Blind obedience is poison, pure poison

And even from the very beginning, they have imposed stories on the minds of people that the first sin committed was disobedience. ADAM AND EVE WERE EXPELLED from the Garden of Eden BECAUSE THEY DISOBEYED.

I have tried in thousands of ways, but I DON'T SEE THAT THEY HAVE COMMITTED ANY SIN OR ANY CRIME. They were simply exploring. You are in a garden and you start exploring the fruits and flowers and what is edible and what is not edible.

AND GOD IS RESPONSIBLE, because he prohibited them from two trees -- he indicated the trees: "You should not approach these two trees. One is THE TREE OF WISDOM, and the other is THE TREE OF ETERNAL LIFE."

Just think, if you were Adam and Eve -- WAS NOT GOD HIMSELF TEMPTING YOU to go to these two trees? And those two trees were of wisdom and of eternal life. Why God should be against them?

If he was really a father, one who loves you, he might have pointed to them, saying that "This is a poisonous tree, don't eat from it" or, "This is the tree of death; if you eat anything, you will die." But these two trees are perfectly right -- eat as much as you can, because TO BE WISE AND TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

Every father would wish his children to have wisdom and eternal life. THIS FATHER SEEMS TO BE ABSOLUTELY LOVELESS. Not only loveless, but as the devil said to Eve that, "He has prevented you from these two trees. Do you know the reason? The reason is that if you eat from these two trees, you will be equal to him -- and he is jealous. He does not want you to become divine. He does not want you to become God, full of wisdom and eternal life."

I CANNOT SEE THAT THE DEVIL'S ARGUMENT HAS ANY FLAW IN IT. It is absolutely right. In fact, he is the first benefactor of humanity.

WITHOUT HIM, PERHAPS THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO HUMANITY -- no Gautam Buddha, no Kabir, no Christ, no Zarathustra, no Lao Tzu... just buffaloes, donkeys, and yankees, all eating grass, chewing grass contentedly. And God would have been very happy, that his children are very obedient.

BUT THIS OBEDIENCE IS POISON, pure poison.

THE DEVIL MUST BE COUNTED AS THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY of the world, and the first man to think in terms of evolution, of wisdom, of eternal life.

And God said -- so the priests have been saying... the Jewish rabbis, Christian priests, Mohammedan maulavis, ayatollas... They all have been saying for centuries that it was the original sin.

Again, another prostitution of a beautiful word.

The word 'SIN' in its roots MEANS FORGETFULNESS. It has nothing to do with sin, as we have come to understand it.

TO FORGET YOURSELF IS THE ONLY SIN. And to remember yourself is the only virtue. It has nothing to do with obedience, nothing to do with discipline.

BUT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO EXPLOIT... their very effort is that of a parasite, taking every drop of blood out of you. They say, "Work. Work hard, be disciplined, obey the orders -- there is no need to question because the orders are coming from a higher intelligence than you have."

OSHO
Beyond Enlightenment
Ch #18: Meditation -- the courage to be silent and alone
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