What is the point of calling your discourses the Bible?
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"I call my discourses the Bible to breathe life into a word that has become a lifeless dogma, inviting you to choose the juicy experience of the present over the dry bones of tradition."
According to Osho, he called his talks the Bible to reclaim a dead, misused word and make it alive and juicy again. By setting a living, experiential Bible against the Christians' dry, dogmatic one, he dramatizes the contrast and invites seekers to choose vitality over bones - presence, juice, and direct taste over secondhand tradition.
He used the word Bible to show the difference between a dry old book and a living teaching you can feel now, so you choose life over dogma.
Why this matters practically
- Choose living insight over dead dogma.
- Test teachings in your own experience, not by tradition.
- Use provocative labels to wake up, not to conform.
- Test teachings in your own experience, not by tradition.
- Use provocative labels to wake up, not to conform.
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