The mind is one of the most important things in life, but it needs to be in the right place.

Question: you said something against the mind, you said we should abandon it, we should tell it to stop, it is not necessary in the pursuit of truth, so what to do with the mind is really all harmful?

OSHO:

The mind is one of the most important things in life, but only when it is a servant, not a master. As soon as the mind becomes the master, the problem arises, and it replaces your heart, your soul, and completely occupies you. In that case, instead of following your orders, it starts to command you.

I'm not talking about destroying the mind, it's the most evolutionary phenomenon in existence. I'm talking about being careful not to let the servant become the master. Remember, it is your soul first, heart second, mind third, that is a real person's balanced personality.

The mind is logical and very useful. In the market, you can't exist without a mind. I never said you shouldn't use your mind in the market. You should use it. You should use it instead of being used by it. That's a big difference. The mind gives you all the technology, all the science, because the mind gives you too much, so it claims that it is the master of your soul. This is how its harm begins. It closes your heart completely.

The heart is not useful, it has no purpose to achieve, it is like a rose. The mind can give you bread, but it cannot give you joy, it cannot make you rejoice in life, it is so serious that it cannot even stand laughter, and a life without laughter has fallen below human standards, it has become less than human, because in the whole existence, only people can laugh.

Laughter represents consciousness and its highest growth. Animals don't laugh, trees don't laugh, and people who are caged in their heads-saints, scientists and so-called great leaders-can't laugh, they're all too serious, and seriousness is a disease, it's cancer of your soul, it's devastating. Because we are all under the control of the mind, all its creativity is in the service of destruction. People are dying of hunger, but their minds are trying to hoard more nuclear weapons. People are hungry while their minds are trying to land on the moon. The mind has no compassion at all. For compassion, for love, for joy, for laughter, a heart free from the shackles of the mind is needed.

The heart has a higher value, it is of no use in the market, because the market is not your temple, the market is not the meaning of your life, the market is the lowest of all human activities.

When Jesus said, "Man cannot live on bread alone," he is right, but the mind can only provide bread, you can survive, but survival is not life, life needs more things-dancing, singing and joy.

So I want you to put everything in its right place: if there is any conflict between the mind and the heart, you must listen to the heart first. If there is any conflict between love and logic, it should be decided by love, not logic. Logic can't give you any juice of life, it's dry, it's good for calculation, it's good for math and technology, but it's not good for relationships between people. it's not good for the growth of your inner potential.

Above your heart is your soul, as if the mind is logic, the heart is love, and the soul is meditation. The soul is to know yourself, to know the meaning of existence by knowing yourself. Knowing that the soul brings a light into the dark world within you, unless your inner light is lit up, all external light is useless. There is only darkness in you, endless darkness and unconsciousness, and all your actions will come from that darkness and that blindness.

So when I say anything against the mind, don't get me wrong, I'm not against the mind, and I don't want to destroy it, I want you to become an orchestra. If you don't know how to create a symphony, how to create a synthesis, how to put things in the right place, the same instrument may also create some hellish noise.

The soul must be your final, there is nothing more than it, it is a part of God in you, it can give you what the mind cannot give and the heart cannot give, it will give you peace, it will give you peace, it will give you joy, and finally, it will give you a sense of immortality. When you know the soul, death becomes a fictional phenomenon, and life flies into eternity. A person who does not know his own soul cannot be said to be a real life, he may be a useful biological device, a robot.

Find your soul and your nature through meditation. Share your joy through love and through your heart. All love is about sharing your joy, sharing your joy, sharing your dance and sharing your ecstasy.

The mind has its own function in the market, but when you get home, your mind should not continue to chatter. Just like you take off your work coat, your hat, your shoes, you should tell your mind, "calm down now, this is not your world." "this is not against the mind, in fact, it is to let the mind rest. At home, with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your parents, with your friends, the mind is not needed, what is needed is a full heart.

Unless there is love in a house, it can never become a home, it is still just a house. If you can find some meditation moments at home to experience your soul, it will elevate the home to the highest peak and become a temple.

The same house, to the mind, is just a house, to the heart, it becomes a home, to the soul, it becomes a temple, the house remains the same, but you have undergone a transformation-- your point of view has changed, your level has changed, the way you understand and see things has changed. A house without all three is incomplete and poor.

A person who is not all three, and these three must also be in deep harmony-the mind serves the heart, the heart serves the soul, and the soul belongs to the wisdom of the whole existence. People call it God, and I like to call it divinity. Nothing surpasses it.