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to stay with one thought, and you could remain only thirty seconds.
Gurdjieff used to give this experiment to everyone who had come to become a disciple. He would give him his own pocket watch and tell him, "Keep it in front of you, watch the second hand and choose any word -- your name. Keep just that name in your mind, and just tell me how long you can keep it" -- fifteen seconds, thirty seconds, at the most, forty seconds, not even one whole minute.
Mind is in a flux.
So those who want to become disciples because of some mind thing are not going to stay. There is no need to say no to them, they will be going themselves.
But the master knows perfectly well when somebody comes with an urge from the heart, with an urge that he can stake his whole life for but he will not turn back. Only these few people attain to the fulfillment.
Everybody has the potential, but everybody is not ripe at this moment -- perhaps at some other time, in some other life, with some other master.
But one day is going to come in everybody's life that becomes a turning point, a 180 degree turn, and then disciplehood is a beautiful growth.
Then the whole energy is moving in one direction, with one intention, with no diversions. Then the distance from the goal is less.
The more intense is your urge, the smaller is the distance. If your intention is total, then there is no distance at all.
Then you need not go to the goal, the goal comes to you.
Beyond Enlightenment
Chapter #2
Chapter title: Innocence is a light unto itself
4 October 1986 pm in
Archive code: 8610045
ShortTitle: ENLIGH02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 125 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
I HAVE QUESTIONS, BUT THEY ARE NEVER COMPLETE, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ASK.
No question is ever complete, because the completion of a question will mean it has its answer in itself.
A question by its very nature is incomplete. It is a desire, a longing, an inquiry, because something needs to be completed.
It is part of human consciousness that it demands completion. Leave
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