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Osho,
Alan Watts once described the universe by saying, “It is as if God is playing a game.” If there is no God, who is playing and what is the game?
“Alan Watts was a nice guy but that statement he made was stolen from Hindu mythology. That’s what he was doing his whole life, although to the West it appeared as if he was giving original insights.

“I am not an infallible pope, I don’t have any divine authority to impose a belief on you; I hold no power, and I am not in any way programming you. I am simply trying to create a longing in you that is sleeping, dormant.

Osho,
How can we be certain that the watcher is not part of the mind?
“It is a relevant question but only intellectually. It is not out of meditation because the man is bringing into his question three things of which he is not aware: the mind, the watcher – and who is this third who is thinking whether the mind and the watcher are one thing? There is a third entity which is raising the question. I say to you: the watcher, your watcher, is part of your mind. And not only that, the second watcher behind it is also part of your mind.

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“The heinous acts that have taken place in the name of religion have not happened in any other name and cannot happen. Ugly deeds need the cover of a good name, a beautiful curtain is needed, so that the ugly can be hidden.

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This is the second part of the post “Religious Scriptures as Bait – Their Words, My Meaning“, from the same talk.

As we have described in “Why Are We Rushing toward Oblivion?” the business of contemporary people is busyness. It is the disease of modern humans.
As Osho puts it so succinctly:

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“The way to understand me is to always remember that I am insisting – from every corner, in every possible way – only on a single target, and that is your innermost being. Whatever I may have said… never be too much concerned with what is said. Be concerned about what it indicates.

Osho,Whenever you speak of our failings, you usually mention anger, sex, and jealousy. Anger and sex seem fairly straightforward, but there’s some confusion about exactly what jealousy is, and it’s harder to get to the core. Would you tell us about jealousy?

“Yes, I make more mention of anger, sex, and less of jealousy, because jealousy is not a primary thing, it is secondary. It is a secondary part of sex.

“Go to any church and you will find your crowd, you will find replicas of your being. Maybe the language is a little bit different, the ritual a little bit different, but the fundamentals are the same. The fundamental is: man has to be reduced to a civil war.