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CHAPTER 9. MEANS AND ENDS
and then he would know that the trick had worked. Then he would give you a formula that you had
to repeat continuously day and night, whenever you remembered – that there was no headache.
Every morning when you got up you had to repeat: ”I am getting better and better every day.” And
within two or three weeks the headache would disappear.
A real headache cannot disappear that way. In the first place the headache was created by words;
in the first place, you hypnotized yourself that you had a headache, and then you dehypnotized
yourself. A real illness cannot disappear. But your illnesses – ninety percent of them – are unreal.
Through words you have created them. Coue helped thousands, Mesmer helped thousands, just by
creating the feeling that you are not ill. It doesn’t show that autohypnosis cures illness; it only shows
that you are such great autohypnotists already that you CREATE illnesses! You believe in them.
And doctors cannot say that your diseases are mental. You don’t feel good if someone says that
your disease is mental, you feel very bad, and you immediately change your doctor. Whenever a
doctor says that you have a very great disease, very serious, you feel very good – because a man
like you, so great, a somebody, he MUST have a big disease! Small diseases are for small people,
ordinary diseases for ordinary people. When you have cancer, tb, or something dangerous, you feel
superior, you are somebody. At least as far as illness is concerned you are not ordinary.
A doctor who had just graduated from college, returned to his home. His father was also a doctor –
very tired from working and working, so he went on a holiday. He said, ”I need at least three weeks’
rest and I am going to the hills, so you can take over my work.”
When the father came back three weeks later the son said, ”I have a surprise for you. The lady you
have been treating for years and couldn’t cure, I cured her in three days.”
The father beat him on the head and said, ”You fool, that lady was paying for your education and I
was hoping that through her all my children would get through college. Her stomachache was not
real. And I was worried when I was in the hills because I forgot to tell you not to touch her. She
is rich and she needs a stomachache, and I have been helping her. For years she has been the
source of our income.”
Ninety percent of all diseases are psychological. They can be cured by mantra, they can be cured
by suggestion, they can be cured by Satya Sai Baba, because in the first place you have already
performed the real miracle in creating them. Now anyone can cure them.
Continuously repeating a word creates the reality, but this reality is hallucinatory. It is illusion, and
you cannot come to reality until all words have disappeared from the mind. Even a single word may
create illusion. Words are great forces. If even a single word is in the mind, your mind is not empty.
Whatsoever you are seeing, feeling, is through the word, and that word will change the reality.
You have to be completely wordless, thoughtless. You have to be just consciousness.
When you are just consciousness then the boat is empty and reality is revealed to you. Because you
are not repeating anything or you are not imagining anything, you are not autohypnotizing yourself.
Only then the real appears, revealed.
Chuang Tzu is right. He says:
The Empty Boat 161 Osho