Osho tao the pathless path9/9/2023 ![]() When somebody asked Edmund Hillary, “Why? Why in the first place did you become interested in going to Mt. He says, “Then what is the point?” The egoist wants to go to the moon because it is impossible. He surrounds you from everywhere: you exist in the ocean of God. He is in your friend, and he is in your foe. He is in your child, in your wife, in your husband. He is holding your hand he is sitting by your side. He is just in front of you he is not hidden. Here with me, God is the only possibility nothing else is possible. They feel very good their ego is strengthened. Others are only working for the possible and they are working for the impossible. That gives the thrill that makes them feel good – that they are going to attain the impossible. This is my observation: if you find one hundred persons interested in religious inquiry, ninety-nine will be there only because God is almost impossible. It hurts too many people because there are many people who think that if religion is obvious, then where will they find their ego trip? If everything is unhidden from the very beginning, then their ego has no challenge. Day-to-day life is holy life – hence I use the word esoteric as a ridiculous word. To me the ordinary is extraordinary, the mundane is sacred. So I don’t say what is sacred and what is ordinary. ![]() So I want to dissolve all distinctions because through distinctions egos exist. The Devil has to be divine otherwise he cannot be. And that is the beauty of the word devil: it comes from the same root as divine. God is everywhere, in everything God is the only reality – then how can anything not be divine? Even the Devil has to be divine. If God is in the rock and in the tree and in the man and in the woman, then everything is sacred. What is sacred and what is not sacred? If God is everywhere, then everything is sacred. If you look deeply, you will find that the very word sacred is based on ego distinctions. They remain far away they are “holy.” And the man who lives is “unholy.” Their hands are never muddied because they don’t work, they don’t move into life. They exploit this same ordinary man, they live on him, they are suckers – but they are holy, they are spiritual. “This world is inferior.”Ī man who lives an ordinary life – loves his wife, children, goes to work, is an ordinary human being condemned by the priests, by the so-called mahatmas. The ego can exist only through distinctions of inferiority and superiority. Somebody is holy and somebody is not holy – again the ego can exist. These are ego distinctions: somebody is rich, somebody is poor – then the ego can exist. He is holy, you are unholy he is a saint and you are a sinner. He is spiritual he is something superior beyond you, beyond your reach. He wants to make distinctions he wants to tell you that your life is ugly, that your life is mundane, that you are a worldly being. ![]() The temple should exist exactly in the middle of the market, and all distinctions between the sacred and the secular should be dissolved.īut again the priest comes in. Meditation should not be a thing apart from life it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life, an organic part, nothing made separate. That’s why I insist that you should remain part of the market world and meditate. The secular should become the sacred and the sacred should become the secular. My whole effort here is to help you to dissolve the distinction between the sacred and the secular. Life is simple there is nothing sacred and nothing secular. You ask, “The word esoteric has been used in a very sacred sense…” It is the declaration of truth hence the word esoteric is ridiculous, stupid. In Zen they have a saying: from the very beginning nothing is hidden. If he is not, then he has to be forced to hide somewhere! Then the need for the priest arises – a mediator who will make you aware of things which are hidden, who will help you, who will guide you to the secret world of the truth. “What can we do? If God is hidden, what can we do? It is his responsibility.” Priests have loved the word esoteric very much because if God is obvious, then what will be the need for the priests? God has to be hidden. ![]() You are throwing the responsibility onto the sun itself. The sun is there, the light is there if you keep your eyes closed and then you call the sun esoteric, that means you don’t even want to accept that you are keeping your eyes closed. All is obvious, God is obvious if you cannot see, it is not because God is hidden, but because you are keeping your eyes closed. ![]() The word esoteric means the hidden – it is ridiculous because nothing is hidden. Would you please tell us what inspires you to use it in a ridiculous and humorous sense? The word esoteric has been used in a very sacred sense. ![]()
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