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Osho The Razor’s Edge 2 CHAPTER 24 No heaven, no hell, no doubt
9 March 1987 am in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Question 2
BELOVED OSHO,DOUBT, SHAME, FEAR, SELF-CONDEMNATION – ALL DISAPPEAR IN THE MYSTERY OF LOVE. WOULD YOU CARE TO COMMENT?
Love is the greatest alchemy there is, the most profound science of transformation. If you love, your whole energy is gathered, becomes one-pointed. Doubt needs energy, shame needs energy, fear needs energy, self-condemnation... they all need energy.
If you do not love, then all these things can go on living in you; you are nursing them. As the great
miracle of love happens, all the energies rush towards love, just as all the rivers rush towards the
ocean. Doubt remains empty, and without energy it is dead. It was your energy that was keeping it alive.
Shame and fear and self-condemnation, they all need energy from you, your support. On the surface you think you want to get rid of them, but deep down you are supporting them; otherwise, they cannot exist. They are parasites.
Love takes up your whole energy – nothing is left for anything else. It is total and intense; that’s why, except for love, everything disappears. It is a very simple phenomenon in a way, just you have to understand that love has a magnetic force which neither doubt nor shame nor fear nor self-condemnation have.
Love is your very being, and all these things have come from the outside. Doubts have been created by people who are giving you beliefs. If you don’t have any belief, you don’t have any doubt. Have you ever thought about it?
In a small school a teacher is telling the small boys and girls what qualifications are needed to enter into the kingdom of God. She explained in every possible way so that they could understand, that unless you drop sin you cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And afterwards she asked, ”Now can you tell me, what is needed to enter into the kingdom of God?”
One small boy raised his hand. It was rare, because he never used to take the initiative to answer;
this was the first time. The teacher was very happy; she said, ”Yes, what is needed to enter into
the kingdom of God?” The boy said, ”First you have to commit sin.” The teacher said, ”You have to commit sin? For a whole hour I have been trying to teach you that you have to drop sin, and you are saying that you have to commit sin.”
The boy said, ”But unless I commit sin, how can I drop it? And without dropping sin, nobody enters the kingdom of paradise. So the first thing is, commit sin; then drop it and enter into the kingdom of God.”
Doubt arises because you have been forced to believe. If you are not given any belief system, you
will not have any doubt. For example, a Christian, a Mohammedan, a Hindu – all have doubts about God, because they have been conditioned that God exists. But they have no evidence, no proof, no argument, no eye-witness, and they themselves don’t feel anything about God. The belief is creating a doubt in them. But there are religions like Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, where God is not a belief;it is not part of their religions.
I have never come across a Jaina or a Buddhist who doubts the existence of God. How can you doubt if you don’t believe? It looks strange, but it is not. Belief is an effort to repress your doubt. So underneath every belief there is doubt. But if there is no belief system, there is no place for doubt to exist.
In countries like the Soviet Union or China, where there is no heaven, no hell, nobody doubts. One of my friends was visiting the Soviet Union, and just out of curiosity – he was a professor in the University of Varanasi – he asked a little boy, the son of his host, while walking in the garden, ”What is your idea about God, about heaven, about hell?”
The boy laughed. He said, ”In the past, when people were ignorant, they used to believe in such things; now nobody even bothers about them. They are part of a dead history.” The boy is not doubting. He is absolutely clear.
Beliefs create doubt. You are trained from the very beginning to feel ashamed of this, ashamed of that; you are never accepted in your simple naturalness. That’s why shame exists, and with it the fear that you may do something wrong, you may go astray, you may miss the train – although there is no train and the question of missing it does not arise.
In India, all the trains run so late, and for twenty years I was continually traveling all over the country.I was surprised that one day in Allahabad the train came exactly at the right time. It was almost a wonder. I went to the driver to thank him: ”This is something of a great feat,” but he looked very ashamed.
I said, ”What is the matter? You have done a great job, bringing the train, exactly to the second, at the right time on the platform. In twenty years this is the first time that I have seen a train coming to the platform at the right time.”
He said, ”Don’t make me more ashamed.”
I said, ”You are a strange person. I have come to show my gratitude to you.”
He said, ”Don’t show your gratitude, because this is yesterday’s train; I am twenty-four hours late.
So just go away, don’t make me feel so ashamed.”
I said, ”I was not trying to make you ashamed; I had not even imagined that it is yesterday’s train.
But anyway I have got in it at the right time, who cares which day’s train it is!”
All the religions live on fear; they make every child fearful. And the fear becomes the psychological atmosphere of your being. So you are never total in doing anything, you are always hesitating –whether it is right: what you are doing, is it going to lead you towards reward or towards punishment;
are you coming closer to God or going farther away? Each step is full of fear. And because of this, religions have been able to exploit you.
A man who has no fear cannot be exploited. He lives his life according to his own light. He has a
lifestyle which is his, not borrowed, not given by somebody else.
Nobody has ever accepted you as you are. And because everybody wanted you to be somebody else other than who you are, slowly, slowly you have also become self-condemnatory: I am always a failure; my arrow always falls short, it never reaches the target.
There is an ancient story of a great king who was also a great archer. And he used to think that there was no parallel to him. As he was traveling in his golden throne, on a golden chariot – he was going to a meeting with another emperor – he passed through a village, and he was immensely surprised.
For the first time he felt, ”Perhaps there is a greater archer than me in this small village, and I have
never heard about him;” – because on every tree, on the fences, there were arrows exactly at the
center of a circle.
It seems the man had never missed the center of the circle. He enquired from the people... he stopped the chariot and he asked, ”Who is this archer?” and they started laughing. He said, ”Why are you laughing? I love archery and I want to reward this man, because I used to think I am the greatest archer – once in a while I miss – but here I have seen that on every tree there are arrows exactly at the center of a painted circle.”
They said, ”We are laughing because you don’t know; this archer is the idiot of this town.” He said, ”Idiot? It does not matter, but he is a great archer, you bring him.”
They said, ”You don’t understand. First he shoots the arrow and then he goes and makes the circle around the arrow – this is not archery. But he is always happy, and anybody who passes through this village almost always enquires about that idiot; nobody enquires about anybody else. His archery is all over the town; the whole day, that is his business. There is no target, wherever the arrow hits, he will go there and make an exact circle around it, so it is always in the center.
”So you go, and don’t be bothered about him, he is just an idiot and nothing else. We have been telling him, if you want to be an archer then learn archery. He said, ‘What is the point? The archer can hit in the middle of the circle – it does not matter whether the circle is made before or after – but my arrow is always in the middle.’”
This society is utterly condemnatory. Whoever you are it is not acceptable, something better....Slowly, slowly you become infected with the disease of self-condemnation.
But love is a miracle. If it happens, and you are totally involved in it, then it takes all the energy from fear, from self-condemnation, from doubt, from sadness, from misery, from anxiety. And once the energy is taken away, all those concepts are only corpses; they lose their grip on you.
Hence I say to you: Love is the golden key to transformation. But it should not be a superficial,ordinary love. It should not be so small that doubt can also exist by the side, self-condemnation can also exist, misery can also exist, hate can also exist, because your love needs only very small energy. It has to be life-absorbing. The moment your love is almost your very life, it becomes prayer. To me there is no other prayer than love possessing you so totally that nothing else can remain inside you; love needs all the space and you have to throw all junk out of your being. A great love is the only prayer, the only true prayer. And Jesus is right when he says, "God is love". Just a little improvement is needed, because for two thousand years the statement has remained the same.Statements don’t grow with the evolution of consciousness, we have to change them, give them higher dimensions.
Jesus says, ”God is love.” I would like to say to you, ”Love is God.” On the surface you will not see much difference, but there is a great difference. ”God is love” implies that he can be many other things, love is not his totality – he can be just, he can be all-powerful, he can be all-seeing, he can be present everywhere; love does not exhaust his whole being, love is only one of the attributes of God. But if you change it into ”love is God”, then God becomes an attribute of love.
And love has no other attributes. Love is the only experience on the earth which is not of the earth, which is not of this world, the only experience which can give you a taste of the beyond.
God cannot be proved because it is an attribute of love. But love can be proved. Love cannot only be proved, it can be lived. And as you live love you will know, something divine has entered into you. You are no longer just an ordinary human being. Something in you, in your consciousness, has gone beyond humanity. And that beyond-ness, the taste of that beyond-ness is, the only argument and the only evidence of something which people have called God.
I myself like to use the word godliness because the word God looks dull and dead – frozen, as if
there is no possibility of any growth in God; he has come to the full stop. But godliness is a quality, a riverlike flow. It can become more and more and more; it need not be limited.
God is limited, godliness is infinite. And because godliness is a quality, you need not worship it; you have to develop it. You don’t have to make statues of godliness – you cannot. And you cannot reach godliness directly, because it is an attribute of love. All these are the implications. You can forget all about God and the churches and the organized religions.
There is no one who has dared to deny that love does not exist. There is almost half of the population of the world which denies the existence of God; but there has been nobody, not a single person, who denies the existence of love. Because love is a potential in your heart, you can grow it. And when it comes to its blossoming, when the spring comes and the fragrance comes to the flowers, you will know what godliness is. It follows love just like a shadow.
You have been told to do strange things: ”Love God!” – and God is only a quality of love. I cannot say such a stupid thing, ”Love God.” I can only say to you, ”Love, and you will find God. Love, and God will find you. Love, and as your love will mature, it will turn into something superhuman, into something divine.”
It is not a question of belief; you cannot believe in God. And there is no need to believe in love because you can experience love. In the temple of love, the very silence of the temple, the very spaciousness of the temple, is godliness.
But all the religions have been, in a very strange way, giving distorting ideas to humanity. Otherwise, religion can be so simple – just like music or poetry or singing or dancing. The priority should be of love. And you can forget all about God, it will happen on its own accord if you manage to be full, to be abundantly full of love. Otherwise, you can go on believing. Just the other day I came across a small joke: What are the three reasons that prove that Christ was a Jew? Firstly, he was thirty-three years old and still lived with his mother; secondly he believed his mother to be a virgin; and thirdly, his mother believed her son to be a god.
Let Jewish mamas believe their sons to be gods, but just by anybody’s belief or your own belief,
God cannot be discovered. I want you to deeply understand it, that God is not a person but only a presence. When love is abundant, overflowing, a presence surrounds you. You cannot catch hold of it, but you can feel it.
The presence transforms you from the world of human beings into the world of eternity, immortality,from all kinds of lies that religions have been preaching to you, to the naked truth of existence.
OSHO: Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEIeRSLb8k
OSHO: Compassion - The Ultimate Flowering of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpfoh47L8iw
OSHO: Being In Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LfUvi1bof8
OSHO: LOVE and HATE are ONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-7JSIDgcLk
Osho Speaks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjoPL9dVpfc
OSHO: Emotional Wellness - Almost Drunk With Emotion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsI1aioXNuA
OSHO: My Way Of Life is Not Philosophy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK4aVB1uPOg
OSHO: Why Do I get So Sensitive?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXMdbtTwtM
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