The Law of Buddhas

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"A parable:
"A king wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to three men, he decided to put them to the supreme..."
"A parable:
"A king wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to three men, he decided to put them to the supreme..."

Osho continues:
"It had been unlocked all the time.

"This is the situation: Nothing is locked, the door is open. People are pondering ways and means to unlock the lock. People are trying different methodologies, practicing a thousand and one things, to get out, and in fact they are out. Unless they stop this thinking business, they will not know the truth of the situation.

"Man is not in bondage; he only thinks so, and because he thinks so, he is in bondage. There is no difference between a buddha and an ordinary man, but the ordinary man thinks there is a difference – then there is.

"You create your prisons, your locks, and then you try to find ways to get out of them. Buddhism cuts the knot with one stroke. Buddhism says there is no lock, no knot to cut. That's what I mean when I say Buddhism cuts the knot with one stroke of the sword. There is nowhere to go, nothing to be done. You are already there, and you are already that: just open your eyes.

"Think of those two great thinkers. They must have been mathematicians, they must have been engineers. Naturally they inferred that the lock must be of great mechanical ingenuity and they had to find the proper combination. They started working.

"Now, they can go on working for eternity, and do you think they will ever find a solution? There is no possibility of any solution, because the problem does not exist in the first place. In fact they will get more and more entangled. They will get more and more entangled, not in the problem, because there is no problem, but in the answers that they will invent.

"That's where people are stuck. Somebody is a Hindu: he is stuck with his answer. Somebody is a Christian: he is stuck with his answer. People are stuck in philosophies, and no philosophy is needed. Life is enough unto itself; it needs no elaboration, no explanation or analysis. But if you become part of an analytic game then it can go on and on forever. One thing will lead to another, and that to another, and you are in a chain."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 97 mins
File Size 20.57 MB
Type Conversa Individual