Your belief is something sacred, everyone else's looks foolish

Whenever there is an explanation enmity arises. Whenever you believe in something you are divided. BELIEF CREATES CONFLICT!

    THE WHOLE WORLD IS DIVIDED BECAUSE OF BELIEF. You are a Hindu and someone is a Mohammedan -- you are enemies. Why you are enemies? --because of your belief. Belief creates the conflict. Foolish explanations, ideologies -- create conflict, war.

    Look at this: IF THERE IS NO EXPLANATION, who is a Hindu and who is a Mohammedan? And HOW CAN YOU FIGHT? For what? Men have always been fighting over philosophies, shedding blood, murdering each other, just for foolish beliefs.

    AND IF YOU DO LOOK INTO BELIEFS, YOU CAN SEE THE FOOLISHNESS -- not of your beliefs, but of others' beliefs! Your belief is something sacred, but everyone else's belief looks foolish!

    ALL BELIEFS ARE FOOLISH. You cannot see your own because it is so near. Really, explanations are foolish, stupid.

I have heard... 
   One group of birds was flying south for the winter. One bird at the rear asked another, "How come we always follow this idiot leader?"
The other said, "In the first place, all leaders are idiots... otherwise who wants to lead?" Only the foolish are always ready to lead, a wise man hesitates. Life is so mysterious -- it is not a ready-made path. How can you lead? A wise man hesitates, an idiot is always ready to lead. "So the bird said, "In the first place all leaders are idiots... because except idiots nobody is interested in leading... And in the second place, he's got the map, so every year we have to follow him."

    LIFE HAS GOT NO MAP, and there is no possibility of making a map. IT IS A PATHLESS PATH. Without explanations how you can be divided? If there is no explanation, the world will be one. But there are millions of explanations, millions of fragments.

    Chuang Tzu says a really very penetrating thing: "They had no explanation, thus they were better friends than before."

    NOW THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE ENEMIES ABOUT, nothing to fight over. They laughed, and the laughter made them one. They laughed, and the laughter led them into a togetherness. Explain and you are divided, become philosophical and you are separated from others; become a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Buddhist -- then all others are enemies.

    LOOK AT THE MYSTERY AND LAUGH -- AND HUMANITY IS ONE. And then there is no need to say that Christians are brothers of Hindus, Hindus are brothers of Mohammedans.  FIRST DIVIDE THEM, MAKE THEM ILL WITH BELIEFS -- and then supply this medicine that you are all brothers. And have you seen brothers? They fight more than enemies! So what is the use of making them brothers?

    MAN FIGHTS FOR HIS EXPLANATIONS. All fights are foolish. Man fights for his flags. Look at the flags! What type of foolishness, what type of madness exists in the world? For flags -- for symbols, for beliefs, for ideologies?

    Says Chuang Tzu: "They had no explanation... they laughed." In that mysterious moment they became one, better friends than before.

    IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A FRIEND, have no explanations and no conclusions; don't believe in anything. And then you are not divided, then humanity is one. Then there is no barrier.

    AND LOVE EXISTS NOT THROUGH MIND, it exists through feeling.

    They laughed. Laughter comes from the heart, laughter comes from the belly. Laughter comes from the total being. WHEN THREE PEOPLE LAUGH, THEY BECOME FRIENDS. When three people weep, they become friends. When three people debate, they become enemies.

OSHO
The Empty Boat
Ch #7: Three Friends
am in Buddha Hall