The Whole Is Yours

 

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The Whole Is Yours

Just like the legs do the ‘walking’ for you, the mind does ‘minding’. That is what the mind does for a living! As Osho explains, “It immediately divides things into two.” The moment the mind thinks, it divides into two. That is its job – it is part of the duality of human existence. To think and to divide into two constitute one and the same thing. The more a man is used to thinking, the more he will keep on dividing. Ultimately, he will end up with fragments and the whole will be completely lost. The answer to every question lies in the wholeness, in this totality.

The mind is unable to find the answers to any question. The mind is helpless. It cannot function without making divisions. Then what use is the mind? You can definitely use it for preparing tax returns or doing any other mundane job or activity for which it is very good.

No matter what you do, life only turns out the way it turns out. Struggling with life does not help at all. Struggling is simply destructive; there is no point in it. Effort is not needed. Effort is needed only in the accidental world, and even then, there too it eventually fails. It gives you hope, but eventually it fails.

In the inner world no effort is needed. Once you start slipping inwards, you suddenly see everything is happening as it should. Life is perfect. There is no way to improve upon it. Then celebration starts. When life is felt as perfect, when you suddenly see the tremendous beatitude, the tremendous glory surrounding you; when you suddenly see that you have always been at home -- there was nowhere else to go; when you suddenly feel in your innermost core of being that you are with God and God is with you, that you are floating with the Whole, you don't have a private destiny... the destiny of the Whole is your destiny also, so wherever this existence is moving, you are also moving.

Watch nature -- everything is running so smoothly! Why not become a part of it? Why create conflict? Conflict creates anxiety; anxiety brings anguish. If you have a private goal you are going to get mad. Relax! Drop out of the accidental world so you can drop into the essential world. Then one starts accepting things as they are. Then one starts loving things as they are. Then one starts cherishing things as they are. And they have always been beautiful. Once you are not fighting, not going anywhere, you can feel the music, the celestial music that is surrounding your very being.

To stop the mind from dividing, to stop it from doing what it has been trained to do right since your birth, start meditating under the guidance of a realised Master. Once you do that you will discover the ‘empty mind’ of meditation – then everything can be seen undivided, whole. The questions disappear as life happens by itself.