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concerned. Your ecstasy is far beyond the reach of the mind. So teach the mind, train the mind not to interfere -- and don't listen. It may go on just out of old habit saying, "Watch out! Take calculated steps!" Just ignore it.
That word `ignore' reminds me of Gautam Buddha. His suggestion to his disciples was, "As far as meditation is concerned, ignore the mind." His word for ignoring is upeksha, which is a very beautiful word. "Just bypass it; let it go on saying whatever it wants; don't pay any attention to it." Soon the mind understands where he can be listened to and where he is absolutely unwelcome.
The day the mind understands where it is unwelcome, it stops saying anything about that. And it has to be stopped from interfering in your inner growth.
Okay, Maneesha?
Yes, Osho.
The New Dawn
Chapter #3
Chapter title: A feeling of coming home
19 June 1987 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8706195
ShortTitle: DAWN03
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 85 mins
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
AN EARTHQUAKE IS HAPPENING: MY ANCIENT CRUST IS CRACKING AND MARVELOUS SQUIRTS OF BLISS ARE POURING OUT. MORE AND MORE, YOUR WORDS ARE INCREDIBLY ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF MY INNER WORLD, NOT JUST BEAUTIFUL IMAGES OF SOMEWHERE ELSE. YOUR FINGER USED TO POINT TO THE MOON, BUT NOW I HAVE SEEN MY OWN MOON; YOUR FINGER IS POINTING TO MY VERY CENTER. I AM SHY TO WRITE THIS. I NEEDED COURAGE TO UNCOVER MY ANGUISH; STRANGELY, ACKNOWLEDGING MY JOY NEEDS EVEN MORE.
Devageet, it is one of the most fundamental experiences that you have pointed out in your question. It certainly needs more courage to expose your joy, your blissfulness than it needs to describe your anxiety, your anguish. The difficulty is, of course, different in each case.
To expose one's anguish, anxiety, misery, suffering, courage is needed because it is exposing yourself in your utter nudity: your wounds, your ugliness, your insanity -- things which everybody wants to hide from the world. It goes against your ego, against your personality.
But to express your joy needs more courage
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