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the ages priests and politicians have used mind-washing, but they simply change the mind from one to another mind. Here, we simply destroy the mind and leave you alone. We don't replace it because replacing is meaningless: it is changing one disease for another.
Mindlessness is freedom. And that's what has been done by Sufis and Zen masters and Hassids -- the real masters have always done this. They take away the mind and then don't replace it by anything; they don't give you any substitute. It is very difficult to accept the idea that one can live in total emptiness without a mind, but that is where bliss happens. That is the place to go, the space to be... that is another name for god.
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[A sannyasin says: My child had an accident.... she hurt her foot very badly and she was in such pain. I felt so caught up in the pain, I felt so identified.
Osho checks her energy.]
You are using a wrong word and hence you are creating misery for yourself. It was not identification at all -- it was empathy, and these are two different things. Be very careful when you use a word. Some words are very very loaded: 'identification' is a very loaded word.
It was empathy. The child is part of you, it is your extension. It is just as if your hand is hurt: you will feel pain. The mother always feels pain that way when the child is hurt. That is really the meaning of being a mother. Although the child has gone from your womb he has not gone out of you yet. It takes years and sometimes it never happens....
First I would like to change the word from identification to empathy. Sympathy means somebody is in pain and you are in sympathy. You understand the pain is severe but you are not in pain yourself. Then you can do things: you can rush to the doctor, you can bring medicines or something, because you are perfectly normal. You understand the pain of the other intellectually but emotionally you are out of it.
In empathy a different thing happens: you are emotionally in it -- you are not separate, you are not an observer. It is not that something has happened to the child.
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