Man Is Born with a Question Mark in His Heart
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"My religion is pure mysticism.
"There is nothing else in it.
"The other religions have no place for mysticism in them. They cannot have, for the simple reason that they have answers for every question..."
"There is nothing else in it.
"The other religions have no place for mysticism in them. They cannot have, for the simple reason that they have answers for every question..."
"My religion is pure mysticism.
"There is nothing else in it.
"The other religions have no place for mysticism in them. They cannot have, for the simple reason that they have answers for every question..."
Osho continues:
"There is nothing else in it.
"The other religions have no place for mysticism in them. They cannot have, for the simple reason that they have answers for every question..."
"It is fortunate that man is born with a question mark, otherwise he would be just another species of animal. Buffaloes have no questions – they accept whatever is, unquestioningly – they are really faithful, religious. Trees have no questions, birds have no questions; it is only man and man's prerogative, his privilege. In the whole of existence he alone is capable of asking a question.
"The old religions have been trying to destroy your privilege. They have been forcing you down to the level of the animals. That's what they call faith: 'undoubting faith.' They want you to be buffaloes, donkeys, but not men – because man's only special quality that defines him as separate from animalhood is the question mark. Yes, it is a turmoil. Certainly to live without any questions is peaceful, but that peace is a dead peace, it has no life in it. That silence is the silence of a cemetery, of the graveyard.
"I would prefer man to be in a turmoil, but alive.
"I would not like him to become a graveyard. That peace, that silence is at a great cost: you are losing your life, you are losing your intelligence, you are losing all possibility of discovering an ecstatic way of life. That question mark is not there without significance. It is not the work of the devil that each child is born with doubt, not with faith.
"Doubt is natural.
"Each child is asking a thousand and one questions. The more a child asks the questions, the more potential he is showing that he will be able to discover something. There are dumb children too – not literally dumb, but psychologically dumb. Parents like them very much because they don't create any trouble, they don't ask any questions – even a small child can destroy all your knowledgeability.
"I am reminded of my own childhood and so many things that will help you to understand the beauty of the question mark. And unless you understand the question mark as something intrinsic to your humanity, to your dignity, you will not understand what mysticism is.
"Mystifying is not mysticism.
"Mystifying is what the priests have been doing."
"The old religions have been trying to destroy your privilege. They have been forcing you down to the level of the animals. That's what they call faith: 'undoubting faith.' They want you to be buffaloes, donkeys, but not men – because man's only special quality that defines him as separate from animalhood is the question mark. Yes, it is a turmoil. Certainly to live without any questions is peaceful, but that peace is a dead peace, it has no life in it. That silence is the silence of a cemetery, of the graveyard.
"I would prefer man to be in a turmoil, but alive.
"I would not like him to become a graveyard. That peace, that silence is at a great cost: you are losing your life, you are losing your intelligence, you are losing all possibility of discovering an ecstatic way of life. That question mark is not there without significance. It is not the work of the devil that each child is born with doubt, not with faith.
"Doubt is natural.
"Each child is asking a thousand and one questions. The more a child asks the questions, the more potential he is showing that he will be able to discover something. There are dumb children too – not literally dumb, but psychologically dumb. Parents like them very much because they don't create any trouble, they don't ask any questions – even a small child can destroy all your knowledgeability.
"I am reminded of my own childhood and so many things that will help you to understand the beauty of the question mark. And unless you understand the question mark as something intrinsic to your humanity, to your dignity, you will not understand what mysticism is.
"Mystifying is not mysticism.
"Mystifying is what the priests have been doing."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 140 mins |
| File Size | 34.45 MB |
| Type | Conversa Individual |
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