Commitments Osho
Abandon Poisoned Food


The body needs physical food: without it, it will start withering away. This is how it survives; it contains nothing but physical food.
Your mind contains memories, thoughts, desires, jealousies, power trips, and a thousand and one subtle things. All that is also food; on a little more subtle plane it is food. Thought is food. The mind is nothing but the inner side of the body; hence what you eat affects your mind. If you eat non-vegetarian food you will have one kind of mind; if you eat vegetarian food you will certainly have a different kind of mind.

And watch what you allow into your mind. People are completely unaware; they go on reading everything and anything, they go on looking at the TV, any silly stupid thing... Avoid situations where you unnecessarily burden yourselves with rubbish. You already have too much as it is. And you go on collecting as if it is something precious.
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Leave a few gaps in your mind unoccupied. Those moments are the first glimpses of meditation, the first penetrations of the beyond, the first glimpses of no-mind. And then if you can manage to do this, the other thing is to choose physical food which does not help aggression and violence, which is not poisonous. Now even scientists agree on this, that when you kill an animal, out of fear he releases all kinds of poisons... And on the mental plane things are more complicated. If you think you are a Hindu, you are poisoned; if you think you are a Mohammedan, you are poisoned...You have been spoon-fed since the very first day; from your mother's breast, you have been poisoned. To think of oneself as German, as Chinese, is to think of oneself in opposition to humanity; is to think in terms of enmity, not friendship.

Think of yourself only as a human being. And when your intelligence grows a little more you will even drop the adjective "human." You will think of yourself only as a being. And the being includes all - the trees and the rivers and the stars and the birds and the animals. Become bigger, become huge. Why are you living in tunnels? Why are you creeping into small, dark holes?... No idea is great enough to contain a human being; being-hood cannot be contained in any concept. All concepts cripple and paralyze.

Don't be a Catholic and don't be a communist, just be a human being. These are all poisons, these are all prejudices. And down the ages you have been hypnotized by these prejudices. They have become part of your blood, your bones, your very marrow. You will have to be very alert to get rid of all this poisoning.

Let your physiological body be pure of all poisons and toxins, and let your mind be unburdened from all kinds of rubbish and junk. And let your soul be free from the idea of self. When the soul is free from the idea of "I", you have arrived at that inner space called no-self, ANATTA. You have come home. Now there is nowhere to go; now you can settle, rest and relax. now you can enjoy the millions of joys that are being showered upon you by existence.



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