message of love

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Osho,

 

Has anyone really understood your message of love? Recently it has been

painfully clear to me that I haven't, and I wonder if we aren't all, with some

slight variations on the theme, still singing the same old song.

Why is it so difficult to live something that is so simple and natural?

 

Just because it is so simple and so natural, that's why it is so difficult.

You are not simple and you are not natural.

And it is simple and natural.My message of love is absolutely simple; nothing

can be more simple than that.

 

But your mind is very complex, very tricky. It makes simple things complicated.

-- that's its work. And for centuries it has been trained for only one thing: to

make things so complicated that your life becomes impossible.

 

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of

simple things. The whole existence is simple, but man's mind has been

cultivated, conditioned, educated, programmed in such a way that the simplest

thing becomes crooked. The moment it reaches to your mind it is no longer

simple. The mind starts interpreting it, finding things in it which are not

there, ignoring things which are there.

 

And you think that you have heard whatever I have been telling you? It is not

so. I have been telling you one thing, and you have been hearing something else

because your hearing is not direct. There is a mediator -- your mind. It

functions in many ways as a censor, it does not allow many things to enter

inside you.

 

You will be surprised to know how much it prevents -- ninety-eight percent. It

allows in only two percent of what is being said to you, and that too not in its

purity. First it pollutes it by its own interpretations, by its own past

experiences, conditionings, and by the time the mind comes to have the sense

that it has understood, what was said and what was heard are poles apart.

 

Gautam Buddha used to tell a story...it is strange that all great masters have

depended on stories. There is some reason for it: the mind relaxes when it is a

question of a story; when it is just a joke the mind relaxes. There is no need

to be tense and serious, just a story is being told, you can relax.

 

Osho: Beyond Psychology, Chapter 7