IF YOU GO BERSERK DELIBERATELY, consciously, fully aware...
IF YOU GO BERSERK DELIBERATELY, consciously, fully aware, it is going to be an incredible experience. and you are never in danger. When you go berserk consciously you can come back. You know how you entered into it and you know how to get out of it.
WHEN YOU DON'T GO CONSCIOUSLY, when you are thrown by a volcano inside you, when it is not your choice, but just an accident, when it is not that you have chosen the holiday but you have been forced to go on a holiday, then it is not within your capacity to come back. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO MAD PEOPLE. They become mad only when they have accumulated so much madness that now it is not possible for them to control it. IT OVERWHELMS THEM. And then they cannot come back.
Here, living with me, I am teaching you ONE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF REMAINING SANE -- that is, deliberately, consciously, with effort, to sometimes go mad. It is a good experience. You remain available to both polarities -- sanity/insanity. You swing. You have freedom.
The person who is always sane is not free and the person who is always insane is not free either. BUT THE PERSON WHO CAN SWING FROM SANITY TO INSANITY, and can easily swing, smoothly, with no barrier, has great freedom.
These are the people who have known what life is. All the mystics are mad and all the mad people could have become mystics, but they missed. AND WHEN YOU GO ON YOUR OWN YOU CAN COME BACK. That is my basic teaching here. I teach you TO BE MAD CONSCIOUSLY.
—OSHO—
Sufis: The People of the Path
Vol 2, Ch #8: A holiday from sanity
am in Buddha Hall
WHEN YOU DON'T GO CONSCIOUSLY, when you are thrown by a volcano inside you, when it is not your choice, but just an accident, when it is not that you have chosen the holiday but you have been forced to go on a holiday, then it is not within your capacity to come back. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO MAD PEOPLE. They become mad only when they have accumulated so much madness that now it is not possible for them to control it. IT OVERWHELMS THEM. And then they cannot come back.
Here, living with me, I am teaching you ONE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF REMAINING SANE -- that is, deliberately, consciously, with effort, to sometimes go mad. It is a good experience. You remain available to both polarities -- sanity/insanity. You swing. You have freedom.
The person who is always sane is not free and the person who is always insane is not free either. BUT THE PERSON WHO CAN SWING FROM SANITY TO INSANITY, and can easily swing, smoothly, with no barrier, has great freedom.
These are the people who have known what life is. All the mystics are mad and all the mad people could have become mystics, but they missed. AND WHEN YOU GO ON YOUR OWN YOU CAN COME BACK. That is my basic teaching here. I teach you TO BE MAD CONSCIOUSLY.
—OSHO—
Sufis: The People of the Path
Vol 2, Ch #8: A holiday from sanity
am in Buddha Hall
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