Dropping Out of the Wheel
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"Man sleeps almost one-third of his life, twenty years approximately. But sleep has been neglected, terribly neglected. Nobody thinks about it, nobody meditates on it. This has happened because man has paid too much attention..."
"Man sleeps almost one-third of his life, twenty years approximately. But sleep has been neglected, terribly neglected. Nobody thinks about it, nobody meditates on it. This has happened because man has paid too much attention..."
Osho continues:
"Meditation, ecstasy, belong to the superconscious, just like waking and thinking belong to the conscious. So, we have to go slowly into this phenomenon of mind.
"The first thing about mind to be remembered is, it is just like an iceberg – the topmost part is on the surface. You can see it, but it is only one-tenth of the whole; nine-tenths is hidden underneath. You cannot see it ordinarily, unless you move into the depths. But these are only two dimensions. There is a third dimension: as if a part of the iceberg has evaporated and has become a small cloud and hovers in the sky. It is difficult to reach to the unconscious; it is almost impossible to reach to that cloud – of course part of the same iceberg, but evaporated.
"That's why meditation is so difficult, samadhi is so arduous. It takes one's total energy, it demands one's total devotion, only then the vertical movement into the cloudlike phenomenon of the superconscious becomes possible. The conscious is there; you are listening to me from the conscious. If you are thinking about what I am saying, if you are making a sort of dialogue inside with whatsoever I am saying – a sort of commentary goes on inside – this is the conscious mind.
"But you can listen to me without thinking – in deep love, heart to heart, not in any way verbalizing what I am saying, judging what I am saying, right or wrong, no. No evaluation; you simply listen in deep love, as if the mind is paused and the heart listens and beats with joy. Then the unconscious is listening. Then whatsoever I say will go very deep, to your roots.
"But there is also the third possibility: that you can listen through the superconscious. Then even love is a disturbance – very subtle, but even love is a disturbance. Then there is nothing – no thought, no feeling. You simply become a void, an emptiness, end to end. And into that emptiness falls whatsoever I say and whatsoever I am. Then you are listening from the superconscious.
"These are the three dimensions. While you are awake, you live in the conscious: you work, you think, you do this and that."
"The first thing about mind to be remembered is, it is just like an iceberg – the topmost part is on the surface. You can see it, but it is only one-tenth of the whole; nine-tenths is hidden underneath. You cannot see it ordinarily, unless you move into the depths. But these are only two dimensions. There is a third dimension: as if a part of the iceberg has evaporated and has become a small cloud and hovers in the sky. It is difficult to reach to the unconscious; it is almost impossible to reach to that cloud – of course part of the same iceberg, but evaporated.
"That's why meditation is so difficult, samadhi is so arduous. It takes one's total energy, it demands one's total devotion, only then the vertical movement into the cloudlike phenomenon of the superconscious becomes possible. The conscious is there; you are listening to me from the conscious. If you are thinking about what I am saying, if you are making a sort of dialogue inside with whatsoever I am saying – a sort of commentary goes on inside – this is the conscious mind.
"But you can listen to me without thinking – in deep love, heart to heart, not in any way verbalizing what I am saying, judging what I am saying, right or wrong, no. No evaluation; you simply listen in deep love, as if the mind is paused and the heart listens and beats with joy. Then the unconscious is listening. Then whatsoever I say will go very deep, to your roots.
"But there is also the third possibility: that you can listen through the superconscious. Then even love is a disturbance – very subtle, but even love is a disturbance. Then there is nothing – no thought, no feeling. You simply become a void, an emptiness, end to end. And into that emptiness falls whatsoever I say and whatsoever I am. Then you are listening from the superconscious.
"These are the three dimensions. While you are awake, you live in the conscious: you work, you think, you do this and that."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 87 mins |
| File Size | 26.68 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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