Dissolve in My People
Individual Talk
From:The Goose Is Out
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"I am so inconsistent that it is impossible to create a dead institution around me, because a dead institution will need an infrastructure of a dead philosophy. I am not teaching you any doctrine, I am not giving you any principles."
"I am so inconsistent that it is impossible to create a dead institution around me, because a dead institution will need an infrastructure of a dead philosophy. I am not teaching you any doctrine, I am not giving you any principles."
Osho continues:
"The mind is like a pendulum: it moves to the left, the far left, or to the right, the far right. Either it is leftist or rightist – and my whole approach is to be exactly in the middle.
"The word for the middle which Gautam the Buddha used is very beautiful: he called majjim nikaya, 'the way of the exact middle.' If you can keep the pendulum in the middle, the clock stops. The clock represents the mind – and not just literally, not just as a metaphor; mind is time. Time consists of two tenses, not three. The present is not part of time; the past is time, the future is time. The present is the penetration of the beyond into the world of time.
"You can think of time as a horizontal line. A is followed by b, b is followed by c, c is followed by d, and so on and so forth: it is a linear progression. Existence is not horizontal, existence is vertical. Existence does not move in a line – from a to b, from b to c – existence moves in intensity: from a to a deeper a, from the deeper a to an even deeper a. It is diving into the moment.
"Time conceived of as past and future is the language of the mind – and the mind can only create problems, it knows no solutions. All the problems that humanity is burdened with are the mind's inventions. Existence is a mystery, not a problem. It has not to be solved, it has to be lived.
"I am living my moment. I don't care a bit about what happens later on. It may look very irresponsible to you because my criterion of responsibility is diametrically opposite to people's idea of so-called responsibility. I am responsible to the moment, to existence – and responsible not in the sense of being dutiful to it, responsible in the sense that I respond totally, spontaneously. Whatsoever the situation is, I am utterly in tune with it. While I am alive I am alive, when I am dead I will be dead. I don't see any question at all.
"But I can understand your question."
"The word for the middle which Gautam the Buddha used is very beautiful: he called majjim nikaya, 'the way of the exact middle.' If you can keep the pendulum in the middle, the clock stops. The clock represents the mind – and not just literally, not just as a metaphor; mind is time. Time consists of two tenses, not three. The present is not part of time; the past is time, the future is time. The present is the penetration of the beyond into the world of time.
"You can think of time as a horizontal line. A is followed by b, b is followed by c, c is followed by d, and so on and so forth: it is a linear progression. Existence is not horizontal, existence is vertical. Existence does not move in a line – from a to b, from b to c – existence moves in intensity: from a to a deeper a, from the deeper a to an even deeper a. It is diving into the moment.
"Time conceived of as past and future is the language of the mind – and the mind can only create problems, it knows no solutions. All the problems that humanity is burdened with are the mind's inventions. Existence is a mystery, not a problem. It has not to be solved, it has to be lived.
"I am living my moment. I don't care a bit about what happens later on. It may look very irresponsible to you because my criterion of responsibility is diametrically opposite to people's idea of so-called responsibility. I am responsible to the moment, to existence – and responsible not in the sense of being dutiful to it, responsible in the sense that I respond totally, spontaneously. Whatsoever the situation is, I am utterly in tune with it. While I am alive I am alive, when I am dead I will be dead. I don't see any question at all.
"But I can understand your question."
Publisher | Osho International |
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Duration of Talk | 98 mins |
File Size | 24.25 MB |
Type | Individual Talks |
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