It is a devil

[Guest guest]

Mind is a diplomat, it is a politician -- It is a devil. Unless you are really

alert and watchful, it can go on deceiving you for lives -- it has been doing

that for lives; it can go on doing it for lives still. But a little

intelligence, just a little intelligence, a little candle of light inside you of

watching, of silently watching and seeing what the mind is doing, and slowly

slowly your intelligence will become stronger. And mind becomes impotent as

intelligence grows.

 

Intelligence is not intellect; intellect is part of mind, intelligence is part

of the heart. Intelligence is always part of the heart, it is not

intellectuality. I don't mean by "intelligence" your so-called intelligentsia --

it has nothing to do with intelligence. Your intelligentsia is knowledgeable.

They may have big university degrees, much knowledge, but they know nothing. All

their knowledge is borrowed, all their knowledge is parrot-like, it is

mechanical. They go on talking about it, but it does not affect their life. It

has no relationship with their own source of being; it does not well up within

their own heart. When I talk about intelligence I always mean the heart --

something happening in you, not coming from the outside. If it comes from the

outside, it creates intellect; if it comes from within, it is intelligence. Help

your intelligence to grow.

 

And I am creating this context, this opportunity, this space, and I am giving

you all kinds of challenges. And as the commune grows the challenges will grow.

Those challenges are meant for a certain purpose, they are deliberate -- they

are meant to provoke your intelligence into activity, to bring your intelligence

above your intellect. Only new situations which your intellect cannot cope with,

only such spaces which your knowledge has not heard about, can help to bring

your intelligence to the surface.

 

All that is needed is intelligence, understanding, awareness -- and you will

know you have come home. And great gratitude will arise in your being, and great

thankfulness. That gratitude, that thankfulness, is prayer.

 

Osho

 

 

 

 

 

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