Truth is Discovered but not Invented_Osho Says

Truth is. It needs no effort on your part to invent it. TRUTH HAS TO BE DISCOVERED, NOT INVENTED.And what is hindering us from discovering it? WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT MANY LIES, MOUNTAINS OF LIES. Those are the barriers which go on falsifying the truth, which do not allow our hearts to reflect that which is.Truth is NOT a logical conclusion. TRUTH IS EXISTENCE, REALITY. It is already here -- it has always been here. Only truth exists. Then why can't we find it? How do we manage not to find it? Because from the very childhood we are taught falsities, prejudices, ideologies, religions, philosophies...all lead you astray.TRUTH IS NOT AN IDEA. You need not be a Hindu to know it, or a Mohammedan, or a Christian. If you are a Hindu you will never know it. Your very being a Hindu will keep you blind. What do we mean when we say, "I am a Hindu, or a Mohammedan, or a Jew"? We mean, "I have already got ideas about truth -- ideas from the Bible or the Koran or the Gita, but I have got ideas already. I don't know the truth, but I know much about it." And that knowing much about it is the only problem that has to be solved.ONCE YOU DROP YOUR IDEAS ABOUT TRUTH YOU WILL BE CONFRONTING IT, within and without both. You will be facing it -- because there is nothing else!But the parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. AS THE CHILD IS BORN, THEY START TRAPPING IT INTO LIES. And the child is helpless; he cannot escape his parents, he is utterly dependent. You can exploit his dependence... and it has been exploited down the ages.NOBODY HAS BEEN EXPLOITED SO MUCH AS CHILDREN -- neither the proletariat nor women, nobody has been exploited so much and so deeply and so destructively as the innocent children. Because they are helpless and dependent they have to learn whatsoever you teach them. They have to imbibe all the falsehoods that you go on forcing upon them. It is a question of survival for them -- they cannot survive without you. It is a question of life and death! They have to be Hindus, they have to be Mohammedans, they have to be Jainas, they have to be Buddhists, they have to be communists. Whatsoever you are interested in putting into their minds, you go on putting it in.INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM MORE ALERT, more aware, more alive, more reflective, instead of making them more mirror like, pure, YOU MAKE THEM FULL OF IDEAS... layers and layers of dust. And then it becomes impossible for them to see that which is. They start seeing that which is not and they stop seeing that which is.Hence, to be really religious means a REBIRTH: again becoming like a child, dropping all that the society has given to you.RELIGION IS A REBELLION -- a rebellion against all that has been forced upon you, a rebellion against being reduced to a computer. Just look inside! WHATSOEVER YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD; it is not your knowing, it is not authentic. How it can be authentic if it is not yours? You are not a witness to it, you are just a victim -- a victim of circumstances.IT IS JUST AN ACCIDENT to be born in India or to be born in England. It is just an accident to be born in a Hindu family or in a Christian family. Because of these accidents, your essential nature has been lost -- you have been forced to lose it. If you want to regain it you will have to be reborn.THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT THE MEANING IS when Jesus says to Nicodemus, "Unless you are born again you will not enter into the Kingdom of God." He does not mean that you actually have to die, commit suicide, and then be born again. That won't help, because again you will be born to some parents in a certain society, within a certain church, and again the same stupidity is going to be done to you.By 'rebirth' Jesus means that deliberately, consciously, now you are capable of dropping all that has been taught to you. DROP YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND BECOME INNOCENT. And that is the only way to become innocent. Knowledge is a contamination. To be in a state of not-knowing is innocence, and to function from that state is the only way to know the truth.OSHOThe Dhammapada: The Way of the BuddhaVol 1, Ch #3: True or false
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