God is a fiction of the human mind, existence is not.
existence is a totally different concept. It is not your fiction; it is there.
When you were not here,
it was there. When you will not be here, it will be here. We come and go; we are just waves in this
vast ocean of existence. We come and go, existence remains.
And to find that which remains is the
ultimate truth. You don’t have to worship nature, you don’t have to pray to nature. Those things are
only associated with the fiction of God. Existence is non-judgmental. I want to emphasize this fact
as categorically as possible.
God is judgmental.
God or allha,whichever u wanna call it,has exactly declared that there will be a judgment day, when
he will choose those who are on his side,And those who are not on his side are against him. They will be thrown into hellfire for eternity. It is because of God
all kinds of moralities arise: this is good, that is bad. What is the criterion? The scripture. And the
scriptures were written by primitive people, uneducated, they don’t belong to our century.
Existence does not write any scriptures and does not give any commandments. Existence does
not tell you what to do and what not to do. Existence is absolutely non-judgmental. It is as
compassionate to the sinner as to the saint, it makes no difference, because in the eyes of existence
everything that is natural is beautiful. Those who go against nature, religions call saints, and nature
simply feels sad for them. Existence simply feels that they are going astray, and by being astray they
will suffer.
It is not that existence is giving them suffering and hell, punishment and reward, no. Existence
simply is there. If you are in tune with it you will be immensely rewarded. Nobody is rewarding you,
it is just that the very tuning with existence is such a peace, such a joy, such a benediction, you are
already rewarded. There is no reward beyond this; and those who are not in tune with nature and
existence are already punished.
`osho-God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth` |