... hands. Osho goes on to say that it is not that he will actually come and do something, but through trusting in and surrendering to the thought of Osho, one's worries and tensions dissolve and one is open. Through that opening the unconscious can immediately share its wisdom with one.... ] That is the whole secret of the guru, of the master: he simply helps you to relax. Your love for him, your trust...

... available to you it will not be better than your own inner core can reveal; it will be the same! Our conscious minds are different, our unconscious mind is not different - it is one. When I use the word, unconscious, I am not using it in the freudian sense - the freudian unconscious is pathological. It is a very very small part of the conscious mind, repressed; it is not really unconscious. It is the...

... conscious mind, the basement of the conscious mind, where we go on throwing things - rejected, denied, parts of our being. The unconscious is exactly what god means; it is better to call it the super-conscious. But with the super-conscious another problem arises: you again become conscious and the self enters; that's why I continue to call it the unconscious. It does not function as a conscious entity, it...

..., all his actions are very slow movements. It is like a film being moved on the screen very slowly, you can see every movement. But then one becomes skillful, one becomes unconscious - it becomes automatic: one goes on doing but not consciously, that's why you cannot see it. So just do one thing for a few days: whenever you feel you are becoming miserable, go slowly into it, don't go fast; make slow...

... unconscious remains eastern, and there is a conflict. Consciously you seem to be of this century - unconsciously you are not... and I would like to bridge that gap. Once that gap is bridged you will feel very very easy, relaxed; a let-go will happen. And that is possible only through groups, otherwise it is not possible. A group can do within a few days that which you cannot do in many months work on your...

... way of the ego is very simple: always throw responsibility on somebody else. It is always the other who is hell. One never looks at oneself. The other cannot be hell for me, unless I in some way support the other to create the hell for me. It must be somewhere in the unconscious, my own need. Just today I came to know, that all over the world man wastes enough energy, money, technological power and...

... only you can find it out. Gurdjieff had his own ways to find it. He will force his disciples to drink as much wine as possible. He will go on forcing them. And by midnight everybody was flat on the floor, and then he will go and listen to what each is saying. And this will continue for days, and then he will figure it out, what is the chief characteristic of that man, because in his unconscious that...

... unconscious as possible, and they start showing their true colors. A man who has never been angry is shouting and is angry and throwing things and is ready to kill anybody. You could have never thought that this gentleman can do such things. And he did it continuously for three or four days - that means it is lying down there in his unconscious, as his chief characteristic. Once it was discovered, then...

... people, who have attained to a certain consciousness in their life, die consciously and are born consciously. And those who are born consciously will die enlightened, because a child who is born in awareness - it is impossible to conceive how he can miss enlightenment. In his seventy years' life he is bound to become enlightened. But most of us are born unconscious, and die unconscious. And between the...

... two do you think you live consciously - between these two unconsciousnesses - birth unconscious, death unconscious? How can life be conscious between these two? It is unconscious. People are living like somnambulists, sleepwalkers. You may have seen somebody, or may have heard about somebody who is a sleepwalker. There are many people who will get up in the night... they are asleep, their eyes are...

... faintly I remember that I had to do something, and my leg is tied down. So I cannot get to the place where I have to do something. I don't know what exactly I have to do." And these people walk in darkness with open eyes - you would not think that they are asleep. They don't stumble over furniture or anything. Between an unconscious birth and an unconscious death, our whole life is the life of a...

... was there in the fields, in the market, in the world, but the word 'God' is retained. Actions disappear, only concepts are carried. Your head becomes your whole being. Avoid. Never renounce action, only renounce thinking. But if you renounce thinking there is a possibility you may become unconscious, or you may become a fool. You may start doing anything whatsoever, because now you don't know what...

... to do, and you don't think. You may go crazy. Thinking is to be renounced, but you are not to become more unaware, more unconscious. You have to become more conscious. This is the whole art of meditation: how to be deep in action, how to renounce thinking, and how to convert the energy that was moving into thinking to become awareness. It is going to be very delicate and subtle, because if you miss...

... fall into a coma, because the coma will not lead you to reality. If you fall unconscious you are not going into reality, you are simply fast asleep: the conscious has merged into the unconscious. Just the reverse has to be attained: the unconscious merges into the conscious. If the conscious falls into the unconscious you fall into a coma, and if the unconscious falls into the conscious and becomes...

... conscious itself, you become enlightened, you become a Buddha, a Sosan. And it is very easy to help the conscious fall down into the unconscious, because it is a very small fragment. One tenth of your being is conscious, nine tenths of your being is unconscious. Just a small fragment has become conscious, and that too is always wavering. Any moment it can fall, it is very easy. That's how it happens in...

... intoxication: you take alcohol, the conscious falls into the unconscious. Hence the appeal in all the ages and all the climates and in all the countries of alcohol. And this is what happens when you take a drug: the conscious falls into the unconscious. It is beautiful because thinking stops. Sleep is beautiful and you have many many dreams. And if you are a good dreamer then a drug will give you beautiful...

... hanker after dreams, because if you hanker after dreams then there is only one way: how to help the conscious become unconscious again. A small part has come up out of unconsciousness, and that is the beauty of a human being. Agony and ecstasy both, but that is the beauty of a human being, that he has become an island in a vast unconscious. This island has to grow higher and higher so it becomes a...

... continent. Through drugs it will go again underwater, you will live again the life of an animal or a tree - beautiful in themselves but not worthy of you, because you are losing so much. And you could have attained reality; that island could have become a continent. But not only drugs - there are other subtle means also to help the conscious become unconscious. Through music it can be done, through...

... or an old man makes no difference - the mind goes into sleep through lullabies, but the process is the same. Thinking has to be stopped, but not by becoming unconscious. Thinking has to be stopped by becoming more conscious, alert, aware, so the energy that is moving in thinking moves into consciousness, and a witnessing arises in you. So remember, thinking has to be stopped not through chanting...

... in the deeper circumstances of life. Every problem comes from deep inside you where the mind cannot penetrate. That's why any intellectual approach is irrelevant. Psychologists say that your life comes from sources that are below the mind. Your life is unconscious and your mind is conscious - and the unconscious part is nine times greater than the conscious part. The conscious part is not...

... functioning for twenty-four hours a day, but the unconscious is. Even when you are asleep, the unconscious is functioning. It is capable of doing everything without you - and more efficiently than when your conscious mind is present. That's why sleep is needed so much. The real need is not for sleep itself, but for the absence of your conscious mind. You must be absent for some time so that your...

... nonvoluntary mechanisms can work. 'You' are a hindrance. With your conscious mind, you are not helping the flow of life; you just create obstacles. You need to spend one third of your life totally submerged in the unconscious or you cannot live. The unconscious can live without the conscious mind, but the conscious mind cannot live without the unconscious. If you are deprived of sleep even for a single week...

..., you will go mad. This madness happens because your conscious mind has been interfering with the natural flow of life constantly for one week, with no gaps in between for the unconscious to move to the very source of life and attain sustenance. Even when you are not asleep, your conscious mind is not working constantly. It is only there during the moments that you need it, otherwise the unconscious...

... is working. Only in emergency situations is your conscious mind really needed. You may be walking on the stroet and you think that an accident is going to happen. For a single moment, your conscious mind works. But only in moments such as that is your conscious mind needed. Otherwise you function unconsciously, your whole behavior pattern is unconscious. You may be able to rationalize what you do...

... seem to be beautiful, you appear to be beautiful, because I have fallen in love with you. Love comes first; the justification follows. Even when you are awake, your conscious mind is not really working; the unconscious continues to work. What I am trying to point out is that the conscious mind is only a security measure that you use when there is an emergency when something dangerous is happening...

... around you, something new in the sense that the unconscious cannot comprehend it. Only the conscious mind can deal with something that is totally new because the unconscious comes from the past - it can only work through the Known. When anything unknown has to be faced, your conscious mind will be needed for a moment. It is an emergency measure. But this conscious mind tries to solve existential...

..., but the unconscious will know that you are going to die and the fear will still be there. Don't fight with the unconscious, don't fight with your being Accept what is in the unconscious. Let your conscious mind cooperate with the unconscious. Don't create a schizoid condition, don't be against yourself. You can't be. No one can be against himself; he can only think he is. In the end, the conscious...

... mind will know that the unconscious has won. To me, the existential approach is the only approach possible. Once you have begun to accept, mysteries begin to open up to you. For example, if you have begun to accept death as part and parcel of life, you will see that it is not that life ends with death. Death is the flowering of life: the peak, the ripening. Our minds create the problem. We like youth...

... yoga adds something, contributes something, to this evolution of consciousness. It changes many things and transforms many things. The first transformation is a double-arrowed awareness, remembering yourself at the very moment that there is something else to be conscious of. The dilemma is this: either you are conscious of some object or you are unconscious. If there are no outside objects, you fall...

... become unconscious; thoughts go on demanding his attention. And this is how we exist. With new objects you become more conscious. That is why there is a lust for the new, a longing for the new. The old becomes boring. The moment you have lived with some object for a while, you become unconscious of it. You have accepted it, now your attention is not needed; you become bored. For example, you may not...

..., a mantra, a repeated sound vibration, causes deep sleep. When a particular mantra is being repeated continuously, you are bored. There is nothing mysterious about it. Constantly repeating a particular word bores you, you cannot live with it anymore. Now you will begin to feel sleepy, you will go into a sort of sleep; you will become unconscious. The whole method of hypnosis, in fact, depends upon...

... beyond the denied; it is there, and it goes on gathering more and more strength. The very moment when the part you have accepted succeeds is the moment of failure. Nothing fails like success. With any partial success - with the success of one part of you - you are bound to go into deeper failure. That which you have gained becomes unconscious and that which you have lost comes into awareness. Absence...

... you just have to do it and everything else follows. Jung mentions that in the nineteenth century no Westerner concerned with psychology could conceive of anything beyond the conscious mind or below the conscious mind, because mind means consciousness. So how can there be an unconscious mind? It is absurd, non-scientific. Then, in the twentieth century, as science learned more about the unconscious...

..., a theory of the unconscious mind developed. Then, when they went even deeper, they had to accept the idea of a collective unconscious, not only an individual one. It looked absurd - mind means something individual, so how could there be a collective mind - but now they have even accepted the concept of the collective mind. These are the first three divisions of Buddhist psychology, of Buddhist...

...; he was transformed totally. He had known something; he had taken the jump. Where is the limit? If you continue with reason, you may miss. You go on falling back. Sometimes one has to suddenly take a step that leads you beyond. That step becomes a transformation; the division is transcended. Whether you say that this division is between the conscious and the unconscious, between reason and nonreason...

... nobody knowingly hurts anybody; it all happens in the unconscious. Nobody wants to hurt anybody - but it happens, that's true. So never carry wounds. It is not only a question of [your husband. If you carry the wound and the hurt feeling, you will become incapable, by and by, of loving and trusting - and that is bad. It is not only that [your husband] has hurt you - he has hurt love. Whenever you move...

... inner mechanism does not allow you to. Even sometimes you may have wanted to be with someone but something inside takes you away in spite of you - as if you are driven, possessed. I see so many people destroying their relationships. They cry and weep - they don't want to do it, but they feel helpless. Remember that only a very small part of the mind is conscious - one tenth; nine tenths is unconscious...

.... And everybody is ruled by the unconscious. For example, a man falls in love with you. You think he falls in love with you? Something in his unconscious is stirred by you. That's why people say, 'We don't know why we have fallen in love.' Hence the word 'fall' - because one is almost helpless; one cannot do anything about it. Something from the unconscious arises and clouds the whole being. [Osho...

... went on to say that we find rationalisations for why we are particularly attracted to someone - but they are just rationalisations, for the ego feels unsettled if it can't find any reason for why one fell in love. One day someone has attracted something in your unconscious so that you believe you are in love, and the next day somebody else stirs something in your unconscious - and again you are in...

... love. You feel guilty, but you are helpless.... ] This is how man is - almost a mechanism, not yet conscious. And that is my whole effort: to make you so conscious that unconsciousness no more dominates you. You become master of your being. Then you love a person because you want to, not because the unconscious forces you. Your love has a totally different quality to it. You possess it - you are not...

... is happening. In the West, because people are so free now, and everybody is moving in a permissive society, the unconscious has full play. I don't see that any permanent marriage is going to be possible in any way soon; it will be almost impossible. If a couple remains for two, three years - enough; more will not be possible. Three years seems to be the most, the average limit. But don't be angry...

... your counting is that a certain part in you is aware, is watching. That part takes note of all these three things: that dreams go deeper into the unconscious; that you wake up every time you become aware that it is a dream; that there is a certain part in you which enjoys dreaming. All these three are true, but not so significant as the fourth - the one who has noted these three. So you go on doing...

... what you are doing, just become aware of the fourth, too. Pay more attention, give more juice to the fourth, because that is the only real thing in you - the watcher. All these three things will slowly disappear. First, the dreams will slip deeper into the unconscious, but if you continue they will come to the rock bottom of the unconscious. Then they cannot escape anymore, and they will have to face...

... STATES BE HIGHER OR LOWER THAN THE CONSCIOUS? The trance-like state is always lower than the conscious. It is always unconscious. It is a very significant question, because for centuries it has been avoided and not discussed. There have been people like Ramakrishna who used to go into a trance very easily. Ultimately Ramakrishna became enlightened, but he became enlightened when he met a master who...

... anything to anybody else, because then they would be exposing themselves - that they were all fake, nobody was true. In all the Mohammedan countries around the world this goes on happening every year, and millions of people are befooled - there is no trance. Trance is possible but for that you need a certain training in auto-hypnosis. Or, you may have a natural tendency of falling unconscious. You may...

... have a very thin layer of consciousness, and anything that affects you very deeply - like Ramakrishna - may make you go unconscious; otherwise you need a training. But the training will lead you to the unconscious - it is not a spiritual growth. You have to be conscious, more conscious. That's why my process is to first reach to the highest point of consciousness, then turn backwards. Now go down...

... with the light that you have, the insight that you have, into the deeper, dark parts of your being. Now you will be going with light, and wherever you are, there will be light. Your unconscious has treasures, your collective unconscious has treasures, your cosmic unconscious has treasures, but you need light and you need alertness. If you yourself are unconscious, how can you find any treasures in...

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... effort, in the intermediate stage desirelessness will have become unconscious effort. In the beginning it will be conscious effort, you will have to do it; in the middle it will start happening, it will have become unconscious effort. Effort will be there, but indirect, unconscious. In the end it will be spontaneous, effort will have completely disappeared. But desirelessness is the same...

.... Desirelessness in the beginning is with conscious effort, in the middle is with unconscious effort, in the end is effortless. Avoid this tendency to divide, to cut things, and see that every phenomenon is a continuity, everything is joined together. Even those things which look opposite are also joined together, they are also polarities. Develop this way of looking at things - that will be very helpful. For...

... did everything that could be done and then the conscious was tired, the conscious mind was finished, the conscious accepted the failure. When the conscious is exhausted the unconscious comes into focus and starts working - but it comes only when the conscious is exhausted. If the conscious is still hoping, if the conscious is still trying, then the unconscious will not function. And this is one of...

... the basic laws of the human psyche: that if you want the unconscious to function, exhaust the conscious completely. Effort will not lead you to enlightenment, but without effort no one has ever achieved it. This may look like a paradox. It is not, it is a simple law. Buddha tried for six years continuously, and no man has tried as totally as Buddha did. He made every effort possible, he went to...

... unconscious reveals. And it reveals only when the conscious has become a total failure, only then it is needed - otherwise it goes on sleeping inside. It is just like this. Every human body has three layers of energies. The first layer is only for day-to-day work: eating, sleeping, walking to the office, working in the office, coming home, fighting, making love, anger - routine. The first layer. It has not...

... who is hypnotizing is not using any force on you. This is again a wrong conception, the third, that the hypnotist is using some force. No, not at all. The hypnotist has no force to use; the hypnotist is only using your force, so you have to cooperate. If you don't cooperate nobody can hypnotize you. And cooperation needs trust, because you will be unconscious and you don't know what this man who is...

... hypnotizing will do to you. So look, I have been experimenting on many things. A Western woman is more easily hypnotized than an Eastern woman, because the Eastern woman is always afraid of sex. When she is unconscious, who knows what this hypnotist may do? Western women in that sense have become freer, less afraid. They can be hypnotized more easily. A person who is guilty about something is very difficult...

... to hypnotize, because he is always afraid that when he is unconscious the thing he is hiding may come up. A person who has committed some sin, or thinks he has committed some sin and is hiding it, will be very difficult to hypnotize. Only a simple, innocent person can be hypnotized, because he has nothing to hide. You cannot bring anything out; he has no secrets. If you have secrets and you don't...

... want them to be exposed you cannot trust anybody - because hypnosis means that your unconscious is available to the hypnotist. He can penetrate deep down, he can bring out anything that you are hiding. So those persons are not hypnotizable who fall into these categories. The less guilty and less afraid, and the more intelligent, trusting and cooperative a person is, the more hypnotizable. So don't...

... body. There is no need, simple hypnosis can make you unconscious. There is no need for chloroform or any poison, any gas, to make you unconscious; only your cooperation is needed. And any operation is possible under hypnosis. Even if it takes hours, even if many hours are needed, hypnosis is enough, no anesthetic is needed. Many hospitals have started using it. Childbirth can be made absolutely...

... used to achieve the supreme pleasure of their life through childbirth. That has remained in their unconscious still - they want to be a mother. A father is just a formality. You don't achieve anything through becoming a father; you don't give any birth, you are just a spectator. So the father is just a social convention. The mother is a natural phenomenon. The father can be discarded any day, it is...

... not problems. They are so unconscious. blissfully unconscious, ignorant, that there is no possibility of there being any awareness of problems. Problems are there, but animals are not aware. There are no problems for gods because they are totally conscious. When the mind is a total consciousness, problems simply disappear like darkness. But for man there is anguish. The very being of man, the very...

.... So man can regress to the animal level. It is blissful, but temporary. That is the reason why intoxicants, drugs, alcohol, have such an appeal. When you become unconscious through some chemical you have fallen back for a moment. For the time being you are not a man, you are not a problem. You are again part of the world of animals, the unconscious existence. Then you are not a man; that is why...

... again, and every time you forget and regress, your problems are growing: you will have to face your humanity again and again. One cannot escape that way. One can deceive oneself, but one cannot escape that way. The other alternative is arduous: that is, to grow to be a being. When I say "regress", I mean to become unconscious - to lose the small consciousness that we have. When I say "...

... create another world of problems; I will go on projecting new problems. This man, unconscious to his own being, unaware of himself, is the creator of problems. Not knowing who he is, what he is, without any acquaintance with himself, he goes on creating problems - because unless you know yourself you cannot know for what you are existing and living, you cannot know where you have to move, you cannot...

... drugs. The reason is not moral or ethical - no! And the so-called moralist puritans have given a very wrong colour to the whole thing. For religions, it is not a question of morality that someone takes drugs. It is not a question of morality at all because morality only begins when I come in contact with someone else. If I take alcohol and become unconscious, it is no one else's affair. I am doing...

... help you to be unconscious. It will not help you to be conscious. And anything that becomes a barrier in being more aware is a religious problem, not a moral problem. So sometimes it happens that you may find an alcoholic to be a more moral person than a non- alcoholic, but never a more religious person. An alcoholic may be more compassionate than a nonalcoholic; he may be more loving than a non...

... begin to feel a center in you because in danger you become aware. If someone is going to kill you, you cannot think in that moment, you cannot be unconscious in that moment. Your whole energy is centered, and that moment becomes solid. You cannot move to the past, you cannot move to the future. This very moment becomes everything. And then you are not only aware of the killer: you become aware of...

.... This has to be discovered, and awareness means the method to discover this innermost core. The more unconscious you are, the further away you are from yourself. The more conscious, the nearer you reach to yourself. If the consciousness is total, you are at the center. If the consciousness is less, you are near the periphery. When you are unconscious, you are on the periphery where the center is...

... they are religious just because they are following outer symbols,. with no inner fire. Make efforts even if you are a failure. You will be in the beginning. You will fail again and again, but even your failure will help. When you fail to be aware for a single moment, you feel for the first time how unconscious you are. Walk down the street, and you cannot walk a few steps without becoming unconscious...

.... Again and again you forget yourself. You begin to read a signboard, and you forget yourself. Someone passes, you look at him, then you forget yourself. Your failures will be helpful. They can show you how unconscious you are. And even if you can become aware that you are unconscious, you have gained a certain awareness. If a madman becomes aware that he is mad, he is on the path toward sanity...

... that things are coming up in you that you were never aware could even exist in you. When you are too self-conscious, you become narrow. When the self-consciousness is not there, your unconscious starts pouring. And your unconscious is not yours only - it is collective. All the karate teachers that have ever been, are, and will be, can all speak through your unconscious. One great experiment was done...

... in china a few years ago. They hypnotised a few art students who were learning painting. They told each student, in hypnosis that he was a particular master of the past - that he was a van gogh. They put the idea deep into the unconscious, and immediately the next day the student's paintings started changing. He was an ordinary student, and within months he became rare - he started being very...

... talented and a genius. Something of van gogh started penetrating in him... something of the van gogh touch, the same depth, the same vision - and he was not aware! Every day he would go to the hypnotist and the hypnotist would hypnotise him and suggest to the student that he was van gogh, reincarnated; that his soul was that of van gogh. How did this unconscious idea work?... And it worked on many...

... is possible then one can hypnotise all the mathematical students and tell them that they are albert einstein, and their I.Q. will simply go upwards so fast... unbelievably fast. My understanding is that whether you give a suggestion to it, or not, the unconscious is not personal, it is universal. So when you are learning karate or teaching karate, all that has been done about it becomes available...

... to your unconscious. Just by learning karate or teaching karate, you are putting an idea inside your unconscious... without any hypnosis! This too is a hypnosis. That idea will function like a bait, and things will start pouring from your unconscious reservoir. So one basic thing to be remembered is: never be a performer, otherwise you become very self- conscious. Performers never become first rate...

...; they remain second rate. The very fear that you can fail, and the very desire to succeed, does not allow you to relax. So it is difficult to relax when you are learning, but when you are teaching it is very easy. So relax completely, and let the unconscious take over. And you will be surprised that great things are happening... great help is available. And whenever you need me, or you feel stuck...