Blessed Are Those Who Doubt

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From:From Death to Deathlessness

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"The difference between doubt and negativity is great.
"They look alike; on the surface they have the same color, but deep down the difference is unbridgeable.
"First, doubt is not negativity; neither is it positivity...."
Blessed Are Those Who Doubt
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"The difference between doubt and negativity is great.
"They look alike; on the surface they have the same color, but deep down the difference is unbridgeable.
"First, doubt is not negativity; neither is it positivity...."

Osho continues:
"It has come to a conclusion, the same way somebody has come to the conclusion to say yes. One man says God is; his statement is positive. The other says there is no God; his statement is negative. But both are sailing in the same boat, they are not different people. They have not inquired. Neither the theist has doubted nor the atheist has doubted; both have accepted borrowed knowledge.

"Doubt says that, 'I myself would like to know, and unless I know for myself, it is not knowledge. Only my experience is going to be decisive.' He is not arrogant, he is not denying anything. He is just open for inquiry.

"Doubt is not disbelief – that's how religions have been confusing people. They confuse doubt with disbelief. In fact disbelief and belief are exactly the same. Both accept knowledge from others, from books, from masters. And remember, anything that you do not know, yet you have started believing or disbelieving in ityou have missed a great opportunity for inquiry. You have closed the doors already, by yes or by no. You have not traveled.

"It is easier to say yes, it is easier to say no, because there is nothing you have to do.

"But to doubt needs guts.

"To doubt needs courage to remain in the state of not-knowing, and go on questioning everything till the moment you yourself arrive at the reality. When you come to the reality there is no negativity, no positivity. You simply know – it is your experience. I will not say it is positivity because positivity always has the other pole of negativity. An experience goes beyond both; the whole world of polarities is transcended. That is true wisdom.

"Doubt is the way to truth.

"No or yes are not ways, they prevent you.

"It will look very strange, that yes does the same thing as no. In dictionaries they are opposites, but in reality they are not. They look opposite only, but both have not asked the question. Both have not tried to find out what the case is.

"The communist believes, exactly as the catholic believes. The communist believes that there is no God."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 98 mins
File Size 22.95 MB
Type Individual Talks