Chapter #1 Philosophy Of Non Violence #1
Discourse Overview
The discourse demands uncompromising fearlessness: only the courage to face oneself without doctrines or flattering dreams opens the way to truth. Osho insists inner exploration is harder than physical danger because it strips away pleasant self-images and forces confrontation with buried guilt and ignorance. He uses stark metaphors—removing clothes, lifting the face from the sand, and the ostrich hiding—to show spiritual progress is not dreaming of Brahman but active, painful unmasking. Seeing clearly, layer by layer, and walking toward the light by destroying ignorance and sin is the practiced path to the Self, not speculative comfort or complacent belief. On fearlessness: the genuine spiritual beginning is waking up with courage to look, because awakening itself is the first act of truth that changes everything. On God and Brahman: dreaming about transcendence is a coward's refuge—the real route is to drop doctrines and encounter what you are without illusion, not to hide in metaphysical fantasies. On practice: progress demands active exertion—peeling away layers of darkness and sin through relentless honesty rather than passive belief or easy satisfaction.
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Osho's Commentary
Look at yourself after removing all your clothes. Look what you are after removing all your doctrines.
Take your face out of the sands and see.... This opening of eyes.... to see that way is a change.... a beginning of a new life. The change begins as soon as the eyes open and whatever we do after that leads us to truth.
We are to walk to the light removing the layers of darkness, to walk to the Lord removing the layers of sin, to attain the self by destroying ignorance. This is the right path of spiritualism. We are not to dream before that... We are not to dream of the self and the God...... We are not to dream of the Brahman which is the existence the knowledge and the bliss......
These all are the ways of an ostrich for hiding his face in the sand... This is not the way of human exertion. This is the false satisfaction of those who are devoid of power for exertion.