Make The Effort, Explore Your True Potential
We have to make our unconscious full of light. No nook or corner should be left without light snide you. Only one-tenth of our mind is onscious; nine-tenths is in darkness. eep darkness. We are like an iceberg: ne-tenth shows up, nine-tenths is hidden nderneath-and that nine-tenths is ine times more powerful. So you may decide something, but ou will not be able to follow it: that ine-tenths will destroy it any moment. ou may decide to get up tomorrow arly at fiveo'clock, but this decision is mly by the one-tenth of your mind; in-tenths is completely unaware of our decision, absolutely unaware of our decision. So when in the morning e alarm goes, nine-tenths of the mind yes, "What is the hurry? And it is so eautiful and so cosy and so warm. oditato" And of course, the tomorrow never comes. And when you wake up you will feel guilty but this is again not the mind that stopped you from waking up which is feeling guilty; that is another one-tenth which is feeling guilty. And this goes on your whole life, this hide-and-seek. One part decides, another part cancels. Andthe part that cancels is nine times more powerful. You have decided many times not to be angry again, but all your decisions are impotent because that nine times more powerful unconscious is always there and it won't allow the one-tenth to take possession, to be powerful. Hence the transformation needs a totally different approach. You have to change your unconscious slowly into consciousness. That's what meditationie Allah ioh grow bigger, spreading it deeper, slowly diving deeper into your own being. As more and more of your unconscious is reclaimed by the consciousness your decisions will start becoming great fulfilments. Real religion-of the buddhas, the awakened ones-teaches you consciousness, not character. Character is a by-product; when you are conscious, character comes of its own accord. Ordinary religion teaches you conscience; it is cheap.The buddhas teach you consciousness, not conscience. If you can sit silently doing nothing, the spring is notfar away, the spring is bound to come. It always comes in silence... when you know how to delight in your aloneness because only then are you independent. People are happy with others, but taken away. It will be takenaway, it is bound to disappear. It can't be permanent, it is momentary. All happiness that is dependent orothers is bound to disappear sooner olater. Itis temporary, momentary, it is illusory. Only thatjoy is yours which wells up within your own being. Harare very few people who enjoy their own company. It is our very nature to be joyous; hence there is no need to depend on anybody else. There is no other motivin it, it is simplythere. Just as the watflows downwards, your being rises upwards. Just give it a chance-give itsolitude. And remember again, solituis not solitariness, just as aloneness isnot loneliness. Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Osho Times International, Courtsey, Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
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Make The Effort, Explore Your True Potential
We have to make our unconscious full of light. No nook or corner should be left without light snide you. Only one-tenth of our mind is onscious; nine-tenths is in darkness. eep darkness. We are like an iceberg: ne-tenth shows up, nine-tenths is hidden nderneath-and that nine-tenths is ine times more powerful. So you may decide something, but ou will not be able to follow it: that ine-tenths will destroy it any moment. ou may decide to get up tomorrow arly at fiveo'clock, but this decision is mly by the one-tenth of your mind; in-tenths is completely unaware of our decision, absolutely unaware of our decision. So when in the morning e alarm goes, nine-tenths of the mind yes, "What is the hurry? And it is so eautiful and so cosy and so warm. oditato" And of course, the tomorrow never comes. And when you wake up you will feel guilty but this is again not the mind that stopped you from waking up which is feeling guilty; that is another one-tenth which is feeling guilty. And this goes on your whole life, this hide-and-seek. One part decides, another part cancels. Andthe part that cancels is nine times more powerful. You have decided many times not to be angry again, but all your decisions are impotent because that nine times more powerful unconscious is always there and it won't allow the one-tenth to take possession, to be powerful. Hence the transformation needs a totally different approach. You have to change your unconscious slowly into consciousness. That's what meditationie Allah ioh grow bigger, spreading it deeper, slowly diving deeper into your own being. As more and more of your unconscious is reclaimed by the consciousness your decisions will start becoming great fulfilments. Real religion-of the buddhas, the awakened ones-teaches you consciousness, not character. Character is a by-product; when you are conscious, character comes of its own accord. Ordinary religion teaches you conscience; it is cheap.The buddhas teach you consciousness, not conscience. If you can sit silently doing nothing, the spring is notfar away, the spring is bound to come. It always comes in silence... when you know how to delight in your aloneness because only then are you independent. People are happy with others, but taken away. It will be takenaway, it is bound to disappear. It can't be permanent, it is momentary. All happiness that is dependent orothers is bound to disappear sooner olater. Itis temporary, momentary, it is illusory. Only thatjoy is yours which wells up within your own being. Harare very few people who enjoy their own company. It is our very nature to be joyous; hence there is no need to depend on anybody else. There is no other motivin it, it is simplythere. Just as the watflows downwards, your being rises upwards. Just give it a chance-give itsolitude. And remember again, solituis not solitariness, just as aloneness isnot loneliness. Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Osho Times International, Courtsey, Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Osho kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy : Osho Speaking Tree , Times of India