Osho gegen Glauben und Unglauben

[Wolfgang Doelz]

Never start with *belief*,
otherwise you will never know the truth.

Go *empty* into the search,
with no belief, with no disbelief either.
Just go open,
not knowing this way or that.
Go innocent, utterly naked.

Only one thing is needed for the disciple
and that is *openness* and *vulnerability* -
not belief.

The real disciple is an *agnostic*.
He says,
"I don't know.
I am *ready* to know
but I don't know.
And until I know,
I am not going to believe.
For or against,
I am not going to believe either way.
I will remain open for the truth to come and knock on my door.
I will search."

But great courage is needed for that -
to search without belief, without disbelief.

The mind hankers to believe,
because it can cling to the belief,
it gives it great consolation.
It starts feeling,
"I *know* - a little bit, but at least I *know*.
I am not utterly ignorant."

The disciple needs the courage to be utterly *ignorant*.
In that ignorance, *innocence* arises.

In that innocence
you cannot find any *ego* in you.
Ego needs *beliefs* -
or *disbeliefs*, which are nothing but negative beliefs.
One *believes* in God,
one believes *not* in God,
but both are stubborn and dogmatic.
Both have *crutches* to lean upon.

*Throw away all your crutches.*
Only then is there a possibility of knowing the truth.
And that is what I mean by "another kind of knowing".
*Being* the reality,
not getting information about it.

Know love by *being* love,
then it is wisdom.

You can go to the British Museum
and you can find all that has been written about love,
and you can write a great Ph.D. thesis about love,
but you will not have known anything about love.
You will not have tasted anything of love,
not even a drop on your tongue.
You may become very very clever about love,
you may be able to *talk* about it,
but you will be incapable of *living* it.
And unless you are capable of *living* it, remember,
you don't *know* it.

The real knowing comes by *being* that reality,
by being one with or in unity or identity with that reality
in its self-luminous state.

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Unio Mystica, Vol. 1, Session 9, 9. November 1978
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