What does it mean to desire another person's mind or intellect?

Osho, just now you said that lust—more lust—means a greater distance from the Divine; and elsewhere you say that transformation happens only at the peak of lust. Please clarify.

But we cannot muster any courage. Hence the difficulty of those in the middle: they continue to believe both sides. They read the Gita in the morning and say, “Lust is the enemy,” and then spend their days and nights fantasizing about lust. “Krishna says so,” they say—but the heart says, “Lust is the friend.” So again they read the Gita in the morning, then live in lust for twenty-four hours, then read the Gita again. It becomes a routine. They live in lust and, by reading against lust, they also lighten their minds. This is a clever trick. Thus they do double work: they live in lust, and they also keep assuring themselves, “I am not a bad man—I read the Gita daily; lust is the enemy.” “I am a good man—only the time hasn’t come yet; the Lord’s grace has not yet descended; past-life karmas are obstructing; the…

We too obey the waves of our intellect — the intellect is a very surface layer. The intellect is that face of our mind through which we relate to the world. Intellect is like the guard who sits at the gate of a royal palace. He stands between the outer world and the palace. But if the master of the house, the emperor himself, starts asking the guard, Is there anything inside this palace? the guard will say, What could be there! All that is, is here on my stool. The whole world is here. And no one has ever gone in without passing by me. So even if something goes in, it will go past me. So far I’ve seen no treasure enter — there is no treasure inside! Intellect is only a guard, a security measure for our relation with the outer world.

Osho, you said that the state of the mind itself is the obstacle. And it is precisely my state of mind that has drawn me to you. You also said that the intellect is the obstacle, because the intelligent person thinks too much. And I see that you are surrounded by intelligent people.

So I say the intellect is also an obstacle. Perhaps it is indeed the intellect that has brought you this far—you must have read or heard about me, and that is why you came—but now that you are here, listen to what I am saying: set the intellect aside. Be a little no-mind with me. Let the waves subside. Become waveless for a while. The moment there are no waves, all distance between you and me disappears. In wavelessness only One remains. There I am not, and you are not—there only That is. Raso vai sah—the essence is He. Only His nectar showers. There is only the One—the same deathless elixir, the same unstruck sound, which the Zen mystics call the sound of one hand clapping. There is not even a second hand to clap. Which the Hindus call the sound of Om—there, there is no one producing the sound;…

Osho, why has human faith in religion waned?

Then there is a further fall. This is when, around Buddha, people hear, oppose, accept. Then two-and-a-half thousand years pass. One generation hands it to the next. Those who had heard from Buddha, or at least seen him—some hint of truth must have reached their ears; some touch of Buddha’s presence must have touched them; some color of Buddha must have fallen upon their souls—however slight, it fell. Then their sons and their sons’ sons believe because the fathers believed, the forefathers believed, people have always believed—and then belief becomes blind belief. What you call religions are superstitions. They should have been bid farewell long ago. New editions of truth descend from the sky every day. A new Koran descends every day. God has not grown tired, has not exhausted Himself with Mohammed. Jesus is not God’s only son—as Christians say, the only begotten. Nor did God come to an…

Mind, intellect, and the formed contents of that mind are it, so too are the world and all that seems from it to differ,

ALL THINGS THAT CAN BE SENSED, AND THE PERCEIVER, ALSO DULLNESS, AVERSION, DESIRE, AND ENLIGHTENMENT. LIKE A LAMP THAT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS OF SPIRITUAL UNKNOWING, IT REMOVES OBSCURATIONS OF A MIND AS FAR AS THE FRAGMENTATIONS OF INTELLECT OBTAIN. WHO CAN IMAGINE THE SELF-BEING OF DESIRELESSNESS? THERE'S NOTHING TO BE NEGATED, NOTHING TO BE AFFIRMED OR GRASPED; FOR IT CAN NEVER BE CONCEIVED. BY THE FRAGMENTATIONS OF THE INTELLECT ARE THE DELUDED FETTERED; UNDIVIDED AND PURE REMAINS SPONTANEITY. IF YOU QUESTION ULTIMACY WITH THE POSTULATES OF THE MANY AND THE ONE, ONENESS IS NOT GIVEN, FOR BY (TRANSCENDING) KNOWLEDGE ARE SENTIENT BEINGS FREED. THE RADIANT IS POTENCY LATENT IN THE INTELLECT, AND THIS IS SHOWN TO BE MEDITATION; UNSWERVING MIND IS OUR TRUE ESSENCE. I told her that it seemed she had not heard that Zen people in Japan will first purchase a cup from the supermarket, bring it…