From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
So below the conscious is the subconscious, which is the field of your dreaming. Below the
subconscious is the unconscious, which is the field of your dreamless sleep, when you are in a
kind of coma. You reach the same state as you were in your mother’s womb; hence the relaxation,
hence the feeling of rejuvenation. After a deep sleep, when you wake up you are fresh, young, full
of energy.
If those two hours have been missed then you may have tossed and turned and dreamed a thousand
and one things, but in the morning you will find yourself as tired as when you had gone to bed,
perhaps more tired. That coma is needed, because in that coma your mind stops functioning and
your body takes over
When you are conscious, it is mind over body; when you are unconscious, it is body over mind. And
the body has a wisdom because the body is far more ancient. Mind is a very late development,
a very new comer, just amateurish. Hence, anything important nature has not left to mind.
Everything important has been left to the body, because body will take care more proficiently, more
professionally, more wisely, without any mistakes, errors.
For example, breathing has not been left to the mind; otherwise sometimes you may forget,
particularly in sleep. What will you do? – when deep sleep comes breathing will stop. No, breathing
is not left to the mind. It is a body function because it is so essential for your life. And the mind is so
amateurish and so stupid, because it is just trying to wake up, it is still not awake.
Nature has given every power to the body, all essential powers to the body. Your mind can be put
aside and your body will go on functioning perfectly well.
In fact, mind is always a hindrance in everything. He tries to overcome body, because mind is a
power tripper, he wants to control everything.
What do these people go on doing in the name of yoga? They are trying to control even their pulses,
they are trying to control even their heartbeat. For what? – what do they gain out of it? I have
seen people practising for forty years how to stop the heartbeat; and certainly if they do that much
practice they can stop the heartbeat for a time.
But what is the gain? You cannot see anything. I have seen these people: you don’t see any aura,
you don’t see any fragrance. You don’t see in their eyes that there has been any vision of reality.
You don’t see in their life any impact of the higher consciousness.
But they have immense power over the body. I have seen people lying down and a car passing over
their body; they will simply stop their breath and the car passes over with no harm. I have seen
one man stopping the body of a railway engine just with his hands. And all that he was doing was
stopping his breath. By stopping his breath he was capable of stopping a railway engine or any car.
Strangely... it was as if he had become a rock, so heavy that it was impossible for the car, a four
horsepower or six horsepower car, to push the man aside. With his breathing disappearing, it was as
if all his hollowness had disappeared and he had become a solid rock. The earth and its gravitation
is functioning perhaps ten times more on that person than it functions on you.
From Ignorance to Innocence 382 Osho