Approval

No Conflict

Someone asked Osho – My mind is very stubborn. I’m leaving tomorrow and I’d like a meditation to help me with my mind.

Osho’s reply:

I think you are creating the problem. The mind disappears – but never by fighting, never by conflict. Conflict is food for the mind, so if you fight, you feed the mind. If you don’t fight at all, if you simply accept whatsoever is the case…. You accept the desires, you accept the thoughts, you accept your attachments – that’s how you are! That’s how you have found yourself in life. That’s how God has intended you to be. This is the will of the whole and you cannot win against it.

It is almost like a rosebush trying to get rid of roses. It is absurd, it is not possible. The rosebush will go mad and will start thinking that these roses are very stubborn. But those roses are not something that is happening from the outside to the rosebush; it is the very intrinsic nature of the rosebush. The rosebush is preparing those roses. They are its outcome. They are not accidents but natural growth. But rosebushes never do that nonsense – only man gets into conflict with nature.

If you are fighting with nature, you are fighting a losing battle. You can never win. And it is good that you can never win, otherwise you would destroy your whole being. So I don’t see the problem the way you see it. The problem is not with the mind and its stubbornness. The problem is with you, your ideology. Why should you want to get rid of something? If it is there, it is there. It is part of life. Accept it, enjoy it.

And then I know it disappears, because when there is no conflict, the mind cannot exist. That has to be understood as deeply as possible. The mind is nothing but conflict. Just imagine a moment when there is no conflict within and without… nobody to fight with and nobody to fight. Can the mind exist in that moment? How can the mind exist in a moment of non-conflict? There will be no need.

So you are in a vicious circle: you want to get rid of the mind, and the very effort to get rid of the mind feeds the mind. This way you will go on moving in a vicious circle. No, that’s not the way to get out of it. Accept it.

Total acceptance is the key. It is the master key… it opens all the doors. There is no lock that cannot be opened by it; it simply fits all the locks – because the moment you accept a certain thing, a transformation has started in your being because now there is no conflict. You are not two. In acceptance you have become one, you have become a unity. Right now you say desires, thoughts, instincts, this and that.

In fact who are you? You are denying everything that constitutes you. Who are you? Just a pure ego? Remember your unity, your complexity. It is beautiful. Desires are beautiful. Passion is good – if you accept it, it will become compassion. If you accept the desires, by and by you will see that the same energy is becoming desire-lessness. It is the same energy that was involved in the desires. When you accept the desires, by and by you relax, you become non-tense, and energy starts streaming more naturally.

You start seeing things as they are. You are not too much involved with this desire or that. You have accepted, so there is no problem. Then your insight starts opening, your third eye starts functioning. You have a vision, a total vision of your life… of all the desires, passions, thoughts, dreams, imagination, fantasies, everything you can see all around you. In that vision you are beyond it, because you become a witness.