Man is free, but his freedom can only be a joy and a blessing to him if he is rooted in meditation Friedrich Nietzsche was not aware of any meditations – that is the other side of the coin. Man is free, but his freedom can only be a joy and a blessing to him if he is rooted in meditation. Remove God – that is perfectly okay, he has been the greatest danger to human freedom – but give man also some meaning and significance, some creativity, some receptivity, some path to find his eternal existence. Zen is the other side of the coin. Friedrich Nietzsche had concluded, ”God is dead,” but it is a negative conclusion. He became empty, but his freedom was meaningless. There was no joy in it because it was only freedom FROM God, but for what? Freedom has two sides: from and for. The other side was missing. That drove him insane. ZEN DOES NOT HAVE ANY GOD, that’s its beauty. BUT IT HAS A TREMENDOUS SCIENCE TO TRANSFORM YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, TO BRING SO MUCH AWARENESS TO YOU THAT YOU CANNOT COMMIT EVIL. IT IS NOT A COMMANDMENT FROM OUTSIDE, IT COMES FROM YOUR INNERMOST BEING. Once you know your center of being, once you know you are one with the cosmos – and the cosmos has never been created, it has been there always and always, and will be there always and always, from eternity to eternity – once you know your luminous being, your hidden Gautama Buddha, it is impossible to do anything wrong, it is impossible to do anything evil, it is impossible to do any sin. If you feel deep down a vacuum, utter emptiness with no meaning, it is because of Friedrich Nietzsche. A whole philosophy has grown in the West: Nietzsche is the founder of this very negative approach to life. Soren Kierkegaard, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and Marcel, and Jaspers, and Martin Heidegger – all the great giants of the first half of this century – were talking only about meaninglessness, anguish, suffering, anxiety, dread, fear, angst. And this philosophy has been called in the West existentialism. It is not. It is simply non-existentialism. It destroys everything that has consoled you. I agree with the destruction because what was consoling man was only lies. God, heaven, hell – all were fictions created to console man. It is good they are destroyed, but you are leaving man in an utter vacuum. Out of that vacuum existentialism is born, that’s why it talks only about meaninglessness: ”Life has no meaning.” It talks about no significance: ”You are just an accident. Whether you are here or not does not matter at all to existence.” And these people call their philosophy existentialism. They should call it accidentalism. You are not needed; just by accident, on the margin, somehow you have popped up. God was making you a puppet, and these philosophers from Nietzsche to Jean-Paul Sartre are making you accidental. - Osho, God is Dead. Now Zen is the only Living Truth
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:12:30 +0000
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