Get Out of Your
Own Way
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Apr.-May 1976
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
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    [To a sannyasin, a film-producer who is
    returning to the States, Osho said that
    meditation could be introduced to many people
    through the medium of film and television.... ]

    Books are very old media. The days for books
    are gone. People don't have that much time to
    read, because reading is active; you have to do
    something. Television is perfectly okay. You
    have nothing to do; you simply sit and see.

    So something that is active is not going to
    spread very fast -- rather, something that
    people can simply sit and see. And eyes are
    more powerful than ears. When you listen to
    something you tend to forget it, but when you
    see something, you remember. Seeing is the
    most primitive language, so through TV the
    most primitive has become the most modern.

    Children see... their language is pictorial. If you
    talk about mangoes, you have to show them the
    picture; the picture comes first. Through the
    picture they learn the word cat. By and by the
    picture is forgotten; superimposed by the word.
    Then we talk about a cat, never realising that
    there is no corresponding picture inside.

    Mind has become more verbal on the superficial
    level, but deep down it remains pictorial. If you
    think of love, you start visualising... imagination
    starts working. Hence the appeal of
    pornography -- because you can see
    something. And it has been realised for
    centuries that the eyes are very potential...

                                                     – Osho
                           Get Out of Your Own Way, ch. 1
    Get Out of Your Own Way　

    Chinese pinyin:
    Likai ni ziji de lu

    Chinese traditional:
    離開你自己的路

    Chinese simplified:
    离开你自己的路