The First Principal

"The moment truth is uttered,it becomes a lie" -OSHO

Once a beginner asked a Zen master, "Master, what is the first principle?" Without hesitation,the master replied: "If I were to tell you,it would become the second principle."

The most important thing can not be said,and that which can be said will not be the first principle.The moment truth is uttered,it be comes a lie;the very utterance is a falsification.

The Second Principle :

So the vedas and the bible,for example,contain the second principle,not the first principle.They contain lies,not the truth,because the truth cannot be contained by any word whatsoever.The truth can only be experienced-the truth can be lived-but there is no way to say it.

The word is a faraway echo of the real experience;and it is so far away from the real that it is even worse that the unreal because it can give you a false confidence.It can give you a false promise.You can believe it and that is a problem.

Truth has to be known by experience.No belief can help you on the way;all beliefs are barriers.All religions are against religion-it has to be so by the very nature of things.Belief is an easy shortcut.

The Ugly And The Beautiful :

Whenever something is burrowed,it becomes ugly.Only the firsthand experience is beautiful,because it liberates.The secondhand thing is ugly because it becomes bondage.

If you becomes religious,you will be liberated.If you become a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan you will be in bondage.Mohammed was liberated;because for him,Islam was firsthand experience.So was Jesus liberated because for him his experience was "his" experience-authentically his? It was not handed to him by somebody else,it was not borrowed,it was not thought out,it was not logical syllogism,it was not an inference.