Blessed Are the Ignorant
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Dec. 1976
Pune, India
oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
Osho Books — Darshan Diaries

    [Osho suggested to a sannyasin who is a
    black-belt karate teacher and who has just
    returned from japan, that he commence
    teaching in the ashram.... ]

    Help people as much as you can. And by
    helping them, you will learn many things. The
    best way to learn is to teach. So really a
    teacher, a good teacher, remains a student his
    whole life, and a good teacher always feels
    very grateful to his students. The students
    learn -- that's okay -- but the teacher learns
    too. And each student brings something new --
    a new door opens.

    Particularly these arts -- like karate -- are not
    sciences. They are arts. There is nowhere
    really to learn them -- one has to imbibe the
    spirit. They cannot be taught -- they can only
    be caught. So you simply start working with
    people, and forget... don't be self-conscious
    about it. If a teacher is self-conscious, that
    creates trouble. Forget about it. I am not
    interested in any sort of performance.

    Whatsoever you are doing, if you love, it is
    perfect. Be devoted to it, be loving to it, and
    then you will find new things are happening on
    their own accord. You will be surprised every
    day that things are coming up in you that you
    were never aware could even exist in you...

                                                     – Osho
                            Blessed are the Ignorant, ch. 1