Thinking Is Borrowed

     Thinking is borrowed. All your thoughts are given to you by other. Watch -- can you find a single thouth that is yours, authentically yours, that you have given birth to? They are all borrowed. The source may be known or not known, but they are all borrowed. The mind functions like a computer, but before the computer can give you answers you have to feed it. You have to supply all the information, then it will give you the answer. that is what the mind has been doing.

     Mind is a biocomuter. You go on collecting data, knowledge, information, and then when a certain question arises, your mind supplies the answer out of that collection. It is not a real response, it is just out of the dead past.

     What is understanding? -- understanding is pure intelligence. the pure intelligence is originally yours, you are born with it. Nobody can give you intelligence. Knowledge can be given to you, not intelligence. Intelligence is your own sharpened being. Through deep meditation one sharpens one being; through meditation one drops borrowed thoughts, reclaim one's own being, reclaims one's originality, reclaims one's childhood, innocence, freshness. Out of that freshness, when you act, you act out of understanding. And then the response is total, herenow, and the response is because of the challenge, not because of the past.

OSHO "The Beloved" part one