Are there treasures in the unconscious or is it just a Pandora's box full of agonies?

Beloved Osho, you spoke of the hidden treasures stored in the superconscious. Are there any treasures in the unconscious or is it just a pandora's box full of agonies? Sometimes I feel I suppress happiness as well as negative emotions.

The treasures are only in the superconscious. The unconscious is a Pandora's box. And if sometimes you repress happiness, then there must be something wrong in that happiness; otherwise, why should you repress it? It may have some implications which are not right. The very effort to repress it shows that you can see something is wrong in it. But you can repress only in the unconscious. So first, you see if your happiness has something wrong in it. Perhaps you are happy because of somebody else's misery, perhaps you are happy because others are not happy. There must be some reason which is not right. So first that happiness becomes a wrong thing, and when it moves into the unconscious -- which is full of garbage, stinking -- it will be pressed by all that garbage into the unconscious. And if you want to get it back again, you…

Beloved Osho, I hear you often saying that the unconscious is the basement of our mind where we throw all unpleasant and repressed parts of the experiences which we have gone through in many lives because our conditioning didn't allow it to be part of the conscious sphere. What happens with the beautiful spiritual experiences we have had in some lives? Through self-hypnosis I have been able to remember a lot of such experiences. Is there a tremendously helpful treasure of positive experiences that we can retrieve?

But in the change from one life to another life, just so that you don't remember your past life, the mechanism is such that you remember nothing -- not the unconscious or the superconscious, or beyond. You come with a clean conscious mind, so a new upbringing, a new teaching, a new conditioning starts. If all these seven layers were remembered, the child would be in much difficulty -- as if you are teaching the child seven languages simultaneously. He would be confused, utterly confused. So it is a natural protection against being confused and mad, to keep only a small part moving each time into new life, fresh, so the new life can bring you its own ideology, religion. I remember one girl who lived just a hundred miles away from Jabalpur in Katni. Her parents were puzzled because she remembered that in her past life she had been…

Beloved Osho, what exactly is this unconscious mind which is also called the dark night of the soul? Is it something belonging to the physical monkey brain? Or is it something of the universal mind, which I am assuming is my own higher mind? Also, if it is not of the physical brain, then is this why it is a waste of time to attempt to end your suffering by putting a bullet through your brain?

"I said `by mistake' because the doors were open and everybody knows that there is nothing in that hut but me and my blanket. And I offered my blanket to him. He was a guest. He tried not to take it, I had almost to force him. And he is so mannerly that he said to me, `Thank you, sir' and he closed the door. This man is a very nice man, you should not harass him." Because that monk said, "You should not harass him," the thief was released. He could not believe it! Neither did he understand that night, nor could he understand the saint's statements in court in his favor. He followed the saint. The monk said, "Are you coming now?" He said, "Yes, I am coming now." He said, "You unnecessarily wasted two years. I was telling you to get into a partnership from the very…

Beloved Osho, can you talk more about the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious mind? It seems that the brain has the capacity to store an experience, say, in a memory bank. Now if that memory ends up in the unconscious, what happens? Is it that the conscious mind represses it and tabs it "censored" or does the unconscious do the censoring? But does the unconscious have any investment in repression? And if not, is it the conscious that is continuously providing the energy to keep this material censored? And if so, is there a key to the unconscious within the conscious? Is this

Mahavira and Buddha continually repeat, "Don't go on in a vicious circle. Just look into your past lives and see whether you have been doing this kind of thing always, for eternity. Do you have any mind or not? any intelligence or not?" Just being reminded that you have been after money for thousands of years and you have attained money in many lives and there was only frustration and nothing else; that you have been after power and you became powerful many times, but after reaching the last rung of the ladder you saw that there is nothing -- that you have been befooled by the society, that ambition is nonsense. You are not to be somebody. You are what you are. There is no question of climbing a ladder and you will be better. Because these experiences of past lives will change the whole character, it is better…

Beloved Osho, to me one of the most tragic falls of man today is his valuing all the wrong things. Somewhere in the collective unconscious there must be some idea of wanting all the most beautiful things of life for free -- and paying hugely for all the unessentials. We worship the words of football players, movie stars and politicians, with no appreciation whatsoever for wisdom. This situation is so pitiful: how can one understand the beauty of cosmic payment circling back to the source when we will remain in such poverty? Would you please bring light to these blocks that man has agreed upon,

From this cosmic superconscious mind, each of your conscious acts starts taking on a fragrance of divinity, of godliness. Whatever you touch becomes gold, whatever you say becomes truth. Each of your movements in life creates ripples of beauty, joy, ecstasy, which will go to the farthest ends of existence, touching millions of people who have never known you and who may never know you -- but they will share your joy. You may have felt it sometime: you are sitting, feeling good, and suddenly you become sad and you don't know why. It is that somebody is releasing ripples of sadness just close by, and they are strong enough to have an impact on you. Sometimes you feel just the opposite: you feel very light, weightless -- for no reason -- a freshness, a joy. You cannot even say to anybody, "I am feeling joyous;" they will think you…