From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
otherwise it is difficult, life is so vast. If you go on jumping all around on everything, then it is difficult
for you to move in one direction to the very end.
Hence all scientists, all philosophers, all thinkers, are obsessed with one particular idea. And then
they try to fit everything into that idea. That’s where they go wrong. If they were a little more alert
they would see that life is vast. Their idea is meaningful, but meaningful only from a certain aspect.
Jung was very much afraid of death; he was death-obsessed. Just as Sigmund Freud was sexobsessed,
jung was death-obsessed. And both obsessions are not very different. Sex is the
beginning of life and death is the end of life. Sex is the A and death is the Z; it is one alphabet,
connected. It is not different but distant, so distant that neither Freud nor Jung could see that they
were both concerned with one thing; but the poles were so far apart that they were unable to join
them.
Jung was very much afraid of death, and as he came closer to another layer behind the collective
unconscious he backed out. He tried many times to approach the idea of death. He went to India
because in India people have been thinking about every possible aspect of life for thousands of
years. Of course, about death India has thought much more than anybody else – but he avoided the
man who could have been of some help.
He was asking people who were educated in the West – professors in the universities who had
western degrees, doctors who had western degrees – because he had a fixed idea that East and
West can never meet. The idea was old; it was given by an English poet, Rudyard Kipling, that East
and West can never meet: ”East is East, West is West, and never the twain shall meet.”
Somewhere in Jung’s mind that idea remained his whole life, and he was continually insisting to his
disciples that the West had to discover its own methods; it should not use eastern methods, because
they could prove dangerous: ”They are not our heritage.”
Now, this is a strange situation and a strange argument. A man who discovers the collective
unconscious still believes in East and West.. Then there are two collective unconsciouses: eastern
collective unconscious and western collective unconscious. He never became aware of the simple
fact that if you talk about collective unconscious then East is no more East and West is no more
West. And if you think they cannot meet then you can come and see here in Rajneeshpuram: they
are meeting. They have met!
Just a few days ago one man from South Africa declared a new conflict. He said the real conflict is
not between East and West, it is between North and South. That was never thought of before, it is
a real discovery. But it has a point in it. There is a conflict, just like the one between East and West
which has become famous and well known. But South and North are also in conflict, which has not
become so well known. But then there will be four collective unconsciouses, and it is going to be
very difficult.
But Jung was not aware. One thing he was certain of: eastern methods were not to be used. So he
avoided the only man alive in India, Raman Maharishi, who could have taken him to the lowest level
which Buddha called the cosmic unconscious. But that is almost a death. It is a death, because you
are no more there.
From Ignorance to Innocence 386 Osho