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22 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove<br />

Question 1<br />

OSHO,<br />

IS THERE ANY POINT IN LIVING?<br />

MAN has been brought up by all the traditions in a schizophrenic way.<br />

CHAPTER 23<br />

Conscience: a coffin for consciousness<br />

It was helpful <strong>to</strong> divide man in every possible dimension, and create a conflict between the divisions.<br />

This way man be<strong>com</strong>es weak, shaky, fearful, ready <strong>to</strong> submit, surrender; ready <strong>to</strong> be enslaved by<br />

the priests, by the politicians, by anybody.<br />

This question also arises out of a schizophrenic mind. It will be a little difficult for you <strong>to</strong> understand<br />

because you may have never thought that the division between ends and means is a basic strategy<br />

of creating a split in man.<br />

Has living any meaning, any point, any worth? The question is: Is there some goal <strong>to</strong> be achieved<br />

by life, by living? Is there some place where you will reach one day by living? Living is a means; the<br />

goal, the attainment, somewhere far away, is the end. And that end will make it meaningful. If there<br />

is no end, then certainly life is meaningless; a God is needed <strong>to</strong> make your life meaningful.<br />

First create the division between ends and means.<br />

That divides your mind.<br />

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