According to Osho, Buddha was highly rational yet equally at ease with the irrational; in Osho’s view he was not primarily rational but fundamentally mystical. Later traditions, shaped by an anti-mystical climate, remodeled him as a logician. His teaching—nirvana as nothingness, transmigration without a soul—defies tidy logic, revealing a presence beyond argument that appears differently to rationalists and poets.
Buddha used reason, but his wisdom lived in mystery that goes beyond neat logic.