the body is lost with every
death. So hatha yoga had
to invent methods to
prolong life for two
hundred to three hundred
years so that mastery
could be attained.
If the mastery is of the
mind then you can change
the body, but the
preparedness of the body
belongs to the body
alone. Hatha yoga
invented many methods
so that the process could
be completed, but then
even greater methods
were discovered: how to
control the mind directly - raja yoga. With these
methods the body can be
a little helpful, but there is
no need to be too
concerned with it. So
hatha yoga adepts have
said that LSD can be used,
but raja yoga cannot say
LSD can be used, because
raja yoga has no
methodology to prepare
the body. Direct
meditation is used.
Sometimes it happens -only sometimes, rarely -that if you have a glimpse
through LSD and do not
become addicted to it,
that glimpse may become
a thirst in you to seek
something further.
So to try it once is good, but
it becomes difficult to know
where to stop and how to
stop. The first trip is good,
to be on it once is good;
you become aware of a
different world and then
you begin to seek, you
begin to search, because of
it -- but then it becomes
difficult to stop. This is the
problem. If you can stop,
then to take LSD once is
good. But that "if" is a great
one.
Mullah Nasr Uddin used to
say that he never took more
than one glass of wine.
Many friends objected to
his statement because they
had seen him taking one
glass after another.
He said, "The second glass is
taken by the first; 'I' take
only one. The second is
taken by the first and the
third by the second. Then I
am not the master. I am
master only for the first, so
how can I say that I take
more than one? 'I' take only
one -- always only one!"
With the first you are the
master; with the second
you are not. The first will try
to take a second, and then
it will go on continuously;
then it is no longer in your
hands. To begin anything is
easy because you are the
master, but to end anything
is difficult because then you
are not the master.
So I am not against LSD, and
if I am against it, it is
conditional. This is the
condition: if you can remain
the master, then okay. Use
anything, but remain the
master. And if you cannot
remain the master, then do
not enter into a dangerous
road at all. Do not enter at
all; it will be better.
Talks by OSHO
Drug policy conference | 15th April | Virginia, USA
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