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Question: How can the
cosmic be achieved?
Osho:
By becoming aware of your fragmented mind, of your
conceptions, your attitudes, your prejudices. By
becoming aware of the mind that feels, hears, chooses.
When you see a flower, it is not only that the flower is
there. Between you and the flower, a particular mind
exists, a particular attitude about the flower exists.
Otherwise there would be no barrier between you and the
flower. You would be one. You and the flower are two
extremes of one existence, two ends of one single
moment.
If your mind is not there, your consciousness and the
flowering of the flower are two extreme points of one
process. But if your mind is there (as it is always
there), you are not just seeing the flower. Your seeing
has a projection behind it, you are seeing in terms of
your own conceptions, your own likes and dislikes. You
say, ”This is a rose.” But there is no such thing as
’rose’. The rose itself doesn’t know that it is a rose.
We are the ones who have called it that.
And the moment you say ’rose’, everything that is
associated with the word ’rose’ stands between you and
the particular flower in front of you. The word has so
many associations. If your culture says that a rose is
beautiful, then the flower becomes beautiful. If your
culture is against roses, then it becomes ugly. If your
experience with
roses is associated with pain with thorns, then the rose
becomes one thing. If your associations are happy, then
the rose becomes something different. But all the while,
the rose itself remains the same.
You see it with your mind. Your mind destroys that which
is real and creates something imaginary, hallucinatory.
If you have no mind; if you can see the rose without
your mind; if your seeing is totally innocent,
completely fresh; if your seeing is not coming from the
past; if you and the rose are living simultaneously in
this moment – if you are without mind: just aware, just
existential – then the rose is not known as something
separate. Then you know it to be part and parcel of your
consciousness.
Then the flowering of the rose is your own flowering;
then the perfume of the rose is your own perfume; then
your consciousness is the rose’s consciousness. The rose
is knowing itself through you. Identification is not an
act of dualism, but of total being. Through your
consciousness, the rose has come to know itself. This is
the feeling! It cannot be expressed exactly, but the
feeling is like this: that either you have flowered in
the rose, or the rose
has become conscious of itself through you.
Source: from
Osho
Book "The Eternal Quest"
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