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Osho – How to Stop the Mad Mind<\/p>\n

Osho : There is a Sufi story…<\/p>\n

Junaid was going through the market-place of the town with his disciples. And it was his way to take any situation and use it. A man was dragging his cow by a rope, and Junaid said \u2019Wait\u2019 to the man, and told his disciples \u2019Surround this man and the cow. I am going to teach you something.\u2019<\/p>\n

The man stopped \u2013 Junaid was a famous mystic \u2013 and he was also interested in what he was going to teach these disciples and how he was going to use him and the cow. And Junaid asked his disciples \u2019I ask you one thing: who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man or is this man bound to this cow?\u2019 Of course, the disciples said \u2019The cow is bound to the man. The man is the master, he is holding the rope, the cow has to follow him wherever he goes. He is the master and the cow is the slave.\u2019<\/p>\n

And Junaid said \u2019Now, see.\u2019 He took out his scissors and cut the rope \u2013 and the cow escaped.<\/p>\n

The man ran after the cow, and Junaid said \u2019Now look what is happening! Now you see who is the master; the cow is not interested at all in this man \u2013 in fact, she is escaping.\u2019 And the man was very angry, he said \u2019What kind of experiment is this ?\u2019 But Junaid said to his disciples \u2019And this is the case with your mind.<\/p>\n

All the nonsense that you are carrying inside is not interested in you. You are interested in it, you are keeping it together somehow \u2013 you are becoming mad in keeping it together somehow. But you are interested IN it. The moment you lose interest, the moment you understand the futility of it, it will start disappearing; like the cow it will escape.\u2019<\/p>\n

People come to me and ask \u2019How to stop this mad mind?\u2019 I say \u2019There is no need to stop, all that is needed is that you become disinterested in it and the rope is cut.\u2019 That is the meaning of sannyas: become disinterested in the mind. That is the meaning of real vairagya, detachment.<\/p>\n

It has nothing to do with renouncing the world, but it certainly has something to do with cutting the rope to the mind. Just become disinterested in the rubbish and slowly slowly you will see a gap arising. The cloud that used to surround you always is getting farther and farther away and, one day, suddenly it is no more there.<\/p>\n

And when you are left without mind, that is the state of spiritual perception, that is the state of darshan, that is the state when you can see, you have eyes; otherwise your eyes are so full of smoke you cannot see.<\/p>\n

Source: “The Sun Rises in the Evening” – Osho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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