The world is against
individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you
just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in
trouble. You are not a robot. That was not the intention of nature, to make a
robot of you. So because you are not what you were meant to be, what you were
destined to be, you are constantly looking: "What is missing? Perhaps
better furniture, better curtains, a better house, a better husband, a better
wife, a better job..." Your whole life you are trying and rushing from one
place to another. But the society has distracted you from the very beginning.
My effort is to bring you back to yourself, and you will suddenly find all that
discontent has disappeared. There is no need to be more -- you are enough.
Everybody is enough.
OshO
Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness. Hence
the whole problem! There are so many problems man has to face, but they are all
by-products of his sleep. So the first thing to be understood is what this
sleep consists in -- because Zen is an effort to become alert and awake. All
religion is nothing but that: an effort to become more conscious, an effort to
become more aware, an effort to bring more alertness, more attentiveness to
your life.
OshO
The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer.
How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it
has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well
but don't listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner
intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you.
You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it -- cannot have. Not a
single thought in the mind is ever original, it is always a repetition. Watch.
Whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine.
Try to do something new and the mind will have less grip on you.
OshO
In your ordinary life also, mind creates a ritual. You love, you meet friends,
you go to parties... everything is a ritual, has to be done, repeated. You have
a program for all the seven days, and the program is fixed -- and this has been
so always. You have become a robot, not alive. Mind is a robot. If you give too
much attention to the mind it will absorb all your energy; it is a cancer, it
will grow, it will spread all over.
OshO
The society succeeds the day your center goes into a coma and your
circumference remains functioning. Then you are a robot, a machine, no more a
man. Because we function from the circumference Buddhas look so unreal -- of
course, because they function from a totally different center. That's why I say
that unless you are in contact with a living Buddha, you will never believe
that YOU can become a Buddha. But a living Buddha also, slowly slowly, appears
far away. It is because of your mind working; it is a strategy of the mind to
save itself from going through that revolution. So you create a distance -- it
is imaginary.
OshO
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