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The New
Man
The
Conscious Individual
Osho
The Last Testament, Vol. 5,
Talk #27
The new man accepts the whole man. It does not
divide. It teaches an organic unity. Its fundamental philosophy is that you
are one whole, not body and soul, not this world and that world. Your body
is only the visible part of your soul. Your soul is only the invisible part
of your body. This world contains that world within it. Just you have to go
deep into it. In each experience, if you are intense and total, you will
find within this world that world too. This contains that. They are not
separate. There is no guilt, there is no sin. Yes, you can commit mistakes,
which is absolutely human. And you commit mistakes because you are not
aware.
I say to you, you are allowed to commit
mistakes, but don't repeat the same mistake again and again. That means
unawareness. When you commit a mistake for the first time, it is perfectly
okay, because you have never committed it before, so how you can be aware of
it. So it is a good learning. Learn something out of the mistake. And be
aware that it is not repeated. So commit as many mistakes as you can. But
they have to be always new, so you go on learning and you go on growing in
awareness.
So all the rituals of religions, and all their
prayers and all their mantras and chantings, are reduced to a simple method:
awareness. All their sins are reduced only to mistakes. The original meaning
of the word sin is good. It means forgetfulness. So don't commit the same
mistake again, otherwise it becomes a sin; it becomes a forgetfulness. But I
would not like to use the word sin, because it has become so much associated
with guilt, and guilt is the heaviest load on humanity. To take it away, we
can make people so light that they can almost
fly.
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The new man will not have any guilt. The new
man will not have any split. The new man will have only one religion; that
is awareness. The new man will have
only one world,
this world. Because that world is hidden behind it. This world is like a
circumference, and that world is the center. And I call the whole man the
holy man; then he becomes Zorba the
Buddha.
Then the whole
life, with its whole spectrum,
all the colors of the rainbow, you can live without any fear, without any
guilt. You can dance like a Zorba, you can meditate like a Buddha, and I
don't see there is any contradiction. In fact, if you have danced totally,
deeply, so deeply that the dancer disappears in the dance, that is the time
to start
meditation.
And when you have
meditated, and you are full
of silence and peace and blissfulness, so much so that not that you are
blissfulness, but you can bless the whole world, that is the moment to
dance. Your dance then will be a showering of blessings to the whole world.
I don't see any contradiction. That's why I say, drop the old completely. It
was sick, it was schizophrenic. And let us have a new man; organic, healthy,
whole. And with the new man comes a new world into existence, which will not
be divided by politics into nations; which will not be divided by religions
into different sections, fighting,
murdering, killing, burning living
people.
We can make this earth a paradise, if we are
together. If there are no nations and no churches, no religions, nothing
dividing man from man. Then we will have so much energy available which is
being involved into wars, into fighting, into organizing; that this whole
earth can blossom into new flowers of consciousness.
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