Truth is achieved only by Awareness
Osho - One cannot find truth by mere thinking. Thinking is not the process
that leads you to the truth. It leads only to inference. And inferences are just
inferences, they are hypothetical. They may be true, they may not be true. They
are just conjectures, not real conclusions. But the mind lives in thinking and
it goes on believing that its conjectures are conclusions. They are not
conclusions.
Truth is achieved only by awareness. It is not a mind process at all, it is a
totally different phenomenon. You are not to think the truth, you have to stop
all thinking to know truth; you have to forget all about truth, to know truth.
You have to unburden yourself of all the theories, hypothesizes, philosophies,
ideologies, that you have learned.
The process of achieving the truth is a process of unlearning, it is a
process of unconditioning. Slowly, slowly one has to get out of the mind, to
slip out of the mind; and one has to become just a pool of consciousness, a pure
awareness. Just a sheer watchfulness: doing nothing, just watching, watching all
that is happening in the outside world and in the inside world.
When one can just watch without any judgement interfering, without any old
ideas coming in, then truth is revealed. And the miracle is: it does not come
from somewhere else to you, it does not descend from above; it is found within
you -- it is your intrinsic nature. It is really a great revelation to know
truth because you are it and you have never lost it -- even for a single moment.
You have always been it. It is impossible to lose it, because it is your nature
and your nature cannot be lost. That's why we call it nature. That which cannot
be lost is the very definition of nature. That which can be lost is not nature
but nurture.
Truth is your nature, your very being, your very existence, your very center.
It is through awareness that slowly slowly you reach your own center. When you
have arrived at your own center, then you know what truth is. And it is not just
knowledge of something objective, something there , but something subjective,
something in here . And once known, it is known forever, once discovered, it
cannot be forgotten. And to know truth is to be liberated, truth liberates, but
remember: only your own truth liberates. Nobody else's truth can liberate you,
Somebody else's truth will always become a bondage to you.
So the real master helps you to discover your own truth. He does not hand
over to you a theory, a dogma, a creed. He does not hand to you anything at all.
He never gives you anything; on the contrary, he goes on taking away all that
you have been carrying with you for many many lives. Slowly slowly, he
dismantles your mind, he cuts off your head. The day your head disappears you
have arrived home. The master does not give you the truth, but he does take away
all the lies from you. And once all the lies are taken away, truth is found
within yourself. It was lying there, covered underneath the rubbish of thousands
of lies.
Sannyas means, putting your head at the feet of the master and praying to
him: "Please cut it off!" It is a strange prayer, but that's exactly what it
is!
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