SINGING SILENCE
The modern mind is feeling more meaningless than ever has been the case.
Bcause the past centuries lived in a kind of stupor, sleep. Orthodoxy was much. Convention was heavy and strong.
The citadel of religion was very, very great, powerful, dictatorial.
People lived for centuries in belief.
This century has dared to drop beliefs.
Those beliefs wed to give people a feeling that there is meaning in life. Now those beliefs have disappeared. This is good. As far as it goes it is good that beliefs have disappeared.
This is the first age of agnosticism. For the first time man has become mature, mature in the sense that he does not rely on beliefs, on superstitions.
We have dropped all superstitious beliefs. So a kind of vacuum has come into existence. The beliefs have disappeared –and with the beliefs the false sense of meaning has disappeared. An emptiness has settled in.
We have done the negative part, we have demolished the old building, now the positive part has to be done –we have to erect a new building. The old temple is no more, but where is the new temple?
Belief has been destroyed, but where is trust?
Belief has gone –this is good –but this is not enough. It is necessary but not enough.
Now you will have to grow into trust.
Let me explain these two words to you. Belief is borrowed; somebody else gives it to you –your parents, your society, your priest, your politician, they give it to you.
Immediately the child is born we start –either we circumcise the child or we baptise the child. We do something. Immediately we start conditioning him.
Before he becomes alert, beliefs have gone deep into his blood and bones, even into his marrow.
Before he becomes alert and before he can think clearly, he is already poisoned. The beliefs have become unconscious.
He has already been conditioned. He is not free to think.
That's why all religions are so interested in teaching children religion. They are interested immediately.
The first thing they want to do is to teach children religion. Psychologists say that the only possibility to teach a child religion is to teach him before he is seven.
Once he has left the age of seven then it will become more and more difcult to teach him because he will start questioning, he will start arguing.
He will become doubtful, he will become sceptical. Up to the age of seven a child simply trusts the parents.
He believes that whatsoever they do is right. He has no doubt. This is a natural phenomenon.
The child has to trust the mother. The child is so helpless that he cannot exist on his own. It is a necessity, a must for his survival, to trust the parent. And he trusts.
Religions use that natural trust to condition the child. The mother takes him to the church or to the temple, to the priest or to the minister, and the child follows the mother and the parent and the family.
By the very atmosphere of the family a subtle conditioning starts going in. By the time the child can think, can formulate, he is already conditioned.
Those conditionings have gone so deep now that he will never be able to drop them easily.
A Master will be needed to hammer.
You will need somebody whom you can love more than you love your father, whom you love more than you love your mother. You will need a Master –only then.
The Master can go to those deepest layers of your being where conditioning has happened, and he can destroy.
Unless the Master becomes more signicant than your parents, it is not possible, it is not psychologically possible.
That's why Buddha says, 'Until you destroy and kill your father and mother, you cannot come to me.' A strange statement.
Jesus says, 'If you don't hate your father and mother you can't follow me.' It does not look very good.
Jesus, the apostle of love and peace, Buddha, the most compassionate human being that has ever walked on earth, talking about hating? –not only hating, but killing? What do they mean?
They don't mean your actual parents, they mean the parents that have gone deep into your being, that have become your base. that base has to be destroyed.
Once that base disappears you will again become a child.
Once that conditioning has been dropped you will suddenly become again a child, innocent.
And this time you will be in a far better situation because you will not be helpless, you will be on your own feet –and innocent like a child.
This is the meaning of sannyas. This is the meaning of initiation. This is the meaning when Sufis say that somebody has become a SADHAKA, somebody has become a disciple.
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🍁Osho,
Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol #1
Chapter #5.
SINGING SILENCE
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