Osho - The moment you sit on the bank of your mind you are no longer giving energy to it. This is real meditation. Meditation is the art of transcendence. Freud talks about analysis, Assagioli about synthesis. Buddhas have always talked about meditation, awareness.
You ask me, Amitabh, "What is the uniqueness of this third
psychology?"
Meditation, awareness, watchfulness, witnessing -- that is the
uniqueness. No psychoanalyst is needed. You can do it on your own; in
fact, you have to do it on your own. No guidelines are needed, it is
such a simple process -- simple if you do it; if you don't do it, it
looks very complicated. Even the word 'meditation' scares many people.
They think it something very difficult, arduous. Yes, if you don't do it
it is difficult and arduous. It is like swimming. It is very difficult
if you don't know how to swim, but if you know, you know it is so simple
a process. Nothing can be more simple than swimming. It is not an art at
all; it is so spontaneous and so natural.
Be more aware of your mind. And in being aware of your mind you will become aware of the fact that you are not the mind, and that is the beginning of the revolution. You have started flowing higher and higher. You are no longer tethered to the mind. Mind functions like a rock and keeps you. It keeps you within the field of gravitation. The moment you are no longer attached to the mind, you enter the buddhafield. When gravitation loses its power over you, you enter into the buddhafield. Entering the buddhafield means entering into the world of levitation. You start floating upwards. Mind goes on dragging you downwards.
So it is not a question of analyzing or synthesizing. It is simply a question of becoming aware. That's why in the East we have not developed any psychotherapy like Freudian or Jungian or Adlerian -- and there are so many in the market now. We have not developed a single psychotherapy because we know psychotherapies can't heal. They may help you to accept your wounds, but they can't heal. Healing comes when you are no longer attached to the mind. When you are disconnected from the mind, unidentified, absolutely untethered, when the bondage is finished, then healing happens.
Transcendence is true therapy, and it is not only psychotherapy. It is not only a phenomenon limited to your psychology, it is far more than that. It is spiritual. It heals you in your very being. Mind is only your circumference, not your center.
Source - Osho Book "The Dhammapada, Vol 10"
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