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Discourse 7
God Is the Business of the Priest
God Is the Business of the Priest
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When Impo took leave of Ma Tzu, Ma Tzu asked, “Where are you
going?”
Impo replied, “I’m going to Sekito.”
Ma Tzu warned, “The path on the stone-head is slippery!”
Impo said, “I have the pole of an acrobat with me – I can make a
show with it whenever I want,” and with that he left.
When he got to Sekito, Impo went around Sekito’s Zen stool one
time, swung his stick with a shout and asked, “What is the dharma
of this?”
Sekito said, “How sad! How sad!”
Impo didn’t have anything to say, but he went back to Ma Tzu and
told him the story. Ma Tzu said, “You go again, and when Sekito
says, ‘How sad,’ you start crying.”
So Impo went to Sekito again and asked in the same manner,
“What is the dharma of this?”
At that, Sekito started crying.
Impo again was left without any word, and returned to Ma Tzu. Ma
Tzu commented, “I told you – the path on the stone-head is
slippery!”
Friends, first the questions from the sannyasins. The first question:
Osho,
We humans seem to like to be told what to do. If we don’t have a
“God,” we have someone else to tell us what is right or wrong and
what is good or bad. Why such a resistance to thinking for
ourselves?
It is not a question of thinking. In fact you think too much. It is a
question of how to stop thinking and see directly into every
situation that you are facing. If there is no thought, there is no
barrier; there is no dust on your eyes. You can see clearly.
And when this clarity is there, you don’t have the alternatives of
good and bad. With this clarity it is a choiceless consciousness:
you simply do what is good. Not that you make any effort to do it – it
comes effortlessly to the man of awareness, consciousness,
alertness. He simply cannot imagine the bad, the evil. His whole
awareness simply points him towards the good.
So your problem is not why there is such a resistance to thinking
for ourselves. You cannot think for yourself, because the vision of
good is not part of the mind, and you only know the mind; hence
the whole problem arises.
Because you know only the mind, you don’t have clarity. You have
hundreds of thoughts moving continuously in your mind. It is a rush
hour for twenty-four hours; a crowd of thoughts, clouds, go on
moving so fast that you are completely hidden behind the clouds.
Your eyes are almost blind – at least your inner sensitivity is
completely covered by your thoughts because through the mind
you cannot know what is good and what is bad. You have to
depend on others. This dependence is absolutely natural because
mind is a dependent phenomenon. It depends on others; its whole
knowledge is borrowed.
All that your mind knows has come either from the parents, or from
the priest, or from the teachers, or from the society. But just watch,
and you will not be able to find a single thought that is original to
you.
All is borrowed, because mind lives on borrowed knowledge. In
every situation it wants somebody to guide it. Your whole life is
being guided by others. From the very beginning you are told what
is right and what is wrong by your parents, then your teachers, then
your priests, then your neighbors. Not that they know – they too
have borrowed from others.
From Osho, God Is Dead: Now Zen Is the Only Living Truth,
Chapter 7
www.osho.com
Copyright © 2010 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All
Rights Reserved
going?”
Impo replied, “I’m going to Sekito.”
Ma Tzu warned, “The path on the stone-head is slippery!”
Impo said, “I have the pole of an acrobat with me – I can make a
show with it whenever I want,” and with that he left.
When he got to Sekito, Impo went around Sekito’s Zen stool one
time, swung his stick with a shout and asked, “What is the dharma
of this?”
Sekito said, “How sad! How sad!”
Impo didn’t have anything to say, but he went back to Ma Tzu and
told him the story. Ma Tzu said, “You go again, and when Sekito
says, ‘How sad,’ you start crying.”
So Impo went to Sekito again and asked in the same manner,
“What is the dharma of this?”
At that, Sekito started crying.
Impo again was left without any word, and returned to Ma Tzu. Ma
Tzu commented, “I told you – the path on the stone-head is
slippery!”
Friends, first the questions from the sannyasins. The first question:
Osho,
We humans seem to like to be told what to do. If we don’t have a
“God,” we have someone else to tell us what is right or wrong and
what is good or bad. Why such a resistance to thinking for
ourselves?
It is not a question of thinking. In fact you think too much. It is a
question of how to stop thinking and see directly into every
situation that you are facing. If there is no thought, there is no
barrier; there is no dust on your eyes. You can see clearly.
And when this clarity is there, you don’t have the alternatives of
good and bad. With this clarity it is a choiceless consciousness:
you simply do what is good. Not that you make any effort to do it – it
comes effortlessly to the man of awareness, consciousness,
alertness. He simply cannot imagine the bad, the evil. His whole
awareness simply points him towards the good.
So your problem is not why there is such a resistance to thinking
for ourselves. You cannot think for yourself, because the vision of
good is not part of the mind, and you only know the mind; hence
the whole problem arises.
Because you know only the mind, you don’t have clarity. You have
hundreds of thoughts moving continuously in your mind. It is a rush
hour for twenty-four hours; a crowd of thoughts, clouds, go on
moving so fast that you are completely hidden behind the clouds.
Your eyes are almost blind – at least your inner sensitivity is
completely covered by your thoughts because through the mind
you cannot know what is good and what is bad. You have to
depend on others. This dependence is absolutely natural because
mind is a dependent phenomenon. It depends on others; its whole
knowledge is borrowed.
All that your mind knows has come either from the parents, or from
the priest, or from the teachers, or from the society. But just watch,
and you will not be able to find a single thought that is original to
you.
All is borrowed, because mind lives on borrowed knowledge. In
every situation it wants somebody to guide it. Your whole life is
being guided by others. From the very beginning you are told what
is right and what is wrong by your parents, then your teachers, then
your priests, then your neighbors. Not that they know – they too
have borrowed from others.
From Osho, God Is Dead: Now Zen Is the Only Living Truth,
Chapter 7
www.osho.com
Copyright © 2010 OSHO International Foundation, Switzerland. All
Rights Reserved