Erase All That Has been Forced on You !~ A Message From Osho.......

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

ERASE ALL THAT HAS BEEN FORCED ON YOU

IF YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT, YOU ONLY SEE THAT; concentration comes easy. If you know exactly what you want, then the whole life and the whole world goes on its own way -- you don't even see it. You go like an arrow; you are not distracted.

But if you don't know what you are meant to be here, if you don't know what your destiny is, IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY WANT, then everything is a distraction, THEN YOU ARE PULLED IN THIS DIRECTION AND THAT. Then continuously you go on being pulled in many directions -- and that creates a mess out of you.

YOU ARE PULLED IN SO MANY DIRECTIONS TOGETHER that your personality becomes broken, split. Only fragments: one fragment going to the north, another fragment going to the south. You are continuously in conflict. You don't know where you are going -- because you are not one any more. YOU BECOME ONE WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT.

MANY PEOPLE COME TO ME and I ask them: "WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT?" They shrug their shoulders. They say, "We don't know." Then it is obvious that your life cannot have any organic unity in it. You don't have any sense of direction; you have been misguided.

BUT -- IT IS NEVER TOO LATE. You can take possession of your life any moment. If you decide, then the first thing is: DON'T LISTEN TO THE PARENTAL VOICE WITHIN YOU, don't listen to the school-teacher'

s voice within you.

YOU CAN DO A SMALL TECHNIQUE TO GET RID OF ALL THIS. You can just sit on your bed every night before you go to sleep, close your eyes, and just try to feel: WHATSOEVER YOU WANT, IS IT YOUR OWN? that wanting, that desiring. And try to find out, try to check it out, TO WHOM THAT VOICE BELONGS.

IF YOU LISTEN SILENTLY YOU WILL BE SURPRISED: your mother is saying, "Become a doctor!" And you will be able to know exactly who is saying this. Your father is saying, "Become rich!" Your brother is saying something else, your teachers are saying something else, your neighbors are saying something else.

And not only that: your father is saying something with his lips and another thing with his eyes; SAYING ONE THING, MEANING ANOTHER THING. He says, "Be honest, be true!" and you know he himself is not honest and is not true. And you can see it in his eyes -- children are very perceptive. They look deep; their eyes go very deep, they can penetrate -- they can see the father is lying: HE HIMSELF IS NOT HONEST, HE HIMSELF IS NOT TRUE.

It happens: he is inside the house and somebody knocks at the door, and he sends the child to tell him that the father has gone out. HE LIES! The father is saying, "Don't beat your small brother -- you are stronger, you are bigger." And the father goes on beating him himself -- and he is very strong and very big, and takes every advantage that he can. One thing he is saying, another thing the child is reading. He goes on reading the indirect message.

IN THE SCHOOL SOMETHING IS TAUGHT, AND LIFE NEEDS SOMETHING ELSE. Confusion arises, conflict arises, contradictions go on getting together; AND THEN THEY PULL YOU IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS -- then you are no more together, your unity is lost. A child is born as an organic unity. By the time you have become young, you are no more an individual, you are no more a unity; you are a crowd, a mad crowd.

This you have to understand: IT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED FROM OTHERS. And remember -- one of the basic truths of life -- that which you have learned can be unlearned. THAT WHICH YOU HAVE LEARNED FROM OTHERS IS NOTHING NATURAL TO YOU: YOU CAN ERASE IT. Just a conscious awareness is needed; it can be erased, and the slate can become clean again.

So the first thing is to ERASE ALL THAT HAS BEEN FORCED ON YOU; and only then will you be able to listen to your own heart's voice.

Many people come to me and they say, "How to distinguish what is what -- WHAT IS MIND'S VOICE AND WHAT IS HEART'S VOICE?" It is difficult to distinguish right now: first you have to clean the mind. The heart's voice is very still and very small. The mind's is very noisy: it goes on shouting things. THE HEART WHISPERS; THE MIND SHOUTS.

Your father used to shout at you. Your mother used to shout at you. The teachers in the school used to shout at you. THE MIND SHOUTS; GOD SPEAKS IN WHISPERS. First this shouting has to be dropped, otherwise it is very difficult. AND MANY PEOPLE HAVE FOLLOWED DR. DANIEL GOTTLIEB SCHREBER'S METHODS. They have put their voice in you at such an early stage that it seems as if it is your own heart's voice.

One thing is certain: YOU CAN NEVER BECOME ANYTHING OTHER THAN YOURSELF. And unless you become yourself, you cannot be happy. Happiness happens only when a rosebush grows roseflowers; when it flowers, when it has its own individuality. YOU MAY BE A ROSEBUSH AND TRYING TO FLOWER AS LOTUS FLOWER -- THAT IS CREATING INSANITY.

ERASE THE MIND. And the way to erase it is not by fight: the way to erase it is just to become aware.

Every night for at least one hour, sit in your bed and just watch from where you hear something -- just go to the very roots of it. TRACE IT OUT, GO BACKWARDS, FIND OUT FROM WHERE IT COMES. You will always find the source, and the moment you have found the source, you will feel an unburdening. SUDDENLY IT IS NO MORE YOURS -- NOW YOU ARE NOT DECEIVED BY IT.

It is slow work, but if you work, after few months you will be feeling so clean -- your book clean, nobody else writing in it. Then, only then will YOU BE ABLE TO HEAR THAT STILL SMALL VOICE. And once you hear it, the very hearing is like a sudden clash of thunder. SUDDENLY YOU ARE TOGETHER, SUDDENLY YOU HAVE A DIRECTION -- suddenly you know where your gold is. And then you don't see anybody; you simply go like an arrow towards your destiny.

IT IS VERY EASY to follow your parents, it is very easy to follow your teachers, it is very easy to follow the society, IT IS VERY EASY TO BE OBEDIENT. To be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult. But growth comes the hard way.

OSHO
A Sudden Clash of Thunder
Ch #7: Only the gold
am in Buddha Hall

[Kathryn Curtis]

So very  important!  Thank you for posting ~~~ in Love that Embraces us from the within ~~~ that arises from within each of us ~~~ Param Gian ~  Kathryn

[Myriel RAouine]

[Ana Antaka]

Indeed, indeed.

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

Dear Ana,

Thanks for your support.....

Sohiniben.