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Part X : 1987-1990 Poona-Two : 1989 Osho#146;s
discourses: God is Dead: Now Zen is the Only Living Truth
In February 1989, Osho introduces a new series: God is Dead:
Now Zen is the Only Living Truth
Friends, a new series of talks begins today: God Is Dead, Now
Zen Is the Only Living Truth. The series is dedicated to Friedrich
Nietzsche, who was the first man in the history of mankind to
declare, "God is dead, therefore man is free."…
It is meditation that fulfills your inner being and takes away
the vacuum that used to be filled by a great lie, God. And many
lies have grown around him….
Drop the lies and make some effort to go inwards to find the truth.
That is the whole science of Zen. That's why I have entitled the
series, "God Is Dead, Now Zen Is the Only Living Truth."
If God is dead and you don't come close to the experience of Zen,
you will become insane. Your sanity depends now only on Zen, that
is the only way to find the truth. Then you are absolutely related
with existence, and you are no longer a puppet, you are a master.
I say unto you, that what I am teaching you is authentic existentialism,
and what in the West is thought to be existentialism is only accidentalism.
I am teaching you how to come in contact with existence, how to
find out where you are connected, wired with existence. From where
are you getting your life moment to moment? Where is your intelligence
coming from? If existence is unintelligent, how can you be intelligent?
Where will you get it from?…
Zen is the method to go beyond mind. So we will be discussing
God and Zen together. God has to be negated, and Zen has to be
planted deep in your being. The lie has to be destroyed and the
truth has to be revealed. That's why I have chosen God and Zen
together. God is a lie, Zen is a truth….
It is absolutely necessary that God should be dead. But I want
you to know my understanding. It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche
to declare God dead. I declare that he has never been born. It
is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand
the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is
about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured
fiction….
So I want to destroy all your belief systems, all your theologies,
all your religions. I want to open all your wounds so they can
be healed. The real medicine is not a belief system; the real
medicine is meditation. Do you know that both the words come from
the same root: medicine and meditation? Medicine heals the body,
meditation heals your soul. But their function is the same, healing.
gdead01
Religiousness without God simply means feeling yourself one with
the whole universe. gdead05
Existence has multidimensional intelligence. We are only one
section of this vast universe. Don't think for a single moment
that I am putting existence in place of God. No! God does not
exist, existence exists. That's why we call it existence. gdead04
But enlightenment happens in silence. That's why my whole effort
here is to make you as silent as possible. Then you don't need
even a (Zen master) Seigen. Sitting anywhere—in your room,
under a tree, in the garden, by the side of the river, anywhere—if
your silence deepens, existence itself gives you the initiation
into buddhahood. And when it comes directly from existence itself,
it has a far greater beauty than when it comes through a master.
I teach you immediate, sudden enlightenment. The meditation that
you are practicing is just preparing you for that great silence
in which existence will become a flame inside you….
Just as flowers arise from the earth and go back to the earth
for eternal rest, you come from existence and you return to existence
if you have an easy heart. Then you will not be coming again into
the imprisonment of a body. You will simply go back to the very
source you have come from, to eternal rest.
That eternal rest is nirvana, that eternal rest is moksha, that
eternal rest is liberation, that eternal rest is samadhi, truth,
enlightenment—different names for the same experience. You
have come back home, and you have come back home dancing, with
no regret, with no complaint, with easy hearts, peacefully and
silently to disappear. This is the most exquisite experience,
when you are on the verge of disappearing with an easy and relaxed
heart, a simple and pure let-go. gdead02
You have to be a buddha; only that experience of the ultimate
height and the ultimate depth will bring you home. The very source
from where you have come is also the goal where you are going.
And I am immensely happy with you. You are doing so well, with
such honesty that any master would have been proud of you.
God is dead, and Zen is the only living truth. gdead03
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