Chapter #16 Scriptures In Silence And Sermons In Stones #16
Discourse Overview
Main Teaching: There are two sources of knowing — logic, which accumulates knowledge, and love, which opens to wisdom. Knowledge is a noisy, ego-driven accumulation — like a donkey loaded with scriptures that knows much but not itself — whereas love dissolves the ego and makes life itself a scripture. Wisdom arising from love is silent and liberating; knowledge remains bondage and an ego trip. The ultimate invitation is to surrender the ego so that love, God, light or bliss can flow and reveal deep insight. On knowledge: intellectual knowing is borrowed and surface-level, serving the ego's bragging rather than inner seeing. On love: love is the means to transcend accumulation, to make life a living scripture and to enter the kingdom of God. On ego: the ego must drop for wisdom to arise; its disappearance is the precondition for authentic, silent knowing. On silence: true wisdom is wordless and modest — it does not brag and is experienced as a quiet presence, light or bliss.
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Osho's Commentary
There are two sources of knowing; one is logic, another is love. Through logic you arrive at knowledge; through love you arrive at wisdom. Knowledge only gives you superficial information; wisdom gives you a deep, profound insight into things. Knowledge is only accumulation. One can accumulate as much as one wants: the human brain is such a biocomputer that it can contain all the libraries of the world. But still, you remain the same. It is like a donkey carrying the load of many scriptures. That's what scholars are: donkeys loaded with scriptures. They know much but they don't know themselves. All their knowledge is borrowed.
Love gives you true knowledge. It makes your life a scripture. It makes you awakened to the beauty of existence, to the tremendous grace of life and all that it contains, to the presence of God. Logical cannot do it, and those who depend on knowledge remain poor.
Depend on love and all the riches of the world are yours. Depend on love and the kingdom of God is yours. Knowledge becomes a bondage, wisdom is liberation. Knowledge is very noisy, wisdom is absolutely silent. It knows, but it knows in a silent way; it does not brag. Knowledge brags because it is nothing but an ego trip. Wisdom cannot brag because before wisdom happens the ego has to disappear.
Exactly that is the meaning of love: surrendering the ego, dropping it, becoming egoless. And whenever you are egoless love starts flowing through you. You can call that love God or light or bliss or wisdom.