Is it possible for a man's mind to become like the mind of a newborn baby?

Beloved Osho, is it possible for a man's mind to become like the mind of the newborn baby?

Definitely. A lake is absolutely calm, peaceful, but with the incoming breeze the waves start rising. But if the breeze stops, the waves will also stop and the lake will become calm. It will again become like a mirror. The lake is clean; with the falling of the leaves it becomes dirty, but when the leaves settle down the lake will again become clean and fresh. A child is born -- the lake was still clean, there were no ripples, there were no leaves of thought, no waves of desire. Then with the advent of youth storms arose, strong winds blew and the lake was full of waves. The mirror got lost. There was a terrific onset of passion. Then old age came and the storm was over -- the lake was calm again. A little understanding -- let the leaves settle down. A little understanding -- let the winds…

Osho, is it possible for a man's consciousness to become like that of a newborn child?

Certainly. A lake is all quiet. Then waves arise, gusts of wind come—the lake trembles. When the gusts pass, the lake again becomes still, becomes a mirror again. The lake is pure. Leaves fall, it becomes dirty. The leaves will settle to the bottom; the lake will again be fresh and clear. When the child is born, the lake is still clear—there are no ripples, no leaves of thoughts, no waves of desire. Then everything becomes wave-tossed—storms arise, the mind trembles, the mirror is lost. Youth comes; everything turns stormy; nothing remains settled; the wild, tempestuous surges of great desires arrive. Then old age comes; all the rubbish, the stones, the ruins lie about. But what was there at the source is still there. A little understanding—to let the leaves settle; a little understanding—to let the winds of desire stop. The lake will become the same again; the nature of…

Question: THE MIND WHICH IS UNATTACHED TO ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD, DOES NOT THINK, DOES NOT FEEL, IS FLUID AND FLEXIBLE. ALL BUDDHAS AND BODHISATTVAS ACHIEVE BUDDHAHOOD AND NIRVANA AS A RESULT OF THE MERCIFUL VOW. THE BUDDHA-NATURE MEANS NON-BIRTH, NON-EXTINCTION; THEN KNOW THAT ILLUSION IS BIRTH, DEATH, REINCARNATION. THOUGH YOU PRACTISE VIRTUE, DO NOT GRIEVE THAT MISFORTUNE ARISES; THE GUILTY KARMA OF THE PREVIOUS WORLD IS VANISHING AWAY. WHEN THEY ARE NOT TWO THINGS, THEY ARE NOT ONE THING, AND THE WIND IN THE INDIAN-INK PICTURE IS COOL INDEED. WHY ARE PEOPLE CALLED BUDDHAS AFTER THEY DIE? BECAUSE THEY DON'T GRUMBLE ANY MORE, BECAUSE THEY DON'T MAKE A NUISANCE The unconscious man is like a painted picture, fixed. The conscious man is only a mirror. There is a very beautiful Sufi parable: It happened that in a great king's court a Taoist painter arrived.

Beloved Osho, in the puranas there is a story that at the time of its dissolution the whole universe is submerged under water, except for a little island. There, sitting on a banyan-leaf, the young child mukunda is found, sucking his big toe -- and from him the whole universe is created again! A similar dissolution takes place in the disciple also when he approaches his master and after that comes his spiritual birth. Is it this happening that is symbolized by this story?

So the meditator keeps becoming each moment as the heart of a child. Meditation means cleaning off the rubbish of the past, dissolving all you have learned in the past, cleansing and unlearning all that you have come to know, making it all unknown again, dissolving everything that you have gathered around you and becoming fresh, light, new again -- like a shoot on a tree. Let the dead leaves fall, and let this fall happen every moment, so that spring follows after every fall, new shoots come and you are completely fresh and new, untarnished by any signs of the past. The meditator's experiment is to become in each and every moment so clean that not even a single trace of the old is to be found in him. From moment to moment, the meditator frees himself from the past, goes on dying to the past, and does not…

Question: BELOVED MASTER, CAN INNOCENCE IN AN ADULT HAPPEN WITHOUT AWARENESS? It was two o'clock in the morning and Gedalia the goniff was trying to break into a house. He tried all the doors and windows but he could not pry any of them open. Cautiously he climbed up to the second-floor balcony. Peering through a locked window, he saw a baby in its crib. By this time he was quite desperate so he decided to enlist the aid of the infant. "Hoo-hoo, bay-bee," he called softly. "Itsy-bitsy boo-boo, is oo gonna open window for nice mansi-wansie, hmm?" "Open the window?" yelled the baby. "Why, ya dumb schnook, I can't even walk yet!" The baby cannot walk, but he has become knowledgeable, he can talk. You have all become knowledgeable. You know nothing and yet you are full of knowledge.