Osho: Primitive people were not uncertain at all...coz only who knows limited can be certain..only idiots can be certain...they dont know there is much beyond their knowledge.....they are unaware about even the existence of any truths beyond what they know....They had mind but less knowledge which led to certainity.......and on the contrary....the modern child goes on gathering more and more knowledge......and consequently, the modern man knows so much..so much that his mind is overcrowded and confused....it is the nature of mind to be confused and uncertain........With the mind, uncertainty; with the idiotic mind, certainty. With no mind both certainty and uncertainty disappear.
Buddha is a clarity, a space, open space. He is not certain -- there is nothing to be certain. He is not uncertain, because there is nothing to be uncertain. Only one who is seeking certainty can be uncertain. Mind is always uncertain and always seeking certainty; always confused and always seeking clarity. A Buddha is one who has dropped the mind; and with the mind all confusion, all certainty, all uncertainty, everything is dropped.
Look at it in this way: your consciousness is just like the sky and your mind is just like the clouds. The sky remains untouched by the clouds. They come and go; no scar is left behind. The sky remains virgin: no record, no footprints, nothing of the clouds, no memory. They come and they go; the sky remains undisturbed. This is the case within you also: the consciousness remains undisturbed. Thoughts come and go, minds evolve and disappear.
And don’t think that you have one mind; you have many minds, it is a crowd. Your minds go on changing. You are a communist, so you have a certain type of mind. You can leave it and you can become anti-communist. Then you have a different mind; not only different, quite the opposite. You can go on changing your minds just like your dress. And you go on changing -- you may not be aware of it -- these clouds come and go.
Clarity can be achieved if you become aware of the sky; if your focus changes. You are focused on the clouds if you are unfocused on the sky. Unfocus on the clouds and focus on the sky.
[excerpted from The Book of Secrets, Osho]
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