December 5, 2002 The mind is a process. The mind is a process.
The mind is a process. Osho. I like his stuff. In fact, mind
doesn*t exist - only thoughts, thoughts moving so fast that you
think and feel that something exists there in continuity. One
thought comes, another thought comes, another, and they gone*
the gap is so small you cannot see the interval between one
thought and another. So two thoughts become joined, they become
a continuity, and because of that continuity you think there is
a mind. There are thoughts- no *mind.* Just as there are
electrons- no *matter.* Thought is the electron of the mind.
Just like a crowd* a crowd exists in a sense, doesn*t exist in
another. Only individuals exist, but many individuals together
give the feeling as if they are one. A nation exists and exists
not- only individuals are there. Individuals are the electrons
of a nation, of a community, of a crowd. Thought exist- mind
doesn*t exist; mind is just the appearance. And when you look
into the mind deeper, it disappears. Then there are thoughts,
but when the *mind* has disappeared and only individual thoughts
exist, many things are immediately solved. Thoughts are like
clouds- they come and go, and you are the sky. When there is no
mind, immediately the perception comes that you are no longer
involved in the thoughts- thoughts are there, passing through
you like clouds passing through the sky, or the wind passing
through the trees. Thoughts are passing through you , and they
can pass because you are a vast emptiness. Once you start
feeling that thoughts come and go, and you are the watcher, the
witness, the mastery of the mind is achieved. the mind cannot be
controlled.* (people are collections of electrons, by the way)
Mind is nothing but the absence of your presence. When you sit
silently, when you look deep into the mind, the mind simply
disappears. Thoughts will remain, they are existential, but mind
will not be found. But when the mind is gone, then a second
perception becomes possible: YOU CAN SEE THAT THOUGHTS ARE NOT
YOURS. Of course they come, and sometimes they rest a little
while in you, and then they go. You may be a resting place, but
they don*t originate in you. sometimes they rest in you, like a
cloud resting on top of a hill. Then they will move on their
own; you need not do anything. If you simply watch, control is
attained. [typewritten by me, but words originally written by
Osho - I was probably copying out of a book, but they feel like
were my words - which, kind of proves his point in a way]
