Methodology of Watching the Mind

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This simple methodology of watching the mind, that you have nothing to do with

it....

 

Most of its thoughts are not yours but from your parents, your teachers, your

friends, the books, the movies, the television, the newspapers. Just count how

many thoughts are your own, and you will be surprised that not a single thought

is your own. All are from other sources, all are borrowed -- either dumped by

others on you, or foolishly dumped by yourself upon yourself, but nothing is

yours.

 

The mind is there, functioning like a computer; literally it is a bio-computer.

You will not get identified with a computer. If the computer gets hot, you won't

get hot. If the computer gets angry and starts giving signals in four letter

words, you will not be worried. You will see what is wrong, where something is

wrong. But you remain detached.

 

Just a small knack...I cannot even call it a method because that makes it heavy;

I call it a knack. Just by doing it, one day suddenly you are able to do it.

Many times you will fail; it's nothing to be worried about...no loss, it is

natural. But just doing it, one day it happens.

 

Once it has happened, once you have even for a single moment become the watcher,

you know now how to become the watcher -- the watcher on the hills, far away.

And the whole mind is there deep down in the dark valley, and you are not to do

anything about it.

 

The most strange thing about the mind is, if you become a watcher it starts

disappearing. Just like the light disperses darkness, watchfulness disperses the

mind, its thoughts, its whole paraphernalia.

 

So meditation is simply watchfulness, awareness. And that reveals -- it is

nothing to do with inventing. It invents nothing; it simply discovers that which

is there.

 

And what is there? You enter and you find infinite emptiness, so tremendously

beautiful, so silent, so full of light, so fragrant, that you have entered into

the kingdom of God.

 

In my words, you have entered into godliness.

 

And once you have been in this space, you come out and you are a totally new

person, a new man. Now you have your original face. All masks have disappeared.

You will live in the same world, but not in the same way. You will be among the

same people but not with the same attitude, and the same approach. You will live

like a lotus in water: in the water, but absolutely untouched by water.

 

Religion is the discovery of this lotus flower within.

 

Osho: From Unconsciousness to Consciousness