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Mind Is Boring

Past is never fresh – cannot be, obviously. It is always dirty, it is always stinking – stinking of death, stinking of all that is rotten, stinking of tradition, stinking of corpses. The past is a cemetery. And the future is nothing but a projection of the dead past. And out of the dead past the future cannot be alive – the dead can only project the dead. What is your future? – Modified past, touched up here and there; a little better, a little more sophisticated, a little more comfortable, but it is the same past. You are hankering to repeat it. Your future has nothing new about it, it cannot have.

Mind cannot conceive of the new. It is impotent as far as the new and the fresh and the young are concerned. It can move only within the small world of the familiar, the known – and the known is the past. The future is nothing but a desire to repeat it – in a better way, of course. Hence the future is also not fresh. The present is fresh.

Freshness never comes and never goes. It is always here, it is always now. YOU be here and now, and you are suddenly fresh, bathed in eternity, showered by something which is timeless. Call it God, call it the kingdom of God, call it nirvana, or whatsoever you want. All those names refer to the same unnameable. All those words try to express the inexpressible.

Just put the human mind aside. And by that I mean, put the past aside and the future, and look. This very moment… and the whole heaven descends upon you. You are overwhelmed. The birds are singing and their songs are fresh; they are not repeating old songs. They have no idea of yesterdays and they are not singing for the future. They are not rehearsing for tomorrow. And the trees are fresh. All is fresh except man.

So don’t ask, “From where does freshness come?” Ask, “From where does this dullness come, this staleness, this deadness?” Because this deadness comes and goes. Freshness is always there – it is the very nature of existence. It is God’s presence.

Meditation is nothing but a way, a method, to connect you with the eternal, to take you beyond time, beyond that which is born and dies, to take you beyond all the boundaries, to take you to the inconceivable and the unknowable. And it is not far away; it is as close as it can be. Even to say that it is close is not right, because it is exactly your very being, it is you. Freshness is your soul.

Your mind is boring, utterly boring. Get out of the mind. At least for a few moments every day, put the mind aside, be utterly nude of the mind. And then you will know it is welling up within you – the freshness you are asking about. From where does it come? It comes from the deepest core of your being – and it does not really come. Suddenly you find it has always been the case. It has always been there like an undercurrent, underground, hidden behind many many layers of memories, dreams, desires.

Someone asked Osho – The mind is full of energy, how to use this energy in a creative and constructive way?

Osho says, “If the mind itself is going to use this energy, it can never be creative and can never be constructive.”

Mind without meditation is negative. With meditation the master is there, and the master is absolute positiveness. In its hands the same mind, the same energy, becomes creative, constructive, life affirmative.