OSHO International Foundation presents
You Should Look at the Moon!
This has been one of the most important statements:
the buddha only shows the finger towards the moon.
His `finger' means all that he says, all that he does,
is only an indication -- a hint.
You should not get too much attached to the finger,
because the finger is not the point.
What he is saying, what he is preaching, is not the point; it is only an indication.
You should not get attached to the philosophy,
you should not become a buddhist.
You should look at the moon.
And to look at the moon, the very fundamental thing is
to forget all about the finger.
Because if your eyes are focused on the finger,
how you are going to see the moon?
Unless you move your eyes from the finger
towards the faraway moon in the sky,
it is not possible.
What Buddha was saying is:
"Don't get attached to what I say,
don't get attached to any doctrine, to what I preach;
don't get attached
to my personality.
These are all just fingers pointing to the moon.
You forget me,
don't start worshiping me.
Just look at the moon. And once you have looked at the moon,
I don't matter at all."
It is a very pregnant statement,
and a very courageous one,
to say to one's own disciples that: "Don't bother what I say.
I am not preaching any doctrine
and I am not delivering to you a system of beliefs or a philosophy.
These are all devices to indicate to the truth which is beyond all words,
but words can be used as a finger pointing to it.
They cannot express it, but they can indicate it."
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