Watch and Wait: relaxing and waking up - instinct and intuition
By Osho
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"In meditation you are not going anywhere. You are simply being here, relaxed, utterly centered in yourself. Everything stops. For this, no "how" is needed."
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Watch and Wait - Osho
Watch and Wait
relaxing and waking up
instinct and intuition
Osho
Copyright © 1987, 2012 OSHO International Foundation
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Watch and Wait – relaxing and waking up – instinct and intuition, by Osho
From a series of OSHO Talks titled: The Hidden Splendor, #25
This OSHO Talk is complete in itself.
The series The Hidden Splendor is available in book and audio formats.
Watch and Wait is also available as an original audio recording under the same title, spoken by Osho.
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OSHO MEDIA INTERNATIONAL
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OSHO INTERNATIONAL
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ISBN-13: 978-0-88050-018-0
Watch and Wait
Osho,
There is a confusion in me that keeps coming again and again. The message I get from you more and more is to relax with myself, to watch and wait, but I also feel this urgency to wake up now; and then another part screams, But how?
What do I need to do? Do I need to ‘push’ myself through this wall? Could you make this clear to me?
Mind is confusion; it is not that you are in confusion. And there is no way for the mind to be not in confusion. Mind’s whole structure is based on confusion.
Mind is a duality; it is always split. There is no single point on which the mind agrees in totality. Half of the mind will agree and half of the mind will disagree, and whatever you choose, you are choosing only the half. The remaining half is going to take revenge. The unchosen part, the left over, will wait for its chance to show you that whatever you have chosen is wrong. But it does not matter which part you choose. Choice itself is wrong.
So the first thing to be understood is that there is no mind which