From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 9. I TEACH A RELIGIONLESS RELIGION
logical; in fact sound is also not possible. Scientifically sound is possible only if somebody is there
to hear it, otherwise there is no sound.
I am speaking here. If nobody is here there will be no sound, because for sound two things are
needed: me making a noise and your ears receiving it. Between these two the sound happens.
When there is nobody near a waterfall, you may think there will be much sound still happening near
the waterfall. You are wrong; there is no sound because there is no ear.
So if even sound is not possible – what to say about a word! But they say, ”In the beginning was
the word”just see how nonsense becomes mystical....” In the beginning was the word. The word
was with God.” You have spoiled the first statement already. ”In the beginning was the word. The
word was with God,” so already there were two – you have contradicted it immediately. And the third
sentence: ”And the word was God.”
Now, such garbage impresses people: something very profound must be in it, that’s why we cannot
understand it. There is nothing profound in it – just some idiot writing. But Christian theologians
have been commenting on it for centuries, different commentaries on what it means. What is ”the
word”? What does it mean that ”The word was God,” that ”The word was with God”? Just three
sentences – and all contradictory to each other.
If you analyze any scripture you will find these kinds of statements. And they say, ”Don’t doubt,
believe, have faith and great will be your reward; doubt and you are misguided.” But in this darkness,
except for doubt there is no light.
Doubt, and not half-heartedly.
Doubt with your total intensity so that doubt will become like a sword in your hand, and it will cut all
the garbage that has gathered around you.
Doubt is to cut the garbage, and meditation is to wake yourself.
These are two sides of the same coin, because burdened with all the garbage you will not be able
to wake up. That garbage will create sleep in you; that’s its function. It is meant to keep you asleep.
Have faith and go to sleep so you don’t bother the politicians, the priests; you don’t bother the vested
interests; you don’t bother anybody. You yourself become a man without any soul, a mechanism, a
slave.
So doubt, and meditate.
And by meditation I mean a very simple thing: just be silent and start drowning in your silence.
In the beginning that too creates fear because silence is like an abyss; perhaps there is no bottom,
and one wants to cling to anything available.
Silence needs courage, just as doubt needs courage.
Doubt is to throw out everything that others have put in you.
From Ignorance to Innocence 119 Osho