Post by thakkarviral1 on Dec 12, 2017 9:16:39 GMT
Mind certainly is a mechanism
for recording experiences
from the outside, and reacting
and responding accordingly.
It is not you….!!
Beyond mind, there is an awareness
which is not given by the outside
and which is not an idea -- and there is
no experiment up to now which has found
any center in the brain which
corresponds to awareness…!
The whole work of religion, of meditation
is to make you aware of all that is mind
and disidentify yourself with it.
When the mind is angry, you should think,
"It is simply a gramophone record."
When the mind is sad, you should simply
remember: it is only a gramophone record.
A certain situation is pressing
the remote controller, and you feel sad,
you feel angry, you feel frustrated,
you feel worried, you feel tense –
all these things are coming from the outside,
and the mind is responding to them.
But you are the watcher…
You are not the actor. It is not your reaction!
Hence the whole art of meditation is
to learn awareness, alertness, consciousness.
While you are feeling angry, don't repress it;
let it be there. Just become aware.
See it as if it is some object outside you.
Slowly slowly, go on cutting
your identifications with the mind.
Then you have found
your real individuality,
your being, your soul....!!
Finding this awareness is enlightenment –
you have become luminous...!*
-osho-
for recording experiences
from the outside, and reacting
and responding accordingly.
It is not you….!!
Beyond mind, there is an awareness
which is not given by the outside
and which is not an idea -- and there is
no experiment up to now which has found
any center in the brain which
corresponds to awareness…!
The whole work of religion, of meditation
is to make you aware of all that is mind
and disidentify yourself with it.
When the mind is angry, you should think,
"It is simply a gramophone record."
When the mind is sad, you should simply
remember: it is only a gramophone record.
A certain situation is pressing
the remote controller, and you feel sad,
you feel angry, you feel frustrated,
you feel worried, you feel tense –
all these things are coming from the outside,
and the mind is responding to them.
But you are the watcher…
You are not the actor. It is not your reaction!
Hence the whole art of meditation is
to learn awareness, alertness, consciousness.
While you are feeling angry, don't repress it;
let it be there. Just become aware.
See it as if it is some object outside you.
Slowly slowly, go on cutting
your identifications with the mind.
Then you have found
your real individuality,
your being, your soul....!!
Finding this awareness is enlightenment –
you have become luminous...!*
-osho-
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