星期五, 1月 18, 2008

行者筆記

「We know thinking, and one has to start from thinking to know what witnessing means because one has to start from what one knows. We know thinking - thinking means judgement; you see something and you judge. You see a flower and you say it is beautiful or not beautiful. You hear a song and you appreciate it or you don't appreciate it. You appreciate something or you condemn something. Thinking is judgement- the moment you think, you have begun to judge......

This feeling that the flower is beautiful doesn't belong to the flower, it belongs to me. I have entered the fact. Now the fact is not virgin, I have corrupted it. Now my mind has become part of it. Really, to say that my mind has become part of it means that my past has become part of it, because when I say, "This flower is beautiful," it means I have judged it through my past knowledge. How can you say that this flower is beautiful? Your experiences of the past, your conceptions of the past, that something like this is beautiful - you have judged it according to your past....

Mind means your past, your memories. The past has come upon the present. You have destroyed a virgin fast; now it is distorted....

Thinking means bringing your past to the present. Witnessing means no past, just the present - no bringing in of the past....

So what to ? - because thinking is a long habit with us. It has become just a robotlike, mechanical thing. It is not that you think; it is not your decision now, it is a mechanical habit - you cannot do anything else. The moment a flower is there, the thinking has started. We have no nonverbal experiences; only small children have. Non verbal experience is really experience. Verbalization is escaping from the experience.

What do do? This mechanical habit of so-called thinking has to be broken somewhere. So whatsoever you are doing, try to do it nonverbally. 」

Osho, Awareness

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