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"Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past.
Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. It is a
pure response to the present, it is not reaction. It acts
not out of conclusions, it acts seeing the existential.
"Watch in your life: there is a great difference when you act
out of conclusions. You see a man, you feel attracted – a beautiful man, looks
very good, looks innocent. His eyes are beautiful, the vibe
is beautiful. But then the man introduces himself and he
says, "I am Jew" – and you are a Christian.
Something immediately clicks and there is distance: now the
man is no more innocent, the man is no more beautiful. You
have certain ideas about Jews. Or, he is a Christian and you
are a Jew; you have certain ideas about Christians – what
Christianity has done to Jews in the past, what other
Christians have done to Jews in the past, how they have
tortured Jews down the ages... and suddenly he is a
Christian – and something immediately changes.
"This is acting out of conclusions, prejudices, not looking
at this man – because this man may not be the man that you
think a Jew has to be... because each Jew is a different
kind of man, each Hindu is a different kind of man, so is
each Mohammedan.
"You cannot act out of prejudices. You cannot act by
categorizing people. You cannot pigeonhole people; nobody
can be pigeonholed. You may have been deceived by a hundred
communists, but when you meet the hundred and first
communist don't go on believing in the category that you
have made in your mind: that communists are deceptive – or
anything. This may be a different type of man, because no
two persons are alike.
"Whenever you act out of conclusion, it is mind. When you
look into the present and you don't allow any idea to
obstruct the reality, to obstruct the fact, you just look
into the fact and act out of that look, that is meditation." Osho, The Heart Sutra, Talk #7
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