Chapter 4 - Misery is the Prison - 3
Question: Osho,
in the mind, in the process of thinking, there is so much energy. How
can we use that energy in a creative and constructing way?
Osho:
THE QUESTION IS VERY COMPLEX.
It sound simple, but is not simple.
Who is going to use this energy?
If mind itself is going to use, it can never be creative and can never be constructive.
That is what is happening all over the world.
That is what is happening in science.
The whole misery of science is that mind is using its energy.
But mind is a negative force; it cannot use anything creatively, it needs a master.
Mind is a servant.
Do you have a master?
So to me this question is...Meditation bring the master in.
It makes you fully aware and conscious that the mind is your instrument.
Now, whatever you want to do with it you can do.
And if you don’t want to do anything with it, you can put it aside; you can remain in absolute silence.
Right now you are not the master – even for five minutes.
You cannot say to the mind, “Please, for five minutes, just be silent for five minutes”.
Those
will be the five minutes when mind will be faster, rushing more then
ever – because it will have to show you who is the master.
If
you try for even five minutes to stop thinking, more thoughts than ever
will rush in – simply to show you that you are not the master.
So first one has to get the mastery, and the way to become the master is not to say to the thoughts, “STOP”.
The way to become the master is to watch the whole thought process.
Your thoughts have to understand one thing: that you are not interested in them.
The moment you have made the point you have attained a tremendous victory.
Just watch.
Don’t say anything to the thoughts.
Don’t judge.
Don’t condemn.
Don’t tell them to move.
Let them do whatsoever they are doing, let them do any gymnastics; simply watch, enjoy.
It is a beautiful film.
And you will be surprised: just watching a moment comes when thoughts are not there, there is nothing to watch.
This is the door I have been calling nothingness, emptiness.
From this door enters your real being, the master.
And that master is absolutely positive; in its hands everything turn into gold.
With meditation the master is there, and the master is absolutely positiveness.
In its hands the same mind, the same energy, becomes creative, constructive, life affirmative.
So you cannot do anything directly with the mind.
The master is missing and for centuries the servant has been thinking HE is the master.
The mind is a tremendous powerful instrument.
No computer is as powerful as man’s mind – cannot be because is made by man’s mind.
Nothing can be, because they are all made by man’s mind.
A
single man’s mind has such immense capacity: in a small skull, such a
small brain can contain all the information contained in all libraries
of the earth, and that information is not a small amount.
Scientist
are agreed that we may not be able to make a computer comparable to the
human mind which can be put in such a small place.
But
the result of this immense gift to man has not been beneficial –
because the master is absent and the servant is running the show.
The result is wars, violence, murder, rape.
Man is living in a nightmare, and the only way out is to bring the master in.
It is there, - you just have to get hold of it.
And watchfulness is the key: just watch the mind.
The
moment there are no thoughts, immediately you will be able to see
yourself – not as mind, but as something beyond, something
transcendental to mind.
And once you are attuned with the transcendental then the mind is in your hands.
It can be immensely creative.
It can make this very earth a paradise.
There
is no need for any paradise to be searched for above in the clouds,
just as there is no need to search for any hell – because we have
already created hell.
We are living in it.
You can change this hell into heaven if your mind can be under the guidance of the master, of your self-nature.
And it is a simple process.
But don’t try directly with the mind. Don’t touch the mind.
First just find out where the master is.
It is a complicated mechanism.
Let the master be there, and the mind function as a servant so perfectly.
