OSHO The God Conspiracy - Baytallaah.com
OSHO The God Conspiracy - Baytallaah.com
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<strong>God</strong> was non-existential, but it was a good consolation. It used to fill people's interior, although<br />
it was a lie. But even a lie, repeated thousands and thousands of times for millennia, be<strong>com</strong>es<br />
almost a truth. <strong>God</strong> has been a great consolation to people in their fear, in their dread, in their<br />
awareness of old age and death, and beyond -- the unknown darkness. <strong>God</strong> has been a<br />
tremendous consolation, although it was a lie. Lies can console you, you have to understand it.<br />
In fact lies are sweeter than the truth.<br />
Gautam Buddha is reported to have said, "Truth is bitter in the beginning, sweet in the end, and<br />
lies are sweet in the beginning, bitter in the end" -- when they are exposed. <strong>The</strong>n <strong>com</strong>es a<br />
tremendous bitterness, that you have been deceived by all your parents, by all your teachers, by<br />
all your priests, by all your so-called leaders. You have been continuously deceived. That<br />
frustration brings up a great distrust in everybody. "Nobody is worthy of trust..." It creates a<br />
vacuum.<br />
So Nietzsche was not insane in this last phase of his life, it was the inevitable conclusion of his<br />
negative approach. An intellect can only be negative; it can argue and criticize and be sarcastic,<br />
but it cannot give you any nourishment. From no negative standpoint can you get any<br />
nourishment. So he lost his <strong>God</strong>, and he lost his consolation. He became free just to be mad.<br />
And it is not only Friedrich Nietzsche, so it cannot be said that it was just an accident. Many<br />
intellectual giants find themselves in mad asylums or <strong>com</strong>mit suicide, because nobody can live in<br />
a negative darkness. One needs light and a positive, affirmative experience of truth. Nietzsche<br />
demolished the light and created a vacuum in himself and in others who followed him.<br />
If you feel deep down a vacuum, utter emptiness with no meaning, it is because of Friedrich<br />
Nietzsche. A whole philosophy has grown in the West: Nietzsche is the founder of this very<br />
negative approach to life.<br />
Soren Kierkegaard, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and Marcel, and Jaspers, and Martin Heidegger -- all<br />
the great giants of the first half of this century -- were talking only about meaninglessness,<br />
anguish, suffering, anxiety, dread, fear, angst. And this philosophy has been called in the West<br />
existentialism. It is not. It is simply non-existentialism. It destroys everything that has consoled<br />
you.<br />
I agree with the destruction because what was consoling man was only lies. <strong>God</strong>, heaven, hell --<br />
all were fictions created to console man. It is good they are destroyed, but you are leaving man<br />
in an utter vacuum. Out of that vacuum existentialism is born, that's why it talks only about<br />
meaninglessness: "Life has no meaning." It talks about no significance: "You are just an accident.<br />
Whether you are here or not does not matter at all to existence." And these people call their