The Psychology of the Esoteric
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All that is valuable is esoteric. Ecstasy cannot be pragmatic. Love cannot be pragmatic. Trust cannot be pragmatic. The word esoteric simply means it is not objective, not scientific. It is something inner.
All that is valuable is esoteric. Ecstasy cannot be pragmatic. Love cannot be pragmatic. Trust cannot be pragmatic. The word esoteric simply means it is not objective, not scientific. It is something inner.
The Psychology of the Esoteric
Mind is a very contradictory system. Mind works in polar opposites. But our thinking, our logical way of thinking, always chooses one part of it and denies the other. So logic proceeds in a non-contradictory way, and mind works in a contradictory way. Life works in opposites, and logic works in a linear way – not in opposites. For example, you have both possibilities in the mind: to be angry to the extreme and to be silent also, to the extreme. If you can be angry it doesn’t mean that you cannot be non-angry to the other extreme also. If you can be disturbed, it doesn’t mean that you cannot be silent. The mind goes on working in both ways. If you can be loving, you can be full of hatred also. One doesn’t deny the other.
But in logic, in thinking, if we think that someone is loving, then we begin to think that he cannot be capable of hate. And we even begin to think about ourselves in this way also. This is a part. So if you go on loving then you begin to think that “I am incapable of hate,” and then hate goes on accumulating inside. Then when you reach to a peak of your loving attitude, everything shatters and you fall down into hate. The individual mind not only works like that, the society’s mind also.
But in logic, in thinking, if we think that someone is loving, then we begin to think that he cannot be capable of hate. And we even begin to think about ourselves in this way also. This is a part. So if you go on loving then you begin to think that “I am incapable of hate,” and then hate goes on accumulating inside. Then when you reach to a peak of your loving attitude, everything shatters and you fall down into hate. The individual mind not only works like that, the society’s mind also.
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:esoteric... mind... rational... irrational... life... consciousness... sex... love... truth... oneness...
| Type | Series of Talks |
|---|---|
| Publisher | OSHO Media International |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0991237807 |
| Dimensions (size) | 12,7 x 2 x 19,3 cm |
| Number of Pages | 297 |
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