Discipline of Suess
6 August 1970 pm in Bombay, India
Question 1
OSHO, YOU HAVE SAID BEFORE THAT IF A SEEKER IN HIS EXPERIMENT SHOULD MAKE AN INTENSE RESOLVE THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO DIE, THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO RETURN TO HIS OWER, IN A FEW DAYS HIS LIFE ENERGY WILL BEGIN TO TRACT FROM WITHIN AND THE SEEKER WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HIS BODY AS DEAD -- FIRST FROM WITHIN, AND THEN FROM WITHOUT.
SEQUENTLY, HIS FEAR OF DEATH WILL DISAPPEAR FOREVER.
SO THE QUESTION IS: IN THIS DITION, DOES OO MAKE ANY SPECIAL PREPARATION OR TAKE ARA PRECAUTION SO THAT THE SUBTLE BODY MAY RETURN SAFELY TO THE PHYSICAL BODY? OR, DOES THE RETURN OF THE SUBTLE BODY HAPPEN ON ITS OWN? PLEASE EXPLAIN.
In many ways, man lives essentially through the mind.
Even when we perceive something as a physical occurrence, deep down it turns out to be a psychological phenomenon.
All bodily maions have their roots in the mind.
Let me explain a few things in this regard, then it will be easy to follow the question.
Until fifty years ago, all human illnesses were treated as illnesses of the body.
In the last fifty years, the more we have learned about illhe more the proportion of physical illnesses has decreased while that of the psychological illnesses has increased.
Even the greatest of physiologists is ready to admit today that more than fifty pert of all human ailments are psychological.
Siesses which are otherwise sidered as physical, more than half of them are caused by the mind.
Mind is the very substratum of mans being, his existence.
It is the source of our life, it is the source of our illness, and it is the very source of our death.
Thats why so much importance is given to the will.
If you have ever witnessed an experiment in hypnosis, there are a few things about it worth keeping in mind.
A hypnotized person is simply one whose sind is asleep and whose unsind is awake.
When the sind goes to sleep, the person stops doubting, because all doubts and misgivings are limited to the sind.
If we divide the human mind into ten parts, it will appear that one part of it is scious while the remaining nine are unscious.
Nine parts are in the dark unscious; only a small portion -- oh of the mind -- is awake.
It is this sind that doubts, thinks, ponders.
If this sio sleep, then the remaining nine parts below would stay totally receptive.
There, no questions are asked, no doubts are raised.
Iate of hypnosis, the doubting mind is put to sleep and the undoubting, receptive mind es into effect.
In that state, if you were to place a small piece of ro the hand of the hypnotized person and tell him it is a hot coal, he will cry out in pain as if his hand had been burned.
He will at ohrow the rock away -- just as he would if a real hot coal had been placed on his hand.
Up to this point one may assume that just an idea in his mind must have caused this to happen.
But the astonishing thing is that blisters appear on his hand -- the same as it would have if a hot coal had been placed there.
So apparently, although you had placed an ordinary piece of rock, the persons mind totally accepted your word that it was a hot coal.
And the body has no means of denying the mind, so it acts accly.
Remember well, if the mind accepts totally, the body will have to follow it.
There is a reverse of this experiment too,