authentic being

Don’t pay much attention to what others say and remember only one thing: don’t force and cultivate
stillness. A cultivated stillness will be serious, ill, tense. But how can a real silence come to you? Try
to understand this. You are tense, you are unhappy, you are depressed, angry, greedy, violent. A
thousand diseases are there. Still, you can practice silence. These diseases will be within you, and
you can create a layer of silence. You can do transcendental meditation; you can use a mantra. The
mantra is not going to change your violence, neither is it going to change your greed. It is not going
to change anything deep. The mantra can just give a tranquilizing effect. Just on the periphery,
you will feel more silent. This is just a tranquilizer, a sound tranquilizer, and tranquilizing is possible
through many ways – many ways. When you repeat a mantra continuously, you become sleepy. Any
continuous repetition of a sound creates boredom and sleep. You feel relaxed, but this relaxation is
just on the surface. Within, you remain the same.
Go on practicing a mantra every day, and you will feel a certain stillness – but not really, because your
diseases have not changed, your personality structure remains the same. It is just whitewashed.
Stop the mantra, stop the practice, and all your diseases will come up again.
This is happening everywhere. Seekers move from one teacher to another. They go on moving,
practicing, and when they stop their practice they find they are the same; nothing has happened.
Nothing will happen in this way. These are cultivated silences. You have to go on cultivating them.
Of course, if you go on cultivating them, they remain with you just like a habit, but if you break the
habit they disappear. A real silence comes not by just using some superficial technique, but by being
aware of all that you are – not only being aware, but remaining with the fact of what you are.

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 1 540 Osho
CHAPTER 38. TOWARD THE AUTHENTIC BEING