![]() And so, exactly like the taste, you have to look at beauty and enjoy you have to listen to music and enjoy you have to touch the rocks and leaves and human beings – the warmth, the texture – and enjoy. Eat well, taste well the taste is divine. When you are healthy the tongue is sensitive alive, throbbing, pulsates with energy. But that is not a state of health the tongue becomes dull only in illness. They are against taste, they would like you to make your tongue absolutely dull so you don’t taste anything. Your so-called’ religions’ have tried to de-sensitize you, to make you dull. To be sensitive is to be intelligent, to be sensitive is to be alive. I am not against taste because I am not against the senses. That ’yes’ transforms, transforms totally. When you drop all beliefs and disbeliefs and you are immediate, in contact with life, a trust arises, a great ’yes’ arises in your being. Tao is neither a belief nor disbelief but the dropping of all beliefs and disbeliefs. ![]() The stronger the belief, the greater the barrier. Trust is immediate, direct, in life it is not about life. Then arises a totally new kind of trust – trust in life. Tao is the dropping of all belief systems. It does not say ’ Belief.’ That’s what other religions do. The first thing: ’Can one believe in Tao.?’ Tao does not depend on belief. They move in different dimensions they reach the same goal, but they move in different directions.ĬAN ONE BELIEVE IN TAO, NOT INTERFERING WITH OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES, ACCEPTING WHAT IS NOW, AND BY PROFESSION BE A PSYCHOTHERAPIST? WHAT, OR HOW, IS A TAO WAY OF DOING THERAPY? It is from Poonam. ![]() These two paths have to be understood as clearly as possible because much will depend on it you will have to choose someday or other. Krishnamurti – they follow the path of the ’no’. Lao Tzu, Buddha, Nagarjuna – they followed the path of negation. The other path is VIA NEGATIVA, through negation, through the ’no’. In modern times, Gurdjieff, Ramakrishna-they followed the path of affirmation, VIA AFFIRMATIVA. The path of affirmation seems the path of effort, the great effort: one is trying to reach God, one has to make all the effort that is possible, one has to do the utmost, one has to put oneself at stake. Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna-they have followed the path of affirmation. Thew first path is VIA AFFIRMATIVA, the positive path, the ‘yes-sayers’ path, The path of the devotee. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.But man can approach through two ways towards this truth. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people-along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha-who have changed the destiny of India. ![]() Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. Tao: The Pathless Path also features a Q&A section that addresses how Taoist understanding applies to everyday life in concrete, practical terms. “Best Be Still, Best Be Empty” discusses the difference between the path of the will, the via affirmitiva of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, versus the path of the mystic, the via negativa of Buddha and Lao Tzu. “No Rest for the Living” uses a dialogue between a despondent seeker and his master to reveal the limits of philosophy and the crippling consequences of living for the sake of some future goal. “No Regrets” is a parable about the difference between the knowledge that is gathered from the outside and the “knowing” that arises from within. “A Man Who Knows How to Console Himself” looks beneath the apparent cheerfulness of a wandering monk and asks if there is really a happiness that endures through life’s ups and downs. “Who Is Really Happy” uses the discovery of a human skull on the roadside to probe into the question of immortality and how misery arises out of the existence of the ego. Leih Tzu was a well-known Taoist master in the fourth century B.C., and his sly critiques of a Confucius provide abundant opportunities for the reader to explore the contrasts between the rational and irrational, the male and female, the structured and the spontaneous. In Tao: The Pathless Path, Osho, one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the twentieth century, comments on five parables from the Leih Tzu, bringing a fresh and contemporary interpretation to the ancient wisdom of Tao. ![]()
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