Inner Centering
Individual Talk
From:The Book of Secrets
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"The human body is a mysterious mechanism. Its working is two-dimensional. In order to go to the outside, your consciousness goes through the senses to meet the world, to meet matter. But this is only..."
"The human body is a mysterious mechanism. Its working is two-dimensional. In order to go to the outside, your consciousness goes through the senses to meet the world, to meet matter. But this is only..."
Osho continues:
"One is through the senses; another is not through the senses. All these techniques of centering are really to lead you to a point in yourself where senses are not working, where you go beyond senses.
"Three things have to be understood first before we enter the techniques. Firstly, when you see through the eyes, the eyes are not seeing: they are only openings to see. The seer is behind the eyes. That which looks through the eyes is not the eyes. That is why you can close your eyes and still see dreams, visions, images. The seer is behind the senses; he moves through the senses to the world. But if you close your senses, the seer remains within.
"If the seer, this consciousness, is centered, suddenly he becomes aware of himself. And when you are aware of yourself you are aware of the total existence, because you and existence are not two. But to become aware of oneself one needs centering. By centering I mean your consciousness not being divided in many directions, your consciousness not moving anywhere, remaining in itself non-moving, rooted, without any direction, just remaining there: in.
"It looks difficult to remain in, because for our minds even this thinking of how to remain in becomes a going out. We start thinking: the 'how' starts thinking. To think about the in, the inner, is also a thought for us – and every thought as such belongs to the outer, never to the inner, because in the innermost center you are simply consciousness.
"Thoughts are like clouds. They have come to you, but they do not belong to you. Every thought comes from the outside, from without. You cannot produce a single thought inside, within. Every thought comes from the outside; there is no possibility of creating a thought within. Thoughts are like clouds coming to you. So whenever you are thinking, you are not in – remember. To be thinking is to be out. So even if you are thinking about the inner, the soul, the self, you are not in.
"All these thoughts about the self, about the inner, about the within, have come from without; they do not belong to you."
"Three things have to be understood first before we enter the techniques. Firstly, when you see through the eyes, the eyes are not seeing: they are only openings to see. The seer is behind the eyes. That which looks through the eyes is not the eyes. That is why you can close your eyes and still see dreams, visions, images. The seer is behind the senses; he moves through the senses to the world. But if you close your senses, the seer remains within.
"If the seer, this consciousness, is centered, suddenly he becomes aware of himself. And when you are aware of yourself you are aware of the total existence, because you and existence are not two. But to become aware of oneself one needs centering. By centering I mean your consciousness not being divided in many directions, your consciousness not moving anywhere, remaining in itself non-moving, rooted, without any direction, just remaining there: in.
"It looks difficult to remain in, because for our minds even this thinking of how to remain in becomes a going out. We start thinking: the 'how' starts thinking. To think about the in, the inner, is also a thought for us – and every thought as such belongs to the outer, never to the inner, because in the innermost center you are simply consciousness.
"Thoughts are like clouds. They have come to you, but they do not belong to you. Every thought comes from the outside, from without. You cannot produce a single thought inside, within. Every thought comes from the outside; there is no possibility of creating a thought within. Thoughts are like clouds coming to you. So whenever you are thinking, you are not in – remember. To be thinking is to be out. So even if you are thinking about the inner, the soul, the self, you are not in.
"All these thoughts about the self, about the inner, about the within, have come from without; they do not belong to you."
Publisher | Osho International |
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Duration of Talk | 92 mins |
File Size | 18.74 MB |
Type | Individual Talks |
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