Teachings

If a master's teachings are perfect, why are they corrupted in time?

IT IS SOMETHING very essential to understand, because it has always happened and it is going to happen always in the future too. There is not going to be any change. Every teaching is bound to be corrupted; it is in the very nature of things. Just as every child is to become old one day and everyone who is born is going to die one day, each teaching is out of necessity bound to be corrupted. It cannot be avoided. It is not that the great Masters have not tried; they have tried their best, but you cannot go against the laws of nature. Nobody can go against the laws of nature. There are seven things to be taken note of. The first is the experience of the Master himself. When he experiences the truth there is no mind at all. It is a state of no-mind, or as…

Osho, your essential message? Sahajanand, my message is small—and also immensely vast! My message is atomic, yet an atomic explosion can burst from it.

Youth is arriving, youth is arriving; a blazing sun is arriving. The garden breezes are at their frolic— a revolution is arriving anew. Is that the sun in the East or in the tavern? Someone is arriving with a goblet of wine. Is it a rainbow, or from the court of the sky a minstrel is arriving, lifting his rebab? Is a lotus blooming, or from the garden’s pool a rising sun is arriving? I have brought wine for you! I have brought a song for you! Drink and sing! To drown you in wine, to soak you in songs!... I have no eagerness to give you sermons. I am not a preacher—I am a madman. Join me, and you too will go mad. I want to save you from the preachers; they are the ones who have deformed you. Your stubbornness made me drink even more, sir— O Sheikh,…

Osho, what exactly, in simple words, are you trying to teach? What is your exact message to humanity at large? -- again in simple language that I can understand.

Six times the Master goes on dropping, and the disciple is puzzled as to what he means. Then suddenly the idea struck him: "The Master is saying try to get it." He said, "But how can I try? Either I pick it up or I don't. How can I try?" And the Master said, "That's what you have been doing for three years -- trying to meditate. Either you meditate or you don't! How can you try?" Trying is a device. Trying is a trick. When you don't want to do a thing, you try. When you want to do a thing, you simply DO it! Your house is on fire -- do you try to get out? You simply get out! You don't try -- you don't consult maps, you don't look into the scriptures. You don't think, "From where and how should I get out? Whom to ask?…

Osho, what is the definition of God?

Words are very small. If you say God is light, then what of darkness? The scriptures have said that God is light. Suppose we accept this as a definition—then what about darkness? Where will darkness go? Darkness is too; in fact it is far more than light. Light sometimes is and sometimes is not; darkness is always, eternal. Where will you place darkness? If you say God is light, darkness is left out. If you say God is darkness, then light is left out. If you say God is both darkness and light, a contradiction arises: they cannot be together. Try to have both darkness and light in the same room. If you bring in light, darkness disappears; if you preserve darkness, you cannot have light. Then how can both be together? That becomes an impossibility. So you cannot say “both” either. Then the fourth device is to say: it…