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First they cleanse your intestine. In Yoga there is a method where the yogi has to vomit every day in the morning.
[Osho went on to describe this method, as he had done in a former darshan when he suggested that a sannyasin do it in order to remove some blocked energy. (See 'Above All, Don't Wobble', darshan Wednesday, January 21st.)
The next thing is to cleanse the intestine, and there are many yoga postures which give a deep massage to the intestine and help it to release whatsoever toxins it holds. And it can hold toxins. Sometimes in post-mortem examinations the entire intestine has been found to hold forty, fifty year-old matter; it clings to the sides of the walls. That creates tremendous poison. But that is part of the mind. Yoga starts with the body; it is body-oriented. First it cleanses the body and the stomach, and then the mind becomes very easily able to release, to cathart.
Now the western methods start with the mind -- catharsis -- and then the body releases. But both are absolutely right. You can start either from this way or from that, because both belong to the same family.
[A group member said she was very slow and therefore might be missing something.]
There is nothing to be worried about. There are people who are fast runners and people who are slow walkers. Because you compare, the problem arises. When you see somebody running fast and you are walking slow, you compare.
You say, 'He is running so fast that he must be getting many things, and I am missing.' But you don't know the runner. He looks at you and thinks, 'Maybe she is enjoying the scenery more because she is moving so slowly. She must have got something, that is why she is moving so slowly and so happily.'
Don't compare. You have to keep your pace. You are nobody else -- you are you. So whatsoever is natural to you, that's the way you have to grow. Never compare, and never hanker for one hundred percent. In life, only death happens one hundred percent. That too, the physicians say is difficult to determine -- whether the person is one hundred percent dead or not. They have not yet been able to demark the line where one can say a person
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