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14 April 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed on to the computer. It is for reference purposes only.]

Right religion does not mean a religion at all But a certain quality of religiousness.

There is no god but there is godliness And there is no religion But there is religiousness.

It is a quality, it is a feel, not a thing. Hence no religious person

Can be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan. These names are just political strategies Political games in the name of religion.

True religion has no adjectives True religion is simply like love.

Can love be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan? Can joy be Christian or Hindu or Mohammedan? Can beauty be Hindu, Christian or Mohammedan? It would be nonsense to talk of Hindu beauty

Or Hindu love or Hindu joy. The same is true about religion.

True religion is not religion at all But a feeling of religiousness

A feeling of gratitude towards the whole. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- My effort here is to help you to be religious.

I teach a religionless religion, a godless god. That you are becoming a sannyasin

Is enough to prove your courage. To be with me is dangerous.

It has always been so:

To be with any master is dangerous. While the master is alive it is dangerous

When the master is dead it is very convenient.

When Jesus was alive

There were only a few people with him Very courageous ones.

But after his death thousands gathered. Now almost half of the earth is Christian. But it is pointless.

When the master is dead you can worship And you can enjoy the feeling

That you are religious But you are not religious.

Religion transpires only when the master is alive. It is something that happens

Between an alive master and the disciple.

It can't happen when the master has disappeared And to be with me is even more courageous

Than to be with Jesus or to be with Buddha Because they were still talking

In terms of tradition

They were still using the past heritage. The time has come for humanity

To be discontinuous with the past.

It is absolutely disgusting!

We have to disconnect ourselves from the past Only then is there a future

Otherwise humanity on this earth is finished. Within these twenty years it will be decided:

Either

We disconnect ourselves from the ugly past, Then there is a future and there is hope, 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Or

We cling to the dead past and we die with it. Just as there is a sun on the outside

There is a sun inside too.

The outside sun rises and sets

But the inside sun is always there.

It never rises, it never sets -- it is eternal. Unless we know the inner light

And the source of it We live in darkness.

Make every possible effort to move inwards. In the beginning it is arduous

But only in the beginning.

It is just like learning any art.

Learning to swim is difficult in the beginning But once you know the knack of it It is so easy that one wonders later on

Why it was so difficult.

One can simply float in the river. No need to do anything.

And that's how it starts happening inside: Just in the beginning there is

A little effort involved, a little struggle. Soon one can simply float

In the river that moves inwards. And it takes you

To deeper and deeper realms af bliss

To more and more light, to eternity, to god. Diligence is what is needed to be a sannyasin. Only two things are needed:

Intelligence and diligence.

Intelligence without diligence is impotent.

Diligence without intelligence is blind. One is not enough, both have to be together Only then is your life enriched.

So be intelligently diligent. Act, but act through awareness.

Do a thousand and one things in life

But don't be controlled by unconscious instincts. Then slowly slowly life becomes

Such a divine experience. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- It is delicious!

But one has to learn the art of tasting it. And all other arts are small

Compared to the art of living.

These two things have to be remembered: Be intelligent and be diligent.

They very rarely happen together. Intelligent people are not diligent Then their intelligence is

Just an exercise in futility.

They go on thinking and thinking and thinking And by thinking nothing is ever achieved.

And then there are people who are very diligent But without any intelligence. They go on doing harm to others and to themselves.

They do much, but not knowing what they are doing They are bound to create more misery in the world For themselves and for others too.

Remember this

That these two things have to be two aspects Simultaneous aspects of your growth.

And then life starts growing so fast

That in moments one can make quantum leaps. Egolessness is the goal of all meditation.

That is the goal of sannyas itself. the ego is the only problem

And then it creates a thousand and one problems. It creates greed, it creates anger

It creates lust, it creates jealousy And so on, so forth.

And people go on fighting

With greed, with anger, with lust

But it is futile. Unless the root is cut

New branches will always be coming up.

You can go on pruning the branches and leaves. That is not going to help.

In fact by your pruning

The tree will become more and more thick The foliage will become more and more thick. The tree will become stronger.

My insistence is: don't fight with the symptoms Go to the very root of the matter And that is simply one -- it is the ego.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Cut it from there and all other problems

Disappear as if they had never existed before. If you can learn only one thing here

Just to be without an ego To be as if one is not

To be a nobody, a nothingness Then the ultimate is achieved.

There is no higher goal than that. And it can easily be done

Because ego is a false phenomenon Hence it can be dropped.

It is not a real thing.

It is imaginary, it is a shadow.

If you go on believing in it, it is. If you look deeply into it

It is not found at all. Meditation simply means

Looking deeply inside for the ego

Searching every nook and corner of your being For where it is.

It is not found anywhere.

The moment it is not found anywhere It is finished and you are born anew. My effort here is

To teach you not righteousness, but awareness. As awareness deepens, righteousness comes But it does not become an ego trip.

It can't become an ego trip

Because the first condition for awareness Is the dropping of the ego.

If one is not aware and tries to be righteous Then naturally

That righteousness will be exploited by the ego. It will make you a puritan

A moralist, a pious egoist. And that is far more dangerous Than the ordinary ego.

The ordinary ego is easy to drop

But the spiritual ego is very difficult to drop Because it is very subtle, it goes deep in you.

It has to be uprooted from your very depth. The ordinary ego is only on the surface

It is very easily removeable. 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Hence I don't teach righteousness

I teach awareness

And righteousness comes of its own accord.

Only the wise can be settled.

The unwise man is always restless.

The unwise is always running hither and thither Knowing not where he wants to go

Why he wants to go

Knowing nothing, he feels he has to do something. He can't sit silently.

It is impossible for him to sit silently. The greatest difficulty for him

Is to do nothing. Only the wise man

Is capable of living a settled life. Wisdom arises out of meditation.

It is a fragrance of the flower of meditation. Then one is always at home wherever one is And always at rest

And life starts having roots in existence Hence a feeling of settlement...

All the chaos

And the smoke of the chaos disappear. Instead there arises a clarity.

You can see things as they are and you can act accordingly.

And any act coming out of wisdom is liberating. Purity has nothing to do with morality.

A moral person is never pure. The pure person is always moral. Morality is pseudo, it is imposed

It is cultivated, it is a facade, it is a mask. It does not really purify you

It only paints purity on your face. It makes you a good actor.

And you have to be very alert about it Because the Japanese culture

Makes people very good actors. For centuries Japan

Has lived with a beautiful facade. People are taught to smile.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Even when they could hit you, they smile.

It is a very polished culture, but very false. One has to be more authentic.

A little uncivilisedness is not bad

If it brings your natural flavour back to you. And there is a different kind of purity,

The true purity.

It always comes from meditation. It is nothing to do with morality. It comes from inner silence.

As you become

More and more silent and centred inside Your life starts having an aura of purity. But that is a by-product.

You are not cultivating it

It is happening of its own accord.

When these things happen of their own accord They have a beautiful colour, shape, form.

When they are cultivated they are ugly. Thomas was one of the disciples of Jesus -- One of the twelve apostles.

He has become well-known

As 'Doubting Thomas'.

This time, please don't do that! The name Thomas is beautiful.

It has to be relieved of the burden of doubt. Literally it means a seeker of truth.

But one cannot seek truth If one is full of doubt;

It is impossible.

Doubt is not a bridge, it is a barrier. It is not a bridge, it is a wall;

It closes you.

It does not make you available to the truth That is present everywhere.

And because you are constantly doubting You cannot act; doubt is impotent.

Action needs trust; only a man of trust can act. And the journey towards truth

Is the greatest act of life. Tremendous trust is needed. So try!

Last time you missed -- This time don't miss it!

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Rest, relaxation has to be your path.

Relax and rest more and more int yourself. Don't be in a hurry.

There is no need to be in a hurry. the whole eternity is available

It is all ours.

Don't be impatient. Enjoy each moment. Enjoy it totally

Without any worry about the future. The best moments are those

When you are utterly relaxed. Doing nothing, sitting silently

Spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Man ordinarily gathers dust around his being And loses the brightness which is his birthright. Everybody is born bright

And everybody becomes mediocre.

By the time one dies, one is almost stupid.

This is a strange phenomenon.

And people call it evolution -- it is involution. Children are more bright, more alive

More clear about everything Without any confusion.

As they start growing

They start gathering confusion from everywhere.

We wait until they become twenty-one years of age Then we give them the right to vote

Because be that time everybody loses brightness Everybody becomes dull, stupid.

Then you are called adult. You are really adulterated Completely adulterated

But people say 'now you have become adult You have come of age.'

Certainly politicians are afraid To give voting rights to children

Because they will see through and through. Voting rights can be given to you

Only when you have lost all capacity to see, When you are utterly blind.

My effort here 1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- Is to help you to drop your rust, your dust

To cleanse your mirror

So you can again be your original face. Just as a river dissolves into the ocean Dissolve into the divine.

Don't think yourself separate from existence.

Meet, merge more and more. We go on insisting that we are separate. That is the only irreligious act:

To emphasise Separation.

To emphasise unity is religion.

It has to become a conscious effort. Seeing a sunset, dissolve into it.

Don't just remain an observer

Let the observer and observed become one. Slowly slowly you will learn the knack of it.

Then sitting by the side of a tree you can have A deep feeling of unity with the

tree.

And these small experiments can lead you Ultimately to feel oneness with the whole. And that experience is god.

My sannyasins have to become songs. They have to learn playfulness

Light-heartedness, a sense of humour. And they have to learn how to rejoice In the small things of life.

There are no great things in life Life consists of small things.

But if you know how to rejoice in them You transform them into great things.

In the hands of a Buddha

Even ordinary water becomes wine. That's exactly the meaning of the miracle That is said to have been done by Jesus: That he turned water into wine.

Only fools think that it is literally true. It is symbolically true.

In the hands of Jesus water is wine.

1/08/07

Osho's books on CD-ROM, published and unpublished Query:- You can get drunk on simple, pure water.

It depends on how you drink. It does not depend on the drink It depends on the drinker.

And I am telling you from my experience. I don't mix soda and whisky

I mix soda and soda -- and it works! Eighty Four Thousand Poems Chapter #13

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