Osho can you say something
about the "inner voice"?
"The
first thing: the inner voice is not a voice, it is silence. It says nothing. It
shows something, but it says nothing. It makes a gesture, but it says nothing.
The inner voice is not a voice. If you still hear a voice, it is not an inner
voice. 'Inner voice' is a misnomer, it's not the right word. Only silence is
inner. All voices come from outside.
For
example: you want to steal something and the 'inner voice' says: 'You should
not steal! - That's a sin! That's not the inner voice - that's just your conditioning:
you've been taught not to steal. It's society speaking through you. It seems to
come from within, but it doesn't ...
It's just
your social conscience. Society has to create internal rules in you because the
external ones are not enough. There is the police, but that's not enough - the
police can be fooled. There are the courts, but that is not enough, because you
can be smarter than the courts. External regulation is not enough, internal
rules are needed.
So society
teaches you that stealing is bad - one is good, the other is bad. It teaches
you more and more and keeps repeating it. It penetrates your being, it becomes
part of your inner world. So when you want to steal, suddenly someone inside
says: 'No!' And you think that the inner voice or God has spoken. No, nothing
like that. It's just society speaking inside you."
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So this false inner voice
drowns out the real one?
"This
inner voice must be destroyed, destroyed, completely destroyed - at least so
much so that you can't understand it even if you hear it. And they have
succeeded. If you don't fight hard against them, you can't succeed. Their
exploitation is so old, their oppression is so old, their strategies are so
cunning ... and they have infinite power. What can you as an individual do
against them?
But if you
go within and listen to your heart, you will gain such strength that no power
on earth can enslave you again."
How does this destruction
of our inner voice come about?
"From
the very beginning, every child is misinformed and bent, misguided and misled.
Parents don't do this knowingly, because they too are caught in the same trap,
they have been misled themselves. For example, if a child has too much energy,
the family feels uncomfortable, because an overly energetic child is a
revolution in the house. Nothing is safe, nothing is safe. The energetic child
will destroy everything. It must be stopped. Its energy must be blocked, its
life must be restricted. It must be judged, punished and only rewarded when it
behaves. And what do you expect? You expect him to be like an old person and
not destroy anything you consider valuable.
Little by
little, the child is forced to follow you because it is helpless. It is
dependent on you, its survival depends on you. In order to survive, it plays
dead. Only to survive because you give it food, milk and care. How can it
develop if you are so much against it? Little by little, it sells its nature to
you. Whatever you say, little by little it accepts it. Your rewards and
punishments are what you mislead it with.
Little by
little, it trusts you more than its own inner voice because it knows that its
inner voice always gets it into trouble. Its inner voice has always proven to
bring punishment, so its inner voice is associated with punishment. And
whenever it doesn't listen to its inner voice and simply follows you blindly,
it is rewarded. Whenever it is itself, it is punished, whenever it is not
itself, it is rewarded. The logic is clear.
Little by
little, you distract it from its own life. Little by little, it forgets what
its inner voice is. If you don't hear it for a long time, you can no longer
hear it."
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I always listen to my
inner voice. But one voice says one thing and another says exactly the
opposite. What should I do?
"These
inner voices are just nonsense. They're just fragments in your head, they have
no value at all. And sometimes you might think you're listening to an inner
guide or a master from beyond - Master KH, or a spirit, a Tibetan spirit - and
you can go on imagining these things. And you simply fool yourself.
These are
all fragments of you. And if you keep following them, you go crazy - because
one part pulls you north, another pulls you south. You start to fall apart.
Remember, this is a neurosis - you have to learn to pay attention to all these
voices. Don't trust any of them. Trust only the silence. Don't trust any voice,
because all voices come from the mind. And you don't just have one mind, you
have many. This is a persistent misconception - we think we only have one mind.
That is wrong.
You have
many. In the morning, one mind is up. Around noon, another mind is on top. In
the evening, a third mind - and you have many ... You are a crowd! If you keep
listening to these voices and following them, you will destroy your whole life.
You will go
crazy. And you ask me: 'What should I do?' You shouldn't follow these voices.
You should wait until there is silence. Observe them - calmly, at a distance,
detached. Just look at them, observe them without identifying with any of them.
It will take a little while until you have created the distance, because there
are voices that are very, very satisfying, there are voices that are very
satisfying for the ego."
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Is it difficult to observe
these voices?
"It's
not a difficult process, you just have to realize that this is not your own
voice, but the voice of your father, the voice of your mother, the voice of your
rabbi, and you have to say thank you: 'Great of you to follow me this far, but
this far and no further, this is the end. This is where we part company.
And once
you have no more strange voices inside you, only then ... because in this
crowd, in this marketplace that you have become inside yourself, it is almost
impossible to hear your own voice. That is the beginning of being yourself.
Then much more happens, but it happens naturally, you don't have to do
anything.
The only
thing you need to do is to negate the voices that have been covering up your
own voice. Once that happens, you start to find your own insights."
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"In
the beginning, of course, you will feel completely lost. That happens in
meditation. Many people come to me and say: 'We have come to find a way. The
opposite happens, meditation makes me feel completely lost. That is a good
sign. It shows that the influence of others is waning. That's why you feel
lost, because the voices of others have given you guidance and you have started
to believe in them. You have believed in them for so long that they have become
your guides. When you meditate, these voices are destroyed. You have escaped
the trap. You become a child again and don't know where to go. Because all the
guides have disappeared ...
This is a
revolutionary period in the life of being. You have to go through it with
courage. If you can stay in it without fear, you will soon hear your own voice
that has been suppressed for so long. Soon you will learn its language, for you
have forgotten that language. You only know the language you have been taught.
And this language, the inner language, is not verbal. It expresses itself in
feelings."
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How far can we rely on
this inner voice?
"If
you don't listen to anyone, if you only listen to your own voice, even if you
sometimes make mistakes, even if you sometimes do something wrong - don't
worry. You will make mistakes because you are so used to following others that
you have lost your inner voice. You don't know what the inner voice is. There
are many voices and they all come from others. Sometimes the mother speaks - do
that! Sometimes the father speaks - don't do that! Sometimes someone else, a
Buddha, a Jesus, a Christ, a Chuang Tzu ... drop all these voices. Listen!
Meditation
is deep listening, listening to the inner voice. When you become silent, the
voices coming from outside fall silent. Chuang Tzu goes home, Buddha goes home,
Jesus is no longer there, your father and mother are really gone. Everyone
leaves and you remain alone in your emptiness. Then your nature asserts itself
- and that is a blossoming. Just as a seed sprouts and germinates, your inner
voice emerges and blossoms. And then follow it: wherever it leads you, follow
it. Listen to no one, that is the path to the divine."
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Is the inner voice always
there?
"When
you no longer listen to anyone, when you have become completely deaf, when no
voices penetrate you and you have thrown out all the voices, when you have
thrown out all the garbage, you are simply empty and come to rest within
yourself - then you feel your voice. It's always there. Every child is born
with it, every tree is born with it, every bird lives with it - even a turtle
is born with it. And you can't confuse a turtle, you can't convince it by
saying: come and die, we will protect you. The turtle will say: go home, leave
me alone so I can drag my tail through the mud. As soon as you can feel your
voice, you no longer need rules, you have become your own rule.
And the
clearer your voice is, the more your steps go in the right direction. It
becomes a stronger and stronger force, every step brings you closer to your
destiny and you feel more at ease, you feel a deep satisfaction that everything
is right. And you can make everyone happy and be made happy by them."
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This inner direction is
the essence of a natural life?
"The
inner voice will guide you. Your direction will be completely different from
what society says - completely different. But you are religious for the first
time and not just moral. You are moral in a much deeper sense. Morality is no
longer a duty, it is not imposed on you. It is not a burden, it is spontaneous.
You are good, naturally good. You don't steal - not because society says
'stealing is forbidden', but because you can't do it. You won't kill because
it's impossible. You love life so much now that violence is impossible. It's
not a moral code, it's an inner orientation.
You affirm
life, you revere life. A deep reverence comes over you, and everything else
arises from this reverence ...
Find your
inner voice and everything else will follow."
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The inner dialog
In the
twenty-four hours of a day, you should be silent for one hour whenever it is
comfortable for you. The inner dialog will continue, but take no part in it.
Uninvolved
listening
The key to
the whole thing is to listen to the inner talking, just as you would listen to
two people talking, but stay detached from it. Don't get involved, just hear
what one part of the mind is telling another part. Whatever comes, let it come;
don't try to suppress it... Just be an observer of what is happening.
Wild horses
A lot of
stuff will come out that you have accumulated over the years. The mind has
never been given the freedom to throw that stuff away.
If you give
the mind the chance, it will run like a horse that has broken its reins. Let it
run! You sit and watch. Watching, just watching, that is the art of patience.
You will want to ride the horse, direct it this way or that, because that is
your old habit. You have to practice some patience to break that habit.
Wherever
your mind goes, just watch. Don't try to impose an order on it, because one
word gives way to another, and another, and a thousand more, because all things
are connected.
Say what
you think!
If it is
comfortable and possible, speak your thoughts aloud so that you can hear them
for yourself; for within the mind thoughts are subtle and you may not be fully
aware of them. Speak them out loud and be very conscious and mindful that you
remain well detached from them. Decide to say whatever comes into the mind, but
be completely unbiased and neutral.
It is
absolutely necessary to patiently empty the mind for six months, because all
your life you have done nothing but load it with thoughts. If you remain patient
and diligent, then six months is already enough; on the other hand, it may take
you six years, or six lifetimes! It all depends on you, whether you work on
this method wholeheartedly and seriously.
Slowly,
slowly - very vaguely - you will begin to hear the coming silence and
experience the art of listening.
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Listen to your heart and
accept your individuality
"Go to
a church and you will find your crowd, you will find replicas of your being.
Maybe the language is a little different, the ritual a little different, but
the basics are the same. The basics are: man must be reduced to a civil war.
The first
day you realize this, what the priests have done to you, is a day of insight.
"And
the first day you drop all this nonsense is the day of the beginning of
liberation.
"Do
what your nature wants to do and do what your inner qualities bring about.
Listen not to the scriptures, but to your own heart. This is the only scripture
I prescribe.
Listen very
carefully, very consciously and you will never be wrong. If you listen to your
own heart, you will never be divided.
"When
you listen to your own heart, you move in the right direction without ever
thinking about what is right and what is wrong.
So the
whole art for a new humanity will consist of the secret of listening to the
heart - consciously, attentively, mindfully.
"And
by all means follow it and go where it leads you. Yes, sometimes it will bring
you into danger - but remember, these dangers are necessary to make you mature.
And sometimes you will stray - but remember again that these straying events
are part of growth. Often you will fall. Rise again, because that's how you
gather strength - by falling and rising again. This is how you become
integrated.
However, do
not follow the rules imposed from outside. No imposed rule can ever be right
because rules are invented by people who want to rule you.
"Yes,
sometimes there have been great enlightened people in the world - a Buddha, a
Jesus, a Krishna, a Mohammed. They didn't give the world rules, they gave their
love. But sooner or later the disciples get together and start making codes of
conduct. Once the master is gone, once the light is gone and they are in deep
darkness, they grope for certain rules, because now the light in which they
could have seen is no longer there. Now they have to rely on rules.
"What
Jesus did was the whispering of his own heart, and what Christians continue to
do is not the whispering of their own hearts. You are imitators - and the
moment you imitate, you insult your humanity, you insult existence.
"Never
be an imitator, always be original Don't become a copy. But that's exactly what
happens all over the world: carbon copies and carbon copies.
Life is
really a dance when you are an original - and you are meant to be an original.
And no two men are alike, so my way of life can never become your way of life.
"Surround
the mind, absorb the Master's silence, learn his grace. Drink as much as you
can from his being, but do not imitate him. When you immerse yourself in his
spirit, drink in his love, receive his compassion, you can listen to the
whisper of your own heart. And you are the whisper. The heart speaks in a very
still, small voice; it does not shout.
"Listen
to the silence of the Master so that one day you can Listen to your own
innermost core and then this problem will never arise: "I am doing
something I should not do and I am not doing something I should do. "This
problem only arises because you are dominated by external rules and are an
imitator.
"What
is right for a Buddha is not right for you. Look how different Krishna is from
Buddha. If Krishna had followed Buddha, we would have missed one of the most
beautiful men on this earth. Or if Buddha had followed Krishna, he would have
been just a bad specimen. Just think of Buddha playing the flute. He would have
disturbed the sleep of many people; He was not a flute player. Just think of
Buddha dancing, it looks so ridiculous, just absurd.
"But
it's the same with Krishna. Sitting under a tree without a flute, without a
crown of peacock feathers, without beautiful clothes, just sitting like a
beggar under a tree with his eyes closed, nobody dancing around him, nothing of
the dance, nothing of the song, and Krishna looks so poor, so impoverished.
Or think of
Jesus walking on the lake and try it yourself, who will pull you out of the
water.
A Buddha is
a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, Jesus was Jesus and you are you. And you are
in no way less than anyone else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice
and follow it."
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