Life Is Energy Dancing for No Purpose
Talk #9 from The White Lotus
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"The mind is the problem and the mind is also the solution.
"Mind as an ego is the problem. Mind without any ego is the solution. Mind with a lower case m is the problem...."
"Mind as an ego is the problem. Mind without any ego is the solution. Mind with a lower case m is the problem...."
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"The mind is the problem and the mind is also the solution.
"Mind as an ego is the problem. Mind without any ego is the solution. Mind with a lower case m is the problem...."
Osho continues:
"Mind as an ego is the problem. Mind without any ego is the solution. Mind with a lower case m is the problem...."
"The 'no' simply denies all limitations and helps you to become as infinite as you really are.
"This is the most fundamental truth about the buddhas. Their work consists of helping you to dissolve the personal mind, which is like a dewdrop, into the universal, which is the oceanic.
"Few people have called that mind god – that oceanic mind. The name is beautiful, but it has created its own problems. The moment you call it God, the idea of worship, churches, temples, rituals, arises…and the lower mind comes from the backdoor. You become a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan, and you are again trapped in the same chains – maybe colored differently – and you are again imprisoned. Again you become defined and limited. Again you lose contact with the whole.
"The personal is the illusory. It is the personal that makes you an idiot. The universal is the truth. Unless one is ready to die into the universal one cannot attain to truth.
"Truth is a death: death of the egoistic mind, although it is also a resurrection: resurrection into the universal. You die as a person and you are reborn as god, as a buddha, as a christ. Hence the path consists of understanding the mind and its functioning. The egoistic mind wants constantly to keep itself occupied. That is one of its ways to deceive you. It keeps you so occupied that you don't have any time to look in. All occupation is extrovert. To look in means to be unoccupied. There is no inner occupation as such. And if you are occupied in an inward way too, then you are deceiving yourself.
"You may be chanting a mantra inside, but chanting a mantra inside simply deceives you because you are not the mantra and the mantra is still outside you. It may not be outside your body but it is outside your consciousness. You can witness your chanting, you can see your chanting, you can observe it. That means you are outside it and it is outside you. All occupation is non-meditative.
"Hence Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation is a false phenomenon. It is neither transcendental nor meditation."
"This is the most fundamental truth about the buddhas. Their work consists of helping you to dissolve the personal mind, which is like a dewdrop, into the universal, which is the oceanic.
"Few people have called that mind god – that oceanic mind. The name is beautiful, but it has created its own problems. The moment you call it God, the idea of worship, churches, temples, rituals, arises…and the lower mind comes from the backdoor. You become a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan, and you are again trapped in the same chains – maybe colored differently – and you are again imprisoned. Again you become defined and limited. Again you lose contact with the whole.
"The personal is the illusory. It is the personal that makes you an idiot. The universal is the truth. Unless one is ready to die into the universal one cannot attain to truth.
"Truth is a death: death of the egoistic mind, although it is also a resurrection: resurrection into the universal. You die as a person and you are reborn as god, as a buddha, as a christ. Hence the path consists of understanding the mind and its functioning. The egoistic mind wants constantly to keep itself occupied. That is one of its ways to deceive you. It keeps you so occupied that you don't have any time to look in. All occupation is extrovert. To look in means to be unoccupied. There is no inner occupation as such. And if you are occupied in an inward way too, then you are deceiving yourself.
"You may be chanting a mantra inside, but chanting a mantra inside simply deceives you because you are not the mantra and the mantra is still outside you. It may not be outside your body but it is outside your consciousness. You can witness your chanting, you can see your chanting, you can observe it. That means you are outside it and it is outside you. All occupation is non-meditative.
"Hence Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation is a false phenomenon. It is neither transcendental nor meditation."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 109 mins |
| File Size | 25.5 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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