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ones have been speaking, so that the baby does not start crying. Consoling, baby-sitting, is the basic business of all buddhas. The moment the baby grows, at the right time they are going to strike the baby. The real teaching will start only when you are mature enough, centered enough, receptive enough, aware enough. No buddha is going to waste a single hit. He will wait and console the baby, and once the baby is consoled the whole approach of the buddha changes. He does not speak in terms of the mind anymore. The mind is the most childish thing in the world. Once the master has helped you to detach your consciousness from your mind, the real teaching is very simple.
No-mind is the buddha.
Your ego is your immaturity.
Your egolessness is your awakening.
Just die to this moment deep enough
so that you can have a resurrection.
Then you will know that no-mind is the buddha. And it has always been so. But to those who cannot understand, the compassionate ones have been saying to them that the mind is the buddha. It is just out of compassion to keep you from crying, because if you are not mature enough -- and it is said , "You are not at all; you are just a soap bubble. Inside is nothingness and that is your nature" -- the retarded ones will be driven crazy.
The physician knows perfectly well in what quantity the medicine has to be given, at what time the disciple needs the ultimate hit so that he disappears, leaving behind him just a pure space.
Out of that pure space everything blossoms.
Into that pure space everything disappears.
That pure space is your being.
And THE MONK SAID, "AND WHEN THE BABY STOPS CRYING?"
BASO SAID, "MIND IS NOT THE BUDDHA."
THE MONK SAID, "BESIDE THIS, IS THERE SOMETHING MORE?"
BASO REPLIED, "I WILL TELL YOU, IT IS NOT SOME THING."
This no-mind, this pure silence is not a thing, it is not some thing, it is the very life, the very consciousness, the very blissfulness, the eternal being. It is not a thing.
Question 1
Maneesha has asked,
BELOVED OSHO,
THE OTHER EVENING I HEARD YOU SAY THAT INTUITION AND ENLIGHTENMENT
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