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... already totally centered. In his presence you may be able to see reflected - just as in a mirror things are reflected - your being. But you cannot see directly your being. I have been telling you many functions of the master. This is one of the most subtle and perhaps the last function. The master is already settled. You are wavering: one moment you are at the center, then you can see your body and your...

... mind and your thoughts and feelings. There is a gap between you and your body-mind system. But the gap is very small and very fresh, and the habit of being identified is very old and very strong. So one moment you feel you are the being... but the very desire to see the being disturbs the whole thing. You cannot see it. You need a mirror to see it, and no ordinary mirror will do. You need a mirror of...

... happened, the day is not far away when the desire to see yourself will disappear. You will simply be yourself, full of ecstasy. And as you become centered, everything else - your body, your mind, your thoughts - will go on becoming farther away from you. Just a little patience, and just a little awareness... You say, "It is very subtle and easily disappears when I again identify with what is...

..., or are you aware that there is hunger in your body? Are you really thirsty, or can you experience the thirst in your throat, in your body? But because of the language which has been made up by people who are not enlightened... There exists no enlightened language in the world yet - and perhaps never will exist - for the simple reason that language is needed for communication. There are only three...

... beyond intellect. Soon the gaps will become bigger, and a day finally comes, Vijen, when you are settled and nothing can distract you from your being. You will see your mind and you will see your body, but on the periphery. And even when they are taken away, killed and destroyed, you will not be affected because you are no more identified. It is the identification that has to be understood. A man had a...

... all about the palace three times bigger and he was again crying like a small child. What happened? The attachment... the identification... the moment you are unidentified with your body, even if the body is on the funeral pyre there will be no problem for you. It is as if somebody else is being burned. You can also stand by the side in the crowd and nobody will see you. To be in the being, more and...

... doctor's desk and began to write. The physician tried to comfort him. "Perhaps it won't be so bad," he said. "You needn't make out your will right now." "I'm not making out my will or anything," replied the man. "I'm just writing out a list of people I'm going to bite." This is awareness. Even in such a bad situation he is not identified with the body or death or...

.... These are your tensions, and they affect your body also. Your body also becomes tense, because body and mind are not two separate entities. Body-mind is a single system, so when the mind becomes tense, the body becomes tense. You can start with awareness; then awareness takes you away from the mind and the identifications with the mind. Naturally, the body starts relaxing. You are no more attached...

... start from relaxation, then these meditations have to be done first. They will take out all tensions from your mind and body, and then relaxation is very easy. You don't know how much you are holding in, and that that is the cause of tension. When I was allowing gibberish meditation in the camps in the mountains... It is difficult to allow it here because the neighbors start going mad. They start...

.... Slowly, slowly a deep nothingness... and in that nothingness a flame of awareness. It is always present, surrounded by your gibberish. The gibberish has to be taken out; that is your poison. The same is true about the body. Your body has tensions. Just start making any movements that the body wants to make. You should not manipulate it. If it wants to dance, it wants to jog, it wants to run, it wants...

... to roll down on the ground, you should not do it, you should simply allow it. Tell the body, "You are free, do whatever you want" - and you will be surprised," My God. All these things the body wanted to do but I was holding back, and that was the tension." So there are two kinds of tension, the body tensions and the mind tensions. Both have to be released before you can start...

... you cannot even keep your shirt on your body. Anyone who has more power will take it away. Just conceive of a society existing even for twenty-four hours without any rules and regulations. Within twenty-four hours the whole civilisation will go to dust. There will be murders and robberies and nobody will be able to even sleep because when you want to go to sleep, a mob comes inside the room and they...

... meditations would be suitable for her, saying that if she did Nadabrahma [the Humming meditation] in the morning, she should do the 'life/death' meditation each evening.] In the night before you go to sleep, do this fifteen-minute meditation. It is a death meditation. Lie down and relax your body. Just feel like dying and that you cannot move your body because you are dead. Just create the feeling that you...

... are disappearing from the body. Do it for ten, fifteen minutes, and you will start feeling it within a week. Meditating that way, fall asleep. Don't break it. Let the meditation turn into sleep, and if sleep overcomes you, go into it. In the morning, the moment you feel you are awake - don't open your eyes - do the life meditation. Feel that you are becoming more wholly alive, that life is coming...

... back and the whole body is full of vitality and energy. Start moving, swaying in the bed with eyes closed. Just feel that life is flowing in you. Feel that the body has a great flowing energy - just the opposite of the death meditation. So do the death meditation in the night before falling asleep and the life meditation just before getting up. With the life meditation you can take deep breaths. Just...

... breathing, there is no disturbance. When there is no breathing, there is pure consciousness. When there is no breathing, you are for a moment absolutely independent of the body. You are alive but in a totally new way. That life is no more dependent on physical conditions because even breathing is not there. Breathing is a bridge between you and the body, a link. If the link is broken, you are suddenly in...

... a new space and you go on expanding. You are no more attached to this new body. So don't be afraid. It is mind-blowing - the experience. And death is very beautiful. It is dark but very relaxing. It is very silent. There is no noise of life in it. It is like a dark, deep night... you are alone and everything is silent. So do this for fifteen minutes every night and fall asleep doing it so that...

... would help the body fibres to shrink and expand and make the body more supple, hence making it easy for him to develop a new posture. Osho said if this was done every morning for six months, he would feel much better. Anuragi asked if he should continue the watching of the breath meditation that he had been doing for some time. Osho said this was a good meditation for him and then went on to talk...

... time to spread its roots. So go on working continuously. You will not be here for one year, so for this one year devote as much time as you have to meditation so that when you come next time, I can start working on a higher altitude. [A sannyasin said that the exercise that Osho had given him at a previous darshan had helped him much, and that he had started feeling the lower part of his body again...

....] Very good. The lower part of the body is one of the problems with many people - almost the majority. The lower part has gone dead because sex has been repressed through the centuries. Below the sex centre, people have become afraid to move. They just remain uptight, above the sex centre. In fact many people live in their heads, or if they are a little more courageous, they live in the torso. At the...

... most people go down to the navel but not beyond that, so half of the body is almost paralysed, and because of it, half of the life is also paralysed. Then many things become impossible because the lower part of the body is like roots. These are the roots. The legs are the roots and they connect you with the earth. So people are hanging like ghosts, unconnected with the earth. One has to move back to...

... reaches to the feet; not in a physiological sense, but in a very very psychological sense. Then you have claimed your whole body. For the first time you are whole, one piece, together. So continue to do that exercise, mm? And go on feeling more and more in the feet. Sometimes just stand on the earth without shoes and feel the coolness, the softness, the warmth. Whatsoever the earth is ready to give in...

... that moment, just feel it and let it flow through you. And allow your energy to flow into the earth. Be connected with the earth. If you are connected with the earth, you are connected with life. If you are connected with the earth, you are connected with your body. If you are connected with the earth, you will become very sensitive and centred - and that's what is needed. You have felt it, so you...

... lives there is a gap. If something is happening, then again it is another life. Nothing happens in the gap. You can remember it only as a gap, not filled by anything. When we say that someone is alive we mean that something is happening in him. Life is the realm of happenings. Without a body, nothing happens: the body is the medium for things to happen. The moment you are beyond the body, or not in...

... the body, nothing happens. Then you can either be aware or unconscious: these are the two possibilities. If you are unconscious then you cannot remember. If you are conscious then you can remember. But the remembrance is only of the gap; there are no events. Question 2: WERE YOU FULLY CONSCIOUS OF THE GAP BETWEEN YOUR LAST DEATH AND THIS BIRTH? Yes, I was fully conscious for those seven hundred...

... years. I was fully conscious, but it was a consciousness of the gap, of the vacuum, of the emptiness, of nothing happening. Nothing can happen. "Happening" means being embodied. Only if you are in the body can anything happen. Question 3: ISN'T IT BORING THEN TO BE WITHOUT A BODY? No, because the concept of boredom belongs to the realm of happenings. If something is happening continuously...

... have to be alive and in the body. The desire happens when you are dying - and the last desire you have in one life becomes the first desire at the beginning of a new life. But in the gap itself, there is no desiring. For example, when you go to sleep, be aware of your last thought that will be your first thought in the morning. But there is no continuity of the thought in the gap, while you are...

... particular day, the day will seem very short. But if you remember that day, retrospectively, it will seem very long, because so many things happened. Time is basically involved with events. If nothing is happening, you are not time-conscious - you cannot be; and space consciousness too is lost. There is no dreaming between one life and the next. Dreaming is not possible because even dreaming needs a body...

.... You cannot experience anything without a body - the body contains all the instruments of experiencing. So if you are conscious between one life and another, you are only conscious of your consciousness. Nothing - no thought, no desire but the last desire - will have any effect on you. And the effect of your last desire is automatic, because to enter a body again was the last suggestion of your mind...

.... Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. AUM. MAY THE DIFFERENT LIMBS OF MY BODY - MY VOICE, MY NOSE, MY EYES, MY EARS, AND MY STRENGTH, AND ALSO ALL THE OTHER SENSE ORGANS BE NOURISHED, AND BECOME INTELLIGENT. ALL THE UPANISHADS ARE MANIFESTATIONS OF BRAHMAN ITSELF. MAY I NEVER DENY BRAHMAN; MAY BRAHMAN NEVER DENY ME. MAY THE DHARMA DESCRIBED IN THE UPANISHAD BELONG TO ME, I WHO AM...

... really authentic religion there is no duality between consciousness and body, no duality between the divine and the world, no duality between mind and matter; the duality is just a mental construct. Duality exists nowhere, the whole is one. If we take it as two, or if it appears to us as two, it is because of our way of looking, not because it is so. Through senses it appears to us as matter, and...

... there, a potential consciousness is there. And even in you, it has come only to an awakening - it is there. Matter and mind are two states of one thing, of one phenomenon: asleep it is matter, awakened it is mind. So for the UPANISHADS there is no duality between body and consciousness. So he asks, prays that, "my senses should be strengthened to become more mature, more strong, more sensitive...

... is all around. This is a strange prayer and a very beautiful one. Strange, because we have been fed a very wrong conception that the senses are your enemy. So kill the senses, destroy them. With a deadened sensuality, with a dead body, you will be more spiritual. This has been given to us, fed into our minds, this totally wrong conception. It is a very pathological conception towards life - ill...

..., diseased, neurotic. The UPANISHADS are very healthy, life-affirmative. They say one is not to be dead in the body; rather, more alive. If you are more alive, more and more alive, then you will not feel the body at all. A moment comes when the body is totally filled with aliveness - every particle of the body alive, awakened - then there is no body at all. You become just energy, just consciousness. So...

... to my senses." He is praying, "Let me come down, down to my body, to every fiber of my body. Let me be deep down into every particle of my body, so alive, so full of energy, so full of consciousness and sensitivity, that I can know you and I can feel your mystery." Really, those who have ever felt the divine mystery were basically the most sensitive minds in the world. Our so-called...

... ascetics - who are just trying to deaden their bodies, trying to destroy the instrument of knowing - may come to a point where they become just an enclosed stone. The body has become completely dead, and now they are just enclosing themselves. They can become very perfect egos, but never souls, never enlightened ones. They can be perfect egoists, because the more you are closing yourself the more your...

... are self- centered, and the self is strengthened. You become a monad, completely enclosed and dead in yourself. Then you can live in your illusions, then you can live in your dreams, then you are in a coma. You are broken from the whole by your own effort. This is a spiritual suicide. Really, this is suicide; all else is just changing from one body to another. This is a spiritual suicide. The rishi...

... is saying quite the contrary, "Let my body be more alive, let me come down to my body. Let my fingers be my soul, so when I touch something, it is not only that I am touching by my fingers, but I am touching and fingers are dissolved. I become prominent, significant, I go THROUGH my fingers, and then only, I can touch something which cannot be touched." If I take your hand in my hand, and...

... you are. In fact, for the first time you are, but you are not self-conscious. For example, whenever you are ill, you become body-conscious. You are weak, you have a fever, something is wrong in the body; you become body-conscious. It hurts - you become body- conscious. When the body is absolutely okay, healthy, in a state of well-being, you are not conscious of it; not that you don't know that you...

... one with the body when the body is healthy. When the body is ill, a rift happens; you are broken asunder. You are not together. The body exists somewhere, you exist somewhere else. In meditation, you are one with your consciousness, so it doesn't function and exist as a mind. You are one - there is no division. When there is no division and unity comes in, all self-consciousness disappears. Let me...

... circle of awareness. That awareness in which self-consciousness is not is egoless. And that awareness has a grace, a beauty, a beauty that doesn't belong to this world. Even an ugly person will become beautiful in that state; ugly as far as the criterions of this world go, but suffused, illuminated with something from the Beyond. The body, the shape may not be beautiful, but it is filled with some...

... unknown grace. And then you forget the body; the grace is so much that you simply cannot attend to the body - you feel the grace. All saints are beautiful, not that their bodies are always beautiful - no. But they are filled with some unknown bliss which touches you, a Face which fills the milieu around them. They carry their own climate, and wherever they are, suddenly you feel the climate has changed...

.... And that is such a tremendous force that you cannot look at their bodies; their bodies simply disappear, their bodilessness is so much. Your body is seen because the bodilessness is not there. You are just the body; nothing is illuminating it from the within. You are an unlit lamp, so only the lamp is seen. When the light comes you forget the lamp - when the light comes out of it then who bothers...

... self-conscious the very effort to impress makes you ugly. And this you can watch in life. It may be difficult for you to catch it in yourself, because it is very difficult to watch oneself - watch others. Why does a prostitute look ugly? She may have a beautiful body, but why does she look ugly? Because she is too self-conscious; she depends on the attention of others: she is a commodity, she is on...

... sale, she is always in the window for others to appreciate and look at because that is her whole life, her business. A prostitute cannot live without self- consciousness. How can she live without attracting others? The body may be beautiful, but you cannot find beauty in a prostitute - it is impossible. And sometimes a homely woman suddenly appears to be beautiful, just a homely woman doing her...

... are showing through the statues of Buddhas that these men became completely feminine. Why feminine? - because grace is feminine, beauty is feminine. The body loses all violent concerns; it becomes more round. Muscles are not needed for a Buddha. Muscles belong to wild animal-hood. The body becomes more and more round, shapely, more and more feminine. When aggression disappears muscles also disappear...

... become more beautiful and graceful, less aggressive and violent, then you will choose a man like the Buddha to be Mr. Universe; not the animals that you choose but a body which has lost violence and aggression, which is completely at ease, relaxed, ready to love, not to fight. Everybody has two aspects. Just watch people. I say watch people so that finally, eventually you can watch yourself. It is very...

... thin or fat, but never in balance? They don't exist in a relaxed way. They are tense, self-conscious. When you are tense you will start eating more. When you are relaxed you eat only as much as is needed. The body decides, not you. If you are tense, you will eat more. Tense people tend to eat more because eating becomes an occupation; through eating they can forget themselves. Tense people become...

... ugly because the tension is not only in the mind, it affects the body. Body and mind are not two, there is no division. Mind is just the other pole of the body and the body is the other pole of the mind. Visible mind is body; invisible body is mind. Subtle body is the mind; gross mind is the body. You have a psychosomatic structure - it is one. When the mind is tense, then your face starts showing...

... the worries, then your skin starts showing the tension. And if it has become a deep-rooted thing, then the body takes the shape; the mind becomes the mould and the body takes the shape. Just by watching the face of a man, you can see what is happening in the mind. Hence, face-reading exists as a science. It is a science, because your face shows what is happening in your mind. You see that whatsoever...

... you do: eating, sleeping, moving, walking, relating with people, sitting alone; whatsoever you do, the body and mind are always together. If you eat more, that shows that your mind needs love, and you are in such a deep need of love that food has become a substitute. People who are in need of love will eat more, and the more they eat, the less exists the possibility of anybody falling in love with...

... constant reference. Again go on falling back to the feminine - and through it will come your liberation. So, softness is going to be your sadhana. [A sannyas says he has a recurring sickness over the last ten years. He thinks it may be because he is going faster than his body can keep up: I guess I go off-centre and then the body goes right down.] Your understanding seems to be on the right track...

.... Everybody has to understand his body's functioning. If you try to do something which is more than the body can tolerate, then sooner or later you will fall ill.. There is a certain limit you can pull on against the body, but that cannot go on forever. You may be working too hard. It may not look too hard to other people, but that is not the point. Your body cannot tolerate that much; it has to rest. And...

... the total result will be the same. Rather than working for two, three weeks and then resting for two or three weeks, work all the six weeks and reduce the work to half... simple arithmetic. And this is very dangerous because it can destroy many fragile things in the body - being continuously overworked and then exhausted, depressed, and lying down in the bed and feeling bad about the whole thing...

... and then tell me how you, feel. You have been doing more than your body can keep pace with so the body drops, collapses. [The sannyasin adds: It scares me to think that my capacity for work may be so small.] No, no, it is not a question of capacity. It is simply a question of speed. Everybody has his own speed and one should move with one's own speed. That is natural to you. It has nothing to do...

... how are you going to compare yourself to him? You are you, he is he. If he is forced to start moving slowly, he may start getting ill. Then it will be against his nature. What you are doing is against your nature - so just listen to your nature. Always listen to your body. It whispers, it never shouts, because it cannot shout. Only in whispering it gives you messages. If you are alert, you will be...

... able to understand it. And the body has a wisdom of its own which is very much deeper than the mind. The mind is just immature. The body has remained without the mind for millennia. The mind is just a late arrival. It does not know much yet. All the basic things the body still keeps in its own control. Only useless things have been given to the mind - to think; to think about philosophy and God and...

... hell and politics. [Osho said that the most basic functions - breathing, digesting, the circulation of blood - are under the control of the body, while only the luxuries are given to the mind.] So listen to the body, and never compare. Never before has there been a man like you and never will there be. You are absolutely unique - past, present, future. So you cannot compare notes with anybody and you...

..., which would force energy towards the sex centre and help a grounding to happen. Osho said that after a few days she would begin to feel the vibration of her being moving towards the magnetic pull of the earth, and the earth moving towards her. Secondly he suggested that a hot shower immediately followed by a cold one would be helpful to encourage the body to shrink and contract, and that each night...

... before I always used to have trouble with my body - I was afraid of falling, but now I don't care. I like to go really mad in meditations.] Don't disturb your feelings because of the mind. The mind is going to remain there. All that can happen is that you start feeling separate from it by and by. When you are separate from it, the mind continues its work but it is no more a distraction to you, no more...

... the mind; it becomes part of the body. So you can change the mind - in a group you can feel a certain change coming - but out of the group again everything disappears and you are back. The body is very persistent and a group can only change your mind, not your body. It can give you a new attitude with which to look at things, a new vision, a new glimpse. It can open a new window, but after the group...

... it will be closed again unless your body also changes in the same way so there becomes a permanent base. If the body goes on behaving in the same way and the mind starts thinking something new, it is not going to last very long. The body always wins finally over the mind, because the body is very very strong. The mind is just a minute part of the body. In Rolfing the work is done on the body, not...

... on the mind. These two groups will work on your mind in a certain way. They will help you to be more aware of the block, and will make it more emphasised. You will almost start feeling where it is in the body. Rolfing will relax the musculature, and once that is relaxed, problems are solved very easily. It is almost as if you spill water here on the floor and it moves in a particular line and goes...

... out into the garden. Then everything dries and nothing can be seen, but a dry line remains there. If you pour the water again, it will fall into that same dry line, and move along that path. That's how, if the mind has been moving in a certain way for many years, a dry line, a channel in the body, is created. Then whenever you have energy, the energy will move through that channel again and again...

..., you will receive it in gratefulness. Two piece robes divide the body into upper and lower. Below the belt is sex, above the belt is acceptable. When you wear a one piece robe, your body is one - nothing higher or lower. When your body flows as one, you will feel a certain aura of energy around you. The orange protects and seals this in. One can meditate and can become enlightened in any colour. I am...

... Title: N.A. Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. [NOTE: This is a translation of the Hindi series ADHYATMA UPANISHAD. This version is the final edit pending publication.] KARMA, PAST ACTIONS, BEAR FRUITS ONLY WHEN WE HAVE A FEELING OF MY-NESS FOR OUR BODIES. IT IS NEVER DESIRABLE TO HAVE A FEELING OF MYSELF FOR THE BODY. THUS, BY GIVING UP THE FEELING OF MY-NESS FOR THE BODY ONE...

... GIVES UP THE FRUITS OF PAST ACTIONS. THIS FALLACY THAT THE BODY IS MYSELF IS THE CAUSE OF CREATING IN THE IMAGINATION THE IDEA OF PAST ACTIONS. BUT HOW COULD SOMETHING BE TRUE THAT IS IMPOSED OR IMAGINED ABOUT A FALLACY? FROM WHERE CAN A THING BE BORN WHICH IS NOT REAL IN THE FIRST PLACE? WHAT HAS NOT BEEN BORN, HOW CAN IT BE DESTROYED? HOW CAN A THING THAT IS UNREAL HAVE PAST ACTIONS? THE MY-NESS...

... WITH THE BODY IS THE RESULT OF OUR IGNORANCE AND IT IS DESTROYED TOTALLY BY ENLIGHTENMENT. THEN HOW DOES THE BODY REMAIN? IT IS TO SATISFY THIS DOUBT OF THE IGNORANT THAT THE SCRIPTURES HAVE OUTWARDLY ATTRIBUTED THE CONTINUANCE OF THE BODY TO PAST ACTIONS. One or two questions have been asked. It will be good to discuss them first. A friend has said that what I have been saying is understood by him...

... wave of joy passes throughout your body; you come to know that you can carry through a decision to completion. Sneezing and coughing are very nasty things: if you try to prevent them, they persist with greater force. If you try to prevent them, your whole attention becomes centered on them. If you try to prevent them, they rebel. They seem to tell you, "You have never done this before. What is...

... your relationship with your body will already begin to change, with this small decision. For example, I call out to you: "Stop!" Gurdjieff has made great use of it in meditations. He had given it a separate name: the stop meditation. When you are ready some time we will do that complete experiment. When I ask you to stop.... In this stopping I am not at this point putting much pressure on...

... you. Gurdjieff also used to say, "Stop!" but it meant that whatever was the position, the situation of your body, it had to stay as it was. If you were dancing and one foot was in the air and another on the ground - you had to stop just like that. Or if your neck was bent one way, or your body was twisted, it had to remain in that position, no changes or adjustments of the body were to be...

... made at all. The body may fall down flat, but you are not to make any change to its position. And if it happens that one foot is a little twisted and you fall down, you straighten it, and then lie down - no, make no change to its position either. Gurdjieff was calling this the stop meditation. Thousands of people had deep experiences through it. This is a very valuable experiment, just stopping...

... between the soul and the body, where the soul could have won over the body and confirmed that the soul is the master. If you carefully brought your leg down to a comfortable position and declared to the world, "Look, I am doing the stop meditation," then you are not deceiving anybody else, your own body has deceived you. Small decisions, very small decisions can also bring forth great results...

... come to realize this if you have everything you want; how would you realize this before? When Buddha realized that there was nothing worthwhile in the body of a woman it was because his father had gathered all the most beautiful girls of the kingdom in his harem. Only then he realized that there was nothing in them. You find a thing to be worthless only when you have it in plenty. This is why America...

.... IT IS NEVER DESIRABLE TO HAVE A FEELING OF MY-SELF FOR THE BODY. THUS, BY GIVING UP THE FEELING OF MY-NESS FOR THE BODY, ONE GIVES UP THE FRUITS OF PAST ACTIONS. Actions stick to us only when we feel that this body is 'mine'. All actions stick to the body, not to us. But when we cling to our bodies the actions naturally cling to us also. The actions cling to the body from the outside and we cling...

... to the body from inside, thus we become connected with the actions. Actions cannot cling to the soul, they always cling only to the body. It is like somebody wanting to cut something with a knife; a knife can only cut matter. If you want to cut the sky with a knife it is not possible. The knife will make the cutting action, but the sky will remain uncut. The effect of actions, or the result of...

... actions, or the knife of actions, can cut matter only. Body is matter, mind too is matter. Matter can encounter matter. But the consciousness within you, that empty sky within you, cannot be cut or touched by any action. But one thing can happen: if the consciousness within you believes the body as 'mine', which it is free to do, then all the sufferings of the body will start happening to you too. Let...

... the transaction was never completed." Immediately the man began to weep bitterly again, "I am ruined, I am finished!" The house is the same, but what happened in between? The my-ness was detached from the house and then attached itself to the house again. The feeling of my-ness with the body is the cause of all our miseries, or our happiness - of all our fruits of karma. If that my...

...-ness is removed, the effects of all actions on the body become unrelated to us. This sutra says that to keep the feeling of my-ness is to help create the process of all actions, is to cooperate with this process. As that feeling of my-ness is gone, as you come to realize who you are - that you are not the body - then you remain unconcerned, just the way that the man remained unconcerned with the...

... burning house once he knew it was not his house. Buddha and Mahavira realized that the body, the house, was not theirs and they became unconcerned with its burning. They went inside. They had come to know the one who lives in the house. They had come to know the one who certainly lives in this house but is not the house itself. The disappearance of my-ness is the renunciation of the fruits of all past...

... actions. Then past actions are of no consequence, the renunciation has happened. THIS FALLACY THAT THE BODY IS MYSELF IS THE CAUSE OF CREATING IN THE IMAGINATION THE IDEA OF PAST ACTIONS. BUT HOW COULD SOMETHING BE TRUE THAT IS IMPOSED OR IMAGINED ABOUT A FALLACY? It is all imposed, imagined; it only appears that it is yours. There is your son - you are doing everything in your power for his upbringing...

.... Wherever there is projection of 'mine', I have become identified and now I can do everything for it, even suffer pain for it. When the projection of 'mine' shifts away, I have become disidentified, separated from it. All this feeling of 'mine' is just a projection. In this world there is nothing that is mine. Even my body is not mine. That too has come from the parents - their's is not their's either...

... lamp, you could see clearly that there was no snake. So the snake died, but where is the dead body of that snake? What is seen but is not actually there has neither any birth nor any death, it is only an illusion. But illusions can happen, do happen. An illusion is a projection. In that rope no snake was ever born; your own mind had just projected the snake on the rope and you were able to see it...

... analyze any event of your life, you will come to experience the truth of what I am saying. If you do not analyze, the activities of your mind continue being at your back, the world remains as a screen and the whole play goes on - which is visible on the screen. No, this illusion has neither any birth nor any death. The false is neither born nor it dies. THE MY-NESS WITH THE BODY IS THE RESULT OF OUR...

... IGNORANCE AND IT IS DESTROYED TOTALLY BY ENLIGHTENMENT. THEN HOW DOES THE BODY REMAIN? IT IS TO SATISFY THIS DOUBT OF THE IGNORANT THAT SCRIPTURES HAVE OUTWARDLY ATTRIBUTED THE CONTINUANCE OF THE BODY TO PAST ACTIONS. This is a very difficult matter. And what I was saying to you two or three days ago would have complicated the matter even more for you. I said to you that Buddha has to tell a lie, Mahavira...

... has to tell a lie because of you, because you understand only the language of lies, you understand no other language. This sutra says that in actuality there is neither body nor past actions. In fact the truth contains neither body nor past actions in it, neither good deeds nor bad deeds in it, neither happiness nor misery in it. In fact, the world is not. This is the reality, but it cannot be said...

.... This sutra says that it cannot be said to ignorant people. If you tell ignorant people that you are not the body, they will say, "Get away! Is your mind alright? Go and get some treatment for your mind!" If you tell ignorant people that there is no world, they will send you to a madhouse. An enlightened one among ignorant people is in the same situation as a man with eyes among a race of...

... are you the body nor is there any past actions, but for the satisfaction of the ignorant people the mention of body and past actions is outwardly and superficially made. In actuality, neither there is body nor past actions. Now this is very difficult. All the scriptures are ninety-nine percent untrue. This had to be so for the sake of the blind, to explain things to them. Otherwise they understand...

.... But when a person becomes awakened, when he is utterly conscious, when he disidentifies himself with the body and his ignorance is destroyed, he can't help laughing. He sees that all that was left behind was not real, but a big dream. And the methods and devices that have been given to him were also dreams within dreams. It will be easier to understand it this way. Ramakrishna was a devotee of the...

... kill the other? Only untruth kills the untruth. One untruth kills the other untruth, and when they both fall what remains is the truth. Understand it this way: your foot is pierced by a thorn. You pick up another thorn from the ground and remove the one in your foot with its help. Then you throw them both away. So this sutra is saying, neither you are the body, nor is there karma, action, nor...

... ARE WISE HOLD NO SUCH CONCEPTION. BUT IF OUR EVERY MOVEMENT OR STATE, WHENEVER IT OCCURS, IS THE MIND, WHY DON'T WE SEE THIS MIND WHEN A PERSON'S BODY DIES? THE MIND IS ALWAYS PRESENT. YOU JUST DON'T SEE IT. BUT IF THE MIND IS PRESENT, WHY DON'T I SEE IT? DO YOU EVER DREAM? OF COURSE. WHEN YOU DREAM, IS THAT YOU? YES, IT'S ME. AND IS WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND SAYING DIFFERENT FROM YOU? NO, IT ISN'T. BUT...

... IF IT ISN'T, THEN THIS BODY IS YOUR REAL BODY. AND THIS REAL BODY IS YOUR MIND. AND THIS MIND, THROUGH ENDLESS KALPAS WITHOUT BEGINNING, HAS NEVER VARIED. IT HAS NEVER LIVED OR DIED, APPEARED OR DISAPPEARED, INCREASED OR DECREASED. IT'S NOT PURE OR IMPURE, GOOD OR EVIL, PAST OR FUTURE. IT'S NOT TRUE OR FALSE. IT'S NOT MALE OR FEMALE. IT DOESN'T APPEAR AS A MONK OR A LAYMAN, AN ELDER OR A NOVICE, A...

... SAGE OR A FOOL, A BUDDHA OR A MORTAL. IT STRIVES FOR NO REALIZATION AND SUFFERS NO KARMA. IT HAS NO STRENGTH OR FORM. IT'S LIKE SPACE. YOU CAN'T POSSESS IT. AND YOU CAN'T LOSE IT. ITS MOVEMENTS CAN'T BE BLOCKED BY MOUNTAINS, RIVERS OR ROCK WALLS. ITS UNSTOPPABLE POWERS PENETRATE THE MOUNTAIN OF FIVE SKANDHAS AND CROSS THE RIVER OF SAMSARA. NO KARMA CAN RESTRAIN THIS REAL BODY. BUT THIS MIND IS SUBTLE...

.... That is the difference between the spiritualist and the materialist. The materialist says in philosophical terms that life, consciousness, are all conditional, are all effects. When causes are removed they will disappear. When in death the five elements of which your body is made fall apart, back into their original sources -- water into water, earth into earth, air into air, fire into fire, space...

..., WHENEVER IT OCCURS, IS no-MIND, WHY DON'T WE SEE THIS no-MIND WHEN A PERSON'S BODY DIES?" THE no-MIND IS ALWAYS PRESENT. YOU JUST DON'T SEE IT. No-mind is not a thing. It is not a commodity, it is not an object. No-mind is pure space. It is utter emptiness, it is silence. You cannot hear it. Have you ever thought about it, when you say it is absolutely silent? Do you hear silence? All that you hear...

... is no noise. Because you are hearing no noise, you conclude it is silence. Because you don't experience any worry, any anxiety, any tension, any misery, any suffering, you infer that this is the state of peace and bliss. But these are not things or objects that you can see. Or when a person dies, you cannot see his no- mind leaving the body. Remember again, I am changing the statements -- wherever...

... simple; particularly for you it must be so simple. Walking, you can see that it is an action of your body, but you are not it. You are not walking; your consciousness inside is exactly where it has always been. Whether you stand still or walk, it is always the same. The real answer will be, "Yes, it is different. It is not me. My action cannot be me, my doing cannot be me. I am always the watcher...

... behind; I am always the witness beyond." BUT IF IT is, THEN THIS BODY IS not YOUR REAL BODY. That's my correction. The notes themselves are just the opposite. The notes continue in the same way being wrong. The note is: BUT IF IT ISN'T, THEN THIS BODY IS YOUR REAL BODY. If you are not different from your actions, if you are not different from your dreams, then this is your real mind, this is your...

... real body. But this body is not your real body. Soon a day will come when this body will be burning on a funeral pyre. But you will not be burning. Your consciousness will have taken a new form -- moved far away. So I will go with my corrections: BUT IF IT is, THEN THIS BODY IS not YOUR REAL BODY. AND THIS REAL BODY IS YOUR no-MIND. AND THIS no- MIND, THROUGH ENDLESS KALPAS WITHOUT BEGINNING, HAS...

... NEVER VARIED. IT HAS NEVER LIVED OR DIED .... Just see the confusion. If this body is real, then the later statements cannot be relevant ...THROUGH ENDLESS KALPAS, through endless ages, WITHOUT BEGINNING, HAS NEVER VARIED. IT HAS NEVER LIVED OR DIED, APPEARED OR DISAPPEARED, INCREASED OR DECREASED. IT'S NOT PURE OR IMPURE, GOOD OR EVIL, PAST OR FUTURE. IT'S NOT TRUE OR FALSE. IT'S NOT MALE OR FEMALE...

.... IT DOESN'T APPEAR AS A MONK OR A LAYMAN, AN ELDER OR A NOVICE, A SAGE OR A FOOL, A BUDDHA OR A MORTAL. IT STRIVES FOR NO REALIZATION AND SUFFERS NO KARMA. IT HAS NO STRENGTH OR FORM. IT'S LIKE SPACE. YOU CAN'T POSSESS IT. These statements are possible only if my corrections are made; otherwise these statements become absolutely impossible because your body has died many times, has been born many...

... times, will die again, will be born again. This body is not your real body. Your real body is your real being -- which has never died, which has never been born, which has always continued eternally through many forms, but it has been the same. There is a statement of Gautam Buddha: "You can taste the ocean from anywhere, from any direction; its taste is always the same." So whether in this...

... body or in another, your consciousness is the same. And this body is certainly male or female; only your being is not male or female. So unless my corrections are there, all the statements following become absolutely irrelevant and diametrically opposite to the statements that the disciple has written. AND YOU CAN'T LOSE IT. ITS MOVEMENTS CAN'T BE BLOCKED BY MOUNTAINS, RIVERS OR ROCK WALLS. ITS...

... UNSTOPPABLE POWERS PENETRATE THE MOUNTAIN OF FIVE SKANDHAS ... These five SKANDHAS are what I have been calling the five elements. SKANDHA is the Buddhist word for element -- the earth, the air, the water, the fire, and the sky. These are the five elements your so-called body is made of. But your real being is beyond all these SKANDHAS ...THE MOUNTAIN OF FIVE SKANDHAS AND CROSS THE RIVER OF SAMSARA. Your...

... not aware of it. NO KARMA CAN RESTRAIN this real being, or THIS REAL BODY. BUT THIS no-MIND IS SUBTLE AND HARD TO SEE. IT'S NOT THE SAME AS THE SENSUAL MIND. EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE THIS no-MIND. AND THOSE WHO MOVE THEIR HANDS AND FEET BY ITS LIGHT ARE AS MANY AS THE GRAINS OF SAND ALONG THE GANGES. Although you don't see it, everybody has it. You live in its light. Your very life belongs to your no...

... resists and wants to throw it. Even if you force him, he will vomit it. So that is for me to decide. Simply report without any strings attached, without any judgement, mm? Good. [The hypnotherapy group was present. Osho talked a little time ago about how hypnotherapy works, saying:] Hypnotherapy touches the fourth body, the body of consciousness. It simply puts a suggestion into your mind. Call it...

... animal magnetism, mes-merism, or whatsoever you like, but it works through the power of thought, not the power of matter. If your consciousness accepts a certain idea, it starts functioning. Hypnotherapy has a great future. It is going to become the future medicine because if just by changing your thought pattern your mind can be changed, through your mind the vital body, and through the vital body...

... your gross body, then why bother with poisons, gross medicine? Why not work it through thought power? [The leader says: It was a bit scattered. People were far apart at the beginning and I once considered whether we should do an encounter, more of an encounter-type thing, to get people more together. Then I decided that it is more your wish that each technique stays the way it's designed to be, so I...

... headache, then aspirin is just going to repress it. According to his vision, aspirin is just a repressive thing. He has to work on the stomach. There must be some constipation, some toxins hanging about inside the body. They have to be cleaned out. It is a long process, but once the intestines are cleaned, the headache will disappear. A headache is just an indication in naturopathy. In allopathy, a...

... in it. Work as a political journalist but don't become a politician, that's all! [A group member says: I got in touch with some very deep blocks in myself. Osho asks where in her body she feels those blocks. She answered that she was not aware of where it was, but rather in the fact that, in whatever she does, she only goes so far and then gives up.] Good... this experience has been good. Next time...

... you feel any block, try and locate it in the body, because no block can exist without its location in the body. And if you really become aware you can find where exactly in the body the block exists. Then it is very much easier to remove it, because then you can work from both ways - from the mind and from the body. You can attack the block from both sides. Otherwise, what happens is that if you...

... attack it from the mind side, it slips deeper into the body and protects itself there. If you attack it from the body side, it slips into the mind and protects itself there. These are the two sides, and they are very close. In fact, they are not two. We are psychosomatic - body/mind, not body and mind. They are both overlapping, so if you force any block to melt, the first thing a block will do is to...

... slip into the mind or into the body. The attack has to be from both fronts so the block can be caught just in the middle, and from both the energies it can be crushed. So always remember that whenever you feel that you have come across a block, try to find out where it is in the body. You will always find it. It will be a little difficult in the beginning because we don't think in that way. But...

... whenever you feel love, you put your hand on your heart. Somehow the very idea of love corresponds to the heart centre. The moment the word 'sex' is uttered, somewhere near the genital organs you feel a slight sensation, a slight thrill. Everything in the mind corresponds to something in the body, and something in the body corresponds to something in the mind, so always try to find out the correspondence...

.... That's how yoga psychology came to discover the chakras, the centres. A block is a negative chakra. (See 'the cypress in the courtyard', june 17th, where Osho talks about negative chakras.) Sometimes the block may change. In the morning you feel it is in the stomach. In the evening you may feel it is not there, because it is like a flux. The body is continuously changing; it is not a fixed entity. So...

... in anything else because the whole body as an organic unity becomes involved. Dance is the most total act on the earth. [She adds: It's a very big contrast between being in the ashram and letting go and then when I go out feeling that I can't let go at all.] Mm, I understand. You will become capable of that too, the more you will be able to let go in the ashram, because a person who allows let-go...

...? Start living... and you have energy, that's why your body creates trouble. It is not really a trouble. Because you are simply forcing some discipline on yourself, the body resists and revolts. The body says, 'Go and dance, swim' - and you are doing hypnotherapy! (laughter) You are torturing poor [therapist] unnecessarily! [The sannyasin replies: You told me to! (laughter)] If you ask me (chuckling...