All Truths Are Bound To Be Relative - #Osho
Never use the word absolute, avoid it as much as possible – because it is the word absolute that creates fanatics.
Nobody has the absolute truth. Truth is so vast! All truths are bound to be relative.
It is the word absolute that has dragged the whole of humanity into misery.
The Mohammedan thinks he has the absolute truth in the Koran; he becomes blind. The Christian thinks the absolute truth is in the Bible. The Hindu thinks the absolute truth is in the Gita, and so on, so forth.
And how can there be so many absolute truths? Hence the conflict, quarrel, war, religious crusades, jihad: “Kill others who are claiming that their truth is absolute – our truth is absolute!”
Down the ages, more murders, more rapes, more lootings, have been done in the name of religion than in the name of anything else. And the reason? The reason is in the word absolute.
Always remember: whatsoever we know and whatsoever we can ever know is bound to remain relative. To remember it will give you compassion. To remember it will make you liberal. To remember it will make you more humane. To remember it will help you to understand other viewpoints.
Truth is vast – simple but vast, as vast as the sky. The whole universe contains it, and the universe is unlimited, infinite. How can you conceive of the whole truth? How can you have the absolute truth in your hands? But that is how the ego functions.
The ego is very tricky. The moment you start feeling something true, the ego immediately jumps in and says, “Yes, this is the absolute truth.” It has closed your mind: now no more truth will be available. And the moment you assert, “This is absolute,” you have falsified it.
A man of truth is always relative…
Never use the word absolute – avoid it. It has been a calamity in the past; in the future we have to avoid it. Use perhaps more…
Whenever a man of truth speaks, he speaks in a humble way, he speaks in a simple way.
Avoid the word absolute; it has been in the service of lies, it has never served truth. It has been murderous with truth, poisonous as far as truth is concerned. Better learn to use the word perhaps…
Your approach to life should be that of yes, that of love; and if no is needed at all, it has to serve yes, it has to serve your love.
Let the no be the servant and yes be the master – that’s enough.
I am not saying destroy no completely. If you destroy your no completely, your yes will become impotent.
Let ‘yes’ be the master and ‘no’ the servant. No as a servant is beautiful; as a master it is ugly…
Osho
The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 3, Chap #3: Watcher on the Hills https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR
#Osho#ConsciousParenting
If you are a parent, you will need enough courage not to interfere. Open doors of unknown directions to the child, so he can explore. He does not know what he has in him, nobody knows.
He has to grope in the dark. Don’t make him afraid of darkness, don’t make him afraid of failure, don’t make him afraid of the unknown. Give him support. When he is going on an unknown journey, send him on with all your support, with all your love, with all your blessings.
Don’t let him be affected by your fears. You may have fears, but keep them to yourself. Don��t unload those fears on the child because that will be interfering.”
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I never got in the CLUTCHES of KNOWLEDGEABILITY; I never became a learned scholar, although there is hardly a single man who has read so much as I have read.
But MY READINGS could not pollute my consciousness; they were just like signatures on water.
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Meditation
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Meditation is a state of no-mind; it is neither at the center of the mind nor at the circumference. It is simply not of the mind.
It is watching the mind from the outside. That is exactly the meaning of the English word, ‘ecstasy’ – to stand out. To stand out of the mind is ecstasy.
And that’s what meditation is. Just be a watcher from the outside, no more a participant, no more identified with the mind – just as one watches the traffic on the road, sitting silently by the side under a tree: who passes is not the concern.
One simply watches whatsoever is happening, with no like, no dislike, no justification, no condemnation, with no prejudice at all.
When one can watch the mind without condemning it, without appreciating it, without saying, “This is good,” and, “That is bad,” when one can watch it in deep silence, that is meditation.
A miracle happens with meditation, and it happens only with meditation: the mind disappears.
Slowly slowly,
it goes farther
and farther away,
slowly slowly,
you hear only
noises coming
from a distance.
And suddenly a moment comes: there is no mind. It has faded out, it has withered away.
And when the mind is not there and you are left alone without the mind, the fragrance is released.
You have come home,
you have become fulfilled. The one-thousand-petalled lotus of your being has opened. You have offered your fragrance to existence.
That is prayer.
That is the only gift
we can give
to existence, and
that is the only gift
which can be
accepted by existence.
Osho
A Must For Morning Contemplation, Month 2: Our Inner Eyes Are Burdened With Dust, Day 28 https://t.co/YW98Rqj9uR