9/5/2023 0 Comments Osho tao the pathless pathIf you insult an Albert Einstein, he becomes as angry as anybody else. You will find him as ordinary and ignorant a person as any other. Just scratch a little and his knowledge will not be of any help. Scratch the man of knowledge and soon you will find ignorance coming out of him. If the knower himself is in deep darkness all his knowledge is just superficial, it cannot even be skin deep. You know science, you know things, you know the world, but you don’t know yourself. We must have misunderstood the very nature of knowledge.īefore we enter this very symbolic and very significant parable, a few things have to be understood.įirst, unless you know yourself, all knowing is useless unless you know yourself all knowing is only pseudo-knowing – you appear to know but you don’t really know. Man knows much knowledge has grown every day and yet deep down man remains as ignorant as ever. It is as if you have made a big building and the foundation is missing. You know many things but the fundamental knowing is missing. So the fundamental question is: What is the nature of knowledge? What is real knowledge? Man knows many things and yet remains ignorant. In this darkness, if frustration happens, what more could you expect? In this darkness, if you only die and never live, it seems logical. In this darkness, if failure happens, it is natural. We have not yet attained to the light of inner being which can enlighten our path. What greater darkness can there be? We are not even aware of who we are, where we come from, or where we are going. What is light? We are born in darkness not knowing who we are. Naturally, the first question that any intelligent being will ask is how to find light. What is real knowing? One attains liberation only through knowing, one comes to know oneself only through knowing, only through knowing is the truth revealed. One of the most fundamental questions that has always faced humanity, and that will always be encountered by every human being that is ever going to be born, is the nature of knowledge. Therefore the sage scrutinizes not the fact of survival or ruin, but its reasons. This applies not only to archery but to ruling oneself. Hold onto this awareness and do not lose it.” He went away to practice and after three years again reported to Kuan-yin. He sought advice from Kuan-yin who asked him, Even if you want to throw it out you cannot that is real knowledge.Lieh Tzu was studying archery, and hit the target. There is no need to hold it, it is simply there. Another is that which you don′t remember but is simply there – is there not as a memory but as part of your being. One is that which you have to remember but you go on forgetting again and again. "Watch in life – and you will find two categories, different categories. Even if you make an effort to forget it you will fail you cannot forget it. That which I call know-ledge is that which cannot be forgotten. All that is real becomes part of you it remains available forever and ever. You may not have been to a river for fifty years but you cannot forget it because it has never been remembered, it has gone into your being, it has become part of you. "There are a few things you cannot forget for example, swimming. That which is remembered will be forgotten: that which is not remembered cannot be forgotten, there is no way to forget it. But real knowledge is never forgotten because real knowledge is never remembered. Even the professors who teach in the universities will all fail if they are examined again because the examination was just a momentary effort. "Can’t you observe it in your own life? How much do you remember of that which you crammed in your university days how much? If you are examined again you will all fail. Once the examination is finished he will lose that hold and things will disappear. He was keeping it, holding it, for the examination. Somehow it was just managed, with very great tension and strain. "When a student goes to an examination he remembers a thousand and one things, but after three months, if you ask him, ninety-nine per cent of it has gone down the drain. The unreal knowledge is that which you have crammed and has not become a part of you. In fact that which becomes part of you is real knowledge and you need not cram it. Once you have vibrated with it, something of it will have penetrated into your being, will become part of you. You should not be worried about whether you will be able to remember it or not – that is not the point at all. I am singing a song to you, let this song reach and vibrate in you. So when I say 'listen' the first step – it means: simply be relaxed, open, available. In a tense mind meditation is not possible. "When I say 'listen' I don′t mean concentrate, because if you concentrate you will become very tense.
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