YOUR MIND IS MIGHTY SLOW. Five hundred miles per hour, only?! And do you think this is speed? Mighty slow you are. Mind knows no speed it goes so fast. It is faster than light. Light travels 186,000 miles is one second. Mind is faster than that. But nothing to be worried – that is the beauty of the mind, that is a great quality! Rather than taking it negatively, rather than fighting with it, befriend the mind.
You say: ”During the meditations, my mind still goes five hundred miles per hour” let it go! Let it go faster. You be a watcher. You watch the mind going around so fast, with such speed. Enjoy this! enjoy this play of the mind.
In Sanskrit we have a special term for it; we call it CHIDVILAS the play of consciousness. Enjoy it! this play of mind rushing towards stars, moving so fast from here and there, jumping all over existence. What is wrong in it? Let it be a beautiful dance. Accept it.
My feeling is that what you are doing is you are trying to stop it – you cannot do that. Nobody can stop the mind! Yes, mind stops one day, but nobody can stop it. Mind stops, but that is not out of your effort. Mind stops out of your understanding.
You just WATCH and try to see what is happening, why this mind is rushing. It is not rushing without any reason. You must be ambitious. Try to see WHY this mind is rushing, where it is rushing – you must be ambitious. If it thinks about money, then try to understand. Mind is not the question. You start dreaming about money, that you have won a lottery or this and that, and then you even start planning how to spend it, what to purchase and what not. Or, the mind thinks you have become a president, a prime minister, and then you start thinking what to do now, how to run the country, or the world. Just WATCH the mind! what mind is going towards. There must be a deep seed in you.
You cannot stop the mind unless that seed disappears. The mind is simply following the order of your innermost seed. Somebody is thinking about sex; then somewhere there is repressed sexuality. Watch where mind is rushing. Look deep into yourself, find where the seeds are.
I have heard:
The parson was very much worried. ”Listen,” he said to his verger, ”somebody has stolen my bicycle.”
”Where have you been on it, Rector?” inquired that worthy.
”Only round the parish on my calls.”
The verger suggested that the best plan would be for the rector to direct his Sunday sermon to the ten commandments. ”When you get to’Thou shalt not steal’, you and I will watch the faces – we will soon see.”
Sunday came, the rector started in fine flow about the commandments, then lost his thread, changed his subject, and trailed off lamely.
”Sir,” said the verger, ”I thought you were going to...”
”I know, Giles, I know. But you see, when I got to’Thou shalt not commit adultery’ I suddenly remembered where I had left my bicycle.”
Just see where you have left your bicycle. The mind is rushing for certain reasons. The mind needs understanding, awareness. Don’t try to stop it. If you try to stop it, in the first place you cannot succeed; in the second place, IF YOU CAN succeed – one can succeed if one makes perseverant effort for years – if YOU CAN succeed, you will become dull. No satori will happen out of it.
In the first place, you cannot succeed; and it is good that you cannot succeed. If you CAN succeed, if you manage to succeed, that will be very unfortunate – you will become dull, you will lose intelligence. With that speed there is intelligence, with that speed there is continuous sharpening of the sword of thinking, logic, intellect. Please don’t try to stop it. I am not in favour of dullards, and I am not here to help anybody to become stupid.
In the name of religion, many people have become stupid, they have almost become idiots – just trying to stop the mind without any understanding about why it is going with such speed... why in the first place? The mind cannot go without any reason. Without going into the reason, in the layers, deep layers of the unconscious, they just try to stop. They CAN stop, but they will have to pay a price, and the price will be that their intelligence will be lost.
Tantra Vision
Osho
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