A Scientific Method of Attaining the Fantastic
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From:Yoga: The Science of Living
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"'I am beginning to lose faith in my ability,' said the young salesman to his friend. 'Today has been terrible, and not one sale. I have been thrown out of apartments, had doors slammed in..."
"'I am beginning to lose faith in my ability,' said the young salesman to his friend. 'Today has been terrible, and not one sale. I have been thrown out of apartments, had doors slammed in..."
Osho continues:
"And to live without religion will be living without any purpose. To live without religion will be living without any poetry. To live without religion will be living a drag of a life, a boredom – what Sartre is saying when he says that man is a useless passion. Without religion he becomes so. Man is not a useless passion, but without religion he certainly becomes so. If there is nothing higher than you then all purpose disappears. If there is nothing higher to reach, higher to be, then your life cannot have any goal, cannot have any meaning. The higher is needed to attract you, to pull you upwards. The higher is needed so that you don't get stuck in the lower.
"Without religion life will be like a tree which never comes to flower, a fruitlessness. Yes, without religion man is a useless passion, but with religion man becomes the very flowering of life, as if God is fulfilled in him. So it has to be understood why religion has become such a dirty word.
"There are people who are positively against religion. There are people who may not be positively against but who are positively indifferent towards religion. There are people who may not be indifferent to religion but who are only hypocrites who go on pretending that they interested. And these three categories are all the categories there are. A genuine religious person has disappeared. What has happened?
"First thing the discovery of a new attitude towards life, the discovery of science – a new window opened – and religion could not absorb it. Religion failed to absorb because ordinary religion is incapable of absorbing it.
"There are three attitudes towards life possible one is logical, rational, scientific: another is infralogical – superstitious, irrational; and the third is suprarational – transcendental. The ordinary religion tried to cling to the infrarational attitude. That became the suicide; that became the slow poisoning. Religion has committed suicide because it got stuck in the lowest standpoint towards life – infrarational. What do I mean when I use the word infrarational? Just a blind faith. Religion thrived on it up to this century because there was no competitor, there was not a higher standpoint."
"Without religion life will be like a tree which never comes to flower, a fruitlessness. Yes, without religion man is a useless passion, but with religion man becomes the very flowering of life, as if God is fulfilled in him. So it has to be understood why religion has become such a dirty word.
"There are people who are positively against religion. There are people who may not be positively against but who are positively indifferent towards religion. There are people who may not be indifferent to religion but who are only hypocrites who go on pretending that they interested. And these three categories are all the categories there are. A genuine religious person has disappeared. What has happened?
"First thing the discovery of a new attitude towards life, the discovery of science – a new window opened – and religion could not absorb it. Religion failed to absorb because ordinary religion is incapable of absorbing it.
"There are three attitudes towards life possible one is logical, rational, scientific: another is infralogical – superstitious, irrational; and the third is suprarational – transcendental. The ordinary religion tried to cling to the infrarational attitude. That became the suicide; that became the slow poisoning. Religion has committed suicide because it got stuck in the lowest standpoint towards life – infrarational. What do I mean when I use the word infrarational? Just a blind faith. Religion thrived on it up to this century because there was no competitor, there was not a higher standpoint."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 78 mins |
| File Size | 23.41 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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