... nothing to be shy about, and I have not been hiding in any way out of fear. This can become your experience too, and unless it becomes your experience, just intellectual understanding will not be enough. Meditation can help you to get rid of the ego and all these three things will disappear. But in an unconscious state it is very difficult to make a distinction between the authentic humbleness and the...

... bogus. A man was saying to me, "Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not exactly sure what yesterday brought." We are all living like a somnambulist who walks in his sleep. Our consciousness is so shallow, and our unconsciousness is so deep... All our actions come from our unconscious; all our decisions come from our conscious. That's why our decisions and our actions...

... are never synonymous. You say something but you do something else, because in yourself there is a great split. The doer is the unconscious, and the conscious mind is so small it can only do the talking. So everybody talks beautifully. Even the greatest poets, painters, artists of different dimensions - what they are doing with painting or sculpture or poetry is only from their conscious minds. It is...

... kind of people. I was surprised: I had read their poetry, and I had loved their poetry, but I could not believe that such ordinary men could rise to such heights. Slowly, slowly I became aware of a split. The conscious mind talks and it talks beautifully, but the unconscious mind does not know anything about your conscious. As far as action is concerned and your lifestyle is concerned, it is going to...

... come from your unconscious. It is vast, it is your heritage of millions of years of human evolution; it is tremendously powerful. Remember, if you are in the grip of the unconscious, there is no way to see things exactly as they are. Except meditation, there is no other way to bring light into the unconscious darkness of your being. As your meditation grows your consciousness grows, your...

... of blind and unconscious people. You cannot be yourself. This is our basic tradition all over the world, up to now, that nobody is allowed to be himself. It is because of this that the problem has arisen -- it is everybody's problem. You are asking, "While reading your books and listening to your tapes when I am alone, I become immensely happy and I weep, cry, and dance in aloneness. But I...

... suicidal act to go on repressing your original face. This is the last dance You are not living; on the contrary you are simply acting. And because the whole world is watching, your centuries-long unconscious holds you back -- not to express, not to come out of the mask of your personality. Everybody is hiding behind something false -- it hurts. To be dishonest, to be insincere to yourself, is the worst...

... a question of your further education, your post-graduation, and he is the man who can decide." I said, "I don't care. For the present, my whole concern is to make him realize that he has lived an unconscious life." The old man said, "From the beard you have reached to 'an unconscious life'?" He asked my professor, "What are the requirements? I will grant him a...

... concentrated in this point, then this moment can become the moment of enlightenment. Enlightenment is nothing but your consciousness being concentrated on a single point -- now and here. You are saying, "Enough is enough." No, Vimal. Looking at the human mind, nothing is enough. People will go on living in their old unconscious ways -- hoping against hope that although there have always been people...

... turmoil in the unconscious layers of human beings. You are not even aware of your own unconscious nightmares, but humanity is suffering as it has never suffered before. It is restless as it has never been before. It has forgotten the language of relaxation, it has forgotten the language of totality, it has forgotten the language of intensity. And all those qualities are needed to make your meditation a...

... perception says, is the sushupti; this is the third state. When there is no object to be known, the knower is lost. When then is no object in the outside world to be aware of, and when there is no object in the mind, dream object, when all objects have dropped - outside all are dream objects - then consciousness drops. Then you are not conscious; then you are unconscious. This unconsciousness is sushupti...

... exist without the object. That's why in the third state, consciousness equals unconsciousness - it becomes unconscious. When there is no object as a challenge, one becomes unconscious. So this consciousness, this so-called consciousness, is just a struggle, just a challenge, just a constant stimulus-response; it is not anything in itself. You are not the master of it; you are not really conscious: you...

..., you drop... and be unconscious. This is the third state, sushupti. And unless one transcends it, one cannot be called conscious. Gurdjieff used to say that man has no soul. He used to say that you have got no self, because self means self consciousness; otherwise, how can you be said to have a self? If you are not conscious, how can you be a self? How can you be an individual? So Gurdjieff's...

... represents the mysterious, the dark represents the unknown and the unknowable. The conscious mind is only one-tenth of your total mind; nine-tenths is dark, unconscious - it is denied. And this denial has created a split in man. It is because of the so-called saints that man has become schizophrenic. The whole of humanity suffers from split personalities. Sannyas is an effort to bridge, to bring these two...

... separate parts together again, to help them melt into each other. In fact that's how it should be: the day melts into the night, the night melts again into the day, and the circle is complete. That's how one should be: the mind melting into the heart, the heart melting into the mind; the conscious, melting, merging into the unconscious, the unconscious evolving into the conscious. There should be no...

... division, no demarcation. No line is needed to be drawn of where the conscious ends and where the unconscious begins. In life nothing is divided - all is one; but in logic, divisions become very important, definitions become very important, and life is indefinable because it is indivisible. So I accept the total life as it is. From sex to samadhi, all has to be accepted. This is the great resolution of...

... balance - there is an equilibrium. No part is growing at the cost of another part. No part is denied so no part can take any revenge any time. Nothing is repressed so by and by the unconscious disappears, because when there is no repression the unconscious cannot exist: it exists through repression. And when there is no unconscious your whole house is full of light. That's what joy is, that's what...

... ecstasy is. That's where we are all trying to move to, to that ecstatic point where no darkness remains, nothing unconscious remains. So nothing to be worried about, it is perfectly okay. Feeling angry at me is perfectly okay! Good! [A visitor says she has thought about sannyas but feels confused and frightened. Osho says, You can wait a little but from my side you are already a sannyasin! There are a...

... and the natural center will go into oblivion, into the unconscious. Your natural center has moved into the unconscious, into the dark, and your unnatural center has become your conscious. There is really no division between unconscious and conscious; the division is created. You are one consciousness. This division comes because your own center has been forced to some dark corner. Even you are not...

... in contact with it; you are not allowed to be in contact with it. You yourself have become unconscious that you have a center. You live what the society, the culture, the family have taught you to live. You live a false life. For this false life a false center is needed. That center is your ego, your conscious mind. That is why, no matter what you do, you will never be blissful - because only the...

... third woman and now he was still more cautious, but again the same thing happened. He married eight women, and every time the woman turned out to be the same as the old one. What was happening? And he was choosing very cautiously now, very carefully. What was happening? The chooser was unconscious. He couldn't change the chooser, and the chooser was always the same so the choice was going to be the...

... real must be given its place. You must be regrounded into your center, into your being; otherwise you will be in anguish. The false can disappear. The real cannot disappear unless you die. While you are alive the real will be there. The society can do only one thing: it can push it deep down and it can create a barrier so that even you become unconscious of it. Can you remember any moment in your...

...," then no further work is possible. If you mistrust your surgeon, you will not allow him to make you unconscious. You don't know what he is going to do, and you will say, "Do the operation, but allow me to be conscious so I can go on seeing what you are doing. I cannot trust you." You trust your surgeon. He makes you unconscious because things are such that in your conscious state...

... surgery would be impossible to do; your consciousness would interfere. That is why trust is blind. It means you are ready even to become unconscious, even to become blind. You are ready to follow him wherever he leads. Only then does a deeper, inner surgery become possible. And it is not only a physical, physiological surgery; it is psychological. Much pain will be felt, much anguish, because catharsis...

... to be understood as well. The fact that at the death of his wife the first thing which occurred to him was "good riddance" shows that knowingly or unknowingly, the desire for her death must have been lurking somewhere in the unconscious. This requires to take a deeper look at it. At some level he must have wished that she be dead, finished forever; but this shows violence. Every word that...

... dreamed killing his wife. He may even wonder in the morning what a ridiculous dream he had, but deep in the unconscious his desire was indeed that. It's a simple logic, the mind wants to destroy the cause of trouble. But the truth is, the other is never the cause of trouble. Who can stop you if the wife was indeed the cause of your trouble? If that were the case, all of you would have escaped to the...

... scripture and believe in it. It is not something like a theory of gravitation. The soul is not a matter of theory, it is an experience. And the experience is that of the intensity of consciousness. Hence, the more you will become conscious, the more you will come to realize the soul. The more you will become unconscious, the more you will fail to know yourself - and you are almost unconscious. One who...

..., right now, you are almost unconscious. You are almost in the state of intoxication. You are walking, moving, working, but all as if in sleep - you are not aware. Has it ever occurred to you while reading a book that after having read the whole page you come to realize, "Heavens, I read the whole page and don't remember a word of it - how did that happen?" You can indeed read a book in a...

... are not unconscious, where you are aware every moment. A child was born to Mulla Nasruddin. That was his first son. He was immensely happy. He invited his friend to celebrate the happy occasion and both went to a tavern. You only know one way to celebrate the happiness - becoming unconscious. This is very strange. Shiva, Mahavira, Buddha go on proclaiming, "There is only one joy in the world...

.... The joy of awareness. And you only know one kind of pleasure - the pleasure of being unconscious." Either you are right or they are right - both can't be. So instead of going to the hospital first to see his newborn son, Mulla Nasruddin went straight to the bar. He thought of having some fun first, after all a long time dream had come true. Both drank heavily. When they reached the hospital and...

... having such a small child? Do you think he will survive?" Mulla's friend said, "Don't you worry, when I was born I also weighed three pounds." Nasruddin said, "Did you survive?" The friend thought for a while, he too was unconscious, and said, "I can't tell you for sure." Man is unconscious. His entire perspective of life is filled with unawareness, his entire vision...

... refuse. When I would become sober and conscious, she would be willing to marry me but I would refuse. This is how I missed. What to do - there was no way out." Whenever you'll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Everything looks fine when you are in an unconscious state. This is the reason why you find it difficult to conceive: CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING...

... of Shiva, CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE BEING, will become clear to you. And once you have become centered in your consciousness, no misery will ever be caused by you. Only an unconscious man creates misery all around him. Have you seen a drunkard walk on the street staggering along? That's how your life is. You take a step in one direction and the foot lands in another direction. You set out to go at one...

... impossible that you may sow the seed of mango and the tree would give in return the bitter fruit of a neem tree. This is impossible. The only thing possible is that in your unconscious state instead of sowing the seed of the mango you must have sown the seed of the neem tree. Because why would the tree lie? You must have mistakenly sown the wrong seeds. So even when you do good, your intention is never the...

... are unconscious. You are totally unaware of your actions. You need to look at yourself with a little more alertness. Did you speak what you intended to say, or was it something else? Was what you said on your mind really? Mark Twain returned home one evening. His wife asked, "How did your speech go?" He said, "Which one? The one I had prepared, or the one that I delivered? or the one...

..., unprejudiced, ready to go with the truth in spite of himself and his conditioning. The fits that are happening to you are not a disease. I am not a physician but I am not looking from the physician's side of the phenomenon, I am looking from the other shore. Your fit is really a rushing, overwhelming consciousness that your mind cannot contain, and because it cannot contain it, it goes unconscious. I will...

... delicate vulnerability, that even a small triggering and he would be in samadhi. Doctors were called and they were in the same difficulty, they could not figure it out: the man was perfectly healthy, there was no reason for him to become unconscious, and it remained a mystery to the physicians. But the reason why it remained a mystery to them was that they were not ready to look from a different...

... perspective. It is not the kind of fit in which you become unconscious because the quantity of consciousness in you is so small. Some shock - your wife dies, your business goes bankrupt - just a slight shock is enough because there is not much energy, you are not very conscious. It is just a small amount of energy, it can be crushed by any accident. This is the nature of the ordinary fit: you lose your...

... conscious energy and only unconsciousness remains. As far as the questioner is concerned, it is happening totally differently. It was happening totally differently to Ramakrishna. It is not that your consciousness disappears and you become unconscious; on the contrary, so much consciousness descends that you are not able to cope with it. Your mind is simply in a state as if suddenly frozen... so much is...

... he has died and is coming back to life again. He will not have any memory that he has been unconscious for two hours, but his whole body will show symptoms that he has passed through a trauma, a painful trauma. If it is not a fit but a glimpse of samadhi, the person will wake up rejuvenated, young again, fresh as he has never been - absolutely silent, peaceful, with a clarity to things. Even your...

... question has that clarity. The question has not come out of your confusion but out of your clarity. Rejoice, and allow those fits. Don't try to control them, don't even make an effort to control. Rather, try to be awake while the fit is there. Slowly, slowly you will become capable of being awake while the fit is there, and then there is no fit because you are no longer unconscious and there is no...

... another program. Every program can repress the older program in you. The older program goes deeper into the unconscious and the new program becomes your personality. And psychologists are deceiving the whole world by saying that they are deprogramming people. It is not deprogramming, it is only reprogramming. Your insight is true, that the therapists, psychoanalysts and others of the same kind, are...

... naked into the market... and a crowd followed me, and the same people who had given me the sweet started saying, 'He is a reincarnation!' I was half conscious, half unconscious. I could hear somebody saying, 'He is a reincarnation of god!' and I was not in a state to argue. In fact, I thought perhaps I was a reincarnation of God! "I started dancing more madly and since that day, I am enjoying it...

... becomes your prayer. A noah's ark of consciousness. Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, ROCKS EASILY DESTROY FLOWERS. THE POLITICIANS AND RELIGIONS SENSE THAT ENLIGHTENMENT, FREEDOM AND INDIVIDUALITY THREATEN THEIR POWER. IS IT FEAR ALONE THAT IS THE BASIS OF THE DARK USE OF INTELLIGENCE TO CRUSH MAN'S FINEST BLOSSOMS? OR IS THERE AN UNCONSCIOUS URGE FOR "ENDARKENMENT" TOO? Devageet, there is an...

... unconscious urge for endarkenment too. It was only a hundred years ago that Sigmund Freud stumbled, in the unconsciousness of man, on a very strange instinct. Man has been, for almost ten thousand years, working on himself, on his consciousness, but it was left to Freud to find a totally new idea. He himself was shocked, but when he came, across it again and again, in different patients, he had to give it...

... recognition. And the idea was, that just as there is a lust for life, to balance it in the unconscious of the human mind, there is an instinct for death. Perhaps this was one of the great contributions of Sigmund Freud to human knowledge, and for the future transformation of man. Slowly, slowly, then he started gathering facts, and now it is almost an established thing that in life, everything exists with...

... individuality threaten their power. Is it fear alone that is the basis of the dark use of intelligence to crush man's finest blossoms? or is there an unconscious urge for 'endarkenment' too?" There is; there has to be. Just as there is a longing for enlightenment, to reach to the highest peak of consciousness, there is certainly, parallel to it in the unconscious of human mind, a deep urge to drown...

... -- medicines are only a secondary help, a support. But if somebody has moved to the opposite pole -- the instinct for death, for darkness -- then no medicine can pull him out. As I was reading the question, I thought about AIDS. Perhaps someday it may be found that AIDS is nothing but an unconscious desire to die; that's why scientists are unable to find any cure for it. A noah's ark of consciousness At this...

..., utterly unconscious, cannot be. Only a few chosen ones who have strived hard to make themselves deserving of light, of eternal life, of some experience of godliness -- perhaps they will be the ones who will be starting a new civilization somewhere in the universe, on some new planet. I have never said this before but, going around the world, I have felt such a wound in my heart that the people who need...

... strange. And the preparations are going so well that it seems almost an impossibility for life to survive here on this earth. The whole blame goes on those vested interests which have kept humanity unconscious, and don't want man to become intelligent and conscious, alert and aware. Anyway, it seems too late. A noah's ark of consciousness The police were investigating the death of Markowitz, the dress...

... SOME IDEA OF WHAT THE DIAGNOSIS -- AND HENCE THE ANSWER -- IS. It is true. Whenever you ask a question, somewhere deep down you have some inkling of the answer, but it is in the darker parts of your consciousness. You yourself cannot pull it out and bring it to your consciousness. The question is in the consciousness; the answer is in the unconscious -- vague, a shadow, with no certainty, but the...

... inkling is certainly there. The function of the master is exactly what Socrates has defined it as -- the master is only a midwife. He helps to bring everything that is hidden in you to consciousness. When your question disappears, that means your answer from the unconscious has been brought to the conscious. It has to be remembered that this is the distinction between a master and a teacher: a teacher...

... will give you an answer, which will not bring your own answer from the unconscious. He will force an answer into your conscious, repressing your question. He will make the situation more complicated. First you had only a question, and if you had silently waited, meditated, perhaps the unconscious answer may have surfaced and the question would have disappeared. And once the question disappears, the...

... answer has no relevance in being there; it disappears also, and a pure emptiness is left. But the teacher forces an answer on your mind, and makes the situation more complicated. Now you have a question and you have an answer which has not been able to dissolve the question, which has only repressed it. And your unconscious answer is still lying down there, to be released so you can be unburdened. The...

... teacher burdens you, complicates you. The master never gives you any answer that is going to burden you. His every answer is an unburdening. He brings your own unconscious answer to the surface, where first the question disappears, then the answer disappears -- and not a trace of either remains behind. This is real communion. This is a clear-cut way, a criterion, to make the distinction between a...

... teacher and a master. In the West there seems to be no distinction. In the East the teacher is simply repeating inherited knowledge; he is not concerned with you, he is concerned with his own knowledge. The master has nothing to impose upon you; he is empty and silent. Your question does not give him a chance to impose something on you, but only gives him a chance to bring your unconscious answer to the...