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suffering has been so long that people have even become accustomed to it, theyhave accepted it so deeply that they have become insensitive to it. They arealmost dead: they drift, they are not alive.This happened because of the tyranny of trust. How can a bird fly with onewing?Now in the West, another tyranny is happening: the tyranny of doubt. It worksperfectly well as far as Objective inquiry is concerned: you think about matter,doubt is needed; it is a scientific method. But when you start moving withinwardsit simply doesn't work; it doesn't fit. There, trust is needed.The perfect man is a man who has a deep harmony between doubt and trust. Aperfect man will look inconsistent to you, but he is not inconsistent. He is simplyharmonious -- contradictions dissolve in him. He uses everything.If you have doubt, use it for scientific inquiry. And look at great scientists: by thetime they reach their age of understanding and wisdom, by the time theiryouthful enthusiasm is gone and wisdom settles, they are always very deep intrust. Eddington, Einstein, Lodge -- I'm not talking about mediocre scientists,they are not scientists at all -- but all the great pinnacles in science are veryreligious. They trust because they have known doubt, they have used doubt, andthey have come to understand that doubt has its limitations.It is just like: my eyes can see and my ears can hear. If I try to hear from my eyesthen it is going to be impossible, and if I try to see by my ears then it is going tobe impossible. The eye has its own limitation, the ear has its own limitation. Theyare experts, and every expert has a limitation.The eye can see -- and it is good that it can only see because if the eye could domany things then it would not be so efficient in seeing. In the eye the wholeenergy becomes sight, and the whole energy in the ear becomes hearing.Doubt is an expert. It works if you are inquiring about the world. But when youstart inquiring about God through the same method, then you are using a wrongmethod. The method was perfectly suited to the world, to the world of law, but itis not suited to the world of love. For the world of love, trust is needed.Nothing is wrong in doubt, don't be worried about it. Use it well, use it in theright way. If you use it in the right way and use it well, you will come to anunderstanding: you will come to a doubt of doubt itself. You will see -- you willbecome doubtful of doubt. You will see where it works and where it doesn'twork. When you come to that understanding, the door of trust opens.If you are trained for analysis -- good. But don't be caught in it, don't allow it tobecome a bondage. Remain free to synthesize also, because if you go onanalyzing and analyzing and you never synthesize, you will come to theminutest part but you will never come to the whole.God is the ultimate synthesis; the atom, the ultimate analysis. Science reaches tothe atom: it goes on analyzing, dividing, until finally it comes to the minutestpart which cannot be divided any more. And religion comes to God: it goes onadding, synthesizing. God is the ultimate synthesis; more cannot be added to it.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
It is already the whole. Nothing exists beyond it. Science is atomic; religion is'wholly'. Use both.I am always in favor of using everything that you have. Even if you have somepoison I will say, "Preserve it, don't throw it." In some circumstance it canbecome medicinal -- it depends on you. You can commit suicide by the samepoison, and by the same poison you can be saved from dying. The poison is thesame; the difference is right use.Everything depends on right use. So when you go to the lab, use doubt; whenyou come to the temple, use trust. Be loose and free so that when you go from thelab to the temple you don't carry the lab around with you. Then you can enterthe temple totally free of the lab -- you can pray, dance, sing. And when youmove towards the lab again, leave the temple behind, because dancing in the labwill be very absurd -- you may destroy things.Bringing the serious face that you use in the lab to the temple won't beappropriate. A temple is a celebration; a lab is a search. Search has to be serious;a celebration is a play. You delight in it, you become children again. A temple is aplace to become children again and again, so you never lose touch with youroriginal source. In the lab you are an adult; in the temple you are a child. AndJesus says, "The kingdom of God is for those who are like children."Remember always not to throw away anything that God has given to you -- noteven doubt. It must be He who has given it to you, and there must be a reasonbehind it, because nothing is given without reason. There must be a use for it.Don't discard any stone, because many times it has happened that the stone thatwas discarded by the builders became the very cornerstone of the building in theend.Question 2THE BIBLE USES THE WORD 'REPENT'. SOMETIMES YOU TRANSLATE ITAS 'RETURN', SOMETIMES AS 'ANSWER' AND SOMETIMES YOU LEAVE ITAS 'REPENT'. DO YOU CHANGE THE MEANING AS YOU NEED IT?I am not talking about the Bible at all. I am talking about me. I am not confinedby the Bible; I am not a slave to any scripture. I am totally free, and I behave as afree man.I love the Bible, the poetry of it, but I am not a Christian. Neither am I a Hindu,nor am I a Jain. I am simply me. I love the poetry, but I sing it in my own way.WHERE I should emphasize WHAT is finally decided by me, not by the Bible.I love the spirit of it, not the letter. And the word that I translate sometimes as'repent', sometimes as 'return' and sometimes as 'answer' means all three things.That is the beauty of old languages. Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic -- all the oldlanguages are poetic. When you use a poetic language it means many things. Itsays more than the words contain and it can be interpreted in different ways. Ithas many levels of meaning.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho
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REPENT: FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN I
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If you repent, conversion happens.
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So first let God descend in you. Th
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the innermost revolution that he wa
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Jesus is peace, silence. He is not
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so direct, God is very indirect. He
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ody may be there, tremendously beau
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an old man, uneducated but wise thr
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why I insist: drop a little out of
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