The Animal within Is Pure Energy

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From:The Book of Secrets

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Osho,
Last night you discussed the censorship and suppression by the conscious mind of the unconscious instincts, and you said that the unconscious instincts belong to the animal heritage in man's evolution. Then is it not good to channel and regulate them according to the intelligence, discrimination and art of living which belong to the conscious mind?
The Animal within Is Pure Energy
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Osho,
Last night you discussed the censorship and suppression by the conscious mind of the unconscious instincts, and you said that the unconscious instincts belong to the animal heritage in man's evolution. Then is it not good to channel and regulate them according to the intelligence, discrimination and art of living which belong to the conscious mind?

Osho continues:
"Once you start thinking in negative terms you will become destructive to yourself, because you are ninety-nine percent animal.

"If you create a division, you are fighting a losing battle; you cannot win. The result of your fight will be quite the opposite, because ninety-nine percent is animal. Only one percent of the mind is conscious, and this one percent cannot win against the ninety-nine percent. It is going to be defeated. That is why there is so much frustration, because everyone is defeated by his own animal. You can never succeed. Of necessity you are going to be a failure, because that one percent cannot succeed against the ninety-nine percent. It cannot even be divided from the ninety-nine percent.

"It is just like a flower: it cannot go against the roots, it cannot go against the whole tree. And while you are against your animal heritage, you are being fed by it. You are alive because of it. If your animal dies this moment, you will die immediately. Your mind exists as a flower; your animal heritage is the whole tree. Do not be negative – that is suicidal. And if you are divided against yourself, you can never attain anything which is blissful.

"You are creating a hell, and the hell is nowhere else but in a divided personality. In the split personality is the hell. And hell is not something geographical, hell is psychological – and heaven also. The personality which is a whole, one unit, with no inner division and conflict, is heaven.

"So the first thing I would like to say is, do not be negative. Do not divide yourself, do not go against yourself, do not become two. The animal that is there is not something bad. The animal in you is a great potential. That is your past and also your future, because much is hidden in it. Uncover it, develop it, allow it to grow and go beyond it, but do not fight with it. That is one of the basic teachings of Tantra.

"Other traditions are divisive. They divide you, they create a fight within you. Tantra is not divisive, it doesn't believe in fight. Tantra is absolutely positive; it doesn't believe in saying no."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 79 mins
File Size 17.95 MB
Type Individual Talks
Edition/ Version 2