| Beyond the Herd Mentality [message #226773] |
Fr, 21 Juli 2006 19:21 |
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"The third body is bigger than the second, subtler than the second, higher
than the second.
"Animals have the second body but not the third body. Animals are so
vital. See a lion walking. What beauty, what grace, what grandeur. Man has
always felt jealous. See a deer running. What weightlessness, what energy,
what a great energy phenomenon! Man has always felt jealous. But man's
energy is moving higher.
"The third body is manumaya kosha, the mental body. This is bigger,
more spacious than the second. And if you don't grow it, you will remain
almost just a possibility of man but not a real man. It is the mind that
makes you man. But, more or less, you don't have it. What you have in its
place is just a conditioned mechanism. You live by imitation: then you don't
have a mind.
"When you start living on your own, spontaneous, when you start
answering your life problems on your own, when you become responsible, you
start growing in manumaya kosha. Then the mindbody grows.
"Become more and more alive, authentic, responsive. Even if there is a
possibility to go astray, go astray, because there is no way to grow if you
are so afraid of committing errors. Errors are good. Mistakes have to be
committed. Never commit the same mistake again, but never be afraid of
committing mistakes. People who become so afraid of committing mistakes
never grow. They go on sitting in their place, afraid to move. They are not
alive.
"The mind grows when you face, encounter, situations on your own. You
bring your own energy to solve them. Don't go asking for advice forever.
Take the reins of your life in your own hands; that's what I mean when I say
do your thing. You will be in trouble - it is safer to follow others. It is
convenient to follow the society, to follow the routine, the tradition, the
scripture. It is very easy because everybody is following them; you have
just to become a dead part of the herd, you have just to move with the crowd
wherever it is going. It is none of your responsibility.
"But your mental body, your manumaya kosha, will suffer tremendously,
terribly it will not grow. You will not have your own mind, and you will
miss something very, very beautiful and something that functions as a bridge
for higher growth.
"So always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two
ways. You can simply take it on my authority - 'Osho says so; it must be
true. Then you will suffer, then you will not grow. Whatsoever I say, listen
to it, try to understand it, implement it in your life, see how it works,
and then come to your own conclusions. They may be the same, they may not
be. They can never be exactly the same because you have a different
personality, a unique being. Whatsoever I am saying is my own. It is bound
to be in deep ways rooted in me. You may come to similar conclusions, but
they cannot be exactly the same. So my conclusions should not be made your
conclusions.
"You should try to understand me, you should try to learn, but you
should not collect knowledge from me, you should not collect conclusions
from me. Then your mindbody will grow.
"...Once you are beyond the mind body, for the first time you become
aware that you are not the mind but the witness. Below the mind you remain
identified with it. Once you know that thoughts, mental images and ideas are
just objects, floating clouds in your consciousness; you are separate from
them...immediately.
"You become beyond body... one who is no longer confined to any body,
one who knows that he is not the body, gross or subtle, one who knows that
he is infinite, with no boundaries. Mahavideha means one who has come to
feel that he has no boundaries. All boundaries are confinements,
imprisonments; and he can break them, drop them and can become one with the
infinite sky."
Yoga:The Alpha & Omega
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