Find Time and a Place to Remain Unoccupied
Why does the world creates so many difficulties for the buddha
whenever he appears, in whatsoever form? He may be Krishna, Christ,
Atisha, Tilopa, Saraha; he may appear in any form. By buddhahood I
mean awareness, awakening. Wherever awakening happens, the whole
world becomes antagonistic. Why? - because the whole world is asleep.
There is an Arabic saying: Don't wake up a slave, because he may be
dreaming that he is free. Don't wake up a slave; he may be dreaming
that he is free, that he is no more a slave.
But the buddha will say: Wake up the slave! Even though he is
dreaming beautiful dreams of freedom, wake him up and make him aware
that he is a slave, because only through that awareness can he
really become free.
The world is fast asleep and people are enjoying their dreams. 
They
are decorating their dreams, they are making their dreams more and
more colorful, they are making them psychedelic. Then comes a man
who starts shouting from the housetops, "Wake up!" The sleepers feel
offended; they don't want to wake up, because they know that once
the dream is gone they will be left with their misery and suffering
and nothing else. They are not yet aware that behind their misery
there is a source of joy that can be found. Whenever something like
awakening has happened to them they have always found themselves
utterly miserable. So they want to remain drowned in something,
whatsoever it is; they want to remain occupied.
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain
unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at least one
hour every day to sit silently doing nothing, utterly unoccupied,
just watching whatsoever passes by inside. In the beginning you will
be very sad, looking at things inside you; you will feel only
darkness and nothing else, and ugly things and all kinds of black
holes appearing. You will feel agony, no ecstasy at all. But if you
persist, persevere, the day comes when all these agonies disappear,
and behind the agonies is the ecstasy.