Religion Has No History: It Is Now

Individual Talk

From:Come Follow to You, Vol. 1

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"Religion is basically, essentially, a rebellion. It is not is not conformity, it is not belonging to any organization, society, church, because all belonging comes out of fear – and religion is freedom. There is..."
"Religion is basically, essentially, a rebellion. It is not is not conformity, it is not belonging to any organization, society, church, because all belonging comes out of fear – and religion is freedom. There is..."

Osho continues:
"You become aware of the music that is continuously happening within your soulbut you have never allowed yourself to be alone to hear it, to be in rapport with it, to be one with it.

"Religion is not conformity because all conformity is mechanical. You do certain things because you are expected to do them. You do them because you have to live with people and you have to follow their rules; you do them because you have been conditioned to do them. You go to church, you go to the temple, you pray, you follow rituals, but everything is empty. Unless your heart is in it, everything is dead and mechanical. You may do everything exactly as it is prescribed, with no error – it may be perfect – but then too, it is dead.

"I have heard that President Kennedy had to sign so many letters, autographs and personalized pictures that a small mechanism was invented for him. The machine used to sign for him, and the signature was so perfect that no expert was able to say which was mechanical and which was true – not even President Kennedy himself was able to say which was false and which was true. Malcolm Muggeridge reports that when Kennedy was killed they forgot to turn the machine off, so it continued. The President continued to sign personalized letters even when he was dead. A mechanism is a mechanism.

"You become a Christian: then you become a mechanism. You go on behaving as if you really loved Christ, but that 'as if' has to be remembered. You become a Buddhist: you go on behaving as if you follow Buddha, but that 'as if' has not to be forgotten. Your signature may be perfect, but it is coming out of a dead mechanism.

"Religion is not conformity. Conformity is between the individual and the past, and religion is something between the individual and the present – poetry is something between the individual and the future. Conformity means to conform with those people who are no more, the dead – to conform with Moses, with Mahavira. Now to conform with Jesus is a dead thing; you are conforming with the past."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 99 mins
File Size 29.68 MB
Type Individual Talks