Living the Dhamma

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From:Finding Your Own Way

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"The first sutra."
The Buddha said:
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky.

"The first thing to be understood is..."
Living the Dhamma
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"The first sutra."
The Buddha said:
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky.

"The first thing to be understood is..."

Osho continues:
"The simpler and cheaper way is to denounce the wise, that he is not wise. Whenever you are faced with a challenge always these two alternatives present themselves before you, and if you choose the cheaper one you will remain in the evil.

"Never go for the cheap, never go for the shortcut, because life is learnt only the hard way. Arduous are its ways, long, uphill is the task, because learning cannot come easily – because learning is not just collecting knowledge, it is not just collecting information. Learning has to change you. It is spiritual surgery, much has to be destroyed and thrown away.

"Much is rotten in you and has to be renounced. Much is just like a rock around your neck; it won't allow you to float, it will drown you. You have to cut off relationships with many things, with many attitudes, with many prejudices. You have to unburden yourself.

"Learning, real learning, wisdom, comes only when you are transformed. It is not an additive process – you cannot just add, go on adding knowledge to you. You will have to go through transmutation – that is hard. The easier way is to denounce. Whenever you face the challenge – somebody has become wise – immediately the shortcut is to say, 'No, it is not possible. In the first place wisdom never exists, in the second place, even if wisdom exists, it cannot exist in this man. I know him well, I know his faults.' And then you start magnifying his faults, and you start condemning him.

"It is not just a coincidence that Socrates is poisoned, Jesus is crucified, Mansoor is murdered. It is not just a coincidence that all the buddhas are denounced, all the Jainas are denounced. When they walk on the earth they walk continuously in danger, because there are so many who feel their egos hurting.

"Just to think that somebody has become enlightened is difficult. It is easy to denounce and to say, 'No, in the first place enlightenment is impossible – it never happens, it is just an illusion, godliness does not exist. Samadhi? – is nothing but auto-hypnosis. This man is deluded, he has not become enlightened."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 102 mins
File Size 28.68 MB
Type Individual Talks