Are my observations of the games people play to be trusted, or are they just mind games?

I begin to see more clearly the games that I and other people play. Are these observations to be trusted, or am I wasting time on mind games again?

Prem Tusheer, trust only the pure consciousness when there is nothing left to be observed. If something is left to be observed, it is still a game. It is the same game, played with the new toys. You say: I BEGIN TO SEE MORE CLEARLY THE GAMES THAT I AND OTHER PEOPLE PLAY. Now, if you don't become alert, you may start playing this game of observation. And you will be continuously observing. I have heard about a psychoanalyst who went to see a beauty contest. Naked beautiful women were passing: the whole audience was excited, everybody was totally absorbed in watching the beautiful women. But the psychiatrist, the psychoanalyst, was watching people. His friend who was sitting by his side asked him, "What are you doing? The women are there on the stage, why don't you look there?" He said, "I am looking at the people. I am watching…

Sometimes as I watch people playing the same old games over and over, my eyes feel ancient and jaded and my heart weary and cynical. I guess it's because I'm seeing more and more my own games and tricks and I hear your maddening voice between my ears saying,'that's okay -- just you have to accept and love yourself; and there is no problem.' just???! I think if you say this word again I will scream. Wasn't I happier when I thought there was a goal?

So it depends on you whether you create a problem or you don't create a problem but problems are not there. Problems are not in existence: they are in the psychology of man. Just look next time you are having some trip and riding a problem just watch. Just stand aside and look at the problem. Is it really there? or have you created it? Look deeply into it, and you will suddenly see it is not increasing, it is decreasing; it is becoming smaller and smaller. The more you put your energy into observation, the smaller it becomes. And a moment comes when suddenly it is not there... and you will have a good laugh. Whenever you are having a problem, just look at it. Problems are fictitious, they don't exist. Just go around the problem, look from every angle -- how can it be? It is a ghost!…

It is all good, whatsoever happens. But just relax -- take the medicine and relax. Meditate and dance and don't be worried at all.... [She tells him that she mistreated the box Osho gave her.] No, nothing to be worried about -- you can mistreat it sometimes. In love that is accepted. My sannyasins mistreat me too. That is part of their love. They don't know better love than that, so sometimes it is okay. The box will not be angry with you. [A sannyasin says: I've gone through so many different moods and oscillations in my feelings towards you... can help me to understand what games I'm playing towards you or why?... ] No, you are slowly, slowly coming to understand them yourself. The understanding is coming slowly, slowly. And it comes only through experience in those games and seeing the futility of them all.

When thought objects vanish, the thinking subject vanishes, as when the mind vanishes, objects vanish. Things are objects because of the subject; the mind is such because of things. Understand the relativity of these two and the basic reality: the unity of emptiness. In this emptiness the two are indistinguishable and each contains in itself the whole world. If you do not discriminate between coarse and fine you will not be tempted to prejudice and opinion.

Give love, and the begging bowl is there, your love has disappeared. Give your whole life, and the begging bowl is there, looking at you with complaining eyes. "You have not given anything. I am still empty." And the only proof that you have given is if the begging bowl is full -- and it is never full. Of course, the logic is clear: you have not given. You have achieved many many things -- they have all disappeared in the begging bowl. The mind is a self-destructive process. Before the mind disappears you will remain a beggar. Whatsoever you can gain will be in vain; you will remain empty. And if you dissolve this mind, through emptiness you become filled for the first time. You are no more, but you have become the whole. If you are, you will remain a beggar. If you are not, you become the…

Why can't we let one another be? Why can't we just simply accept ourselves and others just the way we are? Why this persistent 'chasing-the-tail game' of trying to be different? -- that is, more open, more aware, more. You have said often that everything is fine, perfect, the way it is.... Isn't it about time we started playing a new game? I'm getting very exhausted by this old one. And life and love and fear and insecurity is so exquisite -- just the way it is. Could there possibly be more?

Once you have heard it -- that means, once it has hit home, once it has reached your heart -- then this question will not arise. Then you will not ask why. Then suddenly you will be able to see and the clarity will happen to you. You will see the whole game is this: you have been taught to improve, to go on. You have been taught to remain discontent. You have been taught that unless you are discontent you will never be progressive. If you are not discontent you will vegetate. Be discontent! Ask for more! And go on asking for more. If you don't ask, nobody's going to give you anything. ISN'T IT ABOUT TIME WE STARTED PLAYING A NEW GAME? But the new game will be the same if there is not a new mind. You can play the new game, that's what you are doing.…