Why does understanding not lead to revolution?

Question: Osho, Lao Tzu says that understanding is enough; with understanding, revolution happens. It seems to us that something does seem to be fully understood, yet no revolution happens from it. What is the reason? Please explain! Lao Tzu says: if the thing is understood, nothing remains to be done. Then understanding itself brings about whatever is to be done. And what is not worth doing drops away of its own accord, as dry leaves fall from a tree. What is not to be done needs no effort to suppress it; what is to be done needs no effort to make it happen. What is to be done begins to happen; what is not to be done ceases to happen. What is this understanding? Because you say it seems as if we do understand, and yet the revolution Lao Tzu speaks of does not occur.

Question: WHY IS IT THAT NO REVOLUTION TAKES PLACE EVEN AFTER UNDERSTANDING? IF WE PRACTISE NON-ACTION, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO LABOUR? HOW IS PERFECTION IN EMPTINESS ATTAINED? IF THE VESSEL IS EMPTY, IT WILL ALSO DISINTEGRATE? WHAT IS THE WAY TO EMPTY THE MIND? QUESTION: LAO TZU SAYS THAT UNDERSTANDING IS ENOUGH AND THAT TRANSFORMATION TAKES PLACE TOGETHER WITH UNDERSTANDING. WE FEEL THAT WE HAVE UNDERSTOOD WELL BUT FEEL NO TRANSFORMATION WITHIN US. WHAT IS THE REASON? KINDLY EXPLAIN. Bhagwan Sri: Lao Tzu says that once a matter becomes perfectly clear, there is nothing more to be done, for then the understanding leads all our actions and makes us do what is worth doing. What is not worth doing, falls of its own, just as dry leaves fall from a tree. Nothing is required to be done in order not to do what should not be done.

Question: First question: Osho, you say that when understanding arises, nothing needs to be done. The understanding you point to—how is it different from the intellect’s understanding? Please shed some light on real understanding. And if it is not truth—here is the miracle, the special quality of truth: if it is truth and you listen, it lodges in your very life. If it is not truth and you listen in silence and awareness, it slips out of you by itself. The false cannot be digested in silence. Silence will release the false. It is not that silence “disagrees”—note this well—silence knows nothing of agreeing or disagreeing. With silence, truth finds affinity; a bond happens; a marriage is sealed. With restlessness, untruth gets married. Between restlessness and truth, a marriage is difficult; between silence and untruth, a marriage is impossible. So the real point is: listen in silence.

Question: Fifth question: Osho, Lao Tzu says, nothing needs to be done; understanding is enough. Explain when and how understanding becomes being? Your inner attachments to anger are intact. You have not yet seen anger’s poison. For if poison is seen, you won’t say, “Granted, it is poison, but to reform the child a little dose may be given.” Who gives poison to reform anyone? Has anyone ever been improved by poison? Has any child ever been improved by anger? You know the truth: he can be spoiled, yes; he is never improved by anger. Has any order ever been truly established by anger? It may be disturbed—that is likely; how will it be created? And even if some order is produced by anger, it will be deception, false.