From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 23. CONSCIENCE: A COFFIN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
Your mind is always asking why? For what? And anything that has no answer to the question, ”For
what?” slowly, slowly becomes of no value to you. That’s how love has become valueless. What
point is there in love? Where is it going to lead you? What is going to be the achievement out of it?
Will you attain to some utopia, some paradise?
Of course, love has no point in that way.
It is pointless.
What is the point of beauty?
You see a sunset – you are stunned, it is so beautiful, but any idiot can ask the question, ”What
is the meaning of it?” and you will be without any answer. And if there is no meaning then why
unnecessarily are you bragging about beauty?
A beautiful flower, or a beautiful painting, or beautiful music, beautiful poetry – they don’t have any
point. They are not arguments to prove something, neither are they means to achieve any end.
And living consists only of those things which are pointless.
Let me repeat it: living consists only of those things which have no point at all, which have no
meaning at all – meaning in the sense that they don’t have any goal, that they don’t lead you
anywhere, that you don’t get anything out of them.
In other words, living is significant in itself.
The means and ends are together, not separate.
And that is the strategy of all those who have been lustful for power, down the ages: that means are
means. and ends are ends. Means are useful because they lead you to the end. If they don’t lead
to your end, they are meaningless. In this way, they have destroyed all that is really significant. And
they have imposed things on you which are absolutely insignificant.
Money has a point. A political career has a point. To be religious has a point, because that is
the means to heaven, to God. Business has a point because immediately you see the end result.
Business became important, politics became important, religion became important; poetry, music,
dancing, love, friendliness, beauty, truth, all disappeared from your life.
A simple strategy, but it destroyed all that makes you significant, that gives ecstasy to your being.
But the schizophrenic mind will ask, ”What is the point of ecstasy?”
People have asked me, hundreds of people, ”What is the meaning of meditation? What will we gain
out of it? First, it is very difficult to attain – and even if we attain it, what is going to be the end
result?”
It is very difficult to explain to these people that meditation is an end in itself There is no end beyond
it.
From Ignorance to Innocence 323 Osho