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In the old days there was only one physician. A good doctor was needed and he would do everything. Now you go to one doctor and he will send you to a thousand doctors. Every doctor has his own specialisation.
If science is knowing more and more about less and less, then I define religion as knowing less and less about more and more. And the day you know nothing about all, you have become enlightened. That is the day one becomes a buddha. He knows nothing about the whole. He lives it, he enjoys it, he loves it, but he knows nothing. He has become as innocent as a child again.
That's my understanding of meditation.
And Inge is also a beautiful name; it comes from Norse mythology. In Norse mythology Inge was the god of creativity, peace and prosperity. Through meditation all these things happen naturally; no endeavour is needed. As you relax you become more and more sensitive, more and more creative, more and more peaceful. And this is true prosperity. I am not saying you will become rich, that money will start pouring in, that money will start growing on trees. What to say about money? -- even bananas don't grow on trees!
Just the other day I was looking at a scientific book and I cam across this new discover of the scientists that bananas don't grow on trees because the banana tree is not a tree, in fact. It cannot be called a tree; it has no branches, no trunk. Linguistically it is wrong to call it a tree. It is only a stalk; it is just leaves and nothing else. You go on peeling the leaves and nothing is left. It is not a tree. I liked the idea!
By prosperity I mean something inner. Money will not grow, bananas will not grow but something more valuable -- nirvana -- will start growing within you.
-- How long will you be here?
-- As long as possible.
-- That's good. Then nirvana is bound to grow! Avoid bananas -- there are many here!
[Dieter means full of justice, and a man who has never experienced meditation can never be that. Osho talks about the difference between a person who functions from their mind and a person who functions from a state of meditation.]
Mind can never be just for the simple
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