<3 "What do I mean when I say become more conscious...???
<3 "What do I mean when I say become more conscious...???
De-automatize your habits.
Remember this: de-automatize your habits.
You are walking, it is an automatic habit; you need not be aware of it.
But bring awareness to yourself. Walk fully conscious.
Buddha says: When you stand up, stand up consciously;
When you sit down, sit down consciously.
When you say some-thing, say it very consciously.
When you listen to something, listen consciously.
When you are eating, eat consciously.
You will be surprised: if you de-automatize any process, great awareness is released.
Just walk consciously for half an hour, and you will be surprised how quiet, how peaceful and serene you look and you feel.
Just sitting in your chair, watch your in-going, out-going breath, silently – the breath goes in, and you know, you watch, it is going in.
Each step of the breath: it has touched your nostrils,
The inner side of the nose, it is moving, it has touched your throat, it has moved,
It has gone deep into your lungs; you can feel the belly coming up.
And then you feel for a moment it has stopped.
No movement. And then the return journey: the belly falls back, the air is going out; again you feel the same route.
It leaves your nostrils… and again a moment’s gap. And then again new fresh air moves in.
If you simply watch such a simple process, you will be surprised: one hour’s watching of breath will bring you so much silence and so much alertness, as you have never felt in your life.
And that makes a difference.
That is the difference that makes the difference, that transforms your whole life, slowly, slowly.
Then you can change everything: eating, walking, breathing – even making love can become a very, very conscious, alert phenomenon.
And then from everywhere, consciousness goes on pouring in.
And, slowly, slowly, the balance changes: you become more conscious than you are unconscious.
Then you start leaning towards God, farther and farther away you start moving from the animals.
When a man is really conscious, all desires disappear just as dewdrops disappear when in the morning the sun rises.
Desires have not to be dropped; they have also to be used to grow in consciousness." <3
<3 Osho
The Perfect Master,
V.1, Chapter Seven <3
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