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on dividing line between Western psychology and Eastern mysticism

 

on Dividing line between Western psychology and Eastern mysticism

 

 

Question 1:

Beloved Osho,

Do I have to know and understand the roots of my old patterns in order to be able to drop them, or is awareness enough? Please comment.

 

 

Deva Suparni, this is the dividing line between Western psychology and Eastern mysticism. Western psychology is an effort to understand the roots of your old patterns, but it does not help anybody to get rid of them.

 

You become more understanding, you become more sober, you become more normal; your mind is no longer a great mess. Things are settled a little better than they ever have been before, but every problem remains the same -- it simply goes dormant. You can understand your jealousy, you can understand your anger, your hate, your greed, your ambitions, but all this understanding will remain intellectual. So even the greatest psychologists of the West are far away from the Eastern mystics.

 

The man who founded Western psychology, Sigmund Freud, was so much afraid of death that even the mention of the word `death' was enough to throw him into a coma; he would become unconscious, the paranoia of death was so great. It happened three times. He was so much afraid of ghosts that he would not pass by the side of a cemetery. Now, a man like Sigmund Freud who has tremendous intellectual acumen, who knows every root of the mind, who knows every subtle functioning of the mind, still remains confined in the mind.

 

Awareness leads you beyond the mind. It does not bother to understand the problems of the mind, their roots, it simply leaves the mind aside, it simply gets out of it. That is the reason why in the East there has been no development of psychology. It is strange that for ten thousand years at least, the East has been consistently and one-pointedly working in the field of human consciousness, but it has not developed any psychology, any psychoanalysis or psychosynthesis. It is a great surprise that for ten thousand years nobody even touched the matter. Rather than understanding the mind, the East developed a totally different approach, and their approach was disidentifying with the mind: "I am not the mind." Once this awareness becomes crystallized in you, the mind becomes impotent.

 

The whole power of the mind is in your identification with it. So it was found to be useless to go unnecessarily digging for roots, finding causes behind causes, working out through dreams, analyzing dreams, interpreting dreams. And every psychologist finds a different root, finds a different interpretation, finds a different cause. Psychology is not yet a science; it is still fictitious. If you go to Sigmund Freud, your dream will be interpreted in sexual terms. His mind is obsessed with sex. Bring anything and immediately he will find an interpretation that it is sexual.

 

Go to Alfred Adler, the man who founded another school of psychology -- analytical psychology ... He is obsessed with another idea: will to power. So whatever you dream will be interpreted according to that idea -- it is will to power. Go to Carl Gustav Jung, he interprets every dream as a faraway echo from your past lives. His interpretation is mythological. And there are many other schools.

 

There has been a great effort made by Assagioli -- psychosynthesis -- to bring all these schools together, but his psychosynthesis is absolutely useless. At least psychoanalysis has some truth in it, and analytical psychology also has some truth in it; but psychosynthesis is simply a hodge-podge. It has taken one part from one school, another part from another school, and it has joined them together.

 

Assagioli is a great intellectual; he could manage to put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle in the right places. But what was significant in Sigmund Freud was significant in a certain context; that context is no longer there. He has only taken what appears to be significant, but without the context it loses all meaning. Hence, Assagioli has worked his whole life for some synthesis, but he has not been able to create anything significant. And all these schools have been working hard.

 

But the East simply bypassed the mind. Rather than finding out the causes and roots and reasons, they found out one thing: from where does the mind get its power? from where does the energy come to feed it? The energy to feed the mind comes from your identification that "I am it." They broke that bridge. That's what awareness is: being aware that "I am not the body, I am not the mind. I am not even the heart, I am simply pure awareness, a SAKSHI." As this awareness deepens, becomes crystallized, the mind has more and more a shadow existence. Its impact on you loses all force. And when the awareness is a hundred percent settled, mind simply evaporates.

 

Western psychology has still to figure out why it is not succeeding. Thousands of people are going through psychoanalysis and through other therapeutic methods, but not a single one of them -- not even the founder of those schools -- can be called enlightened, can be said to be without problems, can be said to be without anxieties, anguishes, fears, paranoia. Everything exists in them as it exists in you.

 

Sigmund Freud was asked many times by his disciples, "You psychoanalyze all of us; we bring our dreams to you to be interpreted. It will be a great experiment if you allow us to psychoanalyze you. You give us your dreams and we will try to analyze and find out what they mean, from where they come, what they indicate." But Sigmund Freud never agreed to that. That shows an immense weakness in the whole framework of psychoanalysis. He was afraid that they would find the same things in his dreams that he was finding in their dreams. Then his superiority as a founder, as a master would be lost.

 

He was not aware at all of people like Gautam Buddha or Mahavira or Nagarjuna. Because these people don't dream, there is nothing to analyze. These people have come so far away from the mind that all connections are cut. They live out of awareness, not out of intellect. They respond out of awareness, not out of mind and its memories. And they don't repress anything; hence there is no need for any dreaming.

 

Dreaming is a by-product of repression. There are aboriginal tribes where people don't dream. Or if they dream, they dream only once in a while. They are surprised to know that civilized people dream almost the whole night. In eight hours' sleep, six hours you are dreaming. And the aboriginal is simply sleeping eight hours in deep silence, with no disturbance. Sigmund Freud was aware only of the sick Western people. He was not aware of a man of awareness; otherwise the whole history of Western psychology would have been different.

 

I will not tell you, Suparni, to make an effort to understand the roots of your mind and its patterns; it is simply a useless wastage of time. Just awareness is enough, more than enough. As you become aware, you come out of the grip of the mind, and the mind remains almost a dead fossil. There is no need to bother from where the greed came, the real question is how to get out of it. The question is not from where the ego arose -- these are intellectual questions which are not significant for a seeker.

 

And then there will be many philosophical standpoints: from where greed arose, from where ego came in; from where your jealousy, from where your hate, from where your cruelty came in -- looking for the beginnings of all this. And mind is a vast complex; in fact, life is too small to figure out all the problems of the mind and their origins. Their origins may be of thousands of lives. Slowly Western psychology is coming closer to it -- for example, primal therapy.

 

Janov understood that unless we find the beginnings of the problems ... That means to him, being a Christian, believing only in one life -- the roots must be found somewhere in childhood. So he started working to remind you of your childhood, and then he stumbled upon a new fact -- that in deep hypnosis people not only remember their childhood, they remember their birth. They also remember the nine months in the mother's womb, and a few very sensitive people even remember their previous life.

 

And then he became afraid himself, that he was going into a tunnel which seemed to be unending. You go into the past life and that will take you again, through the whole long passage, to another life. Your mind is many lives old, so you are not going to be able to find its root in the present. Perhaps you will have to travel backwards through thousands of lives, and it is not an easy thing. And then too, even if you come to understand from where the greed has come, it does not make any change. You will have to then know how to drop it.

 

And there are so many problems that if you start dropping each problem separately, you will need millions of lives to be completely finished with the mind. And while you are figuring out about one problem, other problems are growing, gathering more energy, more vitality, more influence. It is a very stupid game.

 

In the East, not a single person in the whole past -- in China, in India, in Japan, in Arabia -- has ever bothered about it. It is fighting with shadows. They worked from a very different angle and they succeeded immensely. They simply pulled their awareness out of the mind. They stood outside the mind as a witness and they found a miracle happening: as they became a witness, the mind became impotent, it lost all power over them. And there was no need to understand anything.

 

Awareness goes on growing higher and the mind goes on growing smaller -- in the same proportion. If awareness is fifty percent then mind is cut to fifty percent. If awareness is seventy percent, only thirty percent of the mind remains. The day awareness is a hundred percent, there is no mind to be found at all. Hence, the whole Eastern approach is to find a state of no-mind -- that silence, that purity, that serenity. And mind is no longer there with all its problems, with all its roots; it has simply evaporated the way dewdrops evaporate in the sun in the morning, leaving no trace behind. Hence I will say to you, awareness is not only enough, it is more than enough. You don't need anything else.

 

Western psychology has no place for meditation in it yet, and that's why it goes on going round and round, finding no solution. There are people who have been in psychoanalysis for fifteen years. They have wasted fortunes on it -- because psychoanalysis is the most highly paid profession. Fifteen years in psychoanalysis and all that has happened is that they have become addicted to psychoanalysis. Now they cannot remain without it. Rather than solving any problem, a new problem has arisen. Now it has become almost like a drug addiction. So when they get fed up with one psychoanalyst, they start with another. If they are not being psychoanalyzed, then they feel something is missing.

 

But it has not helped anybody. Even they accept that there is not a single man in the whole West who has been completely analyzed. But such is the blindness of people that they cannot see the simple point, why a single person is not there -- when there are thousands of psychoanalysts analyzing people -- who has been perfectly analyzed and who has gone beyond mind.

Analysis cannot take you beyond. The way beyond is awareness, the way beyond mind is meditation. It is a simple way and it has created thousands of enlightened people in the East. And they were not doing anything with the mind, they were doing something else: they were simply becoming aware, alert, conscious. They were using mind also as an object.

 

The way you see a tree, the way you see pillars, the way you see other people -- they were trying to see the mind also as separate, and they succeeded. And the moment they succeeded in seeing the mind as separate, that was the death of the mind. In its place grows a clarity; intellect disappears, intelligence arises. One does not react anymore, one responds. Reaction is always based on your past experiences, and response is just like a mirror: you come in front of it and it responds, it shows your face. It does not carry any memory. The moment you have moved away, it is again pure, no reflection.

 

The meditator becomes finally a mirror. Any situation is reflected in him and he responds in the present moment, out of presence. Hence, his every response has a newness, a freshness, a clarity, a beauty, a grace. It is not some old idea that he is repeating. This is something to be understood, that no situation is ever exactly the same as any other situation that you have encountered before. So if you are reacting out of the past, you are not able to tackle the situation; you are lagging far behind.

 

That is the cause of your failure. You don't see the situation, you are more concerned with your response; you are blind to the situation. The man of meditation is simply open with his eyes, available to see the situation and let the situation provoke the response in him. He is not carrying a ready-made answer to it.

 

A beautiful story about Gautam Buddha .... One morning a man asked him, "Is there a God?" Buddha looked at the man, looked into his eyes and said, "No, there is no God."

That very day in the afternoon another man asked, "What do you think about God? Is there a God?" Again he looked at the man and into his eyes and said, "Yes, there is a God."

 

Ananda, who was with him, became very much puzzled, but he was always very careful not to interfere in anything. He had his time when everybody had left in the night and Buddha was going to sleep; if he had to ask anything, he would ask at that time.

But by the evening, as the sun was setting, a third man came with almost the same question, formulated differently. He said, "There are people who believe in God, there are people who don't believe in God. I myself don't know with whom I should stand. You help me."

 

Ananda was very intensely listening now to what Buddha says. He had given two absolutely contradictory answers in the same day, and now the third opportunity has arisen -- and there is no third answer. But Buddha gave him the third answer. He did not speak, he closed his eyes. It was a beautiful evening. The birds had settled in their trees -- Buddha was staying in a mango grove -- the sun had set, a cool breeze had started blowing. The man, seeing Buddha sitting with closed eyes, thought that perhaps this is his answer, so he also sat with closed eyes with him.

 

An hour passed, the man opened his eyes, touched the feet of Buddha and said, "Your compassion is great. You have given me the answer. I will always remain obliged to you."

 

Ananda could not believe it, because Buddha had not spoken a single word. And as the man went away, perfectly satisfied and contented, Ananda asked Buddha, "This is too much! You should think of me -- you will drive me mad. I am just on the verge of a nervous breakdown. To one man you say there is no God, to another man you say there is a God, and to the third you don't answer. And that strange fellow says that he has received the answer and he is perfectly satisfied and obliged, and touches your feet. What is going on?"

 

Buddha said, "Ananda, the first thing you have to remember is, those were not your questions, those answers were not given to you. Why did you get unnecessarily concerned with other people's problems? First solve your own problems."

Ananda said, "That's true, they were not my questions and the answers were not given to me. But what can I do? I have ears and I hear, and I have heard and I have seen, and now my whole being is puzzled -- what is right?"

 

Buddha said, "Right? Right is awareness. The first man was a theist. He wanted my support -- he already believed in God. He had come with an answer, ready-made, just to solicit my support so that he can go around and say, `I am right, even Buddha thinks so.' I had to say no to him, just to disturb his belief, because belief is not knowing. The second man was an atheist. He had also come with a ready-made answer, that there is no God, and he wanted my support to strengthen his disbelief and so he can go on proclaiming around that I agree with him. I had to say to him, `Yes, God exists.' But my purpose was the same.

 

"If you see my purpose, there is no contradiction. I was disturbing the first man's preconceived belief, I was disturbing the second person's preconceived disbelief. Belief is positive, disbelief is negative, but both are the same. Neither of them was a knower and neither of them was a humble seeker; they were already carrying a prejudice.

 

"The third man was a seeker. He had no prejudice, he had opened his heart. He told me, `There are people who believe, there are people who don't believe. I myself don't know whether God exists or not. Help me.' And the only help I could give was to teach him a lesson of silent awareness; words were useless. And as I closed my eyes he understood the hint. He was a man of certain intelligence -- open, vulnerable. He closed his eyes.

 

"As I moved deeper into silence, as he became part of the field of my silence and my presence, he started moving into silence, moving into awareness. When one hour had passed, it seemed as if only a few minutes had passed. He had not received any answer in words, but he had received the authentic answer in silence: don't be bothered about God; it does not matter whether God exists or does not exist. What matters is whether silence exists, awareness exists or not. If you are silent and aware, you yourself are a god. God is not something far away from you; either you are a mind or you are a god. In silence and awareness mind melts and disappears and reveals your divineness to you. Although I have not said anything to him, he has received the answer, and received it in a perfectly right way."

 

Awareness brings you to a point where you are able to see with your own eyes the ultimate reality of yourself and the universe ... and a miraculous experience that you and the universe are not separate, that you are part of the whole. To me this is the only meaning of holy.

 

You have been trained for analysis, for understanding, for intellectual gymnastics. Those things are not going to help anybody; they have never helped anybody. That's why the West lacks one most precious dimension -- that of enlightenment, awakening. All its richness is nothing in comparison to the richness that comes from enlightenment, from achieving the state of no-mind.

 

So don't get entangled with the mind; rather become a watcher by the side of the road and let the mind pass on the road. Soon the road will be empty. The mind lives as a parasite. You are identified with it; that is its life. Your awareness cuts the connection, it becomes its death. The ancient scriptures of the East say that the master is a death -- a very strange statement, but of immense meaning. The master is a death because meditation is the death of the mind, meditation is the death of the ego. Meditation is the death of your personality and the birth and the resurrection of your essential being. And to know that essential being is to know all.

 

Becky Goldberg phoned down to the hotel manager. "I am up here in room five hundred and ten," she shouted angrily, "and I want you to know there is a man walking around the room across the way stark naked, and his blinds are up."

"I will be up right away," said the manager. He entered Becky's room, peered through the window and said, "You are right Madam, the man does appear to be naked. But his window still covers him from the waist down, no matter where he is in the room."

"Ah, yes," yelled Becky. "Just stand on the bed, just stand on the bed!"

 

Mind is a strange fellow. Where there is no problem, it creates a problem. Why should you stand on the bed? Just to find that somebody is naked in his room? One has to be aware of all these stupidities of the mind. I don't agree with the theory of evolution of Charles Darwin, but I have a certain respect for the theory, because it may not be historically true that the monkeys became men, but it is certainly psychologically true -- because man's mind is just like a monkey ... stupid in every way. There is no point in digging deep into the rubbish of the mind. It is not your being, it is not you; it is just the dust that you have gathered through many, many lives around you.

 

A young woman went to the doctor, afraid that she had gangrene because of two small spots, one on each of her thighs. The doctor examined her carefully and then told her it was not gangrene and she had nothing to worry about. "But by the way," he asked the girl as she was leaving, "is your boyfriend a gypsy?" "Yes," replied the girl, "as a matter of fact he is."

"Well," said the doctor, "tell him that his earrings are not gold."

 

These are mind's functionings. It is a great discoverer. The old definition of a philosopher is that he is blind in a dark night, in a dark house where there is no light, and he is searching for a black cat which is not there. But this is not all: he finds her! And he writes great treatises, theses, systems, proves logically the existence of the black cat.

 

Beware of the mind: it is blind. It has never known anything but it is a great pretender. It pretends to know everything.

Socrates has categorized humanity into two classes. One class he calls the knowledgeably ignorant: the people who think they know and they are basically ignorant; that is the work of the mind. And the second category he calls the ignorant knowers: the people who think, "We don't know." In their humbleness, in their innocence, descends knowing. So there are pretenders of knowledge -- that is the function of the mind -- and there are humble people who say, "We don't know." In their innocence there is knowledge, and that is the work of meditation and awareness.

 

-Osho, "The New Dawn, #18, Q1"


 

 

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    Aesthetics: A Love for Beauty Question 1 Osho, I never did get turned on by classical music, and art galleries bored me silly. so, is it possible to go from the first layer, the head, to the third layer, the center, and sort of bypass all this aesthetic garbage? Yes, it is true: in the name of aesthetics, there is much garbage. But when I ...
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    To possess or to be possessed, both are ugly. If you are possessed you lose your very soul.

    Possessiveness Try to separate hate from love. Just try to think: don't you hate the man you love also? Haven't you been destructive in a thousand ways to the same man you love? Have you not tried to possess the man or the woman? Is possessiveness love? Can a man who loves even think of possessing? Is it not very clear that to possess some...
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    Laughter as Morning Meditation

    (Osho suggests we start the day with laughter as traditionally in Zen monasteries.) In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter – the first thing and the last thing! You try it. It is very beautiful. It will look a little crazy because so many serious people are all ar...
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    Is not life nothing but misery?

    Question 4: Is not life nothing but misery? It depends on you. Life in itself is an empty canvas, it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. You can use this freedom in such a way that your whole life becomes a hell, or in such a way that your life becomes a thing of beauty...
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    The old religions were very much against beauty

    The old religions were very much against beauty because they were against life itself, because they were against love. Beauty provokes love. They were against the world, and the world is utterly beautiful. And because they were against the world, against life, against love, against beauty, they created very insensitive people. Obviously, t...
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    The person who can be happy alone is REALLY an individual

    Question 3 Osho, I find myself mostly attracted to women and very rarely deeply to a man. i am a little bothered about it. could you please say something about it? Sex has been called the original sin. It is neither original nor sin. Even before Adam and Eve ever ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge they were having sex, and all the ot...
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    Relationship is ugly, relating is beautiful

    Relating means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become acquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other's personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesses of his being. You are...
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    Relating is a flowing river

    Question 2 Osho, Since each of us is born alone and dies alone, and aloneness is the state of our being, what is the function of the commune? THE function of the commune is exactly that: to make you aware of your absolute aloneness. The family does not allow you that. The family gives you the fallacy that you have a mother, you have a fath...
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    Whenever a real situation arises and you are in suffering, remember to find out whether you are the cause of it.

    Suffering Question 4 We very often feel that we create our own sufferings. in spite of this, why do we continue creating them? and when and how does one stop creating one's own suffering? The first thing, and very basic to be understood, is that whenever you say WE VERY OFTEN FEEL THAT WE CREATE OUR OWN SUFFERING, this is not the case. You...
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    Laughter is Therapy

    Question 1 Osho, From the schoolroom, where laughter is thought to undermine authority, to the local five star hotel, where it is considered an embarrassment, a sense of humor is no joke. If, from birth, we were allowed to laugh without restraint, would we not successfully subvert our conditioning, and save our natural intelligence? Laught...
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    Real therapy does not shrink you: it opens you up. It makes all that is yours available to you.

    Question 5 Why are the psychotherapists called shrinks? Because they are. The word exactly describes what psychotherapists are doing -- they shrink people. They shrink people from persons into patients. That's their work. They reduce. When you go to a psychotherapist, you go as a person, with dignity. They reduce you immediately to labels:...
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    Maturation

    Question 2 Osho, Is Maturation an ongoing process? How is maturation related to Awareness? Please explain. Yes, maturation is an on-going process. There is no limit to it – not even the sky is the limit. Your consciousness is far bigger than the whole universe. It is infinitely infinite. You cannot come to a point where you can say, ‘Enoug...
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    Can you say something about guilt and fear?

    Question 4 Osho, Can you say something about guilt and fear? Latifa, fear is natural, guilt is a creation of the priests. Guilt is man-made. Fear is in-built, and it is very essential. Without fear you will not be able to survive at all. Fear is normal. It is because of fear that you will not put your hand in the fire. It is because of fea...
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    Relate is beautiful

    on Relating First be, then you can relate, and remember, to relate is beautiful. Relationship is a totally different phenomenon; relationship is something dead, fixed, a full point has arrived. You get married to a woman; a full point has arrived. Now things will only decline. You have reached the limit, nothing is growing any more. The ri...
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    Tears

    Never be afraid of tears. The so-called civilization has made you very afraid of tears. It has created a kind of guilt in you. When tears come you start feeling embarrassed. You start feeling, “What will others think? I am a man and I am crying! It looks so feminine and childish. It should not be so.” You stop those tears...and you kill so...
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    Osho on Humour

    God has a tremendous sense of humor! Religion remains something dead without a sense of humor as a foundation to it. God would not have been able to create the world if he had no sense of humor. God is not serious at all. Seriousness is a state of disease; humor is health. Love, laughter, life, they are aspects of the same energy. But for ...
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    The person who is not able to be alone cannot be together with somebody, because he has no individuality.

    Question 7 In a lecture you said that the really aware were able to live alone. how does this fit with the dream of a community? Sitaro, the really aware person is certainly one who is capable of living alone. But that is only half the truth. The other half is that the one who is really capable of being alone is also capable of being toget...
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    Meditation needs not followers but friends.

    Friendship exists between two persons; it is relationship. Friendliness is only a quality; it need not depend on any relationship. It is just the way you live your lire -- it is a friendly life. You are friendly to everything, to the whole existence. You are just a friend, not addressed to anybody in particular, but addressed to the whole,...
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    No one desires peace

    DESIRE POWER ARDENTLY. ... AND THAT POWER WHICH THE DISCIPLE SHALL COVET IS THAT WHICH SHALL MAKE HIM APPEAR AS NOTHING IN THE EYES OF MEN. We will be moving more and more in contradictions. The language of religion is bound to be contradictory. On the face, it looks irrational. In a way it is, because it goes beyond reason, it transcends ...
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    Smoking : Smoking is a strategy to repress something. If you don't smoke that something starts becoming restless

    Smoking [The sannyasin then says that he has been smoking a lot since he was thirteen. He tried stopping but is not really interested to stop.] That may be part of this whole thing; that too is repressive. In fact, smoking is a strategy to repress something. If you don't smoke that something starts becoming restless: through smoking you ca...
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    Drop Conscience, Become Conscious

    Drop Conscience, Become Conscious The mind is the inner mass. The mass has created a mechanism inside you; from there you are controlled. The society believes in certain things; the society has inculcated those beliefs in you. Deep down, when you were almost unaware, it hypnotized you into a certain role. If you do something against it, im...
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    You Will Have To Learn Laughter

    Question 2 : Beloved Osho, Why is it so difficult for me to laugh? Sudheer, it must be that you have come here conditioned by wrong people. And the wrong people constitute the majority, almost ninety-nine point nine percent. The religious, the moralists, the puritans – they are all serious people. They destroy the very possibility of laugh...
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    Sexual orgasms and laughter happen in the same way

    Question 3 Osho, What is the connection between laughter and sex? Anand Devopama, there is certainly a connection; the connection is simple. Sexual orgasms and laughter happen in the same way; their process is similar. In sexual orgasm you go on reaching a climax of tension. You are coming closer and closer to burst forth, and then at the ...
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    Suffering is created by you because you resist continuously, you don't allow it to happen.

    Suffering Question 4 Osho, Does the seeker have to suffer inevitably on the way? It all depends. Growth in itself has no suffering in it; suffering comes from your resistance towards growth. Suffering is created by you because you resist continuously, you don't allow it to happen. You are afraid to go totally with it; you go only halfheart...
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    What is the difference between longing for the divine and loving another?

    Question 1 Osho, What is the difference between longing for the divine and loving another? Prem Neeto, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL -- all desires are the same. You can desire money, you can desire meditation, you can long for power, you can long for God, but you remain the same. What you long for cannot change you, the object of longing ...
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    Don’t listen to the scriptures, listen to your own heart.

    Question 2 Osho, Often i have the feeling that i am not doing something i ought to be doing, or doing something i should not be doing; that something has to change and fast -- a schooldays' worry that i am not going to make the grade, that i might be expelled. Krishna Prabhu, this is how we all have been brought up. Our whole education -- ...
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    Osho on Happy

    on Happy Happiness Depends on Unhappiness “My effort here is to create bliss, not happiness. Happiness is worthless; it depends on unhappiness. Bliss is transcendence: one moves beyond the duality of being happy and unhappy. One watches both; happiness comes, one watches and does not become identified with it. One does not say, ‘I am happy...
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    Only a Taoist Can Be an Authentic Psychotherapist

    Question 1: Can one believe in tao, not interfering with other people's lives, accepting what is now, and by profession be a psychotherapist? what, or how, is a tao way of doing therapy? It is of tremendous significance. The first thing: 'Can one believe in Tao...?' Tao does not depend on belief. You cannot believe in it. Tao knows no beli...
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    What is beauty?

    What Is Beauty? You are standing beside a flower. Is it necessary to say it is beautiful? Is it necessary to say it is ugly? And will your statement bring about a change in the flower? The flower is not at all affected by your remarks. When you say the flower is beautiful it is your own behaviour towards the flower that changes. If you cal...
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    Jokes are dangerous

    Question 5 Osho, Your jokes make me afraid and confused. Please tell me one of Buddha’s sutras about God. P.S. I’m leaving for Italy tomorrow. Thank you. I can understand — jokes are dangerous. That’s why no Master before me has ever touched them. But I love danger. Jokes have a tremendous beauty if you can allow them to enter into your ve...
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    Longing is opening of the inner: desire is accumulation of the outer.

    Question 2 What is the difference between desire and longing? Desire is desire for something that is outside you. Desire is objective. Longing is not objective. Longing is for that which wants to explode in you. It is inner, it is subjective. If a rose wants to become a lotus, it is a desire. But if the rose LONGS to become a rose, it is l...
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    If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave

    And only by your own experience -- not by what Buddhas say, not by what I say -- only by your own experience will you one day be able to go beyond all relationships. Then you can be happy alone. And the person who can be happy alone is REALLY an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you ...
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    Relationship is part of the business world.

    Question 1 Osho, I heard you say the other day that you want no part of any relationship we might imagine we have with you -- certainly not our hate, but not even our love. and i can't say i blame you. nevertheless, when you stand before us, dancing, i feel like a fountain that leaps into life at the sight of you, and tumbles to your feet ...
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    What is the secret of a joke?

    Question 4 Beloved Osho, What is the secret of a joke? The sudden unexpected turn, that is the secret of a joke – the revelation. You are expecting something and it doesn’t happen; what happens is so totally absurd and yet has a logic of its own… it is ridiculous and yet not illogical. That’s what suddenly becomes a laughter in you. You se...
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    Possessiveness shows simply one thing: that you can't trust existence

    Possessiveness This whole existence is one cosmic unity. Out of this understanding comes nonviolence. The second is non-possessiveness. If the whole existence is one, and if the existence goes on taking care of trees, of animals, of mountains, of oceans -- from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest star -- then it will take care of yo...
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    Personal power and power over others

    Question 4 Osho, Is there such a thing as personal power which is different from power over others? what is the relationship between power and responsibility? They are two totally different things: personal power and power over others. Not only are they different, they are diametrically opposite. The person who knows himself, understands h...
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    What is maturity?

    Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Question What is maturity? how can i be mature? You will have to understand first what immaturity is. That will give you the idea of what maturity is. Immaturity has a few ingredients in it. One, immaturity is a sort of dependence. A child depends on the parent...
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    I Laugh in My Room

    Question 4 Beloved Osho, After two years here, I had heard Bodhidharma’s laughter. I never heard him again. Is he still around? He has always been around. Who do you think is sitting in this chair? But if you do not hear the laughter, that simply means you are not hearing, you are not listening; otherwise, the laughter is happening every m...
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    Cry heartfully, let the tears flow

    Question : Osho, The other day during discourse you helped us listen to the silence. During darshan, there were many moments of exquisite silence, almost tangible. On both days I felt as though my heart was bursting and I cried. Yet I also laughed, clapped, and celebrated as never before. Beloved Master, please speak about the space betwee...
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    Osho on Depression

    on Depression Try to become aware when you are suffering Osho, More and more I see how my energy is either going very high or very low, how sometimes I get very excited, come down again and then feel embarrassed about what happened during this state of excitement. Do you have a knack to give me for how to watch when the excitement comes, n...
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    To be selfish simply means to be yourself.

    I am teaching you to be selfish. Let me repeat it, because the word "selfishness" has been condemned so much that there is every possibility you will misunderstand me. But the word is really beautiful. To be selfish simply means to be yourself. I say to you: don't consider anybody else in the world, just consider yourself; and in that very...
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    Society is not an existential reality.

    Question 3 Is society a real fact determined by the existence of man, or is it a false concept, a conditioning which exists only because man is asleep? Society is not an existential reality. It is created by man because man is asleep, because man is in a chaos, because man is not capable of having freedom without turning it into licentious...
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    Jealousy, Love, And Relating In The 21st Century

    Question 1 Beloved Osho, Master of Masters, I want to tell you that i am totally turned on to you, and it's just far out being with you. i have just one question, maybe it's nothing spiritual but for me it's quite something -- my jealousy. i have been with my boyfriend for two years and we still enjoy being together, but if he goes with ot...
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    Drugs : The Attraction for Drugs is Spiritual

    Osho on Drugs The Attraction for Drugs is Spiritual Drugs are as old as humanity itself, and they certainly fulfill something of immense value. I am against drugs, but my being against drugs is for the same reason as for thousands of years people have been addicted to the drugs. It may look very strange. The drugs are capable to give you a...
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    I am afraid of being nobody. Would you please commend?

    Question 3 Osho, I am afraid of being nobody. Would you please commend? Shunyam Anukant, everybody is afraid of being nobody. Only very rare and extraordinary people are not afraid of being nobody. A Gautam Buddha is needed to be a nobody. A Nobody is not an ordinary phenomenon; it is one of the greatest experiences in life -- that you are...
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    Live Life... Don't Just Watch It on TV

    A man is sitting in a cinema, and the wife is continually reminding him how the hero is showing his love so deeply to his wife. Finally, the husband says, "Stop all this nonsense! You don't know how much he's paid for it! And moreover, it is only acting; it is not reality. I will certainly say he is a good actor." The wife said, "Perhaps y...
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    Why are all your disciples vegetarian?

    Question 3 Beloved Osho, Why are all your disciples vegetarian? I do not believe in vegetarianism, because I do not believe in anything. My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the heart, and they can see the whole stupidity of people killing li...
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    Laughter is repressed by Society, Society wants you to be serious

    Question 6 Beloved Osho, It is for the first time i have been so close to you. when i am sitting here with you i feel my heart in tune with your heart, i feel a deep love for you. but i also feel my outer seriousness. Why is laughter so difficult for me? Laughter is one of the things most repressed by society all over the world, in all the...
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    Relationship is beautiful because it is a mirror.

    on Relationship Relationship is a structure, and love is unstructured. So love relates, certainly, but never becomes a relationship. Love is a moment-to-moment process. Remember it. Love is a state of your being, not a relationship. There are loving people and there are unloving people. Unloving people pretend to be loving through the rela...
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    Osho Quotes on Forgiveness

    Osho Quotes on Forgiveness "Forgiveness simply means you accept the person as he is, you still love him the way he is. Forgiveness means that you don’t judge him, that you are non-judgmental. But ordinarily we think forgiveness means you know that he has done wrong, still you forgive him. First you judge and then you forgive. Your forgiven...
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    This is none of your business

    Question 5 Osho, The other day i came through the gates with an indian sannyasin and he was turned away by the guard with no reason given. when i spoke to laxmi about it, she more or less told me to mind my own business. whenever i see people being unjustly treated, my immediate reaction is to go to their assistance. is it really none of m...
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    Medicine and Meditation: The Two Poles of One Science

    Medicine and Meditation: The Two Poles of One Science My beloved ones. Man is a disease. Diseases come to man, but man himself is also a disease. That is his problem, and that is also his uniqueness; that is his good fortune, and that is also his misfortune. No other animal on earth is such a problem, such an anxiety, such a tension, such ...
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    Total laughter is a rare phenomenon

    “If you go into a total laughter people think it is hysterical. It is not, it is historical!” Total laughter is a rare phenomenon. When each cell of your body laughs, when each fibre of your being pulsates with joy, then it brings a great relaxation. There are a few activities which are immensely valuable; laughter is one of those activiti...
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    Ambition and Inferiority

    8. I call the wheel of life – going round and around on the axle of ambition – hell. It is this fever of ambition that poisons life. Among the most serious diseases and mental troubles that man has known, there is no greater disease than ambition – because a mind which is disturbed by the winds of ambition is not destined to have peace, mu...
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    The beauty is within you.

    The beauty is within you. There are only three fundamental questions in life: beauty, truth and good. Perhaps these are the three faces of God, the real trinity. And all are as indefinable as God is. The profoundest minds have been concerned for centuries about these three problems, but no conclusive answer has been found by the thinkers a...
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    Non-Possessiveness : Non-possessiveness does not mean forsaking external things, it means attaining inner fulfillment.

    Non-Possessiveness To understand the second great virtue, aparigrah or non-possessiveness, it is essential to understand parigrah, or possessiveness. There are great misconceptions about possessiveness. Possessiveness is not about having things, it refers to the feeling of ownership over things. Parigrah means possessiveness. It has nothin...
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    To me cheerfulness is the essence of religiousness.

    The religious people are ordinarily serious people. They have long faces, sad, sombre, because they are engaged in something very great, something divine, very superior to all the other activities people are involved in. The whole world is mundane and they are holy – how can a holy person laugh? Impossible. Laughter seems to be the very es...
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    Osho on Laughter

    Osho on Laughter I don't want you to be serious. I am so against seriousness -- it is a spiritual sickness. Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a man who cannot laugh the doors of the buddha are closed. To me, laughter is one of the greatest values. N...
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    on Fear : There is nothing to Fear. 

    Don't be afraid about anything There is nothing to Fear. Knowing that you are not, there is nothing to fear. Knowing that you are the whole, there is nothing to lose. -Osho, "The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself, #8, Q1" ◇ Open your wings, there is nothing to fear, nothing to lose. Just be open to the sun, the stars.... Don't be afraid....
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    Beauty is the god of the poet, of the painter, of all creative artists.

    Beauty is the god of the poet, of the painter, of all creative artists. Question 1 Beloved Osho, Is there any definition of the ultimate experience other than Satyam Shivam Sundram – Truth Godliness and Beauty? The experience of the ultimate, Maneesha, is always the same. But the expression can be different. The expression depends on the m...
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    Osho on Fear

    Osho on Fear Do Not Move Because of Fear “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move – not out of fear, because all so-called religions are based on fear. Their God is nothing but fear, and their heaven and hell are nothing but projections of fear and greed. Rumi’s statement is very revolutionary: ‘Do not move ...
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    Nonviolence : Never do violence of your own accord, but never allow anybody else to do it to you either.

    Nonviolence Question 1 Osho, What do you think about the philosophy of nonviolence and particularly about the christian dogma of turning the other cheek? I am not a philosopher. The philosopher thinks about things. It is a mind approach. My approach is a no-mind approach. It is just the very opposite of philosophizing. It is not thinking a...
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    You can become mature only if you are like a child

    You can become mature only if you are like a child Childishness is a kind of sentimental emotional state. That is not needed for you. Every child has to be allowed to be childish, as every adult has to be allowed to be adultish, but an adult can also have the qualities of being a child. Childishness is not needed, that tantrum quality is n...
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    on New Media (Press) : The press should be absolutely free

    Q: HAVE YOU A MESSAGE FOR THE PRESS? A: Certainly. The press should be absolutely free, and the freedom of press includes television, radio, and all news media. Nothing should be in the control of the government, because government has all the powers, and individuals have no powers. Who is going to fight for them, and who is going to prote...
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    Osho on Ugliness and Beauty

    Osho on Ugliness and Beauty Question 4 Osho, I am so terribly ugly, and i have suffered much because of it. what should i do? Become a politician! Just the other day, Subhuti sent me the report of a survey done in a London school of researchers, the London Polytechnic. The survey says that ugly and stupid-looking people have more poll appe...
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    Love always brings aloneness. Aloneness always brings love. They are never separate.

    Question 4 Osho, Never before have i felt so much love and never before so alone. thank you, Osho... IT IS SOMETHING VERY DEEP TO BE UNDERSTOOD, something of great significance. Love always brings aloneness. Aloneness always brings love. They are never separate. People think just the opposite. People think, "When you are in love, how can y...
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    Authority belongs to experience. Authoritarianism belongs to somebody else

    Question 2 Individual freedom and authority on one side, and authoritarianism and dictatorship on the other side, move man's life and his aspirations. Please comment on this. It is the same problem, the same question, phrased differently. Society is authoritarian; the church is authoritarian; the educational system is authoritarian. They a...
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    Conscience represents morality, consciousness represents religion.

    These two words have to be understood deeply: One is 'conscience', and the other is 'consciousness'. Conscience represents morality, consciousness represents religion. Conscience is a social strategy. It is created by others, it is a trick to manipulate the person. Conscience means others have told you what is right and what is wrong; they...
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    The connection between inner and outer beauty

    The connection between inner and outer beauty Question 1 Osho, your inner beauty i can only feel as far as i have discovered myself. but for ten years, whenever i see you entering the auditorium, there is this surprise about your unbelievable outer beauty too. Osho, is the outer appearance always just a reflection of the inner? The outer b...
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    Osho on Relationship

    on Relationship The More Loving You Are, the Less Is the Possibility of Any Relationship The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power. Relationship is not the right thi...
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    Do whatsoever you like - but do it with self-remembering

    My discipline is: Do whatsoever you like -- but do it with self-remembering; remember yourself that you are doing it. Walking, remember that you are walking. You need not verbalize this because verbalization will not help; that itself will become a distraction. You need not walk and say inside, "I am walking," because if you say, "I am wal...
    CategoryBody, Health, Food, Vegetarian
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    Imitation means you will not live according to your own spontaneity, you will live according to somebody else as your image

    Question 2 What is wrong, in imitating the great ideals taught down the centuries? It is not a question of great ideals or petty ideals, it is a question of imitating. What you imitate is immaterial; the important thing is that you imitate. If you imitate you become a carbon copy. If you imitate you have betrayed your authentic being. If y...
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    Crying

    Ordinarily man has been brought up with the idea that crying is only for women, not for men, although nature has made tear glands of equal size behind the eyes of men and women, both. It is absolutely certain that nature intends men also to cry and weep and have tears. You may not have cried in your whole life. Crying was such a new experi...
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    Marriage : The Root of Jealousy

    Question 1 Osho, I want to tell you that i am totally turned on to you, and it's just far out being with you. i have just one question, maybe it's nothing spiritual but for me it's quite something -- my jealousy. i have been with my boyfriend for two years and we still enjoy being together, but if he goes with other women i freak out. this...
    CategoryJealously, Comparison, Inferiority & Superiority
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