The Lion's Roar

TrackThe Perfect Master, Vol. 2

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"Religion is a risk, a rebellion, and a rebirth, Religion is not a consolation, it is not conformity, it is not convention. Religion is not part of the world – it is something of the..."
"Religion is a risk, a rebellion, and a rebirth, Religion is not a consolation, it is not conformity, it is not convention. Religion is not part of the world – it is something of the..."

Osho continues:
"And because the mind pretends that it knows, it demystifies existence. Knowledge is the most irreligious phenomenon there is in the world – because without the experience of the mysterious there is no possibility of being in contact with God. The mystery is the door.

"Knowledge has to be dropped so that you can open your eyes again like a child – fresh, young, full of wonder, knowing nothing, or, only knowing that you know nothing.

"These few things have to be understood before we can enter into this beautiful story.

"Why do I call religion a risk? and not only a risk but the greatest? Why? Because you have to lose yourself. There are other risks in life, but they are small risks. You have to lose your money, or you have to lose your prestige, or you have to lose your wife…or this or that. But in religion, nothing less than your totality is required – you have to lose yourself. Naturally, one shrinks back one is frightened. It is a jump out of the ego and into the ego less abyss. It is a discontinuity with the past, with all that you have thought you are. It is a breakthrough.

"You lose your identity – it is a great crisis in identity. You have known yourself as this or that – a name, a form, a society, a nation – religion requires that you lose all your identity. A religious person is neither an Indian nor a Chinese, neither a Hindu nor a Mohammedan. A religious person is neither black nor white. All these things are stupidities.

"Then who is a religious person? He is not a person at all, but only a presence. He drops his personality. He cannot say who he is. He cannot define himself. But in that indefinable state of consciousness, he knows who he is. This is a paradox: those who know who they are don't know; and those who are ready to risk their whole identity and come to a point where they don't know who they are, only they are the people who become capable of knowing. It is a gamble…. Very few people have that much courage."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 108 mins
File Size 24.96 MB
Type Conversa Individual