14. Integration
The conflict is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere
else. The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind. A very small
bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some
physiological defect or something else, the person becomes split, the person
becomes two persons and the phenomenon of schizophrenia or split personality
happens.
If the bridge is broken - and the bridge is very fragile - then you become two, you
behave like two persons. In the morning you are very loving, very beautiful; in the
evening you are very angry, absolutely different. You don't remember your
morning...how can you remember? Another mind was functioning - and the person
becomes two persons. If this bridge is strengthened so much that the two minds
disappear as two and become one, then integration, then crystallization, arises.
What George Gurdjieff used to call the crystallization of being is nothing but these
two minds becoming one, the meeting of the male and the female within, the
meeting of yin and yang, the meeting of the left and right, the meeting of logic and
illogic, the meeting of Plato and Aristotle.
Osho Ancient Music in the Pines Chapter 1
Commenta
The image of integration is the unio mystica, the fusion of opposites, Thisis a time
of communication between the previously experienced dualities of life. Rather than
night opposing day, dark suppressing light, they work together to create a unified
whole, turning endlessly one into the other, each containing in its deepest core the
seed of the opposite
The eagle and the swan are both beings of flight and majesty. The eagle is the
embodiment of power and aloneness. The swan is the embodiment of space andpurity, gently floating and diving, upon and within the element of the emotions,
entirely content and complete within her perfection and beauty.
We are the union of eagle and swan: male and female, fire and water, life and
death. The card of integration is the symbol of self-creation, new life, and mystical
union; otherwise known as alchemy.
15. Conditioning
Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality.
Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society. Personality
is social convenience. Society cannot tolerate individuality, because individuality
will not follow like a sheep. Individuality has the quality of the lion; the lion moves
alone. The sheep are always in the crowd, hoping that being in the crowd will feel
cozy. Being in the crowd one feels more protected, secure. If somebody attacks,
there is every possibility in a crowd to save yourself. But alone? - only the lions
move alone.
‘And every one of you is born a lion, but the society goes on conditioning you,
programming your mind as a sheep. It gives you a personality, a cozy personality,
nice, very convenient, very obedient. Society wants slaves, not people who are
absolutely dedicated to freedom. Society wants slaves because all the vested
interests want obedience.
Osho One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green Chapter 4
Commentary:
This card recalls an old Zen story, about a lion who was brought up by sheep and
who thought he was a sheep until an old lion captured him and took him to a pond,
where he showed him his own reflection. Many of us are like this lion - the image wehave of ourselves comes not from our own direct experience but from the opinions
of others. A "personality" imposed from the outside replaces the individuality that
could have grown from within. We become just another sheep in the herd, unable to
move freely and unconscious of our own true identity.
It's time to take a look at your own reflection in the pond, and make a move to
break out of whatever you have been conditioned by others to believe about
yourself. Dance, run, jog, do gibberish - whatever is needed to wake up the sleeping
lion within