Unlearn All You Have Learned
Talk #15 from The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 2
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"Life is a learning and an unlearning also. One has to learn many things, and then one has to unlearn them, and both are necessary. If you don't learn, you remain ignorant. If you learn..."
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"Life is a learning and an unlearning also. One has to learn many things, and then one has to unlearn them, and both are necessary. If you don't learn, you remain ignorant. If you learn..."
Osho continues:
"And it is related to all planes of spiritual growth.
"We discussed last night a very strange Hindu ritual. Hindus create gods' images, mud images, just for a particular ritual, a particular worship for particular days. Then they worship the mud image as divine, and when the time is over, the ritual is finished, they disperse it into the sea or into the river. The same image which was created is being dispersed.
"I told you that stone images came with Jainism and Buddhism. Hindus never believed in stone images, because stone can give a false appearance of permanence while the whole life is impermanent. So man-created gods cannot be permanent either. Whatsoever man can create will remain impermanent; it is bound to be manlike. But we can create certain things which can give a false permanence, which can appear falsely permanent. A pseudo-permanence is possible. With metal images, with stone images, with cement, concrete images, a false permanence is created.
"Hindus have always believed in mud images: Create them and then uncreate them. And know that they were meant for a particular purpose, as a device. When the purpose is over, dissolve them. Why? Because if you don't dissolve them, a deep clinging is possible, and that clinging will become a barrier. Ultimately, man has to reach to a point of absolute unclinging; only then is one free. That is what is meant by moksha, freedom: no clinging, not even to gods.
"So, ultimately, not only are images to be thrown, but gods also. Everything objective is to be thrown so that ultimately only the subjectivity remains, only consciousness remains, without any object of consciousness. So this is the inward meaning of dispersion.
"Look at it in this way. Whenever we are aware of anything, we have divided existence into two: the object and the subject. If I see you, I have already divided the existence in two: the seer and the seen. If I love you, I have divided the existence into two: the lover and the beloved. Any act of consciousness is a division, it creates a duality.
"Again, when you are unconscious, there is no duality. If you are deep asleep, existence is one."
"We discussed last night a very strange Hindu ritual. Hindus create gods' images, mud images, just for a particular ritual, a particular worship for particular days. Then they worship the mud image as divine, and when the time is over, the ritual is finished, they disperse it into the sea or into the river. The same image which was created is being dispersed.
"I told you that stone images came with Jainism and Buddhism. Hindus never believed in stone images, because stone can give a false appearance of permanence while the whole life is impermanent. So man-created gods cannot be permanent either. Whatsoever man can create will remain impermanent; it is bound to be manlike. But we can create certain things which can give a false permanence, which can appear falsely permanent. A pseudo-permanence is possible. With metal images, with stone images, with cement, concrete images, a false permanence is created.
"Hindus have always believed in mud images: Create them and then uncreate them. And know that they were meant for a particular purpose, as a device. When the purpose is over, dissolve them. Why? Because if you don't dissolve them, a deep clinging is possible, and that clinging will become a barrier. Ultimately, man has to reach to a point of absolute unclinging; only then is one free. That is what is meant by moksha, freedom: no clinging, not even to gods.
"So, ultimately, not only are images to be thrown, but gods also. Everything objective is to be thrown so that ultimately only the subjectivity remains, only consciousness remains, without any object of consciousness. So this is the inward meaning of dispersion.
"Look at it in this way. Whenever we are aware of anything, we have divided existence into two: the object and the subject. If I see you, I have already divided the existence in two: the seer and the seen. If I love you, I have divided the existence into two: the lover and the beloved. Any act of consciousness is a division, it creates a duality.
"Again, when you are unconscious, there is no duality. If you are deep asleep, existence is one."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 87 mins |
| File Size | 18.86 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
| Edition/ Version | 2 |
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