What is the truth of life?

Question: Second question: Osho, what is this life? What is the truth of this life? I’ve searched everywhere, yet my hands are still empty. Purushottam, this is not a matter of searching with a lamp! People are busy searching; they are harried in searching; they are missing in searching. Rabi’a, a Sufi fakira, used to pass daily by a certain road. There, outside a mosque, a fakir named Hasan always sat—hands raised to the sky, his robe spread, shouting, “O Lord, open the door!” Many times Rabi’a had seen Hasan praying like this. One day she could not contain herself. She was a brave woman. She went and shook Hasan and said, “Be quiet. Stop this nonsense. I tell you: the door is open. You are crying out needlessly—‘Open the door! Open the door!’ You are lost in your mantra of ‘Open the door.’ The door is open!

Question: The first question: Osho, what is life? Such questions seem simple; they arise in everyone’s mind. But such questions have no answer. In fact, they are not really questions at all; therefore they have no answer. Understand this small poem. “Further?” Drowsing, someone asked, just like that. “Further on too there was a bridge, the same bridge, the very same bridge— where the blue night was blazing below, far below, on the ground, so far below that if you bend and call out, even the voice, falling to the earth, shatters to bits. The blue night was blazing there below, far below, on the ground, and noon’s mercury was there, pouring from the sky. I walked for many centuries, went on and on along the bridge, but no other end of the bridge ever appeared to me. At last I sat down, tired—just to take a single breath.

First you have to become a little happier, you have to learn to be a little more love-full, joyful; your life has to have the color of a little happiness. Then go into the search for truth and you will be moving in the right direction, because then no lie can ever deceive you. You are no more interested in lies, because you are no more interested in consolation and comfort. Now you are ready to know the naked truth as it is. And to be a seeker of truth is the greatest thing in life. Satbodh One cannot find truth by mere thinking. Thinking is not the process that leads you to the truth. It leads only to inference. And inferences are just inferences, they are hypothetical. They may be true, they may not be true. They are just conjectures, not real conclusions.

truth cannot be achieved by human efforts because all human efforts are bound to originate in the mind and mind is the barrier between truth and consciousness the mind has to be put aside that's what man is capable of doing not using the mind, putting the mind aside by-passing the mind, transcending the mind and the moment the mind is not functioning consciousness immediately becomes connected with the truth the barrier is no more there hence the bridge happens and that is the greatest blessing in existence when truth showers on you only with the experience of truth life becomes meaningful, significant a celebration a man without truth is a beggar a man without truth is not yet really alive he is simply living in a kind of dream he is not awakened not awakened to the tremendous beauty of existence to the immense ecstasy of life not aware…

Question: First question: Osho, what is truth? This cannot be answered. It simply cannot be answered. There can be an answer to how truth can be found; a method can be indicated. But as to what truth is, there is no way to tell it. Truth has to be known by oneself; another cannot tell it. And what is told by another will not be truth. Not that the other has not known—truth can be known, but it cannot be made known. The question is important. But do not expect an answer. You will have to find it. You will not get the answer from me. From my side there can be pointers: walk like this, live like this, and one day truth will be found.