The Eightfold Way: Move Step by Step and You Come Home
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"Gautama the Buddha has no leaning towards abstraction, philosophy or metaphysics. He's very practical, down-to-earth practical. He's very scientific. His approach is not that of a thinker; the approach is existential. When he attained and..."
"Gautama the Buddha has no leaning towards abstraction, philosophy or metaphysics. He's very practical, down-to-earth practical. He's very scientific. His approach is not that of a thinker; the approach is existential. When he attained and..."
Osho continues:
"Before we enter into these sutras, his basic steps have to be understood.
"Buddha's way is called 'the eightfold way.' He has divided it into eight parts. Those divisions are arbitrary, just utilitarian; the way is one. It is not really divided, it is divided so that you can understand it easily. And this is very fundamental: if you can understand these eight steps or eight divisions of the way, the way will open just in front of you. You are already standing on it, but not aware; your mind is wandering somewhere. The way is in front of you. So try to understand these eight steps as deeply as possible.
"The first is: right view.
"And all these eight steps are concerned with rightness – right view, right intention, right speech, right morality, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and the eighth, the ultimate, right samadhi. The word right has to be understood first because the Sanskrit word samyak is so meaningful, is so pregnant with meaning that it cannot be translated. 'Right' is a very poor translation for it for many reasons.
"First, the word right immediately gives the idea as if it is against the wrong. Samyak never gives that idea; samyak is not against the wrong. Buddha's right is not against the wrong, because Buddha says, 'Wrongs are many, right is one – so how can the right be against the wrong?' Health is one, diseases are many. There are not as many healths as there are diseases, so health cannot be against the diseases – otherwise there would be so many healths. Somebody is suffering from TB and then he becomes healthy, somebody is suffering from cancer and he becomes healthy, and somebody is suffering from flu and he becomes healthy. These three healths are not three healths. The diseases were different, but health is one, and one cannot be against the many.
"Exactly the same is true about right and wrong. Right is one. Wrongs are millions; you can go on inventing wrongs. Right cannot be invented; it does not depend on you. Right is a state of affairs where you are in tune with the whole. That is the meaning of health too: when you are in tune with the whole you are healthy."
"Buddha's way is called 'the eightfold way.' He has divided it into eight parts. Those divisions are arbitrary, just utilitarian; the way is one. It is not really divided, it is divided so that you can understand it easily. And this is very fundamental: if you can understand these eight steps or eight divisions of the way, the way will open just in front of you. You are already standing on it, but not aware; your mind is wandering somewhere. The way is in front of you. So try to understand these eight steps as deeply as possible.
"The first is: right view.
"And all these eight steps are concerned with rightness – right view, right intention, right speech, right morality, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and the eighth, the ultimate, right samadhi. The word right has to be understood first because the Sanskrit word samyak is so meaningful, is so pregnant with meaning that it cannot be translated. 'Right' is a very poor translation for it for many reasons.
"First, the word right immediately gives the idea as if it is against the wrong. Samyak never gives that idea; samyak is not against the wrong. Buddha's right is not against the wrong, because Buddha says, 'Wrongs are many, right is one – so how can the right be against the wrong?' Health is one, diseases are many. There are not as many healths as there are diseases, so health cannot be against the diseases – otherwise there would be so many healths. Somebody is suffering from TB and then he becomes healthy, somebody is suffering from cancer and he becomes healthy, and somebody is suffering from flu and he becomes healthy. These three healths are not three healths. The diseases were different, but health is one, and one cannot be against the many.
"Exactly the same is true about right and wrong. Right is one. Wrongs are millions; you can go on inventing wrongs. Right cannot be invented; it does not depend on you. Right is a state of affairs where you are in tune with the whole. That is the meaning of health too: when you are in tune with the whole you are healthy."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 96 mins |
| File Size | 0 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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