Becoming Is the Most Impossible Thing
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Osho,
What is a mystic?
"I don't know, and nobody else knows, either. That's why a mystic is called a mystic. There is something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped..."
What is a mystic?
"I don't know, and nobody else knows, either. That's why a mystic is called a mystic. There is something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped..."
Osho,
What is a mystic?
"I don't know, and nobody else knows, either. That's why a mystic is called a mystic. There is something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped..."
Osho continues:
What is a mystic?
"I don't know, and nobody else knows, either. That's why a mystic is called a mystic. There is something indefinable, something very elusive, something that cannot be grasped..."
"There are people who go on searching for knowledge. They are anti-mystic; their whole effort is to demystify life. That's what knowledge means. Knowledge means knowing each and everything so that life can be demystified, so that the wonder of life is killed and man can become the absolute boss, a manipulator who can control everything.
"Knowledge is an effort to control, knowledge is power. All curiosity, all desire for knowledge, is desire for power. Science is non-mystic. A scientist is just the anti-pole, the other extreme, of the mystic. He is trying to poke his nose into reality, to find out its secrets. He is trying to undress reality. He is trying to see reality so that reality can be manipulated.
"The mystic is one who has come to see that there is no way to know reality, because we are part of it, and how can the knower know itself? There is no possibility; it is an impossible search, it is doomed to fail.
"A mystic is one who has become mature enough to be able to live without knowledge, to be able to live in ignorance, to be ready to truly live. He is not worried about knowing, he does not make it a condition that 'First I have to know; then I will live. How can I live without knowing? If I am to love, first I have to know what love is, and only then I can love. If I am to enjoy, first I have to know what enjoyment is, otherwise how can I enjoy?'
"The non-mystic makes questions out of simple phenomena, creates questions, and transforms everything into a problem. That is the state of the non-mystic. The mystic is one who has relaxed, who says, 'There is no need to know what love is, you can still love, knowledge does not help in any way, on the contrary it hinders.'
"If you know everything about love you will never be able to love. It is a blessing that you are not capable of knowing what love is. It is a blessing that existence has made it an utter mystery, otherwise nobody will ever love. Once you know, love will disappear, awe will disappear from life; your eyes will not know the quality of wondering."
"Knowledge is an effort to control, knowledge is power. All curiosity, all desire for knowledge, is desire for power. Science is non-mystic. A scientist is just the anti-pole, the other extreme, of the mystic. He is trying to poke his nose into reality, to find out its secrets. He is trying to undress reality. He is trying to see reality so that reality can be manipulated.
"The mystic is one who has come to see that there is no way to know reality, because we are part of it, and how can the knower know itself? There is no possibility; it is an impossible search, it is doomed to fail.
"A mystic is one who has become mature enough to be able to live without knowledge, to be able to live in ignorance, to be ready to truly live. He is not worried about knowing, he does not make it a condition that 'First I have to know; then I will live. How can I live without knowing? If I am to love, first I have to know what love is, and only then I can love. If I am to enjoy, first I have to know what enjoyment is, otherwise how can I enjoy?'
"The non-mystic makes questions out of simple phenomena, creates questions, and transforms everything into a problem. That is the state of the non-mystic. The mystic is one who has relaxed, who says, 'There is no need to know what love is, you can still love, knowledge does not help in any way, on the contrary it hinders.'
"If you know everything about love you will never be able to love. It is a blessing that you are not capable of knowing what love is. It is a blessing that existence has made it an utter mystery, otherwise nobody will ever love. Once you know, love will disappear, awe will disappear from life; your eyes will not know the quality of wondering."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 94 mins |
| File Size | 20.21 MB |
| Type | Conversa Individual |
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