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CHAPTER 23. CONSCIENCE: A COFFIN FOR CONSCIOUSNESS
and still it weighs more. In every way it weighs more because it is the whole life condensed; and
something more added to it, which was never available to you. A new door opening, with the whole
life condensed: a new dimension opening.
Okay. You can ask your second question.
Question 2
OSHO,
ON THE FACE OF AMERICAN MONEY IS THE PHRASE, ”IN GOD WE TRUST.” THE PRIESTS
HAVE LIED AND SAID THAT THERE IS A GOD. THE POLITICIANS HAVE LIED AND SAID THAT
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND CIVIL RIGHTS WOULD ENSURE SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR
ALL. HOW CAN I NOW TRUST IN A RELIGIONLESS RELIGION?
I have never asked you to trust in a religionless religion. How can I ask you? – because that very
asking has been religion up to now. To boycott it I am calling it religionless religion, using an obvious
contradiction. But the reason is clear.
Calling it religionless means that I will not ask you for any faith, any belief, any trust.
If trust arises in you, that is a totally different thing.
The religions ask that you believe in one God, one messiah, one book. I do not ask you; but how
can I prevent you if trust arises in you? Then trust is nothing but a kind of love. It is not belief, it is
not faith, because belief has to be forced to repress doubts; faith has to be continually indoctrinated
in you. You hear it so many times that slowly slowly you start forgetting that you have only heard it,
that you don’t know anything about it.
You have a tendency – and a comfortable tendency – to forget your ignorance and cling to your
knowledge. Faith is conditioned knowledge given by others to you, forced upon you. But slowly,
slowly, it goes so deep in your mind, it becomes part of you. You start thinking it is ”my faith”. Trust
is neither.
Nobody can ask for trust, just as nobody can ask for love.
Can I ask anybody, ”Love me”? The person will say, ”But how?” If love arises, it arises; if it does not
arise then what can be done? Yes, you can pretend, as the whole world is pretending. Trust can
also be pretended if asked for. I am not asking. I want you to be completely saved from any kind of
pretension, hypocrisy. But if trust arises I cannot help it, you cannot help it. Nobody can do anything
about it if it arises. You suddenly feel a new heartbeat in you – what can you do?
In my religionless religion, trust is not required.
Trust is not demanded, not ordered, not commanded.
It happens.
From Ignorance to Innocence 335 Osho