Religions, Like Diseases, Are Many: Truth, Like Health, Is One

TrackFrom Misery to Enlightenment

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"Religion is an inquiry just the way science is, with one difference:
"Science inquires about the objective reality – that which is there, outside of you.
"Science excludes the scientist himself. It inquires about everything..."
"Religion is an inquiry just the way science is, with one difference:
"Science inquires about the objective reality – that which is there, outside of you.
"Science excludes the scientist himself. It inquires about everything..."

Osho continues:
"There is no one inside them, they are only means. You can use them, misuse them, it doesn't matter, because there is nobody inside who is going to be hurt, who is going to feel bad, who is going to react.

"Man is the only phenomenon with a depth. Everything else is superficial. Everything else is just the surface; behind the surface there is nothing. It is just like peeling an onion: you peel one layer and you find another layer; you peel that layer and you find another layer. You go on peeling layer upon layer, and in the end nothing is left in your hands. You can go on peeling things – ultimately you are going to find nobody there.

"And science is very accurate, very logical; but in a strange way the scientist keeps himself out of his investigations. He brackets himself out. He is the sole source, and he is not included in whatever he is doing. He is the doer, he is the witness, he is the finder – but he does not exist.

"The scientist does not believe that he exists, for the simple reason that he cannot put himself as an object in front of himself. How can you put yourself as an object in front of yourself? Just try.

"You jump in front of yourself but the one in front of whom you were jumping is no longer there, he has jumped. Again, in front of you there is nobody. You go on jumping. The scientist concludes that you cannot put yourself in front of yourself, because you are not. If you were there just as other things are – the rocks, the trees, the whole existence – you would have been able to put yourself on the table. But this whole idea makes the scientist look silly.

"The scientist goes on thinking that he is very clever, very intelligent, and of course he is, as far as things are concerned. But he has a blind spot. He believes in things, and because he is not a thing it obviously proves he is not. Only things exist, there is nothing other than things; and if you indicate something which is not a thing and yet exists, he is not going to believe it."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 146 mins
File Size 38.69 MB
Type Conversa Individual