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Is it a belief |
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Changing from one belief to another belief is changing the
conditioning, but you remain conditioned. I am saying you
have to remain without any belief system, and you yourself
enquire into reality ― and whatever you find is your own
truth.
There is no need to believe in it because once you know it,
the question of belief does not arise. You believe only in
things which you do not know. When you know them, you know:
belief is irrelevant.
So I am not giving you another set of beliefs, another set
of values: I am giving you a certain technique so that you
can destroy all conditioning. That technique itself is not a
conditioning. It cannot be, because you are not required to
believe in it; you are required to experience it, and unless
your experience supports it, there is no need to give it any
credibility.
Not that you have to believe in living totally because I am
saying so. I am saying that I am living totally, and this is
the only way that I have found to live. You can also try. I
am not saying to believe in living in totality; there is no
need of any belief. Either live or don't live. But if you
decide to taste, to explore, you are going with a clean
mind, with no belief, just to see what it is, and if it
happens to be a joy, a rejoicing, a celebration, then it is
up to you to continue it or to discontinue it.
And my whole effort is that experience should be the only
criterion, not belief. Even my truth is not your truth: Only
your truth can be your truth.
So there is no question of conditioning. But whoever has
asked the question is simply thinking intellectually, not
trying it. And logically he can convince himself: this is a
new set of values, again it is a conditioning. So what are
you going to do? ― whatever you will do will be a new set of
values; if you don't do anything, that will be a new set of
values, so you cannot get out of conditioning.
You will be able to see that meditation is not a
conditioning. It is unconditioning, because it is not going
to give you any thought, any thinking, any ideology. It is
simply cleaning everything and making you utterly empty. How
can it be a conditioning?
Awareness cannot be conditioning. It is your own. You have
brought it with your birth. Nobody can give it to you; you
have simply to throw away all the rubbish that is clinging
to it.
My effort is to give you your own individuality. I don't
want anything to be added to you. You are born perfect; the
society is keeping you imperfect. I want you just to be
aware of your perfection, of your beauty, of your joy, of
all the blessings that are possible to you which the society
is hindering by conditioning your mind.
I am not giving you any conditioning. If it was possible to
make people more aware by conditioning, things would have
been very simple. If it was possible to make people
blissful, just by conditioning, things would have been so
simple. But the miracle is that if you are courageous enough
to be empty, you will be filled with all your natural
qualities, which are tremendously beautiful and have the
ultimate character of being eternal. Once found, they are
never lost.
Osho: The Path of the Mystic, #37 |