... thing more: when a child is asleep he can be taught more easily because there is no distraction. His unconscious can be taught directly, which is easier. When we teach a child through his consciousness it is difficult, because ultimately the teaching has to reach to the unconscious, only then it becomes yours. And to reach to the unconscious through the conscious it takes long time, long repetition...

.... You have to go on repeating again and again and again, then only slowly slowly it settles to the bottom of the conscious, and from that bottom slowly it penetrates into the unconscious. But in deep sleep, or more precisely in hypnosis - hypnosis means sleep, deliberately created sleep - you can reach directly to the unconscious; the conscious can be bypassed, and a thing can be put into the...

... unconscious. The conscious will not know anything about it. Krishnamurti was taught all the great scriptures in a deep hypnosis; he has completely forgotten. Not only that: he has been even manipulated to write while he was in hypnosis. His first book, AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER, was written under hypnosis, hence he simply shrugs his shoulders when you ask about that first book - which is really a rare...

... need not remember it, it becomes your blood, your bones, it is you. Whatsoever you do will be done through that understanding; it is an unconscious phenomenon. Rules are conscious, understanding is unconscious, and Chuang Tzu is always in favour of the unconscious. The whole tradition of Tao is for the unconscious. Don't force rules, just try to understand things. If you force rules upon yourself you...

... goes deep within you, it becomes an inner conflict. Your father and your mother may be dead, no longer in this world, but they are within your unconscious - still fighting. They will never leave you in peace. Whatsoever you do, your father says do it, then your mother says don't. Your inner conflict is your parent's conflict. And then there are uncles and brothers and sisters and many relatives and...

... that is coming up. He was always afraid that I wouldn't listen to him. He loved me. Your parents also loved you, your teachers also loved you, but they are unconscious, they don't know what they are doing. Even though they love you something goes wrong, and that something is that they try to give you something according to themselves. He wanted me to become a great university professor, somewhere in...

... in your dreams you never see yourself naked, you always see yourself with your clothes on. This is something! It has gone very deep. Even in dreams you never see yourself naked, society naked. No! Clothes have gone into the very unconscious, because a dream is an unconscious phenomenon. At least in a dream you should be natural, but even there you are not natural; masks, faces continue. This whole...

...; Don't create the opposite end, because if you create the opposite end you are trying to create masks. Anger will remain, your forgiveness will be just a false face; sex will be there, moving deeper and deeper in the unconscious, and on your face there will be a mask of BRAHMACHARYA. That is not going to help. I have heard: One scientist was working to find the secret of diamonds. He worked hard and...

... the one question he had come to ask. Somewhere deep down in the unconscious, sex must have been the problem, the real problem. Working with diamonds, finding the secret of diamonds, must have been a distraction. Deep down in the unconscious he must have been thinking, "When I become the richest man in the world, all the women, all the beautiful women, will be mine" - somewhere, although he...

... may not have been aware of it. You can go on working on the surface without being aware of the unconscious, but at the right moment it will come, it will explode. Escape is futile. Only transformation can be helpful, and transformation needs deep acceptance of your being as you are. With no judgment, not saying, "This is good, that is bad" - with no evaluation. Don't be a judge! Just trust...

... of a conscious, alert person, transforms its quality. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, but his vegetarianism was not good. His vegetarianism was evil, because it was coming out of a totally unconscious mind. He never smoked, he never drank alcohol, he lived the life of a celibate. He was almost a monk - a Jaina monk. If you look at his life, he lived it in a very disciplined way. He was not in any...

... way an evil person - never gambled, never even played cards. But he was not good, he was not virtuous. All that was coming out of an unconscious mind. If you find Jesus drinking... yes, he used to drink, he enjoyed drinking. And I don't think there is anything wrong in drinking if you can drink the way Jesus drank, with absolute awareness; then there is nothing wrong in drinking. Then drinking, too...

... and walked out of the confessional. His friend, Michael, was waiting outside. "Well, Paddy, did ya get yar sins forgiven?" "No," said Paddy, "but I got the names of a few good broads!" If you are unconscious you may go to get forgiven, you may go to confession, but it is not going to help - you will remain the same. Foolishness tends to persist. Beware of these...

.... Everything great in this life is fragile and everything ugly is rocklike, very strong. Weeds grow on their own accord. You have not cultivated anger and you have not cultivated lust. There are no schools where you are taught how to be jealous and how to be greedy. No teachers, no masters are needed to teach you how to be unconscious. These things grow on their own accord. Falling downwards is easy; rising...

... HATRED, ILLUSION AND DESIRE. Passion creates many things in you. It creates fever, it makes you more unconscious - more unconscious than you already are. It drags you deeper into the mud. And with passion come hatred, illusion and desire - and then you are distracted from your nature. Your nature is poisoned, your innocence is poisoned. You lose all simplicity, all humbleness. Beware of the poisoning...

... conditioning them. They talk about love, but it is all false. They themselves may not be aware of it - that is true - they may not know what they are doing: they are unconscious. Their parents have done something to them, they are doing the same to their children. People go on giving things to people that have been given to them. Their intentions may be good, but they don't have enough awareness. They are...

... the answer. Once in a while people go crazy and that is the time when they get married, that is the time when they commit themselves for their whole lives - but only in craziness. And love is, in the ordinary way, something crazy. It is biological, instinctive, it is unconscious, it is hormonal. It is more chemistry than spirituality! That's why we can change the man into a woman and the woman into...

... the mystery of woman and the woman remains intrigued with the mystery of man. And there is not much of a mystery, it is only chemistry! So what you call love is an unconscious biological force - you are at the mercy of a biological force. It comes and it goes. Neither can you bring it nor can you force it to remain, because it has nothing to do with your consciousness. But commitment is conscious...

..., and what you are committing yourself to is unconscious! There is no link between the two. I cannot say, Susan, that commitment is absolutely necesSary if a relationship is to work. And who has ever heard of a relationship working? No relationship ever works... only in the beginning, but by the time it really starts getting hold of you it is too late. In the beginning it is sweet, beautiful, because...

... relationship is working. Yes, if love becomes-conscious, then there is a tremendous joy - it works. Love ordinarily is unconscious and animal. If you make it conscious - that means love plus meditation - then there is a totally different quality to it, a different beauty, a different flavour; then it works. But it works because of consciousness not because of love. And consciousness changes love from...

..., then the conscious person will choose freedom and the unconscious one will choose love. Why did Buddha escape from his palace? There was enough love, in fact more than a man can digest. His father had gathered all the beautiful women available in his kingdom; he was surrounded by beautiful women. He escaped - he could see the bondage. A great desire for freedom arose in him. That's why in the East...

... the body, nothing happens. Then you can either be aware or unconscious: these are the two possibilities. If you are unconscious then you cannot remember. If you are conscious then you can remember. But the remembrance is only of the gap; there are no events. Question 2: WERE YOU FULLY CONSCIOUS OF THE GAP BETWEEN YOUR LAST DEATH AND THIS BIRTH? Yes, I was fully conscious for those seven hundred...

... he had learned in Germany. And those techniques can create horror, because first you are filled with social conditionings, and on top of it you are hypnotized. In hypnosis you reach to your unconscious mind, where all conditionings exist. You are in a volcanic state. There are going to be horrors because you may remember your childhood, and all that has happened to you since your childhood, which...

... you have repressed. Remember, nobody represses any pleasant experience -- why should one repress a pleasant experience? In fact one tries to exaggerate it, to himself and to others, as much as he can. One represses only things which are unpleasant. So your unconscious is full of serpents and scorpions and dragons that you have repressed because you did not want to know about them and you did not...

.... What you are doing, you are not doing -- it is your unconscious which is forcing you to do it." He said, "That is the trouble. That's what I feel. Something in me says, `Kiss,' and I know that this is stupid. This is only a pillow. Why should I kiss it?" You can, under hypnosis, manage anything if you are a person who is just trying to cheat people. You can even tell the person to...

... next day -- his unconscious got it. There is no need to fear. People can be helped with diseases, because almost seventy percent of diseases are mental. They may be expressed through the body, but their origin is in the mind. And if you can put in the mind the idea that the disease has disappeared, that you need not worry about it, it does not exist any more, the disease will disappear. I have tried...

... in India -- Mohammedans do it, Tibetans do it, Burmese do it... dancing in the fire without being burned. But these are not ordinary people, they are monks. For years they have been hypnotized, and this thing has settled in their unconscious -- that fire cannot burn them. But remember, only seventy percent... And that reminds me of a strange phenomenon that physiologists, medical people, and others...

... woman can be a cat only with a mouse - and that's why you are angry. Seeing a woman, you are reminded that you are a dog, you are a mouse. Your male chauvinist attitude hurts. It is simply an unconscious reaction, and you have to be watchful of the reaction so that it can disappear. It is undignified of you. It shows something about you - not about the woman. It is your anger, it is your hate. If you...

... has so much power over you. The woman is beautiful, attractive... her beauty, her body, her attraction and you become just a beggar - and you are going to take revenge for that too. But everything is going on in an unconscious state. You are not aware of what you are doing and why. Man is almost magnetically pulled by the woman. He can see that he is just a puppet. How can he forgive the woman who...

...; they are part of your unconscious. And these places like Khajuraho were kinds of universities where people were coming to release, to cathart repressed sexuality. And all these statutes are outside the temple. Inside the temple there is no erotic sculpture. In fact, inside most of the temples there is nothing - just silence, a cool peaceful milieu, with the vibes of thousands of years of people...

... inside the BIBLE. What he is seeing in a pornographic magazine brings up his own unconscious. This was used as a meditation technique in Khajuraho. In the West it is used to create more thirst for the same sexuality which has been aroused by the pornographic magazine, by blue films, by naked dances and striptease. The same method was used to transform your energy into spirituality. In the West it is...

... fragment of human nature for a greater change, a mutation, to bring something higher in you of which you are capable but unconscious. Question 4: BELOVED OSHO, ONE SIDE OF ME IS RECEPTIVE AND VULNERABLE. THE OTHER SIDE IS STRONG AND POWERFUL. WHEN I LEAVE MY ROOM, I PUT OUT MY STRONG AND POWERFUL SIDE TO PROTECT MYSELF. BUT MY RECEPTIVE SIDE LIKES TO DANCE AND ENJOY EXISTENCE. I'M IN A MESS. PLEASE...

... biology. There is no way to destroy it. Either you can condemn and repress it, or you can understand and transform it. But the second is a long and arduous path and needs tremendous intelligence, awareness - because sex is an unconscious force in you. Each cell in your body is made of it, is vibrant with it. Your conscious mind is nothing compared to your unconscious sexual energy; hence the fear that...

... the unconscious can take possession of you any moment. But to repress seems to be easier. Repression needs no intelligence in the first place; any idiot can do it. In fact, only idiots do it. I have been surprised, seeing hundreds of monks in India belonging to different religions - they are all repressing their sexuality. My surprise was that the more they repress their sexuality, the more stupid...

... capacity to control it anymore. Then people find rationalizations. Then he started to sleep with a naked woman - but he had a cunning mind, he rationalized it. He said he was just testing whether anywhere in his unconscious the woman still had some attraction. Does he still feel fascinated by a naked young girl? And he was beyond seventy and the girl he was sleeping with was only twenty. This was not...

... possible only if it is somewhere deep down in your own unconscious too. As far as I'm concerned, I trust everybody, even those who have betrayed me. I still trust them, because my trust is unconditional. It does not depend on you, it depends on me. If you choose to betray, that is your business, but you cannot destroy my trust in you. Do you see the point? Because I trust unconditionally, you cannot...

... always the other who dies. I never die." You must have seen many people dying, giving you a strong support, a rational background that it is always the other who dies. And when you die, you will not know, you will be unconscious - you will miss the opportunity of knowing death. Those who have known death are unanimous in their opinion that it is the greatest orgasmic experience of life. But people...

... was setting - and the wife was crying, and the children were crying, and the brothers were crying, and the old father and the old mother had become unconscious. Eknath reached the house, and they all said, "You have come right in time. Just bless him; he is going for an unknown journey." And in seven days that man had changed so much; even Eknath had to make an effort to recognize him. He...

... should be the days of meditation, love, compassion, friendliness, playfulness, laughter; and if you can do that, you will be rewarded by a conscious death. That is the reward of a conscious life. An unconscious life comes to die unconsciously. A conscious life is rewarded by existence with a conscious death. And to die consciously is to know the ultimate orgasmic experience of life, and to know...

... to you: death is fiction. There is no death because nothing dies, only things change. And if you are aware, you can make them change for the better. That's how evolution happens. That's how an unconscious man becomes a Gautam Buddha. Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS COMING FROM MY OFFICE FOR YOUR DISCOURSE, I WAS FEELING VERY MUCH DEPRESSED, TIRED AND TENSE; BUT AFTER THE DISCOURSE I...

... constant watchfulness. I cannot be unconscious even for a single moment, it is too risky." The king asked, "Where is your treasure?" The man laughed. He said, "You will not understand. My treasure is within me. And the more I am aware - whether it is day or night - the deeper I am reaching into myself." It was for the first time the king saw the man so closely - a beautiful man...