I Teach a Religionless Religion

TrackFrom Ignorance to Innocence

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Osho,
I was shocked to hear you say that God does not exist. Then the question arose in me: how can there be any religion without God? Isn't God the center and religion the circumference?
Osho,
I was shocked to hear you say that God does not exist. Then the question arose in me: how can there be any religion without God? Isn't God the center and religion the circumference?

Osho continues:
"Those who go on believing without doubting, without questioning, without inquiring remain dull, dead, idiotic. So I congratulate you that you are shocked; it is a good beginning. The stupid person will be angry, not shocked. He will immediately become an enemy; he will not be shocked. To be shocked means that something in you is still alive, that the priests, the politicians, the pedagogues have not been completely successful with you. Perhaps a window has remained open; that's why you are shocked. And do you see the miracle of that shock?

"Immediately a question of tremendous importance arises in you. Your question is not out of anger; it is not out of irritation. It is a valid, intelligent, tremendously significant question: how can there be religion without God? That's what you have been told for centuries, that God is the center and religion is its circumference. This is an absolute lie. Religion has nothing to do with God at all.

"Yes, it has much to do with you, your consciousness, your being.

"You ask: how can there be a religion without God? One day, if you go on inquiring, you will ask me how can there be a religion with God? And I would like you to contemplate how there can be a religion with God. God is nothing but our idea of the ultimate dictator, the ultimate Adolf Hitler.

"He created the world, just whimsically; there was no reason to create it. No religion has been able to answer why he created the world in the first place. And this world: ugly, nauseous, disgusting, this humanity which religions go on proclaiming to be the highest peak of God's creation, that God created man in his own image. What can be higher than that? And what has man been doing? In three thousand years, five thousand wars! The whole of history is a history of murder, rape, crime – and murder, rape and crime in the name of God. Millions of people have been killed, burned alive in the name of God.

"And God created man in his own image. So you can think something about God too, just a little inference that if this is the image, then what will be the real thing? If Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini and Mao Zedong are only carbon copies, then what will be the original? It is going to be terrible!

"If God created this world, man and everything, it should show signs of divinity, signatures of God, but they are completely missing."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 104 mins
File Size 26.26 MB
Type Conversa Individual