From Ignorance to Innocence

Answers to the Seekers on the Path

Talks given from 29/11/84 pm to 29/12/84 pm English Discourse series

1 Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul 2 The other cheek: the masochist's slap-up feast 3 The nuclear family -- the imminent meltdown 4 Danger: truth at work 5 Ecstasy is now -- why wait?6 Renunciation: mortgage today for a tomorrow that never comes 7 Shame is the name of their game 8 God is not a solution but a problem 9 I teach a religionless religion 10 God -- the nobody everybody knows 11 Truth: not a dogma but a dance 12 Faith: the suicide of intelligence 13 Ecstasy is knowing that nobody is holding your hand 14 Society crowds you out; religon outs your crowd 15 They say believe; I say explore 16 Let's not face it -- you're absolutely alone 17 Jesus, the only forgotten son of god 18 One god, one messenger, one book -- one big lie 19 Religion is rebellion 20 Surrender: the ego upside down 21 Personality: the carbon cop-out 22 The commune: the distillation of rebellious spirits 23 Conscience: a coffin for consciousness 24 Imitation is your cremation 25 Jesus -- the only savior who nearly saved himself 26 Meditation: watchfulness, awareness, alertness -- the real trinity 27 Baptism: wading for godot 28 Science plus religion -- the dynamic formula for the future 29 Positive thinking: philosophy for phonies 30 Surrender: the ego upside down

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1 Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Pseudo-religion: the stick-on soul 29 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHY IS HUMANITY TODAY BECOMING MORE AND MORE MISERABLE? THE cause is very simple, perhaps too simple. It is very close, very obvious, and this is the reason why most of the people go on missing seeing it. When something is very obvious you start taking it for granted....

10 God \-- the nobody everybody knows

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 God – the nobody everybody knows 8 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, GOD DID NOT CREATE PEOPLE LIKE ADOLF HITLER IN HIS OWN IMAGE. HE CREATED PEOPLE LIKE JESUS CHRIST, HAZRAT MOHAMMED, KRISHNA AND BUDDHA. IT is not a question. It is a statement, an answer, but I have not asked the question. The person seems even to know whom God created in His own image and whom God did not create in His own image....

11 Truth: not a dogma but a dance

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Truth: not a dogma but a dance 9 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, ARE YOU AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS? WHAT IS THEIR MOST FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE? YES, I am against all the so-called religions because they are not religions at all. I am for religion but not for the religions. The true religion can only be one, just like science....

12 Faith: the suicide of intelligence

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 Faith: the suicide of intelligence 10 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE GREATEST HARM THAT THE SO-CALLED RELIGIONS HAVE DONE TO HUMANITY? THE greatest harm that the so-called religions have done to humanity is to prevent humanity from finding the true religion. They pretended to be the true religion. All the religions of the world have conditioned the human mind from the very childhood to believe that this is the true religion – the religion in which you are born....

13 Ecstasy is knowing that nobody is holding your hand

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Ecstasy is knowing that nobody is holding your hand 11 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT IN YOUR RELIGION – TO BE THYSELF OR TO KNOW THYSELF? Do you think they are different? How can you know yourself if you are not yourself? And vice versa – how can you be yourself if you don’t know who you are?...

14 Society crowds you out; religon outs your crowd

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 Society crowds you out; religon outs your crowd 13 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHY, IN THE FIRST PLACE, HAVE PEOPLE BEEN DISTRACTED FROM THEIR ORIGINAL SELF? MAN is born with an unknown, an unknowable potentiality. His original face is not available when he comes into the world. He has to find it. It is going to be a discovery, and that is the beauty of it....

15 They say believe; I say explore

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 They say believe; I say explore 14 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A POLITICIAN TO BE A RELIGIOUS MAN OR FOR A RELIGIOUS MAN TO BE A POLITICIAN? IT is absolutely impossible for a political man to be religious, because the ways of politics and religion are diametrically opposite. You have to understand that it is not a question of adding something to your personality – religion is not an addition....

16 Let\'s not face it \-- you\'re absolutely alone

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 Let’s not face it – you’re absolutely alone 15 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, IS THE HYPOTHESIS OF GOD NOT USEFUL IN ANY WAY? – BECAUSE THE VERY IDEA OF DROPPING THE IDEA OF GOD MAKES ME IMMENSELY AFRAID. IT is already too late. The moment one starts calling the idea of God a hypothesis, the idea of God is already dropped....

17 Jesus, the only forgotten son of god

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 Jesus, the only forgotten son of god 16 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, YOU SAY GOD IS NOT A HYPOTHESIS NOR AN IDEA. THEN WHAT IS GOD? HAS ANYONE EVER MET GOD OR NOT? GOD certainly is not a hypothesis. A hypothesis can only be part of an objective science. You can experiment upon it, you can dissect it, analyze it....

18 One god, one messenger, one book \-- one big lie

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 One god, one messenger, one book – one big lie 17 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RELIGION AND A CULT? – BECAUSE THE CHRISTIANS GO ON CALLING US A CULT. IT SEEMS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO ACCEPT US AS A RELIGION. WHAT COULD BE THE REASON BEHIND IT? IT is a complex question....