Search

First of all, a friend has asked: yesterday I said that the search has to be dropped. And if we drop the search, would science then never be born?

What I said—“the search has to be dropped”—was said for attaining the truth that is within us; to seek it is futile, it is a hindrance. But there is truth outside us as well. And the truth that is outside can never be found without search. So there are two directions in life: one that goes outward from us. If one wants to inquire into the outer world—the realm science explores—then one will have to search. Without search no truth of the outer world can be attained. There is also an inner world. If one wants to know the inner truth, then searching must be dropped absolutely. If you search, it becomes a hindrance, and the inner truth will not be available. These two truths are parts of one greater truth. Inner and outer are two extensions of the same reality. But for one who wants to start from the…

Osho, yesterday you said, “Those who search will lose.” And one of your famous books says, “Jin khoja tin paiyan” (“Those who searched, found”). Which is true? Please explain.

Later, when people asked Buddha, “How did you attain?” he would say, “It’s a troublesome question. Because what I did did not bring it. On the day I did nothing, it happened. Yet it is also true that if I had not done all that I did, the state of non-doing would not have been possible.” Understand this well. Those six years of austerity did not directly give truth. But without those six years, had Buddha sat beneath the tree, that hour of effortless rest would not have come. You can go and sit—even now the tree is there in Bodh Gaya. You may think, “Forget six years of effort; what is the point? He got it by sitting.” So you sit. Outwardly you may sit like Buddha, steady and still; but inwardly? That hammer-blow, pounded day after day for six years—“doing is futile, nothing comes from doing”—that realization would…

He has also asked: Osho, why is there this search at all? What is the need for it?

Ask that when you meet the divine, because only the divine can answer it. “Why is this at all?”—ask God when you meet him. Yet, so far, those who have met could not ask, because the moment they meet, they forget to ask. So the friend who has raised it—write it down very firmly so you don’t forget. But the danger remains: up to now, no one has managed to ask. The instant he is found, everything is found, and the very urge to question disappears. I have heard: on the seashore a great fair was held. Many people went. Two dolls made of salt went there too. People began to argue: How deep is the ocean? The salt dolls got worked up. “We’ll jump in right now and find out.” One jumped. The people on the shore waited and watched. He didn’t return, didn’t return. Much unease arose. The…

Osho, Everywhere I keep sounding my own voice—where, where shall I search for you? Finding nothing, I sat down exhausted; you have won, I have lost!

Veena Bharti! On the path of love, losing is winning. On the path of love, whoever tries to win, loses—loses badly! On the path of love, the one who is willing to lose, wins. This is the paradox of love. The logic of love is very illogical. The mathematics of love is upside down! In the ordinary, outer world, the one who tries to win, wins; the one who loses, loses; the one who wins, wins. In this inner realm, this otherworld, the one who loses, wins; the one who wins, loses. The one who sets the ego aside... at first it seems: “I’ve lost.” Only when someone is defeated does he put the ego down—he gets tired. You say, “Everywhere I keep sounding my own voice,...” That voice of yours—your own—the feeling of “I,” that itself is the obstacle. So you keep sounding it again. As long as you…