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oxygen in the blood you will become so throbbing with life that you will have a certain exhilarated state, an altered state of consciousness... ecstatic, almost mad.
Buddha has been from the very beginning against manipulation, because through manipulation you can change the chemistry. It is nothing spiritual. Whatsoever they have been doing in Arica is not spiritual; it is chemical -- but this is an old yoga trick.
[Osho went on to describe how even just watching the breathing, subtle changes can start happening, so that it is an art to be learned -- how to watch and yet not interfere -- and that is what Vipassana is about. It is difficult not to manipulate because the ego wants to do something.
He said that he should remember to be aware of breathing at the nostrils so that the conditioned breathing would go.... ]
And when the breathing is perfectly natural, goes on its own, comes on its own, and you are just a watcher, a moment comes when you suddenly feel that it is not you who is breathing. You are not doing anything, so how can you say 'I am breathing'? You simply feel as if you are breathed .
That's what one sufi mystic, Mansoor, has said -- 'I suddenly saw that God is breathing me!' And after that he declared 'I am God' -- 'Ana-el-Haqq!' That became the crime, and he was murdered by mohammedans.
But his experience was perfectly true... right, because when the doer disappears, you are not breathing -- you are breathed. 'That' is breathing you, or 'it' is breathing you. You are breathed through. You become just a vast space in which God breathes in and breathes out. And a total change happens. Whatsoever you call inhalation becomes the exhalation of God, and whatsoever you call exhalation becomes the inhalation of God. When God inhales, you exhale. When God exhales, you inhale.
There is a very old indian story of a man who went in search of God. He travelled all over the world. Hindus say that the whole world is the body of God, so somewhere there are bound to be feet, somewhere hands.
The man travelled and travelled, and by chance it came to pass that hc came just near God's nose. And in that moment,
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