Learning Happiness

Talks on the 42 Sutras of Buddha
Vol. 3 of the series: The Discipline of Transcendence
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Osho explains why Buddha insists that happiness does not have to be created. It already exists in the present moment; all that has to be learned is the knack of living in the present.
Learning Happiness
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Osho explains why Buddha insists that happiness does not have to be created. It already exists in the present moment; all that has to be learned is the knack of living in the present.

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"Buddha is the most shattering individual in the whole history of humanity. His whole effort is to drop all props. He does not say to believe in anything. He is an unbeliever and his religion is that of un-belief. He does not say ‘Believe!’he says ‘Doubt!’

"Now, you have heard about religions which say ‘Believe!’You have never heard about a religion which says ‘Doubt!’Doubt is the very methodology – doubt doubt to the very core, doubt to the very end, doubt to the very last. And when you have doubted everything, and you have dropped everything out of doubt, then reality arises in your vision. It has nothing to do with your beliefs about God. It is nothing like your so-called God. Then arises reality: absolutely unfamiliar and unknown.

"But that possibility exists only when all the beliefs have been dropped and the mind has come to a state of maturity, understanding, acceptance that ‘Whatsoever is is, and we don′t desire otherwise. If there is no God, there is no God, and we don′t have any desire to project a God. If there is no God, then we accept it.’

"This is what maturity is: to accept the fact and not to create a fiction around it; to accept the reality as it is, without trying to sweeten it, without trying to decorate it, without trying to make it more acceptable to your heart. If it is shattering, it is shattering. If it is shocking, it is shocking. If the truth kills, then one is ready to be killed.

"Buddha is merciless. And nobody has ever opened the door of reality so deeply, so profoundly as he has done. He does not allow you any childish desires. He says: Become more aware, become more conscious, become more courageous. Don′t go on hiding behind beliefs and masks and theologies. Take hold of your life into your own hands. Burn bright your inner light and see whatsoever is. And once you have become courageous enough to accept it, it is a benediction. No belief is needed.

"That is Buddha's first step towards reality: all belief-systems are poisonous; all belief-systems are barriers.

"He is not a theist. And remember: he is not an atheist either – because, he says, a few people believe that there is God and a few people believe that there is no God, but both are believers. His non-belief is so deep that even those who say there is no God, and believe in it, are not acceptable to him. He says that just to say there is no God makes no difference. If you remain childish, you will create another source of God." Osho
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