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Part VI : Osho answers Questions
My work is with individuals—I am not concerned with the
society and the world. That is how it feels good to me, mm? I'm
not saying that this has to be your life also, no. This is how
I feel good, this is how I work. This is how it has happened when
I came to my own being…this was the way I started functioning.
One never knows…. When you come to your being, what you
do will be decided by that moment. stars22
In the old days there was always a one-to-one relationship between
a teacher and a disciple. It was a personal relationship and a
personal communication.
Today it is always impersonal. One has to talk to a crowd, so
one has to generalize. But generalized truths become false. Something
is meaningful only to a particular person.
I face this difficulty daily. If you come to me and ask me something,
I answer you and no one else. Another time someone else asks me
something, and I answer him and no one else. These two answers
may even be contradictory, because the two persons who have asked
may be contradictory. So if I am to help you, I must speak particularly
to you. And if I speak particularly to each individual, I will
have to say many conflicting things.
Any person who has been talking in general can be consistent,
but then the truth becomes false, because every statement that
is true is bound to be addressed to a particular person. Of course,
the truth is eternal—it is never new, never old—but
truth is the realization, the end. The means are always relevant
or irrelevant to a particular person, to a particular mind, to
a particular attitude. eso04
If you can ask a foundational question, from the very heart of
your being, the answer will come to you even if there is no one
to answer you. The vacuum will create the answer, existence itself
will give you the answer. But with false questioning, nothing
is possible and nothing can be done.
So try to formulate a right question. Even if you fail in your
effort it is good. Try to formulate some problem that comes from
you: not from the society, not from your teachers, not from your
upbringing—just from you.
This is a meditation. This finding out is the meditation. So—find
some question! quest12
You say: I would suggest that you should devote mornings to answering
our questions and evenings to your independent discourses
No, it would not be proper. I will say what I have to say; you
need not worry about it. Whatever questions you ask, I will say
only that which I have to say. Questions don't make any difference.
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My simple concern here is meditation. And this is very strange—rarely
do you ask questions about meditation. That does not seem to be
your main concern. To me, it is my ultimate concern, the only
concern, and to you it seems not a priority—it is not the
first item on your mind. Perhaps it may be the last thing on your
laundry list, but certainly it is not the first; the first things
are stupid things, trivia. You waste your time, you waste my time.
And I am ready even to help you to solve those problems just
so that you can get rid of all this nonsense and have simple,
loving relationships. But that will be possible only when meditation
becomes your priority. Out of meditation, everything else will
become graceful; you will be able to see deeply into your own
acts, into your own behavior, and you will be able to have some
compassion for the other person—his human frailty, the possibility
of his committing mistakes. dawn12
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