MIND - MEDITATION

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You say: "During the meditations, my mind still goes

five hundred miles per hour" -- let it go! Let it go

faster. You be a watcher. You watch the mind going

around so fast, with such speed. Enjoy this! enjoy

this play of the mind.

 

In Sanskrit we have a special term for it; we call it

CHIDVILAS -- the play of consciousness. Enjoy it! this

play of mind rushing towards stars, moving so fast

from here and there, jumping all over existence. What

is wrong in it? Let it be a beautiful dance. Accept

it.

 

My feeling is that what you are doing is you are

trying to stop it -- you cannot do that. Nobody can

stop the mind! Yes, mind stops one day, but nobody can

stop it. Mind stops, but that is not out of your

effort. Mind stops out of your understanding.

 

You just WATCH and try to see what is happening, why

this mind is rushing. It is not rushing without any

reason. You must be ambitious. Try to see WHY this

mind is rushing, where it is rushing -- you must be

ambitious. If it thinks about money, then try to

understand. Mind is not the question. You start

dreaming about money, that you have won a lottery or

this and that, and then you even start planning how to

spend it, what to purchase and what not. Or, the mind

thinks you have become a president, a prime minister,

and then you start thinking what to do now, how to run

the country, or the world. Just WATCH the mind! what

mind is going towards. There must be a deep seed in

you. You cannot stop the mind unless that seed

disappears.

 

The mind is simply following the order of your

innermost seed. Somebody is thinking about sex; then

somewhere there is repressed sexuality. Watch where

mind is rushing. Look deep into yourself, find where

the seeds are.

 

In the first place, you cannot succeed; and it is good

that you cannot succeed. If you CAN succeed, if you

manage to succeed, that will be very unfortunate --

you will become dull, you will lose intelligence. With

that speed there is intelligence, with that speed

there is continuous sharpening of the sword of

thinking, logic, intellect. Please don't try to stop

it. I am not in favour of dullards, and I am not here

to help anybody to become stupid.

 

I would not suggest that you stop the mind; rather,

that you understand. With understanding there happens

a miracle. The miracle is that with understanding, by

and by, when you understand the causes and those

causes are looked into deeply, and through that

looking deeply into those causes, those causes

disappear, mind slows down. But intelligence is not

lost, because mind is not forced.

 

Ambition you carry on -- and you try to stop the mind?

Ambition creates the speed, so you are accelerating

the speed -- and putting a brake on the mind. You will

destroy the whole subtle mechanism of the mind, and

mind is a very delicate phenomenon, the most delicate

in the whole of existence. So don't be foolish about

it.

 

Don't try to stop the mind. Let the mind have its

speed -- you watch.

 

- osho (tantra

 

 

 

 

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