... passive. But by and by you come close, you settle; the honeymoon is over. The other has to be real otherwise he will start feeling phoney, and when the reality comes, it is hard: then there is conflict. You would like her according to you, and she would like you according to her... and these are unconscious things. So every love is, in a way, doomed. If it is love it is doomed, and the greater it is...

.... Should I do this or should I try to surprise myself at every note?] If you can do that - if you can surprise yourself at every note - you will go deeper into it because that theme and whatsoever you work around it, is intellectual. It gives a framework, and the framework remains in the conscious; it doesn't allow the unconscious to function. If you move without any frame, not knowing where you are...

... going, if you just al!*ow yourself to be led somewhere, if you leave the conscious behind and the unconscious takes possession, you may come to discover many things inside yourself, and you will go to deeper layers of your being.... When I say be spontaneous, I don't mean let it be chaotic. I mean let it move by feel, not by thought. It will not be themeless, but the theme will arise out of your...

..., but it has a different quality - the unconscious is doing it.] The conscious has become too dictatorial. So put it-aside and let the greater mind behind it take possession - it will surprise you. And it is not that all that you know will be of no use, but your playing will not be dominated by the technique. You cannot drop what you know - it will be there - but it will be used by the spontaneous...

... feeling. If somebody who does not know how to play an instrument plays it spontaneously, it is going to be different from one who knows. Both will be spontaneous, but the one who knows, his knowledge, his training, his experience, will be used by the unconscious, and it will have a beauty of its own. One who does not know will be simply making a noise... it cannot be music. So don't plan, don't make a...

... you have not to hide anything, from whom you need not hide anything, somebody before whom you can be absolutely nude and yet unafraid and unashamed. This is a great need - listen to it. But they call it 'an evil thought'. Now they are creating a problem. Ninety percent of your problems will disappear if you follow the message that is being given to you from your unconscious. The unconscious is wiser...

... than your conscious. The conscious is just a very new comer. The unconscious has lived for long; the unconscious knows better how life should be lived. Then when the ninety percent of problems which you have created, or the politicians or priests.... And maybe these are the same people in whose companionship you think you feel very good - these may be the same people. The same nice people may be the...

... background?] Yes, just as a background. It will become a background. Fragrance always becomes a background. Nobody attentively smells; it is a very unconscious phenomenon. Maybe for the first time when you enter a room, you smell, but after two, three minutes it becomes a background; one settles with it. The nose is not so nosey, and the mind does not function much from the nose. In fact because the mind...

... beings, "so all that we can do is worship them." That is a very sophisticated way of crucifying a person. A real mystic will deny it, that there is any difference, because he can see why you want the difference and the distinction. In Gautam Buddha's stories about his past lives there is one story that just before this life, when he became Gautam Buddha, he was an unconscious human being as...

... everybody else is, and he heard about one man that had become awakened, enlightened. Everybody was going to see him. He also went to see him, with flowers to offer. He touched his feet, offered the flowers unto his feet. As he was standing up, he could not believe it; the man who was thought to be enlightened bowed down to this unconscious human being and touched his feet. Buddha said, "What are you...

... doing? I am an unconscious, ordinary human being; you are an enlightened, awakened soul. Why have you touched my feet?" The man laughed, and he said, "Yesterday I was also unconscious, unawakened; today I am awakened. Today you are unconscious, tomorrow you will be awakened. Remember that I touched your feet. Never forget it when you become awakened." This story is so significant. That...

... conscious, there is the gate of heaven. What happened to this samurai? When he was just about to kill Hakuin, was he conscious? Was he conscious of what he was about to do? Was he conscious of what he had come for? All consciousness had disappeared. When the ego takes over, you cannot be alert. Ego is the drug, the intoxicant that makes you completely unconscious. You act but the act comes from the...

... unconscious, not from your consciousness. And whenever any act comes from the unconscious, the door of hell is open. Whatsoever you do, if you are not aware of what you are doing the gate of hell opens. Immediately the samurai became alert. Suddenly, when Hakuin said, "This is the gate, you have already opened it --" the very situation must have created alertness. Just imagine what would have...

... changes your activity completely, changes the pattern of your activity. When Hakuin said, "This is the gate," the samurai must have remained static. In that static state, when all activity ceases, you become alert. Some activity is needed... otherwise your unconscious would break and you would become conscious. Zen says if a person can sit for six hours without doing anything he will become...

... enlightened. Just for six hours... but six hours is really too long; I say six minutes is enough. Even six seconds will do if you can be absolutely without activity. When you are not occupied, you cannot be unconscious; when you are unoccupied your whole energy becomes consciousness. A tremendous release occurs. Your energy is engaged in occupation. Your mind is thinking, your body is working, you are...

.... This goes on continuously. What is the secret? The secret is whenever you are unconscious, whenever you act unconsciously, without awareness, you are in hell; whenever you are conscious, whenever you act with full awareness, you are in heaven. If this awareness becomes so integrated, so consolidated, that you never lose it, there is no hell for you; if unconsciousness becomes so consolidated, so...

... integrated, that you never lose it, there is no heaven.Fortunately unconsciousness can never become so consolidated; a part always remains conscious. When your whole being seems to be unconscious, even then a witnessing part always remains conscious. Even while asleep, a part is witnessing. That's why in the morning you sometimes say the sleep was beautiful. Sometimes you say the sleep was disturbed...

..., nightmarish; sometimes you say, "I slept so deeply, so peacefully, it was such great happiness." Who knows this? You were asleep -- who knows that you were so happy? A part has witnessed; a part was continuously alert, knowing. Who knows that you were disturbed, uneasy, uncomfortable? You were asleep -- even in sleep a part of you knows. You cannot become completely unconscious. Once achieved...

... exists, but it doesn't disturb their song. Birds, trees, oceans, rocks - they are unconscious, their ceremony is an unconscious ceremony... as if a man is singing while he is asleep, a man smiling while he is asleep. You can see the smile, but the man himself is not aware of what is happening - as if in a dream, drunk. Nature IS blissful, but absolutely unaware of it. And without awareness, what is...

... bliss? It is meaningless. It has no significance, because the bird who is singing is not at all aware of what is happening. The song is just happening. There is nobody to listen to it, nobody to taste it, nobody to smell it, nobody to enjoy it. The song is just happening, part of an unconscious nature. Howsoever beautiful, it lacks something, something very essential. It is YOU who listens to the...

... aware, not knowing what is happening! Nature is asleep, unconscious. Man has become a little conscious; hence the anxiety. A part of you has become conscious, a very small fragment of your being has become conscious, and the remaining whole remains unconscious. A division has happened, a conflict has arisen. You are no more one - you have become two. A split has happened, a gap between you and...

.... They give you a feeling which is imaginary, hallucinatory, they give you a feeling that you are back, part of nature. People come to me; they say, "I have been on a drug trip, and it was beautiful, and so many things happened." Nothing happened! - because after it you are again the same, even worse. It only releases dreams in you, but you become so unconscious that you take the dreams to be...

..., very very poor - but the appeal indicates something; it indicates that man can be at home in only two ways. Either he falls back into nature through chemicals, through sex, or through other means, or he rises above himself, and reaches a point where his whole consciousness has become conscious; nothing remains unconscious in him. The dark continent of unconsciousness is there no more. All corners of...

... his being are lighted up. This is the meaning of becoming a buddha. A buddha means he who has no unconscious. A buddha means he whose whole being is transformed into light, awareness. Again - the celebration, the marriage, the feast, but on a totally different plane. Jesus used to tell a parable - and his parables are multidimensional - the parable of the prodigal son. One man had two sons - the two...

..., and the danger too. All other animals are born ready-made, preprogrammed. Their whole life is a simple unfoldment of something built-in. They need not live their lives consciously; their life is unconscious, it is mechanical. It can't be good, it can't be bad; it simply is. You cannot call a tree a sinner or a saint, and you cannot call a tiger or cat virtuous or full of vice. Those words are...

... unconscious search - because you have heard priests talking about God a greed has arisen in your mind for God. The real seeker, the real sannyasin, has nothing to do with God. His whole effort, his single effort, his one-pointed effort, his concentrated effort, is to become more conscious - how to be so intensely conscious that you become full of light, that your whole mind is a flame of light burning...

... bright, that the torch of your mind is burning from both the ends simultaneously. In that light one knows naturally that God is. God is not to be searched for; what is to be searched for is consciousness. Unconscious people can believe in God, but their belief in God is just like their belief in money. They believe in notes, they believe in God, they believe in stone statues, they believe in dead...

... scriptures. They can only believe, remember: only unconscious people believe. The conscious person knows, feels, experiences. He does not believe in God: he lives in God, he breathes in God, his heart beats in God. It is not a question of belief. You don't believe in the sun when you see the sun rise. You don't ask people, "Do you believe in the sun?" If you ask, they will laugh at you. You don't...

... conscious person knows, an unconscious person believes. Why are you a Hindu, why are you a Mohammedan, why are you a Jaina, and why are you a Christian? All beliefs! - and the priest lives on your unconsciousness. He goes on giving you more and more beliefs - moral beliefs, beliefs that if you do this you will be rewarded, if you do that you will be punished, belief in hell, belief in heaven. He goes on...

... you are unconscious you are continuously moving on dangerous roads where you can be robbed - where you ARE robbed, robbed every day. The person who is not aware, one who is asleep, you can rob him; he will not even give you a fight. And the robbers are not outside, the robbers are within you. Anger, hatred, greed, jealousy, possessiveness, these are the robbers, and in the unconscious mind they go...

... WIND. It comes back into your own eyes. It is spitting at the sky - it falls on your own face. You suffer not because of others, you suffer because of your own foolish actions. And what is a foolish action? Action which arises out of an unconscious state of mind. BUT AS THE DUST THROWN AGAINST THE WIND, MISCHIEF IS BLOWN BACK IN THE FACE OF THE FOOL WHO WRONGS THE PURE AND HARMLESS. And the outcome...

... should bring a bucketful of milk. I should not behave in such an unconscious way as all human beings are behaving...." It is possible to have the pond full of milk. "You are the world" simply means: whatever it is, we cannot save ourselves from responsibility. Our monks, our saints have tried only this. What they were trying to do, if you go deep into their psychology, was to say that...

... of ten, nine are not authentic. If somebody is authentic, then all that happens in reality is that he relaxes, his conscious mind goes to sleep, and from his unconscious mind, collective unconscious mind, cosmic unconscious mind, things start coming up. You can say they are coming from ghosts. You can talk about them in psychological terms and say they are coming from the unconscious. Or you can...

... talk about them in Californian terms: they are coming from channel number one, channel number two. But they are all coming from your own unconscious mind. This is about the authentic cases. And when so many people are channeling, it becomes a competition. If somebody else is channeling, why can't you channel? No talent is needed, no intelligence is needed; all that is needed is insincerity...

... being worried about their channeling... It is absolute fraud. And if there is someone sincere, that means he is relaxing to the point where the unconscious mind starts throwing up its repressed contents. It has no spiritual value. But it will be good to check. Go to any person who is channeling with the galaxies, but keep a good needle with you! With the needle, the person will start dancing, jumping...

..., and his galaxies will start going higher - from one channel to nine channels. You can check: if your needle does not work, that means the person is at least not a fraud, but is simply falling into unconsciousness and allowing his unconscious to reveal its contents. But they have no spiritual value. But before you leave, try the needle - particularly on the famous ones! Question 3: BELOVED OSHO, DO...

... people were going to be burned. And we don't know how we started doing things which we were not intending to do. We had never thought about. This is the way of the unconscious. But the unconscious is a vast continent; and the mob belongs to the unconscious, and any moment that you are possessed by the unconscious you are part of the mob. And the other way round too: the moment you belong to a mob you...

... fall into the darkness of the unconscious. Then you can do anything without feeling at all responsible for it. That's something very significant to be understood. If we want a better world, the phenomenon of the mob will have to disappear, because it is the mob that goes on pulling you down deeper and deeper into darkness. And there are mobs all around the world - where are the people? The second...

... stage of the crowd is a "crowd": a little bit organized, a little bit unorganized. And the third form of the crowd is the organization - a perfectly organized crowd. Think in parallels to the human mind. The mob, the lowest, is the unconscious. The crowd is the subconscious, just on the borderline; it is not much. Either you are in the mob or you are in the organization. Perhaps for a...

... more rope. The mob is less dangerous in this sense, that it does not bother about you at all. It is a cloud, a dark cloud. There is no "who is who" nobody is the leader and nobody is the led. Just the unconscious instinct predominates; and because it is the same instinct in all of us, a mob can function without any order, without any pope, without any church. But its function can only be...

.... Every day she is laughing. It is unbearable; now I cannot stay with her." These are our so-called people. They fight - that is unconscious. They laugh - that is silly. They arrange certain compromises just to pull them through, but nothing works. At a certain point every compromise breaks down. Neither the husband hears what the wife is saying nor the wife.... Both have ears - but the art of...

... structure or the economic system of the society, capitalism or communism or fascism -- but they need something as an excuse so that they can remain free, free from the arousal of the vision that "I am responsible for my suffering and nobody else." Even if people drop God, society, karma, etcetera, then they start finding new ways. Freudians will say you are suffering because of the unconscious...

.... Freud says there is no hope for man, man will always remain miserable. All that we can manage is to keep him normally miserable; that is all that can be done. The best that can be done according to Freud is that people can be kept within limits of misery, that's all. Miserable they are going to be, there is no hope of a blissful humanity. Why? -- because of the unconscious. The unconscious instincts...

... are in conflict with society. And Freud says if you allow the unconscious instincts full play, then the society, the culture, the civilization disappears and you will be back in the world of the jungle, and you will suffer. Or, if you allow the society to have control over you, to inhibit your unconscious instincts, then there is a consistent conflict between your unconscious and the social code...

... on the surface in the conscious mind, and they are sinners in the unconscious. And ultimately it is the deeper unconscious that is more decisive than the superficial conscious. You cannot be a saint if you don't repress the sinner. And when you repress the sinner, the sinner goes deeper into your being. So these saints are in constant conflict, a kind of civil war, fighting with themselves. You can...

... higher than Jesus Christ - but he cannot write it. Something in his unconscious simply prevents him. He knows it perfectly well - there is no doubt about Gautam Buddha being far superior to Jesus Christ - but he feels helpless, he cannot put it down in writing because then it will become a historical fact that the greatest intellectual of this century has decided not only against Christianity, but...

... praising me. I liked his tremendous honesty, love of truth, his capacity to put his mind aside - his whole programming of being a Christian. He has not allowed it to come between me and Jesus. His unconscious would have liked to have put Jesus above me. That's why I say it is a rare phenomenon that he has not listened to the unconscious. He has been perfectly conscious, without any prejudice; he has been...

... from schizophrenia - a split personality. He used to fall into fits of unconsciousness, epileptic fits; he was utterly sick. On the road to Jerusalem .... It was a hot summer and the sun was burning like a fire, showering on the earth. For days he went on and on, just on foot. One day, under the hot sun, he fell on the earth in an epileptic fit, he became unconscious. And in that unconsciousness his...

... wants to create any misunderstanding in the disciples. Let the masses misunderstand; it does not matter, they are already living in all kinds of misunderstandings. They are unconscious people, groping in the dark. A little more understanding or misunderstanding is not going to help them either this way or that. But for the people who are trying to meditate, the master showed them a gesture. Silently...

... THE POINT OF DEATH WE RE-ENTER THE CIRCLE OF BIRTH AND DEATH. IS WITNESSING ALL WE CAN DO AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT OR IS THERE ANY SPECIFIC TECHNIQUE? Maneesha, there is nothing except witnessing, and witnessing is not a technique. Witnessing is your nature, your very nature. You are nothing but witnessing. Witnessing is the purest consciousness. And it is not only fear that makes you unconscious...

.... Fear is only one element. When you are dying, it is not only fear that makes you unconscious; you already have too much unconsciousness - fear only takes away the thin layer of consciousness. One-tenth is conscious, nine-tenths is unconscious. Fear takes away the thin layer of consciousness and you are drowned in your own unconsciousness. It is so deep. It does not come from outside. In meditation...