There are three things: the first is memory. The greater part of the mind is memory. And this memory is a long one. It goes back to the infinite lives that you have lived. The mind accumulates everything, not only that which you have collected consciously. When you are asleep, the mind is collecting. When you are even in a coma, completely unconscious, the mind is collecting. When the child is in the womb, the mind is collecting. The mind goes on collecting. Nothing escapes it. All that happens around you -- nothing escapes it. The unconscious mind is a "great Chinese wall" of memories -- a very long one. This memory is not only a part of your brain, but in fact a part of each and every cell of your being, of each and every cell of your body. That is why twenty-four cells from the male and twenty-four cells from the female begin to create you. They have a built-in program, they have a built-in memory. One day we will be able to know what type of a nose you will have even when you are in the womb the first day. The new egg will indicate what type of eyes you will have, how great will be your age, how much intelligence, how much ego. That so simple looking cell is as complex as you are. It is all the memories of the whole race. It carries on the collective mind. And then your soul, your ego, your mind, penetrates in it. So the body has its own memories and your mind has its own. You are a crossroads – a mind with so many memories and a body with so many memories of the whole collective race, the whole collective mind. Bodily memories are stronger than the mind. So you always are a victim to them. Howsoever you may think against them, when the moment comes the body wins. Your mind is nothing before it because it is a racial mind. That is why all the religions fell in a trap when they began to fight the body. You cannot fight it. If you begin to fight it, you will only be wasting your life. Osho
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 12:14:39 +0000
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