THE HISTORY OF THE NEW MIND
History of the New Mind
Dheeraj has been developing a work called “The New Mind” which operates in six phases and has to do with duplicating what is called the BARDO experience. According to the Tibetan tradition, when a human being dies, he then goes through a kind of cosmic car wash: a universal mechanism of cleansing, where each of the six major nerve-complexes of the body are cleansed. Much of Tibetan art, music and theatre, is directed toward the BARDO experience.
In the Tibetan Buddhist religion the BARDO is talked about continuously. About 1000 years ago a great Indian Master devised a six part teaching, actually a practice in six elements which matched the six elements of the BARDO. The idea of this Master was to give out this training so that people could cleanse themselves in their lives, could take out all the negativity from their nervous system, from their soul.
For Dheeraj, the soul and the nervous system are the same mechanism.
The nervous system is simply the manifestation of what is called the “soul”. This Master devised a six part training process in which the attempt was to cleanse the nervous system of all this stuff that would come after death, but to do it in life as to produce the state of self-realization and open up the path to Buddhahood. Dheeraj decided to see if it was possible to reproduce that particular practice: Those six yogas that were devised to clarify the BARDO process.
The interesting part of it, the NEW MIND, came to Dheeraj in the period after Osho, Dheeraj’s Master and guide, had left his body. Osho designed a black marble pyramid complex and said,” this pyramid is for the Tibetan Pulsing Healing, Dheeraj’s work, and it will be called NAROPA”. The Master who originally created these six steps was called Naropa. Osho designated the pyramid facility, for Naropa’s work to come back through. For Dheeraj it became very clear and he began to investigate what this work was all about. It was called “the Six Yogas of Naropa”.
He was looking at what it was technically. During meditation he saw a very complex form which indicated the upper part of the body; i.e. the face, the head, the throat, and it had a particular design. He had seen it before in some Sufi work. There are two interlocking squares. He had seen it in the Sufi’s intricate work, how they understand the concept of space and time. They are working with two big squares offset with one another. He saw it and went into shock: “This is the space/time relation.”
But in this one there were also four additional complexes. It looked something like a map and he had already developed a similar map of the body in order to line out some bio-electrical energy circuits. This one was similar.
He described the phenomenon like this: “It is like when you throw a stone in the water. There is a mark on the water where the stone hits, but then there are immediately these ripples coming out. This was more like the ripples than the place where the stone had struck. There were twenty-four interconnecting points, sixteen in circles and eight in squares. Together twenty-four points which is the number that I have always worked with because of the twenty-four vertebrae in the spine, representing twenty-four phases of bio-electrical energy that operate our nervous system. By some stroke of luck, it is precisely the same system that the Tibetans have been using for centuries. It is the same systems that the Taoists have used for centuries.”
Dheeraj was working under consultation with different Tibetan Masters at one point and then they all seemed to disappear at one time and he sought out another Chinese Master who was the Patriarch of Taoism. He showed him the same work and the Master recognized it immediately as being exactly the same work of the monastery that he had attended in China, supposedly of Taoist origin. In fact Master Ni Hua Ching looked at it, was looking at a big chart that Dheeraj had made and said, “mmmhh, .... Very modern! Very modern! When I did this work we had this almost memorized, a thousand page book.”
Dheeraj lit up: “Where is the book? Where is it?”
He was ready to go to China right then and break into a place, go through some kind of ‘mission impossible’. “
Where is the book, where is the book?”
Master Ni was a great literate guy, he used to be in charge of all the Taoist treasures in China, so he was very literate, a very academic guy. He said ”No, no, ... ... It has to be rewritten... the old one is obsolete! We had to memorize it, you have to live it and reproduce that life.”
Dheeraj knew that the work was at least planetary, because the two great legitimate faiths, the Taoists and the Tibetan Buddhists both use exactly the same system. He had seen the same system operating many times. The Sufis, the legitimate Sufis, are using exactly the same system. So he was looking into that system to see where is that six, what is this six about? Must be six units of four parts. He went into meditation and here came this form. The form was close enough to the work that he had already been doing to make itself pretty obvious. Just where it was in terms of placement of the body was mysterious.
“Sitting in meditation I could feel like a wind coming through my spine. This way all information about the New Mind process was given to me.”
Later on Dheeraj realized that what he had been receiving was exactly what Osho talks about in one of his discourses:
“In this century many beautiful things have been destroyed but Tibet is at the top. Tibet has been destroyed by a communist invasion from China. Monasteries have been changed into schools, into hospitals, and monks have been forced to work in the fields. Even to mention the work ‘meditation’ became a crime. And it was not hurting anybody: the country was so aloof, so cut off from the world. But it has been destroyed, and I don’t think there is any possibility to recover its beauty, its grandeur. That is impossible because now there are roads joining it to Pakistan, to China. Now busses are moving, now airports are there and planes are coming and going. The army is there. It has become a military base for China. It has lost its Golden Age.
Soon it will be difficult to find a person who is capable of listening to BARDO instructions and almost impossible to find a person who can give those instructions. They will be in the books; they are available now in all the languages They are simple instructions but they can be improved, and I have the idea to improve them because they are very ancient and very crud. They can be polished. Much can be added to them, more dimensions can be given to them. But the basic thing is that the people should be meditative. My people are meditative, and it will be part of our basic work to revive the BARDO in a more refined form so we can use it for our people.
Tibet is no longer the same Tibet. But we can create the situation, the psychology, where BARDO - or something like BARDO but even far more evolved - can help people. It is a beautiful process. Just as Japan has brought Zen from Buddhist sources of meditation, Tibet has brought, from the same Buddhist sources of meditation, BARDO. These are their immortal contributions. When nuclear weapons are forgotten, still these discoveries will have the same significance.”
Osho: The Path of the Mystic.
What is the New Mind technically?
Fear exists in the human nervous system in the form of negative electrical charges which are connected through the nerves to our memories of painful impressions. These pictures from our past form our perception of our present. We associate what we are seeing with our bad memories. This is called “ego”. It is an electrical defense system for protecting us from acute shocks by inducing a milder shock which we call fear. The mechanism is like a long-barreled electron gun reaching from the bullet of the negative charge in the nerves to the target of your bad memories. Here it explodes into a tension when a similar impression from the outside pulls the trigger. This describes the visual experience of fear. There is also an auditory, an olfactory, etc. All our senses contribute to fear. Each contributes through specific nerves capable of delivering an electrical shock to the brain.
Up to now, most religions and other therapeutic systems have tried to deal with this mental problem from the outside in, i.e. by working on the impression of the fear.
Tibetan Pulsing Healing takes the opposite approach of working from the inside out. Using the internal power of the heart’s pulse beat as a motor force, bio-electrical energy currents are created by specific sound frequencies coupled with subtle movements. These stimulating currents are then directed by a pulsing touch through the effected nerves. The negative electrical charge blocking these nerves is neutralized by the in-coming positive flow. The release of static tension in the nerves produces a deep, euphoric relaxation which allows the continuing pulses of positive bio-electrical current flow to penetrate deeper into the static layers of pain. In the mind, the pictures of these past experiences pass like an old movie, but, this time without the charge of hatred, of sadness, of fear, etc. Left after the discharge of these tensions we find a new understanding, a new detachment, a NEW MIND.
In his talks “Beyond Psychology” Osho was referring to the NEW MIND in this way:
“... The people who will go beyond mind will create the new man, the new mind. And the most special thing to be remembered about the new mind is that it will never become a tradition, that it will be constantly renewed. If it becomes a tradition it will be the same thing. The new mind has to become continuously new, every day new, ready to accept any unexpected experience, any unexpected truth ... just available, vulnerable. It will be a tremendous excitement, a great ecstasy, a great challenge. ...
But the best of the intelligence will reach to heights unknown before. And even in a traditional world, a man like Gautam Buddha or Chuang Tzu or Pythagoras is possible, we can conceive that in the atmosphere that the new mind will create, a thousandfold more awakened people. enlightened people will become easily possible.
If the new mind can prevail then life can become an enlightening process. And enlightenment will not be something rare, that happens once in a while to somebody very special; it will become a very ordinary human experience, that only once in a while some really idiotic person misses.”
Osho: Beyond Psychology
