Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol. 2

Talks on Ko Hsuan's The Classic of Purity
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In this second of a two-volume series titled, Tao: The Golden Gate, Osho draws on the ancient Taoist truths as taught by master Ko Hsuan, and brings his penetrating and unique insight in responses to a range of questions from his audience.

Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol. 2
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In this second of a two-volume series titled, Tao: The Golden Gate, Osho draws on the ancient Taoist truths as taught by master Ko Hsuan, and brings his penetrating and unique insight in responses to a range of questions from his audience.


Excerpt from: Tao: The Golden Gate, Vol.2, Chapter 2

      “Man has been called a ladder by the mystics. Now, the ladder can do two things: you can use it to go upward and the same ladder can be used to go downward. You use the same ladder for both purposes, just your direction changes. When you are moving upward your direction is one way; when you are moving downward your direction is just the opposite. But with the same ladder the result will be totally different. Man is a ladder between heaven and hell.

      “That’s why it is only human beings who repress, who manipulate, who kill, who try to conquer the natural flow in nature, who are stupid – because they can be buddhas. Because man has intelligence, that’s why he can be stupid. Stupidity simply means you have not used your intelligence; it does not mean absence of intelligence. If there is no presence of intelligence you cannot call man stupid. You cannot call a rock stupid; a rock is a rock – no question of stupidity.

      “But you can call man stupid because with man there is hope, a ray of great light. With man, a door opens toward the beyond. He can transcend himself and he is not transcending – that’s his stupidity. He can grow and he is not growing, he is clinging to all kinds of immaturity – that is his stupidity. He goes on and on living in the past, which is no more – that is his stupidity. Or he starts projecting in the future, which is not yet – that is his stupidity.

      “He should live in the present with deep passion, with great love, with intensity, with awareness and that will become his intelligence. It is the same energy: upside down it is stupidity; put it right, rearrange it and it becomes intelligence.

      “Intelligence and stupidity are not separate energies. The same energy functioning in harmony is intelligence, functioning in contradictions is stupidity. Man can be stupid – don’t think that it is unfortunate. It looks on the surface that it is unfortunate, but hidden behind it is great glory, great splendor which can be discovered.” Osho

 

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