... carries in his unconscious many potentialities. He can become a god, he can become a devil. It is only a question of opportunity. Simply they got the opportunity: five thousand people ready to trust without questioning, and they were trusting because of me. They were not trusting Sheela. Their minds were saying that this is not the right thing, but if Bhagwan wants it, then there must be something right...

.... These people are innocent, and they saw the opportunity and their unconscious desire to be powerful, to take over Antelope, to take over Wasco County, became bigger and bigger. the people were not basically wrong. When I had chosen Sheela as my secretary she was a simple woman, in every way a beautiful person. but everybody's unconscious -- and below the unconscious is the collective unconscious -- is...

... the whole society. She is not conscious of all that, but it is there. So I will not do anything else than be more loving to her than I have ever been to her, because these are the moments when a person needs more love, more respect, more acceptance. And I will give her to the university to treat her, to bring all her unconscious out. It is just a question of vomiting the unconscious out. And once...

... getting training. Your jails are universities for criminology. And your courts serve the crime, not the culture. So that will be my attitude of all those people. If they come back they will receive not only my love but my whole commune's love. Whatever they did, perhaps they were unconsciously doing it, not knowing what they are doing. We can clean their unconscious, we can make them more aware, we can...

... defence - at least he could escape. But in the night everywhere was darkness and he was helpless, so he became afraid - and that fear has gone into the unconscious; still we are afraid. We are not living in caves now and we are not at the mercy of wild animals, no one is going to attack us - but the fear is there, it has gone deep, because for millions of years the human mind was afraid. Your...

... become aware of it, but one day put off the light in the night and sit - and the primitive fear will come to you. In your own house you will start feeling that some wild animals are around. Some noise will come, and you will become afraid of wild animals - some danger is around. That danger is not around; that is in your unconscious. So first you have to overcome your unconscious fear, and then you can...

... enter these techniques, because these techniques are concerned with darkness. And Shiva is giving all the techniques that are possible. My own experience with these techniques is very beautiful. If you can do them they are wonderful. You will enter such a deep relaxation that you have never known. But first uncover your unconscious fears and try to live and love darkness. It is very blissful. Once you...

..., or move to a mountain peak. Just be there for one week to experience pure darkness. You will come back a different man, because in those seven days of absolute darkness, all the fears, all the primitive fears, will come up. You will have to face monsters, you will have to face your own unconscious. The whole humanity will... it will be as if you are passing through the whole passage that has passed...

..., and deep from your unconscious many things will arise. They will look real. You may get afraid, scared, because they will be so real - and they are just your mental creations. Many madmen in our mad asylums are suffering not from anything else but just from the primitive fears inside them which have erupted. The fears are there; the madmen are afraid, scared every moment of their lives. And we don't...

..., the madness starts disappearing. Nothing has been done really; he has simply been left alone. This is the only measure that has been taken. Western psychiatrists have become amazed. They can't understand really how it can happen, because they work for years. They psychoanalyze, they treat, they do everything, but they never leave the man alone. They never leave him to face his inner unconscious...

... totally on his own. Because the more help you give, the more you make him helpless, because the more he depends on you. And the question is of an inner encounter; no one can help really. So those who know, they will leave you to face yourself. You have to come to terms with your unconscious. And this meditation on darkness will absorb all your madness completely. Try it. Even in your home you can try it...

... been able to go beyond the third because each time they say silence, it becomes more of a whisper. I am reminded... I had one doctor friend who was perhaps the most famous doctor in those parts. I told him, "I would like to experience something for which there is no reason. You can help me. I want to go slowly and deeply into the unconscious." He said, "This is against medical practice...

.... You don't have any reason, and I cannot use something without reason and make you unconscious." But I persuaded him. I said, "Find any reason, and I am not going to tell anybody. Although, I have told it to the whole world." He put me on his table, sent all the servants and nurses away because he was doing something against the medical code. While he was covering my head so that I...

... could not breathe anything else, he said to me, "Do one thing. While you are going into the unconscious, go on saying one, two, three, four, five... as long as you can." Strangely, I could not go beyond three. I tried hard. I was aware of the fact that I had only come up to three, and the four would not come. Later on I told him, "This was my reason to be put into the unconscious state...

... RESISTANCE AND HEALTHY REBELLION, BETWEEN SURRENDER AND RESIGNATION? THE PITFALLS OF MY HABITUAL UNCONSCIOUS STUBBORNNESS MAKE ME SUSPICIOUS OF MY IMPERCEPTIBLE FALSE YES AND NO. BELOVED MASTER, IS THERE ANY SIMPLE TEST? IS IT AUTHENTIC WHEN IT JUST FEELS GOOD? Deva Varda, when you feel something authentic then you can stand against the whole world. But the authenticity should not be another name of your...

... two different things. It is the unconscious mind which either wants to surrender to avoid unnecessary trouble of revolting - cheap surrender - or it wants to revolt because it does not want to lose its ego. Those are by- products. My insistence is not on by-products. My insistence is on a single thing.... I call it witnessing. Be aware, and if your awareness leads you to surrender, it is perfectly...

... every night. Just bring the visualisation again, and you will be able to feel it. Go into the entrance and find out what is there. Many things of the unconscious can be revealed in these ways. Everything that you will come to know is within you. But we don't know many parts of our being... we live only in the porch. A big palace - but the palace remains completely closed, because we never enter it...

.... These are all the ways to enter into the many rooms of your being. These are unconscious doors - use them. It is possible that these things will happen when you are not feeling any energy, because when you are feeling energy, you are engaged in your ordinary everyday affairs. When you are no more feeling energy and you are not engaged in your routine, your mental work, there is a possibility for the...

... unconscious to open a door. Because you were trying hard to listen and you were not feeling energetic, you had no energy to move in the ordinary way of the mind. That created the situation - hence this experience came. So whenever you feel low energy, repeat it. Just sit, and try to be alert, and it will appear again. Ten minutes is too long a period. If the figure remained there continuously, it has some...

... message for you, it has something to reveal to you. Just allow yourself to be led by the unconscious, wherever it leads. Don't be afraid. Whatever happens is going to be good and beneficial. Do it, and then tell me, mm? [An indian visitor, Arup, who was here to do the camp, said that he felt concerned that perhaps he wasn't meditating rightly, because nothing seemed to be happening. Osho told him not to...

... unconsciousness and misery are related, they are aspects of one phenomenon - from one side unconsciousness, from another side, misery. It is impossible to be conscious and miserable, just as it is impossible to be unconscious and blissful. Seek one and the other follows; there is no need to seek both. And to you my suggestion is: seek consciousness, because that will be easier for you. Your involvement is with...

... down we know we are not going to die. Some very unconscious understanding is there of 'I am not going to die'... although we know that death happens every day and we know those people were also thinking that they were not going to die and they are dead. We know that just like them we will disappear one day, but still somewhere deep down there is an understanding that knows 'I am not going to die...

... foolish. That's why youth is foolish, because it is unaware of. the most important thing in life - that is death. It is almost unconscious of the only certainty in life - that is death. It is so certain of other things which are all uncertain: love, happiness, success, money, power. It is so certain about these things, which are all uncertain. Only of death is it not aware - which is absolutely certain...

... become very prominent. By forty-seven they have encroached upon you from everywhere. Between thirty-five and forty-two people have heart attacks, ulcers, suicides, accidents, go mad. And these are all symptoms of one thing only: that they have not started preparing for death. These are symptoms, these are hints from your unconscious. 'Prepare for death. Look - ulcers have come; look - a heart attack...

... manage that space again; the remaining lines never came. And I am not a poet who will compose poetry just intellectually. If it comes from the beyond, I am receptive." And that beyond is really within your unconscious; it comes from there. But it looks like it is coming from the beyond. Now, if you cure the poet of obsession, you kill him. Sigmund Freud is not needed by poets and scientists and...

... obsession. But those unknown spaces are not spiritual spaces; they are within the mind, and they belong to some part below the conscious mind, either to the unconscious or to the collective unconscious or to the cosmic unconscious. The deeper the space is, the more unknown it is. But just because it is unknown does not mean that you have touched something spiritual. It is unknown but part of the...

... unconscious world of your mind - it is not spiritual. It is tremendously exciting because it is so unknown. You have entered into an unknown corner of your being. It is just a tremendous discovery, but still it is not religious. It won't bring you to the ecstasy and the blessing of a religious man. On the contrary, it may create a tremendous anguish in you, a tension which is unbearable, a nightmare which...

... hand he would be eating. And sometimes he forgot to eat; and as he became older, many times it happened that he was taken not to his home but to the hospital, because he was found unconscious: hungry, continuously reading, writing, reading, writing. One feels sad that nobody reads this poor Karl Marx' book, Das Kapital - nobody! I have not come across a single communist who has read it from the first...

... percent? We appeal to you for that one percent who may not be able to find the path without your speaking.'" And Buddha said, "I am speaking for that one percent." Strangely, I am still speaking for that one percent. The world has not moved a single inch. Twenty-five centuries and man is as blind, as asleep, and unconscious as he ever was. Charles Darwin was absolutely wrong, because...

... it go? You can simply close your eyes, that's all; you can simply repress it in the unconscious, that's all. But it is there, like a worm, eating your consciousness. It will be there, and someday or other it will come to the surface. What can you do? How can you drop it? If you choose doubt, where will your faith go? It is part of you. So compromise will happen: you will become an amalgam of many...

... you have to carry both; if you want to carry one you have to carry two, then the whole rupee will be with you. The only thing that you can manage is that you can hide the aspect you don't like, and the aspect you like you can put on the surface, that's all. That's how the conscious and the unconscious are created. The conscious is that part, that horse that you like, and the unconscious is that...

... horse, that part that you don't like. The conscious is that which you have chosen, the unconscious is that against which you have chosen. These are the two churches - the one you go to and the one you don't go to. Otherwise, in a man like Buddha, the conscious and the unconscious both disappear, because he has not chosen for, he has not chosen against. The whole coin drops. And only the whole coin can...

... electricity, you cannot retain one and drop the other. If you do that, your being will be divided: the dropped, the repressed, the denied part will become the unconscious; the accepted, the welcomed part will become the conscious. And then there will be a continuous struggle between the conscious and the unconscious. But you are still mounted on two horses. The only way is to drop the whole thing, and the...

... unconscious man cannot be free, cannot have any freedom. Freedom comes as a consequence of consciousness, freedom is the function of consciousness. An unconscious man exists like a machine, like a robot. You may not know, but you are continuously functioning as a robot. Somebody abuses you and anger arises. It is almost like when you push the button and the fan starts moving. Somebody pushes the button and...

... with one irresistible impulse the whole body cried out 'There is no use waiting. We will go today. We will go now. We will go at once. ' And then in one unanimous mass they swept along, and in another moment were clinging fast to the magnet on every side. Then the magnet smiled - for the steel filings had no doubt at all but that they were paying that visit of their own free will. Unconscious, you...

... don't have any will. Unconscious, you don't have any freedom. So don't think about it. You ask, HOW TO SEE WHAT IS MY WILL AND GOD'S WILL? YOU have none. God is the magnet and you are the filings. But you go on believing that you have your will, you go on believing that this is your choice. That you have chosen this woman to be your wife. Think about it again, remember this parable. Have you chosen...

... of asking '...my WILL AND GOD'S WILL?' Then there is no distinction between you and God. You are God and God is you. The whole problem can be reduced to a simple thing To be conscious or not to be conscious. The unconscious man exists without any will. He only dreams that he has will. With consciousness ego starts disappearing on one hand, on another hand will arises. But it will not be your will...

..., it will be always God's will. Then what is the difference between the unconscious man and the conscious man? The difference is, it is always God's will - the unconscious man thinks 'It is my will' and the conscious man knows 'I am not, only God is.' The fifth question: Question 5: OSHO, IS IT POSSIBLE TO BECOME A FOOL BY BEING HERE FOR A LONGER PERIOD? I SOMETIMES FEEL A LACK OF LOGIC IN MY MIND...

... masters history has produced, but it is not my path. I will explain to you what he is saying, first according to him, second, according to me. Gurdjieff had a division between subjective and objective actions: ordinary, unconscious people act subjectively; alert, conscious, crystallized beings act objectively. Now, this is a totally different language and a different philosophy, so you have to...

... understand it clearly. Sometimes you see somebody, and for no reason you feel a certain dislike. Or sometimes you feel a deep liking, but you cannot give any reasons. These are unconscious, subjective emotions - there must be reasons, but they are hidden in your unconscious mind and you will behave according to these reasons. According to Gurdjieff, unconscious people are not doing anything; they are...

... almost robots, machines. Their unconscious mind is driving them, and they are doing it; they cannot answer exactly why they did it. Objective action needs awareness. Gurdjieff's father died. He was only nine years old. The father called him... he was an extraordinarily intelligent child. The father said, "I have nothing to give to you. I am a poor man, I am not leaving any inheritance. I have...

... here. If you hit my leg, I will hit your leg." They were shouting and fighting, and the master woke up and listened to their talk. He said, "Just wait a minute! You idiots, both legs are mine! And you were going to make me crippled for my whole life." But this is how the unconscious man behaves. Gurdjieff's idea is that as far as doing is concerned, only the master can do something...

... disciple. The master is there with his immense presence, and the disciple - although he is asleep, he is not unconscious. He has somehow stumbled and found the place where the master is, perhaps from a faraway country. Already there are three hundred sannyasins here from faraway countries, and we are preventing them because we don't have any space, we don't have any arrangement for them. So every center...

... completely the diametrically opposite way from Zen, from Heraclitus. First samadhi, which is samadhi only for name's sake, is samprajnata - samadhi with a subtle purified mind. Second samadhi is asamprajnata - samadhi with no mind. But Patanjali says that when the mind disappears, then too there are no thoughts, then, too, subtle seeds of the past are retained by the unconscious. The conscious mind is...

... its own color, shades, but it is still impure. First you purify; then you drop. But then too the journey is not complete because this is all in the conscious mind. What you will do with the unconscious? Just behind the layers of the conscious mind is a vast continent of unconscious. There are seeds of all your past lives in the unconscious. Then Patanjali divides the unconscious into two. He says...

... sabeej samadhi - when the unconscious is there and mind has been dropped consciously, it is a samadhi with seeds - sabeej. When those seeds are also burned, then you attain the perfect - the nirbeej samadhi: samadhi without seeds. So conscious into two steps, then unconscious into two steps. And when nirbeej samadhi, the ultimate ecstasy, without any seeds within you to sprout and to flower and to take...

... the unconscious is vast and there you carry all the seeds, the blueprints. They are within you. The tree has disappeared; you have cut down the tree completely. But the seeds that have fallen, they are in the ground Lying. They will sprout when their season comes. You will have another life; you will be born again. Of course, your quality will be different now, but you will be born again because...

... Lying in the soil you have not touched them yet. That has to be done in the third state. asamprajnata samadhi is still sabeej - with seeds. And there are methods how to burn those seeds, how to create fire-fire that Heraclitus talked about, how to create that fire and burn the unconscious seeds. When they also disappear, then the soil is absolutely pure; nothing can arise out of it. Then there is no...

... karma. I must have given him some pain, some anguish, some anxiety. It has to be closed. If I escape, if I do anything, again a new line starts." A videha, a man who has attained to asamprajnata, does not react. He simply watches, witnesses. And this is the fire of witnessing which burns all the seeds in the unconscious. And a moment comes when the soil is absolutely pure. There is no seed...