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there -- but a hungry man, how can he think whether life has meaning or not? A hungry man cannot think whether the flower is beautiful or not: he is hungry. You cannot talk about music and poetry and painting to him. That will be humiliating him; it will be just an insult, an outright insult.
But once these problems disappear then he will start, for the first time, to enquire about real existential questions which can be answered only by a subjective science.
So there is no future for religion.
There is a future for an objective science to deal with objective matters, and a subjective science to deal with your inward matters.
One will take care of your physiology, biology. The other will take care of your psychology and your ultimate center: the soul.
From Ignorance to Innocence
Chapter #2
Chapter title: The other cheek: the masochist's slap-up feast
30 November 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove
Archive code: 8411305
ShortTitle: IGNOR02
Audio: Yes
Video: Yes
Length: 104 mins
Question 1
OSHO,
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF NONVIOLENCE AND PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN DOGMA OF TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK?
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 which comes when you put your mind aside, when you see through silence, not through logic.
Seeing is not thinking.
The sun rises there; 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; and 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
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