Logic

Osho, to what extent does life have relevance to logic?

I am not against logic. Use it -- it is a beautiful strategy as far as things are concerned, the marketplace is concerned, the superficial world is concerned -- but beware that you don't go on carrying it into deeper layers of life and experience. There it is a hindrance. Logic means mind. Mind is helpful in understanding the objective world. Mind is a hindrance in understanding the subjective world, because the subjective world is beyond the mind, behind the mind. You can use your eyes to see others, but you cannot use your eyes to see yourself. If you want to see yourself through your own eyes you have to use a mirror. To look in a mirror means you are creating a reflection of yourself -- which is not you, certainly not you, but you can see the reflection. Logic can see only the reflected glory of existence;…

Osho, is it always wrong to think logically?

NOT ALWAYS If you are a scientist you have to think Logically; there is no other way to think. You have to move logically, step by step. That is the only way to deal with the objective world. I am not against logic. If you are working with the objective world, logic is the only way, doubt the only procedure, questioning the only method. But if you are dealing with the subjective, then you have to reverse all the processes -- then to be illogical is the way, to be non-questioning is the method. Trust is the whole process, the whole procedure. These are two dimensions of your being: outgoing, ingoing. When you are going outwards, it is one kind of movement; when you are going inwards, the road is the same but it is a totally different kind of movement -- your direction is opposite. When you are going…

Osho, is logic absolutely useless?

Sagar! Not absolutely useless; in its own place it has significance. But it has limits. Don’t drag it beyond its boundaries. In relation to matter, logic is useful; in relation to consciousness, it is not. Logic lives on doubt; doubt is its very soul. And to experience consciousness, you need the flowers of trust. Someone asked a professor of logic: Who rules in your house? The professor said: Everyone rules—each in their own place. The man said: I don’t quite understand. Please explain a bit. The professor said: Listen. My wife disciplines the children—scolds and corrects them. My children always boss the servants around. The servants in my house lord it over their own wives. And whenever I get angry at anyone, I take it out on my dog and give him a good going-over. In this way everyone rules in their own sphere. This is a professor of logic—he…

Why are you so much against logic?

Because it is logical to be against logic. Logic proves nothing, that's why I am against logic. It only pretends to prove; it proves nothing. It is an empty game, verbal. But the pretension is such that millions of people are befooled by it, and down the ages we have been trained for logic, so it has appeal. But logic has never proved anything. Proof comes only through experience, never through logic. Logic can help to explain your experience. No experience is ever derived out of logic. Yes, logic can be a servant. when you have attained to a certain experience, logic can help to explain it, logic can help to make it clear. Logic is secondary. So, the first thing: logic proves nothing. Reporter: They say the moon is made of green cheese. Is this correct? Spaceman: We didn't find any cheese on the moon. Reporter: (laughing) Perhaps all…