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Introduction
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From Action to Awareness
- Please talk about morality
- Don't people need a certain code of conduct? And isn't a moral character necessary for a spiritual life?
- Are you against even the effort to cultivate a moral character?
- In your vision of religiousness, is there such a thing as sin?
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The Roots of Corruption
- Does God exist? How can there be so much evil and corruption in the world if God exists?
- I have tried my whole life to live a religious life, but then why am I still miserable?
- Can Buddha or Christ be created or developed out of every common human being? Or is Buddha or Christ only born as such? Every person is Buddha, every person is Christ -- I feel it is not true
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Fighting with Shadows
- You have spoken of awareness and consciousness and it seems as though you are saying this is all that is needed to guide one's actions. Does this mean, then, that murder, rape, and theft are only wrong insofar as they are done without awareness, without consciousness?
- Doesn't anything or anyone need correction? I'm confused
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To Be Whole is to Be Holy
- Until the Jews and Arabs and other tribes brought their racially exclusive and jealous God to the West, Toamy, Bacchus, Mithros, and Apollo were the gods that man worshipped. Diana had her bow and arrow, Thor was in the north, the Mother Goddess was worshipped in the West. And then death and resurrection became the religion of the West. Guilt and sin were taught. Why is Adam a sinner? Why isn't he like Theseus or Jason or Hermes? Is the concept of sin just a trick to make people meditate?
- You say, "Do not make the same mistake twice." How can I keep from doing that unless I bring the mind in to evaluate, compare, and judge?
- What is true repentance?
- Rudolph Hess, one of the last Nazi big shots, committed suicide in jail in Berlin, where he was imprisoned for forty-six years. He was the right-hand man of Adolf Hitler. "I don't repent anything," he said before the court in Nuremburg, "and if I could start from the very beginning, I would do the same thing again." Osho, can you say something about forgiveness, even for people who seem to be unworthy of it?
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The Flavor of Understanding
- Please explain "right-mindfulness." I have heard you say it is not a goal or something to practice. Then what is it?
- Raised by a father who was perfectionistic, outwardly nonjudgmental, and inwardly hypercritical of everything and everyone, I now see my conditioning as very much operating at cross purposes. I was criticized for being judgmental and opinionated, yet urged to be "discriminating." Now I feel that something in my intelligence is blocked, impaired, hesitant, and afraid. Even in the community around you, I have been repeatedly criticized for being judgmental when often I felt my statements were relevant and valid. What is the difference between judgment, discrimination, and true clarity? And how is a child, or a forty-three-year-old man, to tell the difference?
- You have said that right and wrong are determined by each society. Is there no universal right and wrong?
- Should there be a difference in moral and legal standards in the matter of declaring a person guilty of a crime?
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Epilogue
- One day a man met a rabbi on the street. In an attempt to torment him, he asked him to express the entire philosophy of Judaism while he stood on one foot. The rabbi stood on one foot and said, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That is the law -- the rest is commentary." If I were to be met by a tormentor and asked to stand on one foot and explain in one sentence what your teaching is, would I be correct in saying that it is freedom from suppression?
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