The mind is a mechanism, it has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer - how can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don't listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it - cannot have. Not a single thought in the mind is ever original, it is always a repetition. Watch: whenever mind says something, see that it is again putting you into a routine. Try to do something new and the mind will have less grip on you.
People who are in some ways creative are always easily transformed into meditators, and people who are uncreative in their life are the most difficult. If you live a repetitive life the mind has too much control over you - you cannot move away from it, you are afraid. Do something new every day. Don't listen to the old routine. In fact, if the mind says something tell it, "This we have been doing always. Now let us do something else." Even small changes... in the way you have always been behaving with your wife - just small changes; in the way you always walk - just small changes; the way you always talk - small changes. And you will find that the mind is losing its grip on you, you are becoming a little freer.
Source: OSHO
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