THE BELOW TEACHINGS ARE TAKEN FROM ONE OF THE BOOKS OF 'OSHO'
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If you believe, you will never know. If you really want to know,
don´t believe. That does not mean to disbelieve, because disbelief
is another kind of belief. Don´t believe, but experiment. Go into
it yourself, and if you can see, if you can feel, only then
believe. But then it is no more belief; then it is trust. That is
the difference between trust and belief: trust comes out of
experience; belief is just a prejudice without any experience to
support it.
Don´t believe because scriptures say so, and don´t believe because
respectable people say so, because they may be saying it only
because by saying it they become respectable. Don´t believe because
priests say so, because priests are just doing a kind of business.
They have to say so; they are salesmen. They are selling some
invisible commodity, which you cannot see but you have to
believe.
Experiment, go into the existential experience of it all. Become a
lab - your own lab. And unless it has become your own
understanding, don´t believe. Unless it has become your own
understanding, don´t believe, and then only can you come to trust.
Truth believed is a lie. Truth experienced is a totally different
phenomenon. This is the approach of a scientific mind.
