Enlightenment Is Your Nature by Osho

Author:Osho
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Enlightenment Is Your Nature: The Fundamental Difference Between Psychology, Therapy, and Meditation
ISBN: 9781786780492
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2017-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

Limitations of the Scientific Approach

All the psychologies in the West are concerned with figuring out the functioning of the mind – how it works, why it sometimes works right and sometimes wrong. They have accepted one basic hypothesis that is not true: the hypothesis that you are no more than mind, that you are a body-mind. Naturally, physiology looks into your body and its functioning and psychology looks into your mind and its functioning.

The first point to be noted is that there are those who have come to know a different space in themselves that cannot be confined by the mind and that cannot be defined as part of the functioning of the mind. That silent space, with no thoughts, no ripples, is the foundation of the psychology of the buddhas.

The word ‘psychology’ is being used all over the world absolutely wrongly, but when something becomes commonplace we forget. Even the very word psychology indicates not something about the mind, but about the psyche. The root meaning of psychology is “the science of the soul”. It is not the science of the mind. And if people are honest, they should change the name, because it is a wrong name and takes people on wrong paths. There exists no psychology in the world in the sense of a science of the soul.

You are, to use arbitrary terms – just to be able to understand – divided into three parts. But remember, the division is only arbitrary. You are an indivisible unit.

The body is your outer part. It is an immensely valuable instrument that existence has given to you. You have never thanked existence for your body. You are not even aware what it goes on doing for you, for 70 years, 80 years, in some places more than a hundred years. The ordinary conception that the body dies at the age of 70 is not a fact but a fiction that has become so prevalent that the body simply follows it.

It happened that before George Bernard Shaw reached the age of 90 – his friends were very puzzled – he started looking for a place outside London, where he had lived his whole life. They asked, “What is the point? You have a beautiful house, all the facilities; why are you looking for a new place to live? And you are looking in a very strange way – a few people think you have gone senile.” Because he would go around to the villages, not into the towns but into the cemeteries, and he would read what was written on the gravestones. Finally he decided to live in a village where he found a gravestone where it was written that “This man died a very untimely death – he was only 112 years old.”

He said to his friends, “As far as I am concerned, it is a worldwide hypnosis. Because the idea of 70 years has been insisted on for so many years, man’s body simply follows it. If there is

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