OSHO, I ALWAYS FEEL THAT I HAVE TO ASK YOU A LOT OF THINGS. I FEEL A BURDEN INSIDE. BUT EVERY TIME I FORM A QUESTION IT LOOKS RIDICULOUS AND STUPID. Atmananda Bharati, IT IS RIDICULOUS and it is stupid - you are perfectly right in not asking. And even if you ask, do you think I answer? I never answer any question, I simply destroy the question! It is not answering it, it is destroying it. It is hitting the question from all sides. It is a kind of murder: murdering the question, and, if possible, the questioner too! So nothing is left, because if the questioner is left he will again ask. You see here are five thousand people. Many are killed already! They dont ask; they have understood that I never answer any question. I just play around the question a little bit, and if you are acquainted with me and I know that you will not escape, then I start hitting you. If I think you will escape, then for a few days I behave very politely! I never answer anything. I am an ancient Jew... Once a rabbi was asked by a Christian priest, Rabbi, will you please give me a straight answer to a plain question? Why is it that the Jews always answer a question by asking one? The rabbi reflected for a moment, then replied, Do they? The prosecutor was questioning a Jew witness. Do you know the man who has just testified? How should I know him? said the Jew. He said you borrowed five thousand dollars from him. Did you? Why should I borrow money from him? said the Jew. Visibly annoyed, the judge interrupted, Why do you answer every question put to you with another question? Why not? said the Jew. In a lawsuit for damages the Jewish lawyer for the plaintiff had long experience with juries. He gave force to his words by all kinds of body movements, waving his arms, hammering with his fists, his face expressing a raging storm of feelings. Finally he sat down, his voice drained, his body exhausted. Defense counsel arose, who was also a Jew, and began to mimic his opponent. He swung his arms freely in front of the jury, twisting and distorting his face, pointing with fingers, tearing his passion to tatters - without ever uttering a word. After a few minutes he smoothed his hair and straightened his tie and said quickly to the jury, Now that I have answered every argument of my learned opponent, let me discuss with you the facts in this case. You see my hands go on making all kinds of gestures? That is just an old Jewish tradition! You ask, Atmananda Bharati: I ALWAYS FEEL THAT I HAVE TO ASK YOU A LOT OF THINGS. Everybody feels, because the mind is like a tree. Just as on a tree leaves grow, on the mind questions grow. And my effort here is not to prune the leaves, because pruning simply makes the foliage thicker. My effort here is to cut the roots, very roots, so the tree dies. Everybody comes here with a lot of questions, but whether you ask them or not they are worthless. I answer them just to keep you engaged here, to keep you occupied. And side by side the real work goes on: in meditations, in therapy groups, I have put people to cut your roots. I go on answering so that you feel that your philosophical inquiry is satisfied, and you remain occupied with questions and answers. And I have put my people... meanwhile they are cutting your roots. Sooner or later your roots are gone, then leaves disappear on their own accord. When ALL questions disappear, the answer is found, never before it. The answer is never found by questioning; the answer is found by dropping all questions, questioning as such, because the answer is your own experience of silence, joy, godliness. That is the answer. Unless that is found, questions will go on arising. But it is good that you yourself have started feeling that: EVERY TIME I FORM A QUESTION IT LOOKS RIDICULOUS AND STUPID. All questions are ridiculous and stupid. OSHO...☆☆☆ I Am That - Isha Upanishad
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 14:48:46 +0000
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