The Tantra Experience by Osho Osho International Foundation

Author:Osho, Osho International Foundation
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Osho Media International
Published: 2011-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

The second question:Osho,

You spoke in several recent discourses on the no-problem, the nonexistence of our problems.

Having been brought up in a repressive Catholic family, and having spent twenty-one years in an equally crazy educational system, are you saying that all the coats of armor, all the conditionings and all the repressions do not exist, can be dropped immediately – now? What about all the imprints left on the brain, on the musculature of the body?

This is a very significant question. It is from Jayananda. The question is significant because it shows two different approaches concerning the inner reality of man. The Western approach is to think about the problem, to find the causes of the problem, to go into the history of the problem, into the past of the problem, to uproot the problem from the very beginning, to uncondition the mind, or to recondition the mind, to recondition the body, to take out all those imprints that have been left on the brain – this is the Western approach. Psychoanalysis goes into the memory – it works there. It goes into your childhood, into your past, it moves backwards, it finds out from where the problem has arisen. Maybe fifty years before, when you were a child, the problem arose in your relationship with your mother. Then psychoanalysis will go back…

Fifty years of history; it is a very long, dragging affair, and even then it doesn’t help much because there are millions of problems, it is not only a question of one problem. You can go into one problem’s history; you can look into your autobiography and find out the causes. Maybe you can eliminate one problem, but there are millions of problems. If you start going into each problem, to solve one life’s problems you will need millions of lives. Let me repeat it: to solve one life’s problems you will have to be born again and again, millions of times. This is most impractical; this cannot be done. All those millions of lives when you will be solving the problems of this life, those lives will create their own problems, and so on and so forth. You will be dragged more and more into the problems; this is absurd.

Now the same psychoanalytical approach has gone into the body: Rolfing, bio-energetics and other methods, which try to eliminate imprints on the body, in the musculature. Again you have to go into the history of the body. But one thing is certain about both approaches, which are of the same logical pattern: that the problem comes from the past, so somehow it has to be tackled in the past.

Man’s mind has always been trying to do two impossible things. One is to reform the past – which cannot be done. The past has happened, you cannot really go into the past. When you think of going into the past, at the most you go into the memory of it; it is not the real past, it is just the memory.

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