Freedom Contains All
Individual Talk
From:The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 03
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"Gautam Buddha's search is not for God; it cannot be. If God is not known already, how can you search for him? If the search depends on believing in God, then the search is falsified..."
"Gautam Buddha's search is not for God; it cannot be. If God is not known already, how can you search for him? If the search depends on believing in God, then the search is falsified..."
Osho continues:
"Not that it is there in reality but because you are projecting it on reality. Reality functions as a screen and you go on projecting your own prejudice. If you disbelieve, then of course there is no possibility of ever finding it; from the very beginning your mind is closed.
"Hence Buddha's search is not for God. We don't know whether God is or is not; we cannot take any standpoint. And without taking a standpoint about God there is no possibility of inquiring into his reality.
"This is a basic difference between Buddha's approach and the approach of all other religions. Buddha is far superior. The other religions are very anthropocentric: their idea of God is nothing but their idea of man – projected, magnified, decorated, made as beautiful as possible, but it is man projected onto the sky.
"That's why the Negro will have a God according to the Negro idea of what a human being is: the lips will be thick, the hair will be curly. The Chinese will have his own projection, the Indian will have his own idea. There are three hundred religions on the earth; there are not three hundred Gods. Why these three hundred religions? And these three hundred religions have at least three thousand sects, and they all have differences about God and God's conception.
"God is one, because reality is one. If God is equal to reality, synonymous with reality, then there are not many existences, there is only one existence – it can't have so many images. In fact, no image can represent it; every image will be only partial. And to claim the whole truth for the part is a sin – a sin against yourself and against humanity and against truth.
"And the moment you start thinking about God in anthropocentric terms, you make an image. That image is nothing but a toy to play with. You can worship it, you can pray, you can bow down to it, but you are simply being stupid. You are bowing down to your own toy, you are worshipping your own creation! And that's what your temples, your churches, your mosques are – man-made, manufactured by man's own mind."
"Hence Buddha's search is not for God. We don't know whether God is or is not; we cannot take any standpoint. And without taking a standpoint about God there is no possibility of inquiring into his reality.
"This is a basic difference between Buddha's approach and the approach of all other religions. Buddha is far superior. The other religions are very anthropocentric: their idea of God is nothing but their idea of man – projected, magnified, decorated, made as beautiful as possible, but it is man projected onto the sky.
"That's why the Negro will have a God according to the Negro idea of what a human being is: the lips will be thick, the hair will be curly. The Chinese will have his own projection, the Indian will have his own idea. There are three hundred religions on the earth; there are not three hundred Gods. Why these three hundred religions? And these three hundred religions have at least three thousand sects, and they all have differences about God and God's conception.
"God is one, because reality is one. If God is equal to reality, synonymous with reality, then there are not many existences, there is only one existence – it can't have so many images. In fact, no image can represent it; every image will be only partial. And to claim the whole truth for the part is a sin – a sin against yourself and against humanity and against truth.
"And the moment you start thinking about God in anthropocentric terms, you make an image. That image is nothing but a toy to play with. You can worship it, you can pray, you can bow down to it, but you are simply being stupid. You are bowing down to your own toy, you are worshipping your own creation! And that's what your temples, your churches, your mosques are – man-made, manufactured by man's own mind."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 106 mins |
| File Size | 26.22 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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