Suddenly You Become a Vast Emptiness

Individual Talk

From:Come Follow to You, Vol. 2

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Osho,
Will I know when I am ready to face you?

"You will face me; knowledge will come later on. Not otherwise – not that knowledge will come first and then you will..."
Osho,
Will I know when I am ready to face you?

"You will face me; knowledge will come later on. Not otherwise – not that knowledge will come first and then you will..."

Osho continues:
"The host stepped back, bowed down and said, 'Welcome, you are welcome. Your understanding is tremendous.'

"Then they had dinner. In the cold night they were sitting by the fireplace chitchatting, and the guest asked, 'Have you got the answer yourself or not? The koan that you asked me – have you got the answer to it yourself or not?'

"The host said, 'I am not that fortunate. No, I have not got the answer. But I recognized it when you gave me the answer, because I have read so much about Zen, and heard so much about Zen, I could recognize the immediacy of your answer. You didn't hesitate for a single moment. You didn't think it. It came out of your totality. It was not from the head – that much I could recognize.'

"The guest didn't answer. He continued sipping his tea. But then the host became a little suspicious. He looked again at the face of the guest and he found there was something he didn't like. So he asked again, 'Please, tell me: do you really know the answer? Have you got the answer? '

"The guest started laughing, and then he starting rolling on the mat in deep mirth. And he said, 'No, sir. I have also read too much about Zen and heard too much about Zen.'

"If knowledge becomes too much, that becomes the barrier. You can know without knowing. That is the danger of knowledge. You can know, not knowing at all. Deep inside you remain ignorant, but on the surface you know everything that can be known.

"You can deceive others, but the greater danger is that someday you may be deceived by yourself, you may deceive yourself. Then all possibility for growth stops.

"Never be bothered about knowledge. The whole quest should be for reality, that which is. You should not be worried about it. That is the difference between theology and religion: theology goes on talking about God; religion talks God, not about. The 'about' is the realm of theology. The priests, the preachers – they go on talking about and about. Religion is not talking about reality. Religion talks reality.

"You ask me, 'Will I know when I am ready to face you?' You will face me first; then you will know."
More Information
Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 91 mins
File Size 25.21 MB
Type Individual Talks
Edition/ Version 2