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CHAPTER 27. BAPTISM: WADING FOR GODOT He used to quarrel: ”No, not fifteen days. At least three months, four months.” ”But for what?” they said. He simply said, ”I love to be there. Outside I don’t like it at all.” Jailers were tired, and they would see him and say,”Again!” He said, ”Where to go? Outside I don’t like it at all. Inside the jail looks almost like my home.” And in fact it was his home because almost his whole life he had lived there. For just a few days he would be out, and then soon he would be in again. But he changed thousands of people inside the jail. He said, ”Where can you get so many people? In the monastery people come, but not in such quantity; and not such qualitatively innocent people.” So to me it is not a question of what you do: the act is neither right nor wrong, the act is neutral. It depends on who does it, that person’s integrity, awareness. If an awakened man is doing it, it is right. Otherwise whatever you do, it is going to be like Mother Teresa’s work: on the surface looking really great; deep down just third-rate. You also ask: Is there something like sin and its punishment? I have told you there is only one sin: That is unawareness. And you are being punished every moment for it. There is no other punishment. Do you want more? Your suffering, your misery, your anxiety, your anguish – and you are still hoping to be thrown in hell? You are not satisfied with all the misery that you are going through? Do you think hell is going to be better than Oregon? What more punishment is there? Each moment of unawareness carries its own punishment, and each moment of awareness carries its own reward. They are intrinsic parts, you cannot divide them. From Ignorance to Innocence 408 Osho

CHAPTER 28 Science plus religion – the dynamic formula for the future 27 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, IT SEEMS THAT ALL THE PIONEERS IN ART AND SCIENCE HAVE REACHED THE UNKNOWN SPACES THROUGH SOME KIND OF OBSESSIONS. WHAT KIND OF OBSESSIONS HAS THE NEW RELIGIOUS MAN? SCIENCE, art, and other dimensions open to the human mind are all one-dimensional – hence the obsession. The mind moves in one direction, dropping all others. It chooses a single point to be focused on, against the whole of life, hence the obsession. Concentration is obsession, but there is no other way – science and art can work only obsessionally. For example, a man like Albert Einstein... a man of tremendous intelligence, a superb genius, but he is obsessed. He is so much in his own dimension, the world of stars, the universe, that by and by he becomes completely blind to everything else. He forgets when he has to go to sleep, he forgets when he has to come out of his bathroom. Sometimes for six hours Einstein used to remain in his bathtub – till his wife started making too much fuss, knocking on the door. And she was understanding, hence she tolerated as much as was possible – but six hours in the bathtub! And she would be sitting with his lunch getting cooler and cooler and colder and colder, and she knew it was not good to disturb him because even while he was in his bathtub playing with the soap bubbles, his mind was moving into depths of the universe. 409

CHAPTER 28<br />

Science plus religion – the dynamic formula for the future<br />

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

Question 1<br />

OSHO,<br />

IT SEEMS THAT ALL THE PIONEERS IN ART AND SCIENCE HAVE REACHED THE UNKNOWN<br />

SPACES THROUGH SOME KIND OF OBSESSIONS. WHAT KIND OF OBSESSIONS HAS THE<br />

NEW RELIGIOUS MAN?<br />

SCIENCE, art, and other dimensions open <strong>to</strong> the human mind are all one-dimensional – hence the<br />

obsession. The mind moves in one direction, dropping all others. It chooses a single point <strong>to</strong> be<br />

focused on, against the whole of life, hence the obsession.<br />

Concentration is obsession, but there is no other way – science and art can work only obsessionally.<br />

For example, a man like Albert Einstein... a man of tremendous intelligence, a superb genius, but<br />

he is obsessed. He is so much in his own dimension, the world of stars, the universe, that by and by<br />

he be<strong>com</strong>es <strong>com</strong>pletely blind <strong>to</strong> everything else. He forgets when he has <strong>to</strong> go <strong>to</strong> sleep, he forgets<br />

when he has <strong>to</strong> <strong>com</strong>e out of his bathroom.<br />

Sometimes for six hours Einstein used <strong>to</strong> remain in his bathtub – till his wife started making <strong>to</strong>o<br />

much fuss, knocking on the door. And she was understanding, hence she <strong>to</strong>lerated as much as was<br />

possible – but six hours in the bathtub! And she would be sitting with his lunch getting cooler and<br />

cooler and colder and colder, and she knew it was not good <strong>to</strong> disturb him because even while he<br />

was in his bathtub playing with the soap bubbles, his mind was moving in<strong>to</strong> depths of the universe.<br />

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