All these religions are teaching you to imitate. Imitate Jesus Christ, imitate Gautam Buddha, imitate this, imitate that. By imitation you will become a saint, a holy man. I would like to say to you, ”You will only become a monkey again.” All your saints and all your holy men have fallen backwards in the Darwinian evolution. Darwin says monkeys became man, but he was not aware that all the religions are trying to make monkeys out of man. They have succeeded! ”Just imitate. Believe without doubt and follow.” My work is just the opposite. Doubt is the most precious thing you have got. Don’t lose it. No belief is worth anything. Doubt everything with your totality, and doubt will take you to the point where you discover the indubitable, that which even if you want to doubt, you cannot doubt: it is there! And then of course the question of belief does not arise – neither before nor afterwards. Before, it was dangerous; it will kill your doubting capacity. Afterwards, it is futile; you know, there is no need to believe. Do you believe in the sun? Do you believe in the moon? Do you believe that I am here? You know it– there is no question of belief. You believe only in fictions. So whenever somebody says, ”Believe it,” he is keeping you retarded, he is destroying your intelligence. Doubt, and doubt with intensity and totality. It is everybody’s right to discover the truth. Existence has the answer. It has no questions. The mind has only questions. It has no answer. To summarize: put the mind aside so all questions are put aside, and encounter the reality – and you will know the answer. Not that somebody will give you a statement about the answer. It will be not explained to you, it will not come as a linguistic statement. It will come as love comes to you.You will feel it, your heart will start dancing with it. You will be able to see the luminosity of it. And all monkey questions, the monkey-mind, you will have transcended. Darwin says a few monkeys became man. Certainly there are still millions of monkeys, only a few monkeys became man. They dared, they tried to walk on two feet. All the monkeys must have laughed, must have thought these monkeys have gone mad. And those monkeys gave birth to the whole of humanity. But the mind of the monkey is still there. If you can drop that too, then you reach to the ultimate flowering of your being. I call it enlightenment. It is simple – just a little courage.... Osho , From Death to Deathlessness 236 CHAPTER 18. MAN’S MONKEY MIND
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