Existence Is Not Just Matter

Opening to the Mysteries of Existence

Osho responds to a question addressing the fear of intelligence:

"The first and the most important part of intelligence is innocence. That's why you felt terrible - because in the world innocence and intelligence have been divided, not only divided but put diametrically opposite to each other.

If intelligence remains innocent it is the most beautiful thing possible, but if it is against innocence then it is simply cunningness and nothing else; it is not intelligence."

©1986 OSHO International Foundation (P)2009 OSHO International Foundation

Osho talks about existence and nothingness. Talking about nothingness was far more profound.

This is a question-answer session and the first question was about existence. For those that need to hear existence is more than just matter than the first question will be of interest to them. Id also mention there are other questions that were answered but none of them struck me as indispensable. The last question about nothingness was the most interesting answer. In fact if it were not for this last question I would have rated the entire Osho talk lower. He stated that many masters strive to teach their students emptiness and that a great deal of the time is spent in teaching how to be empty, how to know one does not know. He mentioned that the master and his students are still in the courtyard and have not even entered the temple until his students have learned emptiness. A flute is played because air can flow through the empty parts thus creating sound. In Tao this concept of emptiness is integral: Osho stated that the far eastern concepts of emptiness is considered a beautiful thing and is not bad. In western thought emptiness is bad and everything must be filled to the brim and he said this creates hard men like the Russian leader Stalin. The name Stalin even means steel and it wasn't even his real name but it's because he was so unyielding. Emptiness is what can be utilized and used, fullness has its utility but can only be used for what it has been designed to be used for. No thought and no mind have great potential and are capable of taking on any task and this is what the best part of this Osho speech was about but to get there you have to go through an hour of questions that are just not as profound in my opinion.