AWAKE -
Do you think you are awake?
Each morning you open your eyes, that is one thing,
but to be awake is totally different.
Each morning you open your eyes, that is one thing,
but to be awake is totally different.
Just close your eyes any time in the day and you will find an undercurrent of dreams, fantasies going on... People in the so-called waking state are not awake; they are still dreaming, just their eyes are open. They are behaving mechanically.
Yes, they are efficient in doing the routine work, because they have become accustomed to doing it. There is something like a robot part of the mind: once you have learned to do a certain thing it is transformed to the robot part of the mind; then it goes on doing it without your being aware of it. It is programmed.
And this is one of the things to be very deeply understood: we are all programmed. We have been programmed by the priests, by the politicians, by all kinds of ideologists. From the very childhood you have been programmed; a certain program has been put into your head and you are following that program . . ,
Your so-called waking state is full of mechanical habits; you simply go on repeating them-and each generation goes on giving its mechanical habits to the new generation. That's why progress seems to be so impossible, because parents go on imprinting their children with their programming, and that programming has been coming for centuries, maybe thousands-of-years-old programming...
This waking state is not a real waking state.
The real waking state happens only when you
are completely deprogrammed, unconditioned.
The real waking state happens only when you
are completely deprogrammed, unconditioned.
- OSHO
PHILOSOPHIA ULTIMA



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