You Are Alive
Talk #17 from The Last Testament, Vol.1
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This is a fascinating recording of an interview with Osho, while at the commune in the USA, answering questions for the first time from the world’s press.
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This is a fascinating recording of an interview with Osho, while at the commune in the USA, answering questions for the first time from the world’s press.
Osho continues:
"Be critical, be skeptical. Go on saying 'no' until you can find the 'yes' which you cannot deny.
"My people are not people who have gathered here because of a certain faith or belief. They are inquirers, seekers with open minds, and they are being taught only one thing: never accept anything unless you can experience it. Critical journalism is just third rate, because it is only the mind, the reason. But the mind and reason can be very easily defeated, just a little sharper intelligence is needed and your criticism will be gone.
"But the criticism I am teaching to my people is something far deeper and far wider. I am teaching them not to argue about truth, because there is no way through argument to reach the truth. Whenever two arguments fight, all that is proved is who was more capable of arguing. Truth is never proved that way, truth has to be experienced. So deny every belief and deny it absolutely. Not even a lingering shadow of belief should be within you."
So your sannyasins also should be skeptical about what you say?
"They are."
And when you say, 'Do this and that and this will be the result,' then they enter it with a skeptical, critical mind?
"Certainly. Whatever I say to them is hypothetical, just the way science works. A scientist enters into an experiment with a hypothesis. Hypothesis means not belief, but just that one has to begin somewhere. So for the moment he accepts a certain concept and enters into it with absolute alertness so that he is not deceived by his own hypothesis. He has to be aware that it is only a hypothesis and not a truth."
But you also said, 'Trust me, follow me.'
"That is said to those people who have arrived. I have been speaking to millions of people, and when I speak to a person I cannot take account of the whole world. My statement is direct and immediate and personal. When I have said to somebody, 'Trust and follow me,' that means the person has arrived. Now there is no need of any skepticism, no negativity. Now there is no need for him to unnecessarily harass himself, he has done enough."
"My people are not people who have gathered here because of a certain faith or belief. They are inquirers, seekers with open minds, and they are being taught only one thing: never accept anything unless you can experience it. Critical journalism is just third rate, because it is only the mind, the reason. But the mind and reason can be very easily defeated, just a little sharper intelligence is needed and your criticism will be gone.
"But the criticism I am teaching to my people is something far deeper and far wider. I am teaching them not to argue about truth, because there is no way through argument to reach the truth. Whenever two arguments fight, all that is proved is who was more capable of arguing. Truth is never proved that way, truth has to be experienced. So deny every belief and deny it absolutely. Not even a lingering shadow of belief should be within you."
So your sannyasins also should be skeptical about what you say?
"They are."
And when you say, 'Do this and that and this will be the result,' then they enter it with a skeptical, critical mind?
"Certainly. Whatever I say to them is hypothetical, just the way science works. A scientist enters into an experiment with a hypothesis. Hypothesis means not belief, but just that one has to begin somewhere. So for the moment he accepts a certain concept and enters into it with absolute alertness so that he is not deceived by his own hypothesis. He has to be aware that it is only a hypothesis and not a truth."
But you also said, 'Trust me, follow me.'
"That is said to those people who have arrived. I have been speaking to millions of people, and when I speak to a person I cannot take account of the whole world. My statement is direct and immediate and personal. When I have said to somebody, 'Trust and follow me,' that means the person has arrived. Now there is no need of any skepticism, no negativity. Now there is no need for him to unnecessarily harass himself, he has done enough."
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| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 112 mins |
| File Size | 31.19 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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