... 'LIVINGNESS' IN YOU." Many yoga methods are based on this. First understand what it is; then the application. The vertebrae, the spine, is the base of both your body and mind. Your mind, your head, is the end part of your spine. The whole body is rooted in the spine. If the spine is young, you are young. If the spine is old, you are old. If you can keep your spine young, it is difficult to become old...

... move beyond the earth's gravity they don't feel much sexuality. As the body loses weight, sexuality dissolves, disappears. The earth is pulling your life energy down and this is natural, because the life energy comes from the earth. You eat food and you are creating life energy within you; it comes from the earth, and the earth is pulling it back. Everything goes to its source. And if it continues to...

... just because of money? You can pay a man to have intercourse with you, but if he has no imagination for you he cannot function. Women can function because their sex is passive. Really, their functioning is not needed. They can be totally detached; they may not be feeling anything at all. Their bodies can just be there like corpses. With a prostitute you are not making love with a real body - only...

... the energy to move, then you can move it upwards or downwards just by imagination. You cannot move your blood by imagination; you cannot do anything else in the body by imagination. But sex energy can be moved by imagination. You can change its direction. This sutra says, "CONSIDER YOUR ESSENCE AS LIGHT RAYS" - think of yourself, your being, as light rays - "FROM CENTER TO CENTER UP...

... rising up. Sex energy has two parts: one is physical and one is psychic. In your body everything has two parts. Just like your body and mind, everything within you has two parts - one material and the other spiritual. Sex energy has two parts. The material part is semen; it cannot rise upwards, there is no passage for it. Because of this, many physiologists of the West say that tantra and yoga methods...

... are nonsense and they deny them completely. How can sex energy rise up? There is no passage and sex energy cannot rise. They are right and still wrong. Semen, the material part, cannot rise - but that is not the whole of it. Really, it is only the body of sex energy, it is not the sex energy. The sex energy is the psychic part of it, and the psychic part can rise. And for that psychic part, the...

.... Allow it to happen to you, and your sensitivity will grow. When taking a shower, feel it all over the body - every drop of water touching you. Feel the touch, the coldness, the warmth! Try this the whole day whenever you have the chance, and everywhere there is a chance - everywhere! When just breathing, feel the breath - its movement within and its going out - just feel it! Just feel your own body...

.... You have not felt it. We are so afraid of our own bodies. No one touches his own body in a loving way. Have you ever given any love to your own body? The whole civilization is afraid of anyone touching himself because from childhood touching has been denied. It appears to be masturbatory to touch oneself in a loving way. But if you cannot touch yourself in a loving way your body will go dull and...

... dead. It has gone so. Touch your eyes with your palms. Feel the touch, and your eyes will feel fresh and alive immediately. Feel your body all over. Feel your lover's body, your friend's body. Massage is good. Two friends can massage each other and feel each other's bodies. You will become more sensitive. Create sensitivity and feeling. Then it will be easy for you to do these techniques, and then...

... meditation. But don't leave the energy somewhere in the body at some center. Someone may come and you will have some business, or some phone call will come and you will have to stop. So do it at such a time that no one will disturb you, and don't leave the energy in any center. Otherwise that center where you leave the energy will become a wound, and you may create many mental illnesses. So be aware...

... just a film - for thirty minutes he was shown a film of horror. Of course, with the film his emotions changed. He felt stress. To another a very joyful film was shown. He felt happy. And so on went the experiment for twelve persons. Then their urine was taken again and the urine analysis showed that everyone's urine was different now. The chemicals had changed in the body. The person who felt horror...

... was ill now; the person who felt hope, happiness, joy, was healthy now. His urine was different, the chemicals of the body were different. You are not aware of what you are doing with yourself. When you go to see a murder film, you don't know what you are doing. You are changing your body chemistry. If you are reading a detective novel, you don't know what you are doing. You are killing yourself...

.... You will become excited, you will become afraid, a tension will come to you. That is how you enjoy the detective novel. The more tense you become, the more you enjoy it. The more the suspense over what is going to happen, the more you get excited - and you are changing your body chemistry. All these techniques also change your body chemistry. If you feel the whole world as filled with life, light...

..., then you are changing your body chemistry. And this is a chain reaction. When your body chemistry changes, you can look at the world and it will look more alive. And if it looks more alive, your body chemistry will change again, and then it becomes a chain. If this method is done for three months, you will be living in a different world because you will be different now. Generated by PreciseInfo...

...-mind. You have only to drop the rubbish -- and God is part of the rubbish, the heaviest part. So there is no possibility of God and no-mind being synonymous. Here, we are searching without any belief, without any hypothesis. We are simply going into our subjectivity, into our interiority. As far as I am concerned, this is the only temple: your body. As far as I am concerned, your subjectivity...

... religious people stink because they are carrying a dead body. There is a beautiful Hindu mythology .... Shiva, one of the gods of the Hindus, one of the three gods, the trinity of Hinduism ... Shiva's wife dies, but he won't accept the death of his wife. His mind was constantly telling him, "If you go around the country there may be somebody who can resurrect her." He used to live in the...

... Himalayas, so he came down with the dead body of Parvati, his wife. The very word parvati means daughter of the mountains ... a beautiful woman, but dead. He carried the corpse around the country, asking everybody, "Is there any physician, any man of miracles?" The body was deteriorating, and soon it started falling into pieces. The legs dropped in one place, the hands dropped into another place...

... unnecessarily. It is not holding you! This is the only beautiful thing about it -- that you can drop God. One day I dropped God, and since then I have felt so weightless, so blissful. I used to carry the dead body myself, but I realized that the body was dead -- no breathing, no heartbeat -- it was up to me whether to carry it or drop it. And as I dropped it, for the first time I felt myself as an individual...

.... The dead body was overwhelming me, it was covering me from all the sides. It had become my personality. For a moment I felt naked, because the personality had dropped, the masks had dropped. But soon I knew that this nudity, this nakedness was natural. Everybody is nude behind the clothes. The moment you drop your clothes ... Have you ever felt a certain freedom just on the seabeach as you drop your...

... clothes? You suddenly feel the sun with your body, the wind blowing on your body, and a tremendous sense of freedom -- just by dropping clothes, which are not of much weight. God is very heavy. It goes on becoming heavier and heavier as time passes. A moment comes when it is heavier than you -- you are crushed under the mountainous load. Unless one is free from God, one knows not what freedom is. So God...

..., not at all. This experience is authentic. It happens sometimes to people who have almost died -- not completely, but almost. They see a luminous being. It is their own being, it is not God. In meditation you will encounter the same luminous being without dying. Meditation is a kind of death. You are separated from the body, you are separated from the mind -- that's what death does. You are separated...

... from the body, you are separated from the mind. Suddenly you become aware of a luminous being, which you think is separate from you because you have never seen such an experience before. If you have been a meditator, you would have recognized -- "This is me." You are a light, luminous body inside this body -- a flame, an eternal flame of light. But those who have almost died and come back...

... meditation knows exactly what has been happening to these people -- they have encountered themselves. But because the encounter was for the first time, and so quick ... just like a flash it came and went away, and they were back to life. Naturally they think they have seen some object, some person standing there with a radiant, luminous body, because they have known only objects in their lives. They have...

... experienced the truth. The combination of both, gives a greater authority to the fifth gospel of Thomas than The Holy Bible. Thomas is the only man in the whole world whose body has not deteriorated. His body is still in a church in Goa. Every year at Christmas time, his body is brought out of the church and his coffin is opened for any observer, for any scientist, for any researcher. Nobody has been able...

... to figure out why it looks so fresh, as if he had died just now. There seems to have been no device used. It is not kept in a freezing temperature, it is in a hot country, but even the skin does not look as if it is dead. He looks so fresh. I have been to see the body. Jesus' miracles may have been a myth, but this man really managed a miracle. After two thousand years he is the only person around...

... the world whose body looks as if it has died just now -- or perhaps he is fast asleep. No smell, and if it can remain for two thousand years; there is no problem for it to remain forever. Care has to be taken that nobody disturbs it. There have been efforts to disturb it by Hindus, by Mohammedans, by people who are not Christians, because it is a great argument in favor of Christianity. But the man...

... there, and he left. He came by ship, so he landed in South India. But he traveled all over India, and met all kinds of mystics who were deeply rooted in meditation. His body is a proof that he must have followed a certain method which was known to the Tibetan lamas, to the Ladakh people. They used to use a certain method of meditation when the meditator was dying ... at the last moment, a certain...

... process called Bardo. It was nothing but a post-hypnotic suggestion. When a man is dying, he is in a very vulnerable state. And if he has been a meditator, then he is perfectly awake. Death is coming, but he is perfectly awake. He can be hypnotized and told, "When you leave your body, the body will remain intact as it is ..." You have to continue repeating so that it enters, not only into his...

... mind, it enters even into his bones, into his marrow, into his blood. Bardo is a very intensive hypnosis, and it is also possible to give directions for the future to the soul that is leaving the body. Both can be done. The body can be preserved by post- hypnotic suggestion. But you cannot do it if the man has died. Then there is nobody to listen to the post-hypnotic suggestion. The man has to be...

... alive, just on the verge of death. You give him the post-hypnotic suggestion: "Your body will remain intact, will remain intact ... you go on." And if he is a meditator, even the bones, the blood, the body starts listening. The soul will leave but the body will remain completely as the soul has left it. This was one way that Bardo was used for the body. And there was a second way. You can...

...." Sometimes the man of meditation takes time to find the right womb; ordinary persons immediately enter into the womb. Bardo gives two kinds of possibilities: the body can be kept, and the soul can be given a sense of direction where to go. But this is possible only if the man has been deeply into meditation, has been practicing meditation for a long time, and was capable of remaining conscious...

... body, bones can be cut, replaced, anything can be done. Death is the greatest operation, because the whole seventy years' attachment to the body has to be broken. Nature has managed -- this is the wisdom of nature, the intelligence of nature -- that a person who is not capable of detachment with the body, who does not know that "I am not the body," should be made unconscious. Otherwise he...

... always loved one story from China .... The emperor of China was a great painter. At his seventy-fifth birthday, he was feeling old, and perhaps the day was not far away when he would have to leave the body. So he arranged a great competition before he would leave the body: a competition for painting throughout China. First, in every state there would be a competition, and one painting would be chosen...

..., No!" cries Mary, her eyes popping out. "Don't give me anymore of that Holy Ghost shit! I can see your resurrection from here!" Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Be silent ... Close your eyes, and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment to enter inwards. Gather all your energy, your total consciousness, and rush towards the center of...

..., silent, no more your old being -- utterly naked, just a pillar of light ... you are the buddha. Everybody is born with a hidden buddha in him. The word buddha means the awakened one. It is everybody's eternal birthright. The buddha has only one quality: watching, witnessing. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. And finally, witness that you are only a witness -- just a...

.... Audio Available: N.A. Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. BELOVED OSHO, AND A MAN SAID, SPEAK TO US OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE. AND HE ANSWERED, SAYING: YOUR HEARTS KNOW IN SILENCE THE SECRETS OF THE DAYS AND THE NIGHTS. BUT YOUR EARS THIRST FOR THE SOUND OF YOUR HEART'S KNOWLEDGE. YOU WOULD KNOW IN WORDS THAT WHICH YOU HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN IN THOUGHT. YOU WOULD TOUCH WITH YOUR FINGERS THE NAKED BODY OF YOUR...

... will start believing in those dreams. And Kahlil Gibran seems to be believing in those dreams. They may be beautiful, and you may feel that now there is no need to go ahead; you have found such a beautiful space... remain here. But you are not the heart. The heart is still part of the body, and you are only a witness - just as you were the witness of the outside world of your mind and its constant...

... agree with this - that you will know in words what you have always known in thought. This is how philosophy functions, but not mysticism. Philosophy is nothing but words and thoughts; mysticism is a totally different world, a different dimension. YOU WOULD TOUCH WITH YOUR FINGERS THE NAKED BODY OF YOUR DREAMS. That's where poets go on missing. They are hypnotized by their own words, and they hypnotize...

... a soul. But who will do this? - is the soul in your hands? The body cannot in any way know its own interiority, because it does not belong to the body. Your soul simply lives in the body - the body is nothing but a house. Not only will you be able to touch - this statement becomes so absurd - you will be able to touch even the naked body of your dreams! Dreams don't exist; dreams are only non...

.... They are not. The heart keeps the body alive, but not the soul. The soul knows only one nourishment, and that is not material - it is the positive silence, the positive serenity, the positive ecstasy. The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea.... There is no need for the soul to go anywhere, murmuring and running - these are the ways of the mind and the heart...

.... The soul is already part of the sea. The moment you reach your soul, you are in for a great surprise: Your soul is not only your soul, it is the universal soul. The body was yours, the mind belonged to the society, the heart belonged to your biology, chemistry, physiology. The soul belongs to eternal life. It is part of it, it has not to go anywhere. But poetically, it looks very beautiful: THE...

...." The body cannot see the soul - your eyes belong to the body. Hence it is possible, and it has happened, that blind men, who have no eyes, have come to self-knowledge - because eyes are not needed. Hands are not needed, so you can cut the hands, but that is not going to prevent the person from knowing himself. A beautiful story - very ancient, of the days when the UPANISHADS were written - is...

... about a man, a young man. He was tremendously intelligent, but he had a body which was so ugly; one hand was long, one hand was small, one eye was missing - even the legs were not of the same length. There was a great discussion happening in the court of the king, and the father of the young man, a well-known, learned scholar, had gone to participate. But discussions never come to a conclusion...

... like a camel, or perhaps worse. His name was Ashtavakra. Ashtavakra means he was strangely bent in eight places of his body - the hand was not straight; in the middle there was a bend. He could not keep his head straight because his neck was bent. He was certainly made for some circus, some carnival, some museum. All the learned people were in the court, and as he entered the court everybody started...

...; - that is the word for people who work on leather - "Disperse all these idiots! They can only see my skin, my body; they are blind, they don't have any heart - no love, no compassion - and they are talking about self-knowledge, self-realization. What has the self to do with the body?" There was great silence, because what he said was absolutely true. And he said, "I had not come here to...

... see all these shoemakers. I have come just to find my father; my mother is waiting." The king himself was so impressed, because the boy felt neither ashamed nor shocked, but the statement he made was far more important than the things all these learned people had been discussing. "I am not my body, and these people can see only the body. If they had any self-knowledge, they would not have...

... laughed looking at my body. They would have felt the presence of a man who is enlightened." The whole conference was dissolved, and the king told Ashtavakra, "From tomorrow you come and teach me, prepare me. I want to be your disciple." In the book ASHTAVAKRAGITA the songs of Ashtavakra are compiled, the statements that he made to the king... each statement is a diamond, invaluable. AND...

... THE TREASURE OF YOUR INFINITE DEPTHS WOULD BE REVEALED TO YOUR EYES. No, the treasure is revealed when you have forgotten your eyes, your ears, your body, your mind, your heart. It is self-luminous, it is self-evident. It does not need the eyes to witness that "Yes, this is the self." What do the eyes know? BUT LET THERE BE NO SCALES TO WEIGH YOUR UNKNOWN TREASURE. He has got into a fix...

.... The group has made you aware of some very beautiful, meaningful things. [A middle-aged visitor says: The group was very good for me. We did it in the nude and I was having a little trouble with my ageing body. They helped me to accept it.] Mm, that's very good. That can make you more young. A very good feeling about one's own body helps life tremendously. It makes you more healthy, more whole. Many...

... people have forgotten their bodies; they have become oblivious and they think about the body as if it is something which has to be hidden behind clothes, something which has to always be covered and not allowed to be seen; something obscene, impure. Absurd notions, neurotic notions. The body is beautiful. The body as such is beautiful; young or old makes no difference. Of course youth has its own...

... beauty and old age its own. The young body is more vital. The old body is more wise. Each age has its own beauty; there is no need to compare it. And, particularly in the west, the old body has become a very frightening experience because life is somehow thought synonymous with youth, which is a foolish idea. The east is better. Life is more synonymous with the old, because an old man has lived more...

..., experienced more, loved more; has known many seasons of life, ups and downs. The old man has lived youth. The youth has yet to live old age. The old body simply carries all the experiences, the scars, the wounds, the grace that comes through ripening experiences. And once you start enjoying your body and loving it at whatsoever stage it is, suddenly you feel it is again beautiful, and that releases many...

..., a center within you goes on looking at it, a center remains a watcher. Your body may be going mad, your body may be jumping, shrieking, screaming, your mind may have become a whirlpool - but a watcher remains. Go on constantly remembering that you are watching, because that watcher is the thing. That watcher has to be brought more and more into force. So while your body is doing many things, your...

... mind is doing many things, one thing deeply hidden within you goes on looking at it all. Don't lose contact with that. I am going to create a situation in these days in which your body will become very active, your mind will go through many catharses, much activity will be there, but simultaneously, side by side, remain alert, passively looking at all that is happening as if you are not only the...

... actor but the audience also. Doing, watching - this watching must be continued moment to moment, not only while you are meditating. You are walking, you are eating, taking a bath, talking with someone, going to sleep - go on watching everything that is happening. For these eight days devote all your energies to moving towards being a witness. Eating, let the body eat - you watch also. Walking, let the...

... whole body and your brain relax. With the sound aum you will go on relaxing and your sleep will have a different quality, altogether different. And your sleep has to be changed, only then can you become more alert and aware. So we will start by changing the sleep. In the night put the light off, sit on the bed, exhale deeply through the mouth with the sound O. When you have exhaled completely and you...

... aware of the deepest source of your being and energy. So for a single moment stop. Then inhale through the nose, but don't make any effort to inhale. Remember, make all the effort to exhale, but don't make any effort to inhale; just let the body inhale. You simply relax your hold and let the body take the inhalation. You don't do anything. That too is beautiful and works wonders. You have exhaled...

..., stopped for a moment, then you allow the body to inhale. You don't make any effort to inhale, you simply watch the body taking the inhalation. And when you watch the body taking the inhalation you will feel a deep silence surrounding you, because then you know your effort is not needed for life. Life breathes itself. It moves by itself of its own cause. It is a river, you unnecessarily go on pushing it...

.... You will see that the body is taking the inhalation. Your effort is not needed, your ego is not needed - you are not needed. You simply become a watcher, you simply see the body taking the inhalation. Deep silence will be felt. When the body has taken a full inhalation, stop for a single moment again. Again watch. These two moments are totally different. When you have exhaled completely and stopped...

... silent, the most peaceful - that is nirvana. Then let the body inhale to the full, and then stop. That moment is a life moment: the climax of energy, power, bioenergy at its peak. Feel it, and feel both. That's why I say stop twice: when you have exhaled, then; and when you have inhaled, then - so you can feel both life and death, so you can watch both life and death. Once you know this is life, this...

... is death, you have transcended both. The witness is neither death nor life. The witness is never born and never dies; only the body, the mechanism. You become the third. These two moments are very significant. This very night you have to do this meditation, for twenty minutes you go on doing this and then fall down and go to sleep. In the morning when you feel the sleep has left you, don't open...

... your eyes immediately. The mind has the tendency to open the eyes immediately. You miss a great opportunity... because when sleep leaves you and life energies are wakening inside, you can watch them, and that watching will be very helpful for going into deeper meditation. The mind is fresh, the body is fresh after the whole night's rest; everything is fresh, unburdened. There is no dust, no tiredness...

..., you would like to turn over and go to sleep again, so do one thing: for three minutes with closed eyes stretch your body like a cat. But with closed eyes; don't open the eyes and don't look at the body from without. Look at the body from within. Stretch, move, and let the body energy flow, and feel it. When it is fresh it is good to feel it; the feeling will remain with you the whole day. Do this...

... for two or three minutes - if you enjoy it, five minutes. And then for two or three minutes laugh loudly like a madman, but with closed eyes, don't open the eyes. With closed eyes laugh loudly. The energies are there, flowing; the body is awake and alert and vital. The sleep has gone. You are filled, flooded with new energy. The first thing to be done is laughter, because that sets the trend for the...

... shows that life is good. First thing in the morning stretch your body like a cat so you can feel energy, move like a cat, and then laugh, and only then get out of the bed. Then the whole day is going to be different. Then we will be doing three meditations in the day. In the morning a meditation of four steps, the last really not a step but a jump. The first step: ten minutes of fast chaotic breathing...

... technique. This sound hoo goes deepest in you, hits your deepest center, releases energy. Your whole body becomes aflame with a new energy that you have not known because you have never hit it. You are so afraid of yourself that you never hit your sources of energy, because you don't know what you will do if much energy comes to you, and you are also afraid you may do something wrong if energy comes to...

... energy to be holy. If you don't have energy to be unholy, how can you have energy to be holy? The same energy moves from unholiness to holiness. The third is just a technique, a sound which hits your hidden sources of energy which you are scared to hit. Your whole body will become aflame with new life, new energy, new heat, new electricity, and when your whole body has become vital, every cell of it...

... joy, your happiness - celebration. For the first twenty minutes you have to do it so much, so deeply, so totally, that your whole bodymind is exhausted. It has to be exhausted. So don't save yourself, don't try not to get tired. That is the whole point: you have to be tired, so tired that the body and the mind, the old pattern, simply drops through tiredness, exhausted. So get exhausted. Go mad fast...

... flow starts; then you and I are not two, a bridge is there. I can move in you, you can move in me - a deep communion is possible. You will be standing while doing this, and you have to go on jumping with your hands raised so that you forget the feeling of the body and you become energy - jumping, moving, dynamic. As you are, your body has become static. With static energy communication is not...

..., simultaneously, using the mantra hoo, so you are hitting your energy deep. Your energy starts moving upwards; your body has become flexible, liquid, vaporous, jumping, a dance; and constantly your eyes are static towards me, staring towards me, fixed towards me, and I can work on your highest center. The whole situation is created: your energy moving, hoo constantly hitting at the source - the lowest source of...

... not seen. The master became anxious: "What happened to the boy? He has not come." So he went to find him. He was sitting under a tree, silent, his body vibrating to some unknown sound; his body dancing, a very gentle dance, as if just moving with the breeze. The master didn't like to disturb the boy, so he sat there waiting. Hours and hours passed. When the sun was setting and it was...

... Available: N.A. Length: N.A. ON THE SEA OF DEATH AND LIFE, THE DIVER'S BOAT IS FREIGHTED WITH "IS" AND "IS NOT". BUT IF THE BOTTOM IS BROKEN THROUGH, "IS AND "IS NOT" DISAPPEAR. THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; ONLY WHAT CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA CAN BECOME THE BUDDHA. AS LIGHTNING WHICH DISAPPEARS LIKE DEW, WHICH VANISHES LIKE A...

.... This is "breaking through the bottom." Then there is no "Is" and no "Is not". Then you cannot say "God is" and you cannot say "God is not". Then the whole is, then the one is - undivided. This whole is God, or nirvana or Tao. THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA... Now, this is a koan: THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA...

...; ONLY WHAT CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA CAN BECOME THE BUDDHA. NOW THE WHOLE NONSENSE OF IT! But Zen uses nonsense in a very sensible way. It has sense in its nonsense. Now, you cannot make anything out of this statement: THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; ONLY WHAT CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA CAN BECOME THE BUDDHA. That's why people like Arthur Koestler think that Zen is...

... long can you go on repeating this sutra? THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; ONLY WHAT CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA CAN BECOME THE BUDDHA. How long? This has to be meditated upon, it is a koan. The master will say, "Find out the meaning of it." Now, there is no meaning; nobody can find out the meaning! But you TRY to find out the meaning - and you will not be...

... there is no mind! You look out, and it is not there. You look in, and it is not there. You search everywhere, and it is not there: you cannot find yourself. And this is the moment of satori, when you cannot find yourself. When you cannot find yourself, you have found it. Now the ego is not there, there is great silence. THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA... Obviously...

... - because the mind is one half and the body is the other half. And both have been believed in. There are many religions which believe in the mind - the majority of religions believe in the mind and are against the body. They all teach anti-body practices. Christianity is anti-body, Jainism is anti-body. They teach you how to destroy your body deliberately, they teach you how to destroy all the energy that...

... the body has, because that is your enemy: if you can destroy the body you will know God or you will know truth or whatsoever it is. They live in the mind, they have chosen the mind. There are religions which have chosen the body - very few, and they are not called religions either. The Charvakas in India: they were as religious as Christians and Jains, but their religion consists of the body. That's...

... why the majority of religions will call them non-religious, anti-religious. They are not. Their religion is totally different, the polar opposite they believe in the body. They say there is no mind, no soul, that is all nonsense. Just live your body: eat, drink, and be merry. The religion of Epicurus is of the body. But both are wrong according to Ikkyu, according to Buddha, according to me too...

.... Both are wrong - because man is a whole, an organic whole: mind and body are together. In fact man is not mind and body, but mindbody. The body is just the visible part of the mind, and the mind is the invisible part of the body. They are one energy. THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA... True, it cannot. Against the body, the mind cannot become the Buddha. THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA... Against...

... the mind, the body cannot become the Buddha. If you believe in the first, you will become spiritualists. If you believe in the second, you will become materialists. But in either way you will miss real religion. ONLY WHAT CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA CAN BECOME THE BUDDHA. And now the strange statement. THE MIND CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA; THE BODY CANNOT BECOME THE BUDDHA... Both cannot become Buddha...

..., then there is no problem. You can be a farmer or a shopkeeper or a clerk or a mastqer, you can be anybody - that is only the form. Deep inside, remain unattached to whatsoever is happening around you. Preference is okay - DON'T choose. And you are Buddha. This very body the Buddha, and this very earth the lotus paradise. Generated by PreciseInfo ™ ...

... explain it a little more in detail.... Because your body is born out of two polarities: cells from your mother and cells from your father, they create your body. You have both types of cells - those which came from your mother and those which came from your father. Your body consists of two polarities, feminine and masculine. You are both, everyone is both. Whether you are man or woman it makes no...

... they have a deep intercourse. An orgasm can happen WITHIN you. That orgasm is known as spiritual bliss. One type of orgasm is possible between your body and the body of the polar opposite sex; it can happen only for a single moment because you meet only on the periphery. The peripheries meet and then they separate. Another type, a deeper type of orgasm, can happen within. But then you meet at the...

... have to be free, as totally free as possible because suppression has created the barriers. So do not suppress. If you feel like screaming, scream. The very scream will bring your conscious and unconscious nearer. If you feel like dancing, dance. The very dance will bring your conscious and unconscious nearer. Really, dance can be very helpful, because in dance your body and your mind are in a deep...

... meeting. It is not only the body which is moving; within the body your consciousness is also moving. Really, a dance becomes a dance only when your body is filled with the grace of your spirit, when your spirit is flowing out of your body, when your spirit has taken a rhythm with the body. All the old religions were dancing religions. They were more authentic. Our new modes of religion are just false...

... fragment has to follow the whole. This is what a religious mind is: the fragment following the whole, the fragment surrendering to the whole, the fragment not struggling, the fragment in a letgo. Religion has become verbal, linguistic. Here we will try to bring the authentic religion. The secretmost core of it is that you must come to it totally - with your mind, your body, your emotions, everything...

... suppressed and they will be hateful to each other if the unconscious is suppressed. Allow your whole being to come into function. Your emotions are imprisoned, encapsulated. Your body movements are imprisoned. Your body, your heart, have become just as if they are not part of you. You simply carry them along like a burden. Allow your emotions full play. In the meditations we will be doing, allow your...

... emotions to erupt like a volcano. You will be surprised at what is hidden in you. You may not even be able to recognize that it is your face. Allow your body to have full play also, so that every cell of the body becomes vibrant, alive. Just as a bird alights on a branch and the branch starts wavering - becomes vibrant, alive - let your being alight on your body and allow your body to be vibrant, alive...

... every birth. Life goes on... eternally moving; life never dies. Waves in it are born and they die, and the riverlike life moves and moves and moves. Once you come to feel the river within your wave, you are immortal. If you can realize him seeing through you, breathing through you, you are immortal. Only this shell, this vehicle of the body, will disappear. YOU will never disappear. You cannot...

.... Remember, you cannot be immortal if you are identified with the body. You are immortal knowing, transcending the body. The consciousness is immortal, the very aliveness is immortal. The sutra says: WISE MEN, TRANSCENDING THESE - SENSE FUNCTIONS - RISE OUT OF SENSE LIFE AND ATTAIN TO IMMORTALITY. And the more you feel the inner, the essential, the eternal, the immortal, the less and less you are obsessed...

.... It starts feeling suffocated. Fight, and the ego can exist. Float, surrender, and the ego has no way there. That's why ascetic people have the most refined egos in the world - because they fight too much. They can claim that they are superior, holier than thou, because they have been fighting with their sex, they have been fighting with their love, they have been fighting with their body, fighting...

..., another moment it is love. One moment it is happiness, another moment you are so low, so sad. There is no consistency. The world of feelings is very contradictary; of course, very alive, but very contradictary. One who is ready to go into it is ready to go into chaos. It needs courage. With the reason, with the head, everything is clear-cut, formulated. There is a framework and there is consistency. The...

... you tell me how you feel. For one month give it a chance, mm? Good. [The encounter group is present. A participant says: I feel really good inside, and I can go inwards and feel energy all over my body. But I don't seem to be able to... I don't seem to be expressing outwardly.] No. Then don't be in a hurry. Let it be centred and settled. You will be able to express; expression is never the problem...

... have to do something about it. Let there be poetry in your soul and you will start singing one day or other. Let there be dance in the soul and you will dance. The body always follows - it is a beautiful slave - but that is not the point. Right now if you start thinking about it, you will create trouble, and in that trouble you may lose contact with what is happening. So for the moment tackle one...

...: Something strange is happening in my body, as if I want to leave it behind me... something funny is happening. It's sort of annoying me, and frustrating.] Mm, mm. When did you start feeling it? [Today - after this afternoon's work.] Today? Don't stop it. Even if it is very strange and weird, let it, allow, let it happen. That may be something important that is happening. Sometimes it can happen. In a...

... group process you can become so aware that a great distance arises between you and your body. You start feeling as if you are getting out, or getting away. The identification becomes loose; that's what is happening. You are feeling a little loose - but it is very good. The identification has to be completely broken. One has to be so capable that if one wants to jump out of the body, one can. The body...

... should be just like a dress: you can be in, you can be out. Nothing to be worried about. But I can understand, in the beginning it can be very strange. Join the music group, mm? and in music, simply feel as if you are not the body. Let the body dance separately, and you dance separately. It can actually happen. You can see your own body dancing there - but don't get scared, I am here! That is my whole...

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... has touched the roof. And I am one body. The whole is one body. In Buddha, in Christ, in Zarathustra, something has already touched the crescendo, but in you it is lagging far behind. You have not even heard the news; you don't know what has happened. But by and by, by and by, a few will escape from the prison of sleep. And then they know. One day the whole existence is going to become enlightened...

... man? He had seven 'mans'. And he was perfectly right. Nothing can be said about man because nothing exists like man. A few are man number one, a few are man number two, a few are man number three. These first three are simple to understand because you all belong to them. The man who lives in his body is man number one, you can find him everywhere. He lives for the body; he does not eat to survive...

... word, from where it came, and really it was a discovery. It came from 'Mary Magdalen'. You must have seen pictures of Mary Magdalen washing Jesus' feet with her tears - crying and weeping, eyes red. 'Magdalen' by and by became 'maudlin'. That is the second type of man. The third type of man is intellectual. He lives through his intellect. He is only a head; he has no body, he has no heart. He is a...

... great controller from the head. He goes on manipulating his heart and body and everything through the head; he is the scholar, the ascetic, the pundit, the man of knowledge, memory, logic, philosophy. This third type of man controls the whole world. But these types are all on the same level - their level is not different. These three types of men are available everywhere: the third type exists more as...

... layers. Now, when he is in the body he is in the body, he does not allow emotions to interfere with it or the head to control it. When he is in his emotions he does not allow his head or the body to interfere in it. He is not a mixture, he is not adulterated; everything is clean and clear in him. You can rely on him. When he thinks he thinks, he doesn't allow his emotions to interfere - because...

... who has separated his being, who has given to each center its own work. Unless he does this everything is intermixed and nothing functions well. Your sex center is a body center. You can fall in love with a woman but you are a Brahmin and she is a Shudra, an untouchable. Emotions don't know who is a Brahmin and who is an untouchable. A Hindu can fall in love with a woman who is a Mohammedan. Now...

..., emotions don't know but the reason knows that she is untouchable. The body knows nothing, the emotions are not rational, but the mind reasons it out. And the mind will immediately interfere. It will say: Look somewhere else. This woman is not for you. She is a Mohammedan and you are a Hindu. How can you marry a Mohammedan woman? Or, she is so poor and you are so rich. How can you marry such a poor woman...

...? What will people say? The head interferes in the emotion. Now you suppress it and you try to fall in love with a woman who is a Brahmin of your own caste. Nobody can fall in love with effort. With forced effort it can at the most be a marriage, never a love affair. It will always be impotent, it won't have that intensity. You are continuously interfering. The body says: 'I'm hungry,' but you say...

...: 'This is not the time.' When the body says: 'I am not hungry,' you go on forcing food into it because you say: 'This is lunch time and I have no other time so this is the time and you have to eat.' Gurdjieff used to say that all these three centers are intermixed and that's why you are so confused. No clarity exists in you. Everything is a confusion and a smoke. No flame exists in you. So the first...

... thing Gurdjieff used to do was to bring each center to its own functioning. Stop trespassing. Let the body function as the body; let the emotion function as the emotion; and let the head function as the head. And don't allow them to interfere with each other, otherwise you will be a hotchpotch man, you won't have a center. Then you will live in confusion and you will die in confusion. You will be a...

... child. Every pore of him is filled with it, every fibre of his body vibrates with it, he has no life except the mother's heart. And there is the beating continuously for nine months... you just think about it. And then the child is born. The whole body system, the mind system, carries that desire for the beat, for the rhythm of the mother's heart. And mothers know, knowingly or unknowingly, that...

..., everything else has followed it. So whenever somebody is beating a drum the temptation is too much - you start moving your legs, you start swaying your body. If the beater is good and really knows how to create atmosphere through the drumbeat nobody can be there who is not affected. Even a Buddha would like to dance. It is natural. That's why everybody enjoys a drumbeat. And it is very primitive, it is not...

... sophisticated. Go into the jungles of Africa or deep into the Indian forest where only aboriginals live. You will find everywhere the drum. The drum is the most primitive instrument. When you feel that drum beating, your body responds, sways, you start falling into the beat, moving with the beat, and suddenly you have become a primitive, a natural being: all civilization drops. You are no longer here in this...

... primitive beat. It has a deep appeal. There is no need to understand it, your body will understand it. Nobody could understand the song that was following the beat but everybody understood the beat. There were Americans, there were English, there were Indians here and everybody could follow it. The language of the drum is universal. It is very unsophisticated, simple, nothing much to it, anybody can learn...

... it by law. One day all the musicians of the capital gathered together, and they created a protest march. They followed an URTHI. When a man dies in India the dead body is bound on bamboo - it is called an URTHI - and then it is carried to the cemetery. So they carried an URTHI of music to the cemetery. It was a great procession because the capital was filled with musicians, and they were all...

.... Video Available: N.A. Length: N.A. Question 1: BELOVED MASTER, AS YOU GREET US, AND AGAIN AS YOU LEAVE, YOU ARE POURING YOUR ENERGY ON US. HOW COME MY BODY DOESN'T GRACEFULLY BOW DOWN TO YOU? I KNOW MY HEART DOES! AM I A ROCK AMONG THE WAVES? Deva Ashu, I myself have been watching. On your face there is some stoniness, and you stand out because everybody is bowing down and you remain stiff. Now you...

... yourself have asked the question. The first thing: it is very difficult to know your heart, and it is very easy to say anything about your heart. It is something invisible, non-objective. But your face, your eyes, your body, give indications of your heart. So please, don't be deluded that your heart is full of grace and the body seems like a rock in the river. The heart is part of your body. If the heart...

... is graceful, the body is a very obedient servant. It simply follows the heart. But you have not mentioned anything about your face, naturally, because you cannot see it. I have seen your face. You have been deeply connected with me. Deva Ashu has been my personal dental nurse. That's where the problem is - you must have come with unconscious expectations that you would be received in the same way...

... unconditional then your concern is not who is helping me to remain in the body - your concern should be that it is more than enough that I am in the body. It may look hard to you, but there was no other way. You will be surprised to know that when Nityamo replaced you, because you were not here, the first thing I told Nityamo was, "For years I have been accustomed of Ashu, and when I am in the dentist's...

... that I know is that they are unconscious people, and they don't know what they are doing. You have to be a little conscious. It is good that you asked the question. There is something more you have made part of your question which needs a totally different dimension of answer. You are saying, "As you greet us and again as you leave, you are pouring your energy on us. How come my body does not...

... the question takes a totally different dimension. In a flowing river, a few rocks have their own beauty. A river without rocks loses sound. A river with rocks is a singing and dancing river. If your heart feels graceful, flowing, don't be worried about a certain stony feeling in your body. That too has its own place. Rather than fighting with it, rejoice in it. You are not an ordinary river but a...

... not feel at all tense; my love is not the love that disappears. It goes on growing - whether you are close to me or far away, it does not matter. And remember that your body is a very significant signal. To know about the heart is a difficult job. Your body indicates that your heart is no longer graceful, no longer loving - listen to the body first because that is the most visible sign. And then...

... move inwards... the body has to be graceful, the body has to be beautiful, the body has to be deeply alive, and then only can you find the grace of the heart and ultimately, the grace of your being. But start from the door and then enter into the temple. Don't be disturbed because you have recognized that the body is not so graceful, is not so receptive - it is a great insight. Look around at all the...