Health

A friend has asked: Osho, he has suffered from heart disease; will this dancing, this jumping be dangerous for his health?

It’s a little difficult to say, because it depends on many things. If he forgets the body and keeps only the divine in remembrance, then it can never be harmful. But if he does not remember the divine and keeps remembering the heart’s weakness, then it can be very harmful. It depends. Where is your attention? If you have forgotten your body, then no harm can ever befall you. And even if harm does occur, that too is a gain. To begin with, no harm can happen, because there is no reason. One who has surrendered his body wholly to the divine—his heart and its beating are no longer his responsibility; they are in the divine’s hands. And the same divine whose effortless presence keeps such a vast universe moving—there is no reason to think your heartbeat would not move by that very effortless presence. And if, in a moment…

What is hypertension?

Hypertension is a state of mind when you have been become too much focused on rationality and you have forgotten your feelings. Hypertension comes out of an imbalance; too much trust in reason is the basis of all hypertension. People who live in their heads become hypertense. Relaxation comes through the heart. One should be capable of moving easily from the head to the heart just as you move out of your house and inside your house. One should be fluid between head and heart. These are the two shores of the river that you are. You should not cling to one shore, otherwise life becomes lopsided. The West suffers very much from hypertension, because it has forgotten the language of the heart, and only the heart knows how to relax, because only the heart knows how to love. Only the heart knows how to enjoy, celebrate. Only the heart…

When I was a child I was inoculated against the measles. Can I still catch them now?

Yes, every child has been inoculated. Every child has been destroyed. Every child has been conditioned in such a way that he cannot get the measles I am talking about. You have been brought up as a Christian or a Hindu. That very upbringing closes your doors. Even if Christ comes' to you, you will not be able to see him. The idea that Christianity has given to you about Christ is so false, it is so foolish. it is so inhuman, that if Christ comes to you, you will not be able to recognize him. You will not be able to get the measles even from Christ! And Buddhists have created the idea of Buddha so abstractly and they have so conditioned their children with that abstract idea, with that inoculation, that even if Buddha comes across you, you will not be able to recognize him. So it is…

You have asked: “Is there any medicine for becoming healthy?”

There is only one medicine for becoming healthy: the realization that I am the soul—not the body, not the mind. Illnesses belong to the mind; illnesses belong to the body. You will be surprised to know: women go mad less than men; the number for men is double. Men go mad twice as much. Why? Because a woman’s madness is discharged in bulk; a man’s madness remains stuck. And women are less mad because their attachment is with the body; the body doesn’t really go mad. Men go mad because their attachment is with the mind; the mind goes mad. More men commit suicide—twice as many men. This may surprise you. Ordinarily you will find women giving more threats of suicide. They don’t do it; they threaten—don’t worry too much about their threats. And even if they do, they try with such arrangements that they can be saved. Even if…