.... As you meditate, you will pass many layers of the mind - from the conscious to the unconscious, from the unconscious to the collective unconscious, from the collective unconscious to the cosmic unconscious. This is your darker side, your night of the soul. And you will meet strange dreams, strange phenomena. Western psychology is completely lost into the unconscious part of your being, the darker...

.... It becomes psychoanalysis, just analysis of dreams. In the East, we have not bothered about the unconscious part, because with the same effort you can move to the other side of your being, the lighter side, the day of your life where sun shines forth in an unclouded sky. From conscious to superconscious, from superconscious to collective superconscious, and from collective superconscious to cosmic...

... WE OFTEN LIVE OUT THE CONTENT OF THE UNCONSCIOUS IN A SYMBOLIC FORM. FOR EXAMPLE, THE WISH FOR A LOVE AFFAIR WITH ONE'S SISTER IS PLAYED OUT IN THE DREAM AS A LOVE AFFAIR WITH HER BEST FRIEND. IN THIS SITUATION, WHO IS DOING THE CENSORING AND WHY? The conditioning of the conscious mind has gone so deep that even in sleep it won't allow a few things. Even in deep hypnosis it won't allow a few things...

..., but it was with my willing cooperation. On this point I was not willing." So even in dreams the long training of your mind will interfere to change the dream, to make it as if you are chasing the best friend of your sister. But your unconscious desire is for your sister, the best friend is only a substitute. But the conditioned conscious has deep roots which have gone even into the unconscious...

..., fully awake, and will be angry at you that you wanted him to do something which is not right. So it is the conscious mind... but conscious mind, unconscious mind, these are just arbitrary divisions. There are not really walls between them, that they cannot cross each other. There are no divisions, these are just lines on the map. They are all one piece, just one part has become conscious; the other...

... part has not become conscious - but they are joined. So even in dreams there is a censor. And all your dreams, unless they are not against your conditioning, are distorted. And that is the whole work of the psychoanalyst, to find out where they have been distorted and put things right. To find out what was actually wanted by the unconscious, but was diverted by the conscious, that is the whole art of...

... psychoanalysis: to find it out, and to lead the unconscious to exactly the point where it wanted to go, and make you aware of it. And once you become aware of it - that you wanted to make love to your sister, it was not her best friend, you are not interested in her at all - once this is clearly understood, the dream will not appear again, because now there is no point: you have accepted the fact that that was...

... the unconscious desire. And there is no sin in it. All taboos are man-created. It is good for biological reasons that brothers and sisters don't get married. But in India, the ancient story is that in the beginning, the child was born with his partner - the boy with the girl together, they were twins. So he was born with the wife; there was no question of choice or finding or astrology or anything...

.... Because why you are keeping his pillow? I can understand he has gone crazy. But why you are keeping his pillow?" (Tape side C) I said, "That's right, because I was waiting for nine o'clock." And I told him and his brother that, "You don't know, because now you are in your conscious mind. But yesterday when you were hypnotized you were in your unconscious mind, and I have put the idea...

... in your unconscious mind. "And conscious mind is very small: one-tenth of the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is nine times bigger. Nine times more powerful. And it knows no reason, no why. I have put the idea in your head, don't be worried. That's why I was keeping the pillow here, because you may have done it in your room and nobody would have seen it. I wanted your brother to see it...

... anything in which you think you can be a failure. First make every surety that you are going to win, because it is a question of your whole personality. And that's what hypnosis can do. Just it can make you so strong, because it is coming from the unconscious now. The cigarette has not reached to the unconscious. It is just a conscious habit. And if dropping comes from the unconscious, the conscious...

... state when you are relaxed but fall into a peaceful sleep leads you towards the unconscious mind. Certainly the first state is far superior to the second, but the second may also be necessary for you; otherwise it would not have been happening. Remember one principle: whatever happens is somehow needed, whether we understand it or not. They look totally different - not only different, but...

... consciousness is nil. And good intentions in the hands of unconscious people are dangerous; they cannot bring about the result they are intending. They may create just the opposite. Every parent is trying to bring a beautiful child into the world, but looking at the world it seems it is an orphanage. There has been no parent at all. In fact if it were an orphanage, it would have been far better, because you...

... upbringing, good intentions, bad results, where everybody is trying to do the best and the world goes on becoming worse and worse. Your parents were not so fortunate to have a master - and you are being angry at them. You should feel kind, compassionate, loving. Whatever they did was unconscious. They could not have done otherwise. All that they knew they have tried on you. They were miserable, and they...

... world; the other will grow in a fridge, unconscious, but all his parts will be exactly the same as the other person. And if the first person is in an accident and loses a leg or loses a kidney, or has to be operated on, there is no problem: his carbon copy is waiting in the hospital. From the carbon copy a kidney can be taken out - he is growing exactly at the same rate, he is just unconscious - and...

... AND FOR SOME BEAUTIFUL MOMENTS IT IS VERY EASY TO NOT GET ENGAGED. BUT THEN AS THE DISCOURSE ENDS OR I BEGIN SOME ACTIVITY I SEEM TO GO COMPLETELY UNCONSCIOUS, UNABLE TO STOP THE MOMENTUM OF MY MIND AND MY DOING. THERE IS JUST A NAGGING MEMORY OF THE SILENCE AND A FEELING OF BEING UNCENTERED AGAIN AND MISSING. PLEASE COMMENT. There is no need to worry - and don't be greedy! Whatever is happening is...

... three seconds so that sleep can settle. If the mind continues, then sleep cannot settle. But because you are coming from the world of the mind - the whole day the mind making noise - you may not recognize it. But soon you will recognize it. Your problem is that after the lecture when you start working, then suddenly you fall unconscious. It is natural. In the beginning you cannot be so conscious, so...

.... And people think that if a saint sleeps only two hours he is such a great saint - he only sleeps for two hours! And the reason why he only sleeps for two hours is fear - fear of his own unconscious. It is not a simple life, it is very complex. He goes on starving himself in the name of fasting, as if starving your body is going to help you in any way to come closer to God - as if God is a sadist and...

... mechanism: before you die you become unconscious. It is as if death used anesthesia; so does birth. Birth also happens in unconsciousness. Just think. One thing is certain: that you were born. You may not be so certain about your past lives - maybe it is just a theory - but one thing is absolutely certain: that you were born one day. At least this life is there. Do you remember anything of your birth? And...

..., because who cares to go far away? Just in the neighborhood some foolish couple is ready to receive you. There was birth, but you were unconscious. Birth also happens in unconsciousness, because that too is a very painful process - it is a kind of death. You lived in the womb for nine motnhs, it was your life for nine months, and the nine months in the womb are not nine months for the child; for the...

... is all that that he knows; beyond the womb all is unknown. Death is painful, so is birth. Hence there is a natural mechanism: the child is born in an unconscious state and the old man dies in an unconscious state. Doctors, surgeons, have been using anesthetic processes only recently - chloroform, etcetera - but death and birth have been using them since eternity began. When you die, before the...

... exact moment of death you become unconscious, because it is going to be very painful. Just think. Your consciousness, which has become so attached to the body for seventy, eighty or ninety years.... You have become so identified with the body, you will cling, you will do everything that you can to remain in the body. Now again you are being thrown out of the body - and so many desires are unfulfilled...

... discovered it but sooner or later they will find it: that the body has chemical processes which are released at the time of death and the person becomes unconscious. Just as in anger certain chemicals are released in your blood and you become mad - a momentary kind of madness, your own glands do it... when you become sexually possessed it is your glands releasing certain secretions - and you are not...

... conscious, you become almost unconscious. Death is one of the most painful processes. So, Pratima, you can die, but you will die unconsciously. Death will not wake you up, it will make you more unconscious. The only way to be awakened is to be in communion with someone who is already awakened. The only way - there is no other - is to be in the company of the awakened one, is to be in the commune of the...

... BEING AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT WE SHOULD AND CAN BE DISAPPEARS. WHY DOES THIS PHENOMENON HAPPEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN? Arthur Sambrooks, it is something very natural to the unconscious state of humanity. The living master is a danger, but the dead master is no more a danger. The living master can wake you up; you cannot dodge him, he simply goes like an arrow into the heart. But a dead master is a dead master...

... image. When you worship a master you start creating a master to your own idea - hence the myth springs up. The myth comes from your unconscious. The master is physically dead, now you want him to be spiritually dead too. The myth will do it: he will become spiritually dead too. Your myth is a lie! And the more the master becomes surrounded by myth and fictions, the more and more unreal he becomes...

... have done this wrong and that wrong, and you have been doing millions of wrongs. You have been unconscious here for so long that if you start counting all of that, it will create a kind of morbidness. You will become so guilty that, rather than growing. you will fall into great darkness. So if guilt arises and you become morbid and you become too troubled by the past, you will remain in the second...

... valley. You will not be able to surpass it. If the past becomes too important, then naturally you will be continuously crying and weeping and beating your chest and saying, 'What wrong I have been doing!' The positive part is that you should become concerned with the future, not with the past. Yes, you have noted that you have been wrong, but that was natural because you were unconscious. So there is...

... no need to feel guilty. How could one be right when one was unconscious? You have taken note of it - that your whole past has been wrong - but it does not create a burden on your chest. You take note of it. That taking note helps you because you will not be able to do it again - you are finished with it. You feel sad that you have been hurting so many people in so many ways, but you feel joyous...

... thing to do. Explore what ego is, and explore joyously. Explore what lust is, and explore joyously. Then comes the fourth valley: the valley of tribulations. Entry into the unconscious happens in the fourth valley. Up to now you were confined to the world of the conscious. Now, for the first time, you will enter into the deeper realms of your being, the unconscious, the darker part, the night part. Up...

... unconscious. It is the entry into what Christian mystics have called 'the dark night of the soul'. It is the entry into the mad world that you are hiding behind yourself. It is very weird, it is very bizarre. Up to the third a man can proceed without a Master, but not beyond the third. Up to the third one can go on one's own. With the fourth a Master is a must. And when I am saying that one can go up to the...

... arises. Surrender has to become your climate. The fifth valley... the thundering valley. In the fifth valley you enter death. In the fourth you entered sleep, darkness; in the fifth you enter death. Or, if you like to use modern terminology for it: in the fourth you enter the personal unconscious; in the fifth you enter the collective unconscious. Great fear arises because you are losing your...

... individuality. In the fourth you were losing light, day, but you were there. In the fifth you are losing yourself - you don't feel as if you are, you are dispersing, you are melting. Your feeling that 'I am a centre' starts becoming vague, cloudy. With entry into death, entry into the collective unconscious, great fear arises, great anguish is felt - the greatest anguish that you will ever feel - because...

... very unconscious core of his mind - he may not have been aware of it. He had waited long enough, the last point had come. He had carried his cross on the hill, he had suffered all kinds of humiliation, but he had waited, patiently waited - waited for this moment. Now his hands have been nailed. Now it is a question of seconds and he will be gone. Now there is no time left to wait any more and the...

... unconscious. Maybe your conscious mind says "I am not interested" and your unconscious mind is interested. Perhaps there is no bridge between your unconscious and conscious; perhaps you can't listen to your unconscious or the messages that it gives to you. You have forgotten the language of the unconscious, you are closed in your conscious. And this question arises out of fear - fear that you may...

... good bank balance - it is happy only with things that it can control. It wants to remain the master. That's why the conscious mind creates barriers between itself and its own depth, the unconscious - so that no messages reach. The unconscious is NATURALLY interested in God. God is not a creation of thinkers; it is a deep urge, a great longing, in the very core of human beings. No man is really a man...

... unless he starts searching for God. No man has really taken account of his humanity unless he becomes interested in meditation. No man is yet courageous enough until he starts risking his life for the unknown. The desire is arising from your unconscious. Like a tidal wave it comes - but you are closing yourself against it. So you cannot leave this place, and you cannot get into meditation or into...

... mentally calculating the enormous cost of all this food - the most expensive items on the menu and more suitable for a wedding feast than for a dinner for two. "D... d... do you eat like this at home?" he stammered, his face blushing red again. "No," replied Debbie. "But then, no one at home desperately wants to go to bed with me." Deep down in the unconscious, things are...

... afraid, you are shaken. You may have come here accidentally - a friend simply mentioned me, or you came across an orange sannyasin at the airport or in some place, and just by the way you became curious. But remember, at the airport there were thousands of other people - they didn't become curious, you became curious. There must be something in your unconscious that was waiting to be triggered by this...

... suicide. The old man is piling up atom bombs, hydrogen bombs, in order to commit a collective suicide. This is a very unconscious desire. Rather than allowing the new man to be, the old man would like to destroy the whole thing. You have to understand, you have to protect the new, because the new carries the whole future with it. And man has come to a stage where a great quantum leap is possible. The...

.... And remember, I am not saying it is going to be against money, it WILL USE money. In the past money has used man, in the past man has lived in such an unconscious way that he thought he possessed things, but things possessed him. The new man will be able to use things. The new man will use money, will use technology, but the new man will remain the master. He is not going to become a victim, an...

... SO MANY FOODS FORBIDDEN BY MY FATHER, FORBIDDEN BY HIS FATHERS FOR THE SO-CALLED CHOSEN PEOPLE. MAYBE AN EXTERNAL, NON-EXISTENTIAL MORALITY IMPOSED ON MY EARLY YEARS BLUNTED MY SENSITIVITY? BUT NOW IT HURTS SO MUCH TO HAVE NAUSEATED YOU. THIS DECISION AND A SMALL LIGHT FILL ME. Pradeepa, it is not that you nauseated me, something in you... And, of course, you are unconscious, that is why I have...

... been so drastic and hard on you - so that you can become conscious of it. Just a habit.... And when a person is born in a non-vegetarian family it is natural to learn the ways of the family, just as vegetarians learn the ways of a vegetarian family. Both are unconscious. And I don't give any value to the unconscious vegetarian - he is not superior to the unconscious non-vegetarian - because both are...

... unconscious. Only consciousness has value. If you are consciously vegetarian then there is some value in it, otherwise there is no value. In India there are so many vegetarians - unconscious, just because by accident they were taught vegetarianism in their childhood. They have learned it. You have learned, in the same way, non- vegetarian habits. You are both alike. There is no difference - not at all - not...

... will show; on black cloth it won't show. When your whole being is unconscious and there is no silence and all is noise, you can be non-vegetarian. It will not make much difference, it will not show - there is no contrast to show it up. You can be a cannibal and it will not show. But when you start getting clean, some space inside becomes fresh, young, natural, some part of you becomes clear, is...

..., the more and more you will have to drop any unnecessary luggage. Only then you can fly. This is unnecessary luggage. But remember, it is not that you have nauseated me, it is just an unconscious habit in you that has nauseated me. And you are not your habit. The habit can be dropped, and you will come closer to me and you will be able to receive more of my love. And you don't know how much I have to...

... in love - and the ultimate is prayer - then all tangibility disappears. And when you for the first time feel love AS prayer, love as pure sky, uncontaminated by any form, then certainly the other experience will arise: that it is felt by something in you which is not known to you. It is felt by your superconscious. Sex is unconscious, earthly, the lowest form of love. Love is conscious, higher than...

... laughter, or dance - very indirectly. And when the highest is felt, it provokes the highest in you: it is felt by the superconscious. These are the three stages of the mind: unconscious, conscious, superconscious. Unconscious is material, super-conscious is immaterial, and conscious is just midway. If you fall backwards, it is sex that goes on in the name of love; it is ninety-nine percent not love...

... somebody who is hiding?" And so many questions... just jokingly. A great crowd gathered. And then suddenly the man said, "Do you know that WE have killed God? - you and I. But it seems the news has not yet reached you. It takes time. You and I - we have killed God. But we have killed him in such an unconscious way that the news will take time to reach you. I can understand why you are laughing...

... - because you are not aware of what you have done." From the unconscious to the conscious it is a long distance. When you become a sannyasin, if it is coming from your deep unconscious, only then does your sannyas have some authenticity - but then you will not be aware of what is happening. I will see something happening, I will see a great change of gestalt in your being. I will see the old...

... disappearing and the new appearing... but you will not be aware of it. You are fortunate if you can even hear a few whisperings from the unconscious. It will take time, years. But it has already happened, Bhagavato. A criminal was sentenced to death by chopping off his head. They got the best executioner for him. On the appointed day, when everything was ready and the poor delinquent stood there before a...

... there is every possibility of a split. In fact, yes cannot exist without a no existing somewhere behind it - yes and no are aspects of one and the same coin, two sides. When you say yes, somewhere you have already said no. When you say no, somewhere you have already said yes - they go in a pair. You can watch it in your own life: whenever you say yes, there is lurking somewhere in your unconscious a...

... will assert itself with a vengeance; it will carry the wound, the humiliation, the insult. It will become your dark part. Psychologists say that only one part of the mind is conscious, nine parts are unconscious. How are these nine parts created? And what is contained by these nine parts of the unconscious? These are the noes that you have been saying. Yes has become your conscious, but it is only...

... real war rested upon Bheema. There were reasons for this. Even Duryodhana could never have depended upon a nice person like Arjuna for engaging in a war such as this. Duryodhana too has doubts in his mind regarding the steadiness of Arjuna. Duryodhana has some deep, unconscious feeling that Arjuna might desert the battlefield. Thus his understanding seems to be that if this war should proceed at all...

... pillow and go to sleep. During the night she would wake up and do it. Throughout the day, Madama Curie remained as an individual. At night in sleep the ego disappears, the drop meets the ocean. The problem that our conscious mind is not able to solve is solved by the unconscious, which deep down is united with the supreme spirit. Once, Archimedes could not solve a problem. He was in serious trouble...

.... But whatever discoveries that have taken place so far are because of one's connection with the unknown, because of one's surrendering. In the future too, discoveries will take place only when one has surrendered. Except through the door of surrender, one has neither arrived at truth in the past, nor will one ever arrive in the future. BELOVED OSHO, THIS STATEMENT OF YOURS THAT THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND...

... IS ALWAYS UNITED WITH GOD CREATES DIFFICULTIES. JUNG EXPLAINED THIS LATER ON BY RELATING MYTHOLOGY WITH THE "COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS. BUT WHEN FREUD SAYS THAT THE UNCONSCIOUS IS ALSO CONNECTED WITH SATAN, THE PROBLEM BECOMES MORE ACUTE. Freud does believe that our unconscious mind is not only connected with God but also with Satan. Actually "God" and "Satan" are our words...

.... When we do not like a thing, we say that it is connected with Satan; and when we like a certain thing, we say that it is connected with God. What I am saying is simply that the unconscious mind is connected with the unknown. And to me the unknown is God, and as far as I am concerned, Satan is included in God - not separate from him. In fact, the mind tends to believe that what we dislike must have...

.... Division, polarity, in life are only man-made. Freud says that the unconscious mind is joined with Satan. Freud was associated with Jewish thought. He was born in a Jewish family. Since childhood he had learned about the conflict between God and Satan. Jewish people have made a division: one belongs to Satan and the other belongs to God. Actually, it is a division of the human mind. So Freud thought that...

... whenever bad things surface from the unconscious, Satan must be responsible for them. No, there is nothing like Satan. If we do come across a Satan anywhere, then we are making a fundamental mistake. A religious person is incapable of seeing a Satan. There is nothing but God around us. And the unconscious - where the scientist finds the truth, or the religious person finds the truth - is a door to God...