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Osho: I Don't Have a Biography
My way of life is not a philosophy
"I don't have any biography. And whatsoever is thought to be biography is utterly meaningless.
On what date I was born, in what country I was born, does not matter.
What matters is what I am now, right here." Osho
I am not a
philosopher.
The philosopher
thinks about things.
It is a
mind approach.
My approach is
a no-mind approach.
It is just
the very opposite
of philosophizing.
It is not thinking about
things, ideas,
but seeing
with a clarity
that comes when you put your mind aside,
when you see through silence,
not through logic.
Seeing is not thinking.
The sun rises:
if you think about it
you miss it,
because while you are thinking about it,
you are going away from it.
In thinking you can move miles away,
thoughts go faster
than anything possible.
If you are seeing the sunrise
then one thing has to be certain,
that you are not thinking about it.
Only then can you see it.
Thinking becomes a veil on the eyes.
It gives
its own color,
its own idea
to the reality.
It does not allow reality to reach you,
it imposes itself upon reality;
it is a deviation from reality.
Hence no philosopher has ever been able to know the truth.
All the philosophers
have been thinking about the truth.
But thinking about the truth
is an impossibility.
Either you know it,
or you don't.
If you know it, there is not need to think about it.
If you don't,
how can you think about it?
A philosopher thinking about truth is
just like a blind man thinking about light.
If you have eyes,
you don't think about light,
you see it.
Seeing
is a totally different process;
it is a byproduct of meditation.
Hence I would not like
my way of life
ever to be called a philosophy,
because it has nothing to do with philosophy.
You can call it 'philosia.'
The word 'philo' means love;
'sophy' means wisdom,
knowledge --
love for knowledge.
In philosia, 'philo' means the same -- love,
and 'sia' means for seeing:
not for knowledge
but for being --
not for wisdom, but for experiencing.
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Source: 'From Ignorance to Innocence #2' Copyright © Osho International Foundation, Switzerland. OSHO ® is a registered TM.