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The head continues to grow larger and larger, while the heart continues to shrink. They have lost all synchronicity. And when the head becomes too large, the person turns into a monster. If you observe, if you look inside yourself, you can see this. I am simply stating a fact.
You won't feel any heart inside you. You will notice that your head is heavy and filled with all sorts of junk, but your heart is just a word. You have read about it in poems, in novels. It seems like a fiction, a myth. In reality, physiologists say that there is no heart. For a scientist, the heart is just a blood-pumping system, and love, as it is believed to originate, does not exist. The beating of your heart has nothing to do with the beating of the heart that poets spoke of, the heart that mystics praised; it is something else. But scientists are right in a way, because the people they study do not have a heart. Researchers have not studied
Buddha or Mira, they have not studied Zhuangzi or Kabir. They have never encountered a person with a heart, so if they know anything, it is only about the lungs. Mystics speak of something else, something that is not yet developed within you. It is something behind your physical heart, something that has not yet begun to function. It only begins to function when you pour a lot of energy into it, when your energy begins to set it in motion. But all your energy goes into the head.
Our education system is such that we avoid the heart. In fact, we try in every possible way to prevent any energy from flowing into the heart, because once the heart begins to function, it becomes difficult for the head to control you.
And society needs heads and hands. That is why society is divided into two types of people: the "heads" – people who work with their minds, the so-called intelligentsia – and the "hands" – the working people. Society does not value the heart because it has no utilitarian purpose. You cannot produce goods with the heart, you cannot make people rich, you cannot build large houses, create complex mechanisms, you cannot reach the moon. What, then, is its purpose? It has a completely different purpose. It is not utilitarian. It brings joy, but society is not interested in joy. Society needs efficient, robotic people. A joyful person is not a robot. Society does not want you to be loving; it wants you to be calculating.
A loving person never calculates; he always takes risks. He is not a good businessman. He lives in a completely different world; he sees things from a different perspective. For him, flowers are much more important than your scientific devices; stars are much more important than your political ideologies; rivers and mountains mean much more than all your churches and temples.
We are familiar with the negative aspect from childhood, but the positive aspect must be discovered. This discovery
continues throughout life; a person must continue to discover it. Meditation is nothing more than a method of discovering the positive aspect of emptiness, its positive quality. Meditation means very consciously letting go of the contents of the mind – when you know that you are letting go of it. And when you have let go of it, you suddenly realize that everything has disappeared, but you are still there, and you are more filled than ever before, because all those thoughts, all that junk that you have been carrying around, simply occupied your space. Now all the space, all the sky is available, and your heart can open its petals. In the East, we call this the "thousand-petaled lotus." Now there is space. If you continue to carry all this junk in your mind, is there room inside you for the thousand-petaled lotus to open?
There is little space inside you. You are so filled with garbage, with junk, that only weeds can grow inside you, but not roses. Roses cannot grow; they need some space. Emptiness is space, and being spacious means being vast. Feeling the emptiness in its positive quality, you feel boundlessness, you feel infinity. You see no limits anywhere; you are limitless. Even the sky is not a limit! This experience makes you enlightened. This experience makes you full of light, life, love – so full that it all begins to overflow; so full that now you are capable of sharing. Only a meditative person can be loving. In the past, people have tried to be either loving or meditative, and both have failed. The entire history of humanity is a history of failures, and the greatest of these failures was that the loving ones failed because they were not meditative. Without meditation, you have nothing to share; in order to share something, you must first have it. And the meditative people failed because, instead of becoming nothing, instead of becoming no one, instead of experiencing the ultimate emptiness, shunyata, they filled themselves with mantras, chants, prayers, constant repetition of some words. They were not Nothing; they were not in a state of emptiness. Perhaps they were not thinking about the worldly, they were not thinking about
money, they were not thinking about politics – but they were thinking about God. It doesn't matter what you think about: thinking itself keeps
you far, very far away from the beautiful experience of emptiness. It doesn't matter if it's mantras or songs from movies – in any case, you are too filled with junk. It doesn't matter if this junk was collected from sacred scriptures or from magazines like Playboy – it is still the same junk. When you are in this beautiful
empty space, you will know what the divine is, what truth is, what freedom is. In fact, when you know this, love will inevitably happen as a shadow of it, as a consequence of it. Meditative people failed because they were not truly meditative; they were doing something else, calling it meditation. They were doing concentration; they were doing contemplation; they were doing prayer; they were doing chanting; and they were doing a thousand other things, but not meditation. In fact, they were avoiding meditation – in religious ways. Ordinary people avoid meditation in worldly ways, and your so-called saints avoid meditation in "spiritual" ways, but it is the same – avoidance.
A person must discover the positive quality of emptiness. He must find enough courage to enter it. By knowing it, you will know everything that is worth knowing. Then you can share. And then you will not only be able to share; you will be able to understand the Quran, the Bible, the Gita, because these books are creations of people who have known the same positive emptiness, the same beautiful Nothing. You cannot understand Christ unless you are Christ, you cannot understand Buddha unless you are Buddha. Until you become a Buddha, you will just be a parrot, repeating the Dhammapada. Until you become Muhammad, you will not be able to understand a single word in the Quran. It is impossible: if you do not have the same awareness and the same connection with the primary source of things, how can you understand Muhammad? No Muslim understands Muhammad, no Christian understands Christ, no Buddhist understands Buddha, no Jain understands Mahavira. They are simply
imitators, repeating like parrots, continuing to act mechanically, and all their striving is to fill the negative emptiness...
OSHO
You won't feel any heart inside you. You will notice that your head is heavy and filled with all sorts of junk, but your heart is just a word. You have read about it in poems, in novels. It seems like a fiction, a myth. In reality, physiologists say that there is no heart. For a scientist, the heart is just a blood-pumping system, and love, as it is believed to originate, does not exist. The beating of your heart has nothing to do with the beating of the heart that poets spoke of, the heart that mystics praised; it is something else. But scientists are right in a way, because the people they study do not have a heart. Researchers have not studied
Buddha or Mira, they have not studied Zhuangzi or Kabir. They have never encountered a person with a heart, so if they know anything, it is only about the lungs. Mystics speak of something else, something that is not yet developed within you. It is something behind your physical heart, something that has not yet begun to function. It only begins to function when you pour a lot of energy into it, when your energy begins to set it in motion. But all your energy goes into the head.
Our education system is such that we avoid the heart. In fact, we try in every possible way to prevent any energy from flowing into the heart, because once the heart begins to function, it becomes difficult for the head to control you.
And society needs heads and hands. That is why society is divided into two types of people: the "heads" – people who work with their minds, the so-called intelligentsia – and the "hands" – the working people. Society does not value the heart because it has no utilitarian purpose. You cannot produce goods with the heart, you cannot make people rich, you cannot build large houses, create complex mechanisms, you cannot reach the moon. What, then, is its purpose? It has a completely different purpose. It is not utilitarian. It brings joy, but society is not interested in joy. Society needs efficient, robotic people. A joyful person is not a robot. Society does not want you to be loving; it wants you to be calculating.
A loving person never calculates; he always takes risks. He is not a good businessman. He lives in a completely different world; he sees things from a different perspective. For him, flowers are much more important than your scientific devices; stars are much more important than your political ideologies; rivers and mountains mean much more than all your churches and temples.
We are familiar with the negative aspect from childhood, but the positive aspect must be discovered. This discovery
continues throughout life; a person must continue to discover it. Meditation is nothing more than a method of discovering the positive aspect of emptiness, its positive quality. Meditation means very consciously letting go of the contents of the mind – when you know that you are letting go of it. And when you have let go of it, you suddenly realize that everything has disappeared, but you are still there, and you are more filled than ever before, because all those thoughts, all that junk that you have been carrying around, simply occupied your space. Now all the space, all the sky is available, and your heart can open its petals. In the East, we call this the "thousand-petaled lotus." Now there is space. If you continue to carry all this junk in your mind, is there room inside you for the thousand-petaled lotus to open?
There is little space inside you. You are so filled with garbage, with junk, that only weeds can grow inside you, but not roses. Roses cannot grow; they need some space. Emptiness is space, and being spacious means being vast. Feeling the emptiness in its positive quality, you feel boundlessness, you feel infinity. You see no limits anywhere; you are limitless. Even the sky is not a limit! This experience makes you enlightened. This experience makes you full of light, life, love – so full that it all begins to overflow; so full that now you are capable of sharing. Only a meditative person can be loving. In the past, people have tried to be either loving or meditative, and both have failed. The entire history of humanity is a history of failures, and the greatest of these failures was that the loving ones failed because they were not meditative. Without meditation, you have nothing to share; in order to share something, you must first have it. And the meditative people failed because, instead of becoming nothing, instead of becoming no one, instead of experiencing the ultimate emptiness, shunyata, they filled themselves with mantras, chants, prayers, constant repetition of some words. They were not Nothing; they were not in a state of emptiness. Perhaps they were not thinking about the worldly, they were not thinking about
money, they were not thinking about politics – but they were thinking about God. It doesn't matter what you think about: thinking itself keeps
you far, very far away from the beautiful experience of emptiness. It doesn't matter if it's mantras or songs from movies – in any case, you are too filled with junk. It doesn't matter if this junk was collected from sacred scriptures or from magazines like Playboy – it is still the same junk. When you are in this beautiful
empty space, you will know what the divine is, what truth is, what freedom is. In fact, when you know this, love will inevitably happen as a shadow of it, as a consequence of it. Meditative people failed because they were not truly meditative; they were doing something else, calling it meditation. They were doing concentration; they were doing contemplation; they were doing prayer; they were doing chanting; and they were doing a thousand other things, but not meditation. In fact, they were avoiding meditation – in religious ways. Ordinary people avoid meditation in worldly ways, and your so-called saints avoid meditation in "spiritual" ways, but it is the same – avoidance.
A person must discover the positive quality of emptiness. He must find enough courage to enter it. By knowing it, you will know everything that is worth knowing. Then you can share. And then you will not only be able to share; you will be able to understand the Quran, the Bible, the Gita, because these books are creations of people who have known the same positive emptiness, the same beautiful Nothing. You cannot understand Christ unless you are Christ, you cannot understand Buddha unless you are Buddha. Until you become a Buddha, you will just be a parrot, repeating the Dhammapada. Until you become Muhammad, you will not be able to understand a single word in the Quran. It is impossible: if you do not have the same awareness and the same connection with the primary source of things, how can you understand Muhammad? No Muslim understands Muhammad, no Christian understands Christ, no Buddhist understands Buddha, no Jain understands Mahavira. They are simply
imitators, repeating like parrots, continuing to act mechanically, and all their striving is to fill the negative emptiness...
OSHO