Beyond Psychology ~ 36
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| event type | discourse |
| date & time | 30 Apr 1986 am |
| location | Punta Del Este, Montevideo, Uruguay |
| language | English |
| audio | Available, duration 1h 48min. Quality: good. |
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| video | Available, duration 1h 47min. Quality: good. |
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| shorttitle | PSYCHO36 |
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- synopsis
- Reader of the questions: Ma Prem Maneesha.
- Question 1
- Beloved Osho, when you speak about the many states on the way to enlightenment I am not even able to see where I am on the way. I always think I must be thousands of lifetimes away from the highest state. On the other hand, you are saying that it can happen now and here, for all of us. I cannot imagine that a quick change can be possible -- from a state of unawareness like my own, to a state of total consciousness. In my reality I often see myself as an idiot, very stupid. I do have a taste of understanding, especially through your so-called contradictions, but this understanding creates in me even more absurdities. For example: "The highest freedom is in the highest slavery."
- I am totally confused -- and at the same time, I am not. Even when I say that I don't believe in the unexpected happening here and now, I don't believe in my believing, because it might be just the tricky mind which has carried the memory of your saying that enlightenment is the only thing that cannot be desired.
- So I am here, just enjoying, grateful for your being and your words. To be one of so many people in the world to be allowed to sit by the feet of the most beautiful man in the world gives the insight that existence takes so much care of me that I cannot really be an idiot; at least I must be a blessed fool.
- Please help me to know a little bit who I am.
- Question 2
- Beloved Osho, I heard you saying that enlightenment is the transcendence of mind -- conscious, unconscious, sub-conscious -- and that one dissolves into the ocean of life, into the universe, into nothingness. I also hear you talking about the individuality of human beings. How can the individuality of an enlightened person manifest itself if he is dissolved in the whole?
- Question 3
- Beloved Osho, the other morning I heard you saying that the so-called self is just an idea of the mind, because it seems hard for the mind to accept that our being is just pure nothingness, surprisingly containing the whole. Then who and what is the witness you talk about so much? Is it a masterly device which has to be dropped at some point?
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