STEP ASIDE, LET THE MIND PASS - OSHO

[Guest guest]

STEP ASIDE, LET THE MIND PASS - OSHO

 

The basic thing to be understood is that you are not the

mind-neither

the birght one nor the dark one. If you get identified with the

beautiful part,

then it is impossible to disidentify yourself from the ugly part; they

are two sides of

the same coin. You can have it whole, or you can throw it away whole,

but you cannot divide it.

 

The whole anxiety of man is that he wants to choose that which looks

beautiful,

bright, he wants to choose all the silver linings, leaving the dark

cloud behind. But

he does not know that siliver linings cannot exist without the dark

cloud. The dark cloud

is the backgrolund, absolutely necessary for silver linings to show.

 

Choosing is anxiety. Choosing is creating trouble for yourself.

Being choiceless

means; the mind is there and it has a dark side and it has a bright side

- so what?

What has it to do with you? Why should you be worried about it?

 

The moment you are not choosing, all worry disappears. A great

acceptance arises,

this is how the mind has to be, this is the nature of mind - and it is

not your problem because you are not the mind. If you are the mind,

there would

have been no problem at all. Then who would choose and who would think

of

transcending? And who would try to accept and understand acceptance?

 

You are seperate, totally seperate. You are only a witness and

nothing else.

 

But you arebeing an observer who gets identified with anything that he

finds

plesant - and forgets that the unpleasant is coming just behind it as a

shadow. You

are not troubled by the pleasant side - you rejoice in it. The trouble

comes

when the polar opposite asserts - then you are torn apart.

 

But you started the whole trouble. Falling from being just a witness,

you

became identified. The biblical story of the fall is just a fiction.

But this is the real

fall - the fall from being a witness into getting identified with

something and

losing your witnessing.

 

Just try once in a while; let the mind be whatever it is. Remember,

you are not it.

And you are going to have a great surprise. The less identified you

are, the less

powerful the mind becomes because its power comes from the your

identification; it

sucks your blood. But when you start standing aloof and away, the mind

starts

shrinking.

 

The day you are completely unidentified with the mind, even for a

single

moment, there is the revelation; mind simply dies; it is no longer

there. Where

it was so full, where it was so continuous - day in, day out, waking,

sleeping, it

was there - suddenly it is not there. You look all around and it is

emptiness, it is

nothingness.

 

With the mind, the self disappears. Then there is only a certain

quality of aware-

ness, with no I in it. At the most you can call it something similar to

am-ness, but

not I-ness. To be evenv more exact, it is is-ness because even in

am-ness some

shadow of the I is still there. The moment you know it is is-ness, it

has become

universal.

 

With the disappearance of the mind self disappears. So many things

disappear

which were so important to you, so troublesome to you. You were trying

to

solve them and they are becoming more and more complicated; everything

was a

problem, an anxiety, and there seemed to be no way out.

 

Just go through the story - " The Goose is Out " . It is concerned with

the mind and

hyour is-ness.

 

The master tells the disciple to meditate on a KOAN. A small goose

is put into a

bottle, fed and nourished. The goose goes on becoming bigger and bigger

and bigger,

and fills the whole bottle. Now it is too big; it can not come out of

the bottle's

mouth - the mouth is too small.

 

And the KOAN is that you have to bring the goose out without

destroying the

bottle, without killing the goose. Now it is mind-boggling. What can

you do? The

goose is too big; you cannot take it out unless you break the bottle,

but that is not

allowed. Or you can bring it out by killing it; then you don't care

whether it comes

out alive or dead. That is not allowed either.

 

Day in, day out, the disciple meditates, finds no way, thinks this way

and that

way-but in fact there is no way. Tired, uttely exhausted, a sudden

reveleation...

suddenly he understands that the master cannot be interested in the

bottle and the

goose; they mustrepresent something else. The bottle is the mind, you

are the

goose.... and with witnessing, it is possible. Without being in the

mind, you can

become identified with it so much that you start feeling you are in it!

 

He runs to the master to say that the goose is out. And the master

says, " You

have understood it. Now keep it out. It has never been in " .