Osho Rajneesh Book "Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind"

Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind

Think Without Mind
6 January 1978 am in Buddha Hall

The first question:
Question 1

OSHO, YOU SAY WE CANNOT TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OURSELVES UNTIL WE

ARE ’AWAKENED ’. THE WESTERN GROWTH MOVEMENT SAYS WE CANNOT BE AWAKENED UNTIL WE TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR OURSELVES. IS THERE A CONFLICT?

PLEASE COMMENT.

ANAND SALAM, THERE IS NO CONFLICT AT ALL – it is just seeing the same phenomenon

from two different angles. They are two aspects of the same event; they are together, they are

simultaneous. There is no contrariness in them: they are complementary.

When I say you can take full responsibility for yourselves only when you are awakened, I mean that

you don’t even know who you are – how can you take responsibility for something you are not even

aware of? You are acquainted only with the tip of the iceberg – how can you take responsibility for

the unconscious, which is nine times more than the conscious? The conscious, at the most, can

take responsibility for the conscious. Even that is difficult because it is constantly influenced by the

unconscious. You are pulled, dragged into things by the unconscious – you don’t know why.

You fall in love with a man or a woman – how can you take responsibility for it? because falling in love

is not a conscious decision on your part. It is an unconscious phenomenon. It simply overwhelms

you; suddenly one day, you find that you are in love. You have not done anything for it, you have not

prepared for it, you were not planning for it. It comes out of nowhere, out of the blue... and you are

possessed by it, you are madly possessed by it. How can you take responsibility for your love? Love

comes from roots about which you are not aware.

That’s why I say unless you are awakened you will not be able to take total responsibility. Your

responsibility will be fragmentary, superficial, shallow.

And the growth movement people are also true: they say we cannot be awakened until we take full

responsibility for ourselves. Yes, how will you be awakened? You have to start taking responsibility.

It cannot be total right now – let it be partial. It cannot be absolute right now – let it not be absolute.

It can only be fragmentary; it cannot be total. No need to worry. Even a fragmentary responsibility

is far better than irresponsibility. Even to be aware about a small part of your being is far better than

not to be aware.

The choice is not between total awareness and partial awareness: the choice before you is between

partial awareness and NO awareness. Choose partial awareness; that’s what the growth people

say – they are true. And when you choose to be responsible for a few things, you will become

a little more alert. When you become a little more alert, you will be able to become a little more

responsible... and so on and so forth.

The more responsible you become, the more alert; the more alert you become, the more

responsible. They will go hand in hand.

The growth movement is a gradual process of enlightenment. What I am saying is not a process but

a metanoia, a metamorphosis, a transformation, a sudden transformation. rf you understand me, in

a single moment, like lightning, you can become enlightened. But if you don’t understand me, then

you will have to crawl slowly through group methods, meditations, prayers, Yoga, Tantra, Tao... you

will have to move slowly, slowly. Either you become enlightened instantly, this moment, or you have

to grow into it slowly, slowly. The growth movement is a movement for growth; growth can only be

gradual.

What I am teaching to you is sudden enlighten-ment. It needs NO time; not even a single moment

is needed. Listen to me! and in this very moment... because what I am saying or what I am trying to

say is that YOU ARE already enlightened. You need not be enlightened. You have simply forgotten;

it is a kind of forgetfulness. Not that you have to become – you ARE that. Just a recognition, just

a turning in, just a deep look inside yourself... and you will start laughing. You have always been

there! You had never left i n the first place.

Enlightenment is your nature.

But there are two types of people and you cannot clo anything about your type. Either like a Hui

Neng, listening to the four lines of the Diamond Sutra, you become enlightened. Now, you cannot

ask how to become Hui Neng; that is not possible. Either you are or you are not; there is no more to

it.

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