Can the mind be the creator of joy?

Beloved master, the other day, you spoke about the mind as our greatest enemy, saying that it is the creator of suffering. Can it also be the creator of joy?

One California university has studied, for a year, the results of football matches, boxing matches... what they do to the public minds. Crimes rise fourteen percent; there are more murders, more rapes, more thefts -- in every direction, all crimes start rising immediately. And this fourteen percent increase remains stable for almost one week after the match is finished. What has the match done to the people's minds? And can you think this society is sane? -- which has boxing matches where two persons are being almost barbarous to each other, hitting on their noses, blood coming out. And thousands and thousands of people are watching so attentively, breathlessly -- as if something great is happening -- shouting madly, starting to fight amongst themselves. If somebody is shouting against your favorite, immediately fights break out amongst the spectators. And why do we have such ugly games? We know that everybody…

Osho, is the goose really out?

There is no "problem of the opposites." Opposites are not opposites, they are complementaries, hence there is no problem as such. Darkness and light are one phenomenon, two aspects of the same coin. Life and death are inseparable, you cannot separate them -- how can you make them opposites? They are complementaries, they help each other. Hence there is no problem and there is no need for any solution. And Zen is not a solution to opposites, it is a transcendence, it is a higher vision -- a bird's-eye view from where all dualities look stupid. The most important thing that happened to the first man who walked on the moon was that he suddenly forgot that he was an American. Suddenly the whole earth was one, there were no boundaries, because there is no map on the earth. The American continent, the African continent, the Asian continent, this country…

Once in the realm that's full of joy the seeing mind becomes enriched

AND THEREBY FOR THIS AND THAT MOST USEFUL; EVEN WHEN IT RUNS AFTER OBJECTS IT IS NOT ALIENATED FROM ITSELF. THE BUDS OF JOY AND PLEASURE AND THE LEAVES OF GLORY GROW. IF NOTHING FLOWS OUT ANYWHERE THE BLISS UNSPEAKABLE WILL FRUIT. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AND WHERE AND WHAT IN ITSELF IT WILL BECOME IS NOTHING: YET THEREBY IT HAS BEEN USEFUL FOR THIS AND THAT. WHETHER PASSIONATE OR NOT THE PATTERN IS NOTHINGNESS. IF I AM LIKE A PIG THAT COVETS WORLDLY MIRE YOU MUST TELL ME WHAT FAULT LIES IN A STAINLESS MIND. BY WHAT DOES NOT AFFECT ONE HOW CAN ONE NOW BE FETTERED? Your eyes see not, you ears hear not, and your hands touch not -- because you have lost that sensitivity, that flow which can make your eyes seeing eyes, which can make your ears hearing ears. That's why Jesus has to say…

Osho: It is not possible because mind likes enjoyment, that is right. Why does it like enjoyment? -- to forget itself. It likes enjoyment to be occupied, to be engaged, to forget oneself. A mind which is constantly trying to forget oneself is a mind which is constantly seeking some type of hypnosis, some type of unconsciousness. A mind which dreams or which is engaged in puja, in ceremony, in bhajan, in prayer, is a mind which is constantly escaping from oneself. and the mind which is escaping from oneself cannot know oneself; because to know oneself one has to cut this constant escapement. A thing may be beautiful; you may project beauty on it -- but you are projecting it. There is nothing like beauty or ugliness; that division is made by our own projections. There is nothing beautiful, there is nothing ugly. Things are, they exist in themselves.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

LIVE IN JOY, IN HEALTH, EVEN AMONG THE AFFLICTED. LIVE IN JOY, IN PEACE, EVEN AMONG THE TROUBLED. LIVE IN JOY, WITHOUT POSSESSIONS, LIKE THE SHINING ONES. THE WINNER SOWS HATRED BECAUSE THE LOSER SUFFERS. LET GO OF WINNING AND LOSING AND FIND JOY. THERE IS NO FIRE LIKE PASSION, NO CRIME LIKE HATRED, NO SORROW LIKE SEPARATION, NO SICKNESS LIKE HUNGER, AND NO JOY LIKE THE JOY OF FREEDOM. HEALTH, CONTENTMENT AND TRUST ARE YOUR GREATEST POSSESSIONS, AND FREEDOM YOUR GREATEST JOY. LOOK WITHIN. BE STILL. FREE FROM FEAR AND ATTACHMENT KNOW THE SWEET JOY OF THE WAY. HOW JOYFUL TO LOOK UPON THE AWAKENED AND TO KEEP COMPANY WITH THE WISE. HOW LONG THE ROAD TO THE MAN WHO TRAVELS WITH A FOOL. BUT WHOEVER FOLLOWS THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE WAY DISCOVERS HIS FAMILY, AND IS FILLED WITH JOY. FOLLOW THEN THE SHINING ONES, THE WISE, THE AWAKENED,…