From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

18 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove
Question 1
OSHO,
CHAPTER 19
Religion is rebellion
IS IT NOT POSSIBLE IN ANY WAY TO PRESERVE YOUR LIVING RELIGION AND NOT LET IT
BE REDUCED TO A CULT LIKE CHRISTIANITY? THE VERY IDEA OF YOUR RELIGION BEING
REDUCED WITH TIME TO A CULT IS UNBEARABLE.
IT is almost impossible to preserve a religion as a religion. Up to now nobody has succeeded in
doing it.
But I said it is almost impossible, not absolutely, because we are fortunate in seeing all the failures
of the past: all that helps a religion to become a cult can be dropped from the very beginning. We
know that many people have tried before. Their efforts are also helpful.
There is not an intrinsic impossibility of a religion remaining a religion. The reasons that reduce it to
a cult are not very fundamental.
The first thing: it is not my religion.
I have nothing to do with it. In fact, when I ceased to be it came into being. This is the first thing to
remember – it will help the religion to remain a living current.
Do not make it a certain kind of religion – Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism – no, just let it be pure
religion.
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