I am the beginning of a totally new religious consciousness. Please don't connect me with the past. It is not even worth remembering. It will be a great blessing to humanity if we burn all the past histories, destroy the whole past, and give man a fresh beginning, unburdened. Make him again Adam and Eve so that he can start from scratch - a new man, a new civilization, a new culture.
Excerpted from 'From the False to the Truth' by Osho
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i dont believe in this comment of osho.. he i think was another misguided man who misguided many...he couldnt created any new thing...
sorry but couldnt help writing this...
Don't connect with Past, well your roots lie in your past and you are telling me to disconnect with my roots, ah am sorry, but past is something that has given me the education of life and disconnecting past would mean unlearn the lessons of life.
I ain't doing that at this juncture, may be someday I would love to Unlearn certain things, but not the lessons of life, I ain't disconnecting from my Past as I can't unlearn the valuable lessons.
Well Rohit, whatever i have known about Osho is that he never wanted to start a new religion. All he wanted is a new thought process, a new consciousness. All his efforts were in shaking the roots of the man so that he starts thinking, he starts 'knowing' and stops 'following'.
Further I would not say that Osho was a misguided person. People might have taken different / wrong interpretations of his teaching and might have got misguided - that may be another story. Otherwsie Osho was a very-very intelligent man.
Mayank, i take your concern about disconnecting with past. But in a way Osho is right in what he is saying. We all are so much rooted to our past that are present is very much guided by it. Our present is baised, is not virgin. Because our past was never ours. We always followed others - may be parents, teachers, religious gurus, etc. It was never our life. Now if we intend to do something different, we need a big change, then we have to start new, we have to disconnect with our past. From materialist angle this might sound weird but if you see from life's point of view then this will look sensible.
To learn something new one has to unlearn the past related to it. Lets undertsand this with a very famous Zen story - "Empty Your Cup":
A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor's cup to the brim, and then kept pouring.
The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It's overfull! No more will go in!" the professor blurted.
"You are like this cup," the master replied, "How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup."
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