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Past : Mind lives in the past because it lives in knowledge. Knowledge means that which you have known, understood, learned.

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True learning happens through meditation. Meditation means putting aside the past and looking into the present, making an immediate contact with the now and the here -- because God is now, God is here. God is always now and always here.

 

Mind lives in the past because it lives in knowledge. Knowledge means that which you have known, understood, learned. And existence is now and mind is then, existence is here and mind is always there. Mind looks backwards; it is like a rear-view mirror. If you are backing your car the rear-view mirror is okay, but if you are going forwards then it is dangerous to go on looking in the rear-view mirror. And if you become fixated on the rear-view mirror you are bound for an accident. You are in great danger, you are being suicidal. Life moves al ways forwards; it has no possibility of going backwards.

 

When the first Ford car was made it had no reverse gear -- that's how life is. The reverse gear was added later on -- from experience, because when you wanted to come back home you had to go miles around to do it. Then the thought happened that it would be better... even if you had gone just a few feet ahead of your house you could not come back; you had to take a long route. Maybe you had to go around the whole town, then you could come back. Then the reverse gear was added to it.

 

But God has not yet added any reverse gear. There is really no need to go back. The past evaporates -- there is no past. It leaves only traces in your memory system; otherwise it is not there. Existence is always present; past is only memory and future is only imagination. There is no future, no past. That which exists is the only real thing, and mind does not allow you to be in contact with it. How can you learn? How can you experience? Your experience cannot be wholesome, healthy. It will be sick, it will be unhealthy. And it has turned every person almost into a monster.

 

Your head goes on becoming bigger and bigger, and everything else has become so shrunken that it Is almost disappearing. People are just like heads, with small legs and hands just heads. This is a state of being a monster. Man HAS become a monster: he has lost all balance, all harmony. The head has exploited everything; it has destroyed your organic unity. It is like a parasite that goes on becoming bigger and bigger at the cost of your totality.

 

-Osho, "Guida Spirituale, #13"

 

 

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Osho Dictionary

A Spiritual Dictionary for the Here and Now

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No. Category Subject
61 P Pain : Pain is part of growth.
60 P Palmistry : All palmistry, all astrology, is just an exploitation of man's anguish.
59 P Parable : A parable is a way of saying things which cannot be said.
58 P Paradise : You are already there. Just sit silently and look around, sit silently and look within.
57 P Parenting : Never treat another person as a means!
56 P Parenting : Osho on Parenting
55 P Parents : Osho on Parents
54 P Parents : They have to help the child to be himself or herself.
» P Past : Mind lives in the past because it lives in knowledge. Knowledge means that which you have known, understood, learned.
52 P Past Lives : Don't think much about past lives, and don't think much about the future. The present is enough.
51 P Patience : Trust in nature, trust in existence, trust in yourself.
50 P Peace : Be deeply relaxed and feel peaceful as many times in the day as possible.
49 P Perfection : I am not a perfectionist because to me perfectionism is the root cause of all neurosis.
48 P Perfectionism : Perfectionism is a neurosis. It is an illness.
47 P Perversion : AIDS is the ultimate expression of perverted sexual energy
46 P Pessimism : Nothing but getting addicted to a miserable way of living
45 P Pessimism and Optimism : A pessimist is an optimist who has become frustrated with his optimism.
44 P Pessimist : A Pessimist is an optimist who has become frustrated with his optimism
43 P Philosia : Philosia means love of seeing, not only love of knowledge.
42 P Philosophy : It Is Playing with Shadows
41 P Philosophy : Philosophy has no answer. You will have to look in a different direction.
40 P Pilgrimage : The pilgrim is not just visiting places; he is searching, he is a seeker
39 P Platonic Love : Love is simply love. It can’t be Platonic or Hegelian or Kantian
38 P Play : This world is not utilitarian, it is just a play of energy.
37 P Playfulness : The whole existence is a tremendous circus. It is all fun
36 P Pleasing : Stop fulfilling expectations of others
35 P Pleasure : never be misguided by the pleasures. They are good in themselves, good games to play with. But games are games
34 P Polarities : Meditation and love. This is the ultimate polarity.
33 P Political Blindness : The priests are also in a deep conspiracy with the politicians.
32 P Political Leaders : People who are suffering from an inferiority complex.
31 P Pornography : A by-product of religious repression.
30 P Possessions : Don't possess, don't become owners of persons or things
29 P Possessiveness : At this level of love, misery is a natural consequence. Watch it
28 P Possessiveness : Love is not attachment. Love is not possessiveness.
27 P Possessiveness : Possessiveness is nothing but another dimension of violence.
26 P Possessiveness : Possessiveness shows simply one thing: that you can't trust existence
25 P Possessiveness : To possess or to be possessed, both are ugly. If you are possessed you lose your very soul.
24 P Possessiveness and Theft : When possessiveness goes crazy, insane, theft is born.
23 P Possessor and Possessions : The desire to be a possessor makes one a slave.
22 P Poverty : Poverty is not something to be praised; it is something to be condemned, totally condemned.
21 P Power : Personal power and power over others.
20 P Pragmatism : Man leans more towards the sky and the woman is rooted in the earth. It is a very pragmatic arrangement.
19 P Prana : Prana means the most fundamental unit is energy.
18 P Prayer : A wordless gratitude, a thankfulness.
17 P Prayer : Innocence is prayer.
16 P Premarital Relationship : I am all for premarital relationships. Without them man will remain insane.
15 P Preoccupation : A preoccupied mind is a dull mind. A preoccupied mind is a borrowed mind.
14 P Preparation : Creating a thirst, a longing for truth.
13 P Present Tense : Now is the only time and here the only space.
12 P Priest : The priest is the source of an kinds of ugly institutions.
11 P Priests and Politicians : The Mafia of the Soul
10 P Problem : There is no problem
9 P Problem : There is no problem. I have never come across a real problem
8 P Projections : Don't project, because your projection can change any day.
7 P Prostitution : A betrayal of the body. There is nothing morally wrong in it
6 P Prostitution : Two persons can be sexually related only if love allows
5 P Psychology : It cannot take you beyond the mind it can't be of any help.
4 P Psychology : It does not bring transformation to your life because it cannot bring any transcendence.
3 P Punishment : We are punished BY our sin, not FOR our sin. Sin itself is its punishment.
2 P Purification : To drop all conditionings, all ideologies, all prejudices, all concepts
1 P Purity : Purity simply means an uncontaminated state of mind
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