Welcome back to the spiritual reading discussion group. Today's installment is the fifth chapter in our review. Feel free to join in leaving comments.
Introduction - Spiritual reading discussion
group - Maturity: The Responsibility of Being Oneself by Osho
Chapter one - Growing old and growing up - two
different things.
Chapter two - Ignorance or innocence
Chapter three - The rejuvenation of innocence
Chapter four - Being born again
Chapter five - What does it take to save the
world
Chapter five
What does it take to save the world?
The second principle is the pilgrimage. Life
must be a seeking—not a desire but a search; not an ambition to become this, to
become that, a president of a country or prime minister of a country, but a
search to find out “Who am I?”
It is very strange that people who don’t know
who they are, are trying to become somebody. They don’t even know who they are
right now! They are unacquainted with their being—but they have a goal of
becoming.
Becoming is the disease of the soul.
Being is you.
Osho. Maturity: The Responsibility of Being
Oneself (Osho Insights for a New Way of Living) . St. Martin's Press. P.xiii
Comment:
The fourth principle in Unitarian Universalism
is the free and responsible search for truth and meaning but most UUs don’t
know much about what this search is about. For most people it means searching
for a religious faith which is external to them. It is about finding a set of
beliefs and a church that they feel comfortable with. This search is always
doomed to failure for, as Jesus tells us, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Osho in this passage from his book, Maturity:
The Resonsiblity of Being Oneself, is telling us the same thing: that the
search for truth and meaning is a search within not a search without.
Dr. Paul Pearsall, the psychologist, taught that
the three major existential questions which all human beings struggle with are:
Why was I born? What is the purpose of my life? What happens when I die?
Osho tells us that in our ego thought system we
are concerned with our becoming when we don’t even understand who we are.
Becoming will not make us happy until we realize that we are okay right now as an
extension of God’s Unconditional Love. This is the basic understanding of our
Universalist faith, and is embodied in our first principle, the inherent worth
and dignity of every person, which we affirm and promote. Few, however, actually
believe and inexperience this inherent worth and dignity in their lives in the here and now. If a person
actually experienced this, the world would be saved.
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