From Personality to Individuality

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One of the most remarkable things about this book is Osho′s capacity to look at popularly held concepts from a completely different perspective – turning them inside out, to reveal their true workings and show the effect that such "perceived wisdom" has on people and their lives.
One of the most remarkable things about this book is Osho′s capacity to look at popularly held concepts from a completely different perspective – turning them inside out, to reveal their true workings and show the effect that such "perceived wisdom" has on people and their lives.

Excerpt from: From Personality to Individuality Chapter 7
"Skepticism is condemned by all the religions.
"In reality, skepticism is the beginning of a really religious man.

"Skepticism means enquiry.

"Skepticism means: whatsoever you have told me I cannot accept unless I experience it.

"But it is inconvenient. You will have to travel a long way, and you never know whether you will reach to the point where you find the answer on your own.

"Most people, the greater mass, want convenience, comfort, ready-made things, ready-made answers. It is understandable. It is an ugly fact about human beings, that even for truth they are not ready to take a little trouble.

"Even truth people want cheap.

"And because you want truth cheap, there are peddlars who are selling it cheap.

"Not only cheap, they are selling it without taking anything from you. Not only that, they are rewarding you: if you purchase their truth they are going to reward you. The Christians will call you a saint, the Hindus will call you a mahatma, a sage. Without any effort, without paying anything you gain so much respectability. All that you have to do is to pretend, to be a hypocrite.

"The whole human society is pretending.

"What do you know about Christ′s experience?

"Without having some taste of it, you are a Christian?

"If this is not hypocrisy, then what is hypocrisy?

"Knowing nothing about God, you believe in God.

"If this is not dishonesty....

"Then what else can dishonesty be?

"You are not even honest towards God.

"An honest, sincere person will start from skepticism. He will enquire. He will put a question mark on every aspect of conditioning that his parents and his society have burdened him with.

"But it is understandable about the general masses; they can be forgiven. But how to forgive a man who has attained enlightenment? His enlightenment means he has done away with all the conditions, conditionings, all the programs. He is a deprogrammed man, he is a dehypnotized man. But for an enlightened man to still say that he is Christian is unforgivable, yet this has been happening all through history.

"Only very rarely have a few people simply declared their aloneness.

"They have taken a small footpath of their own and they have left the super-highway where everybody is moving – of course comfortably. And when you leave the super-highway you will have to create a path just by walking. There is no path ready-made, available to you.

"That′s why I say truth is costly.

"You will have to pay for it." Osho
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Publisher Osho Media International
Type Series of Talks