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your diseases separately: he simply cuts the root in one single stroke. He cuts the mind. He does not bother about the branches and the leaves.
The psychotherapist goes on cutting the leaves. You have this fear, afraid the psychotherapist will try years of psychoanalysis and somehow you become adjusted to the fear.
A man continued to piss in his bed in the night. Now he was getting to be thirty-five -- it was already too late. He was married, he had children. Now it was time for the children to piss in the bed -- and he was still doing it.
The wife suggested, "Why don't you go to the psychotherapist?"
So he went. Then the LONG psychotherapy continued... analysis is a long process, and very costly. And after six months a friend asked, "How are things going?"
He said, "Perfect!" He was buoyant, flowing with joy. He said, "Perfect. I have found the greatest psychotherapist there is in the world."
The friend asked, "So he has cured you?"
He said, "No, but I no longer feel guilty about it. He has convinced me that this is perfectly natural, normal -- in fact, he himself does it."
The psychotherapist is in the same boat as you are in. All that he can do is a little bit of patchwork.
The Master KILLS you, destroys you, in your totality -- gives birth to a new man. The Master becomes a mother to you, a womb. To be a disciple is to enter into the womb of the Master. It is a death and a resurrection.
Second question:
Question 2
STANDING SURELY PROUD WITH ME
UNDER THIS SHOWERING SUFI SKY
GRACE STREAMING LIGHT LIMBS
SONGS FLOWING STRONG THROAT
A GREAT FULLNESS FALLS
AND RISES WITH EACH BREATH
AND PEACE FLIES ON BEATING WINGS
TO SETTLE DEEP WITHIN MY SOUL...
OH OSHO,
IS IT PRAYER
THAT'S THERE?
YES, VANDANA, THIS IS PRAYER. Prayer is not a formality. You need not go to a church to pray -- and those who go, they don't understand what prayer is. You need not go to a temple or a mosque or a GURUDWARA -- and those who go, they are only pretending.
Prayer is something of the heart. It can happen anywhere. And wherever
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