Mind is a biocomputer

The very mechanism exists to help you to move safely in an unknown world, in a strange world. It is just a safety guard. It does not mean that you should be happy through it - and that is what you have been trying to do. That is how you have created hell around you: you are trying to be happy through the mind, which is not possible.

Those who identify with the mind are the most unhappy people in the world, and this is as it should be. The mind is there to look around as a watchdog, to feel the way. Whenever it is needed, it should be used. Whenever it is not needed, it should be put aside.

But you have become so dependent on the slave that the slave has become the master. And the master has become completely lost. You are not even able to feel where the master is.


Feel more, think less, and you will be more and more happy. The trees are happier than man, the birds are more happy than man, the animals are more happy than man - this is unbelievable! What has happened to man? He has got hooked on to the mechanism of mind.

It is good that the mind is there. It is beautiful if you can use it. You should use it as one uses a mechanism - just as you drive a car. Don't become identified with the car. Be the driver, remain the driver. And when you don't want to drive, don't allow the car to force you.

Abridged from Tao: The Three Treasures; Courtesy Osho International Foundation; www.osho.com