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4 August 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7708045
ShortTitle: NOBOOK04
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[Osho explains the meaning of deva maneeshi, divine wisdom, explaining the difference between the western and eastern ideas of a wise man.... ]
Wisdom has nothing to do with thinking or knowledge. In fact just the contrary is the case: when thinking disappears there is wisdom. It is not the ultimate in thinking but the absence... when the knower is no more, when the self cannot be found, when suddenly there is a state of no-self and the mind is spinning no more, no more weaving its old patterns. All has become utterly silent, still; there is no noise of any kind. of course there is no knowledge and no not-knowing; it is really utter silence. that utter silence we call maneesha... that utter silence is wisdom.
Man is like an onion: you can go on peeling layer upon layer, layer upon layer, and finally nothing is left. That nothing is god, and to come to that nothing is maneesha.
[The new sannyasin says:... my being is here to absorb from you and that hopefully my ego will refrain from questioning you... ]
First: don't make an effort to do that -- the very effort will be self-defeating. If you try not to question you start repressing questions. the more you repress, the more they become vital; the more you repress, the deeper they go in you. Where are you going to repress them? Repression is very suicidal. When you repress something you start sitting upon it, you put your whole weight on it. You force it deep into the unconscious and then it becomes more dangerous.
Yes, it is good to get rid of it but the way is not to deny it; the way is to accept it....
Accept it, go through it. If some truth is here then your doubts will disappear. I don't demand trust; it comes! A demanded trust is a false trust. It creates at the most, belief. Belief means that deep down the doubt exists. Because you wanted to believe you believe... but it is not trust. Trust is when even if you don 't want to believe, you have to believe. Trust is when you cannot do anything about it
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