “right-mindfulness.” If not a goal or something to practice, what is it?

"'Right-mindfulness' is a strange word. First: there is no mind in it – hence it is called 'right-mindfulness.' Secondly, there is nothing right and wrong in it – hence it is called right-mindfulness. This is a Buddhist way of saying things.

"It can’t be a goal, because when there is a goal you are always in the wrong. Why are you in the wrong when there is a goal? because when there is a goal there is desire, when there is desire you are unhappy, discontented. When there is desire, there is anxiety – whether you will be able to make it or not? Will it be possible or not?

"When there is desire there is future, and with the future anxiety enters into your being. With the desire you have lost contact with the present.

"Right-mindfulness is not a goal, cannot be a goal – because when all desires disappear and all goals disappear and you are herenow…that is the moment of right-mindfulness.

"Why is it called 'right'? It is called right because it knows no division between right and wrong. Nothing is wrong! and nothing is right. All judgments have disappeared. One is utterly innocent.

"When you see a roseflower, does the idea arise in you: 'It is right, it is wrong'? When you see the morning star disappearing, does the idea arise in you: 'Is it right or is it wrong?' When you start looking at life with no judgment, with no prejudice, then you are in the state of right-mindfulness."