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Osho Books—Darshan Diaries
The Miracle
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Aug. 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in book form.

    Concentration needs a tremendous effort to
    control. It is a bracketing. The whole reality
    has to be bracketed out except for a small
    thing on which you are focusing. Hence the
    definition of science: knowing more and more
    about less and less.

    That's why science creates so many branches.
    In the beginning there was only one science;
    they used to call it 'natural philosophy'. In
    traditional universities like Oxford, science
    departments are still called the Departments of
    Natural Philosophy. That is a three hundred
    year old idea -- when science was not yet
    divided into many branches.

    Then physics and chemistry became separate;
    then chemistry also became divided into
    organic and inorganic -- then physics also
    became divided into pure and practical, and
    so on, and so forth. Now there are so many
    divisions and they go on dividing...

                                                       – Osho
                                               The Miracle, ch. 1