Fwd: Active Mind / Inactive Mind

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GuruRatings , Sarlo <sarlo wrote:

 

I have said that you have to become inactive, you have to become

totally relaxed, and that it needs a certain effort; hence the

question has arisen that there seems to be a contradiction. It is

always your logic that brings contradictions. Life is very simple;

there are no contradictions.

 

The inactive mind cannot give you total relaxation. It is really in

partnership with the active mind. It is a tremendously beautiful

mechanism that automatically goes on moving from action to inaction,

from day to night, from waking to sleep, and keeps you healthy. But

it is not total relaxation, it can only be partial relaxation,

because the moment you are rejuvenated, you have to move to action.

That is an autonomous process.

 

When I say that the movement has to happen as a transcendence, in the

beginning you will need effort. Use the active mind to make that

effort -- because it is ready to make any kind of effort -- and use

the inactive mind to give you a taste of what effortlessness is. It

can only give you a taste, but this is the beginning of a revolution.

 

When I said you need effort to attain relaxation, meditation,

consciousness, I simply mean that you have to use both the minds. And

once you have learned to use both the minds... The transcendental

consciousness in you is absolute relaxation. It is pure silence. It

has no opposite to it.

 

Osho, from Light on the Path