It’s not a glitch—being a bit messy-minded means you’re uniquely smart, and it can actually help you grow.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Beloved Osho, I seem to have become very muddleheaded and scatter-brained lately. But unfortunately there has been no corresponding upsurge of intelligence. Is this just a temporary lapse or do I have a leak somewhere?
"But if you happen to come to Allahabad any time, I would love to meet you. In my whole life-long career as a professor, I have been waiting perhaps for you. I wanted these kind of answers. I wanted this courage -- that rather than answering the question, you questioned the question and you demolished the question completely. You have not answered it because there is nothing to answer; the question is absurd. And when you answer a question, you answer to the point. I don't want to read long answers, which are all repetitive. Everybody else is writing them, nobody is using his intelligence." He was aware of the fact that memory is only mechanical; intelligence is your real treasure. And now it has become an absolute fact. In the future, memory will not be used at all, because you can carry a small computer in a pocket with…Read the full discourse →
Since I have been here, I have lost my ability to concentrate. It is hard for me to utter a logical sentence. And I have become very forgetful. I feel myself as a stupid child. Is that the way to me intelligence you talk about?
Legs in perfect order are needed so that whenever you need to, you can walk, you can run. But when there Is no need, you can relax, and the legs will no longer be functioning. But your concentration has become almost as focused as if you are continuously preparing for an Olympic! Runners in an Olympic cannot relax. They have to run a particular amount every morning and evening; they are continuously on the go. If they relax for a few days they will lose their skill. But I call all Olympics political, ambitious, foolish. There is no need. Competition is foolish. There is no need. If you enjoy running -- perfectly good. Run. and enjoy. But why compete? What is the point of competition? Competition brings illness, unhealthiness; competition brings jealousy, and a thousand and one diseases. Meditation will allow you to concentrate whenever the need arises, but if…Read the full discourse →
Beloved Osho, each time I come close to you, it looks like my mind doesn't work any more. I cannot hold on to any concrete thought; everything disappears as if in a white, light cloud. On one side it is like coming home after all this intense longing, and on the other side the fear of becoming crazy comes up. Is this the fear of losing control, or the first step of becoming a disciple and part of a divine madness? Am I on the right path?
He said, "I am a poor man; I don't understand anything about what these great engineers are thinking. But it is a very simple matter... and they seem to be finding it almost impossible to remove it. There is no need to remove it. Just dig a hole around the rock; go on digging the hole and pulling out the mud. The rock will sit deeper in the hole and it won't be a barrier. You need not be worried how to take it out, there is no need. It can just become part of the road -- it is such a beautiful rock. But I am a poor farmer. I may be absolutely wrong, I don't know. But this is how we work in our fields if some problem arises." Lenin has written in his diary, "That day I felt that to be intellectually trained is one thing, and…Read the full discourse →
Osho, while listening to yesterday’s discourse I felt I was not on this earth, but a particle of light in the free and boundless sky. Even after the discourse a sense of lightness and emptiness continued; I kept wanting to roam in that same sky. I do not know knowledge, action, or devotion; but when I am alone I feel like sinking into this state. Yet sometimes a thought also arises: perhaps this is my madness; perhaps it’s just another play of my ego! Kindly guide me.
It is the fear of losing control. The ego can live very well with sorrow, because in sorrow it does not lose control. Cry as much as you like in sorrow, yet you remain your own master. Control is lost in joy; boundaries break in joy. In sorrow no boundary ever breaks. In hell, too, boundaries do not break. You can be in hell and remain inwardly strong. Boundaries break in heaven. There control is lost. Where control is lost, the ego is lost. Where control is lost, the grip of intellect is lost, the net of logic is lost. That is what is happening. Do not be afraid. The moment to cross is near. But without the head turning, no one has ever crossed. I seek a tune That is not on the lips— It quivers in the veins, Burning like lava— So that I may melt. I seek…Read the full discourse →
Beloved Osho, I feel like my mind is going crazy these days. It is as if it is trying to grasp anything it possibly can, especially during discourse as I sit in silence with you. It feels like it's having less and less to hold on to, less and less to think about, so it's creating the craziest things. Is this part of your work, or am I going mad?
The psychoanalyst tried to manage things in such a way that he wouldn't lose the patient because he was really a treasure, but he didn't want to lose his normalness either because then what would he do with the treasure? Then he would have to give all the money to other psychoanalysts to clean his mind. So he said to the rich man, "Because you need so much time, I cannot look after other patients. And you need that much time so I am not saying to cut it. I have found a way: I will put my tape recorder here so that you can go on talking as long as you want, and in the night when I am free I will listen to the tapes." The rich man said, "That is perfect. For me it makes no problem." The next day as the psychoanalyst was entering his office…Read the full discourse →