Religion Is Rebellion
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"A fable is told of a centipede with arthritis who sought the advice of a wise old owl. 'Centipede,' the owl said, 'you have a hundred legs, all swollen up. Now if I were you..."
"A fable is told of a centipede with arthritis who sought the advice of a wise old owl. 'Centipede,' the owl said, 'you have a hundred legs, all swollen up. Now if I were you..."
Osho continues:
"It does not give you outlandish solutions; it does not provide you with new dreams. It simply looks face to face into life. It does not bring God in, or heaven and hell. It does not create a theology at all, because all theology is an effort to escape from the real problems of life.
"So sometimes it happens to philosophers, to theologians, that Buddhism seems to be not a religion at all, because it does not talk about paradise, it does not talk about the eternal soul. It talks about the suffering, the misery, the frustration, the anxiety, the anguish of life.
"Many have thought that Buddhism is pessimistic. It is not. It simply wants to face the life as it is, and life is misery, and life is anguish. The easy way to avoid it is to escape into abstraction, to move into some dreamlands, to start thinking about something else, to spin and weave theories so that you can hide the fact, the wound of life.
"Buddhism is very earthly, earthbound, factual. It wants you to encounter life, because only through encountering the anguish of life is there a possibility of transcendence. But people don't want to face life. They are afraid; they are frightened. Deep down they know that life is anxiety, and facing it means becoming anxious, troubled. Facing it means it will become impossible to live, you will be paralyzed by fear, paralyzed by death, because life is death and nothing else. Everything is dying every moment, disappearing into death.
"Buddhism says escaping into abstractions is not going to help. Going into the details of life is really going to help. It is hard, it is arduous, it needs guts, but that's the only way to face it.
"Down the ages, priests have been exploiting people. They have been giving people easy escape routes, deceiving people. Priests have never allowed people to become literate, to become intelligent, because if people become literate and intelligent they will be able to see through the whole game that priests have been playing. The priests have depended on the ignorance of human beings, and have tried to keep human beings as ignorant as possible."
"So sometimes it happens to philosophers, to theologians, that Buddhism seems to be not a religion at all, because it does not talk about paradise, it does not talk about the eternal soul. It talks about the suffering, the misery, the frustration, the anxiety, the anguish of life.
"Many have thought that Buddhism is pessimistic. It is not. It simply wants to face the life as it is, and life is misery, and life is anguish. The easy way to avoid it is to escape into abstraction, to move into some dreamlands, to start thinking about something else, to spin and weave theories so that you can hide the fact, the wound of life.
"Buddhism is very earthly, earthbound, factual. It wants you to encounter life, because only through encountering the anguish of life is there a possibility of transcendence. But people don't want to face life. They are afraid; they are frightened. Deep down they know that life is anxiety, and facing it means becoming anxious, troubled. Facing it means it will become impossible to live, you will be paralyzed by fear, paralyzed by death, because life is death and nothing else. Everything is dying every moment, disappearing into death.
"Buddhism says escaping into abstractions is not going to help. Going into the details of life is really going to help. It is hard, it is arduous, it needs guts, but that's the only way to face it.
"Down the ages, priests have been exploiting people. They have been giving people easy escape routes, deceiving people. Priests have never allowed people to become literate, to become intelligent, because if people become literate and intelligent they will be able to see through the whole game that priests have been playing. The priests have depended on the ignorance of human beings, and have tried to keep human beings as ignorant as possible."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 99 mins |
| File Size | 21.67 MB |
| Type | Conversa Individual |
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