Religion Is Rebellion

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From:From Ignorance to Innocence

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Osho,
Is it not possible in any way to preserve your living religion and not let it be reduced to a cult like Christianity? The very idea of your religion being reduced with time to a cult is unbearable.
Osho,
Is it not possible in any way to preserve your living religion and not let it be reduced to a cult like Christianity? The very idea of your religion being reduced with time to a cult is unbearable.

Osho continues:
"The first thing: it is not my religion.

"I have nothing to do with it. In fact, when I ceased to be it came into being. This is the first thing to remember – it will help the religion to remain a living current.

"Do not make it a certain kind of religion – Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism – no, just let it be pure religion.

"Let it be just religiousness.

"Nobody can reduce religiousness to a cult. That is absolutely impossible. And what I am doing continually is withdrawing all possibilities, all potentialities, which can reduce it to a cult. For example, I have removed God. Without God it is very difficult to reduce a religion to a cult. That's why Christianity is more of a cult than Buddhism.

"This is our blessing, because we can look back upon the whole of history. And only fools say that history does not repeat itself; it continuously repeats, unless you prevent it from repeating itself. If you have accepted the idea that history never repeats itself you are not going to prevent it from repeating itself, there is no need. I say to you that it always repeats itself, unless somebody intelligently prevents it.

"Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism, Hinduism, are all God-oriented. Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, are not God-oriented. And the difference can be seen immediately. The God-oriented religions become cults immediately.

"God is a very dangerous concept because in the name of God comes the priesthood. If there is no God it is very difficult to create a priesthood. In Jainism there is no priesthood. They have to borrow priests from the Hindus for their worldly rituals; for example, marriage. They don't have any priests, their religion is against Brahminism. But Hindus have the greatest and the longest-standing priesthood; the most sophisticated, cultured, very solidly based establishment.

"When my first uncle was getting married At that time I became aware of a strange thing, that a brahmin had been called. I asked my father, 'Jainism is against Brahminism, it was a revolt against the brahmin ritualistic, magical religion. And the marriage is being performed by a brahmin? From the very beginning the marriage is invalid. Can't you manage to have a Jaina perform the marriage?'

"He said, 'You raise inconvenient questions, but I must accept that your questions are never wrong."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 124 mins
File Size 31.73 MB
Type Individual Talks