Osho - Have you ever watched what you go on doing? Then tomorrow morning do one thing: the moment you wake up in the morning, simply watch what you do -- how you get out of bed, how you move, what thoughts you have in the mind... Just watch. And for one week you watch. You will be surprised: you do exactly the same thing every morning -- the same gestures, the same face, and almost the same kind of thoughts. You have become a programmed phenomenon. And you have been doing this your whole life -- and maybe for many lives, who knows?
When you become angry, watch -- it is always the same process. You move through the same spaces. When you are happy, watch. When you fall in love, watch. And when you fall out of love, watch. It is almost the same process. And you go on doing the same stupid things again and again, and you go on making the same stupid statements again and again.
You are not living a conscious life: ninety-nine percent of you is programmed -- programmed by others, programmed by society, or programmed by yourself, but it is programmed. So it is not so easy that when you sit and look at the tip of the nose for the first time, thoughts will say, 'Now we should not go to this man. Look at the poor fellow -- how deeply he is meditating! And he is looking at the tip of the nose... This is not the time to go to him.' They will not bother. They will go on rushing; they will not be prevented by your looking at the tip of the nose. In fact, they may come even more forcibly seeing that this man is trying to get out of their grip.
This happens: when people sit silently in meditation more thoughts come than they do ordinarily, than they usually come -- unusual explosions. Millions of thoughts rush in, because they have some investment in you -- and you are trying to get out of their power? They will give you a hard time. So thoughts are bound to come. What are you going to do with thoughts? You cannot just go on sitting visibly there, you will have to do something. Fighting is not going to help because if you start fighting you will forget to look at the tip of the nose, the awareness of the third eye, the circulation of the light; you will forget all and you will be lost in the jungle of thoughts. If you start chasing thoughts you are lost, if you follow them you are lost, if you fight them you are lost. Then what is to be done?
And this is the secret. Buddha has also used the same secret. In
fact, the secrets are almost the same because man is the same -- the
lock is the same, so the key has to be the same. This is the secret:
Buddha calls it SAMMASATI, right remembrance. Just remember: this
thought has come, see where it is, with no antagonism, with no
justification, with no condemnation. Just be objective as a scientist is
objective. See where it is, from where it is coming, where it is going.
See the coming of it, see the staying of it, see the going of it. And
thoughts are very mobile; they don't stay long. You simply have to watch
the arising of the thought, the staying of the thought, and the going of
the thought. Don't try to fight, don't try to follow, just be a silent
observer. And you will be surprised: the more settled observation
becomes, the less thoughts will come. When observation is perfect,
thoughts disappear. There is only a gap left, an interval left.
But remember one more point: the mind can again play a trick.
Source - Osho Book "The Secret of Secrets, Vol 1"
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