Trust: Living Spontaneously and Embracing Life

Trust: Living Spontaneously and Embracing Life
Osho Insights for a New Way of Living
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In Trust, the eleventh volume in the Insights for a New Way of Living series, Osho helps readers re-evaluate the idea of trust. We live in times where the confusion between belief, doubt, and trust are driving people to insane conclusions. As usual, Osho clears up all the muddle in his inimitable way, making it clear where our conscious intelligence can easily take us instead:

“Belief is rooted in desire and every belief carries its own counterpart, doubt, as a shadow. Trust is absence of desire, belief, doubt. It is purity of the heart, innocence of the heart. In that innocent heart there is a meeting and merging with the universe."
Chapter Titles
    PROLOGUE
    #1: This Is It...
    WHAT IS TRUST?
    #2: First, Trust in Yourself
    #3: Doubt Is Your Friend
    #4: Faith Is Given, Trust Is a Growth
    #5: Trust Cannot Be Cultivated
    WORTHY AND UNWORTHY
    #6: Blessed Are the Fools
    #7: A Quality, Not a Relationship
    #8: Beware of Knowledge
    #9: To Live Without Belief Is a Great Daring
    INSECURE AND UNINSURED
    #10: There’s a Fire in the Kitchen!
    #11: Security Is the Greatest Illusion
    #12: Learn the Art of Nondoing
    #13: Don’t Ask for Consolations
    #14: Tether Your Camel First
    EXISTENCE TAKES CARE
    #15: Responses to Questions
    EPILOGUE
    #16: Coming Close to Emptiness
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In Trust, the eleventh volume in the Insights for a New Way of Living series, Osho helps readers re-evaluate the idea of trust. We live in times where trust in old institutions and their relevance to our lives have evaporated. Religions, ideologies, political systems, morals, family, marriages—none of these traditional institutions are working anymore.

Excerpt from: Trust: Living Spontaneously and Embracing Life
"Doubt and belief are not different; they are two sides of the same coin. This has to be understood first, because people think that when they believe they have gone beyond doubt.

"Belief is the same as doubt because both are mind concerns. Your mind argues, says no, finds no proof to enable you to say yes—so you doubt. Then your mind finds arguments to say yes, proofs to say yes, and you believe. But in both cases you believe in reason; in both cases you believe in arguments. The difference is just on the surface: deep down, you believe in the reasoning.

"Trust is dropping out of reasoning. It is mad, it is irrational, it is absurd!

"And remember, trust is not faith. Trust is a personal encounter. Faith is again given and borrowed, it is a conditioning. Faith is a conditioning that your parents, your culture, and your society give you. You don't bother about it, you don't make it a personal concern. It is a given thing—and that which is given, which has not been a personal growth in you, is just a façade. It is a false face, a Sunday face.

"For six days of the week you are different; then on Sunday you enter church and you put on a mask. See how people behave in church — so gently, so humanly… the same people! Even a murderer comes to church and prays. Look at his face — it looks so beautiful, so innocent, and this man has killed! In church you have a proper face to use, and you know how to use it. It has been a conditioning. From the very childhood it has been given to you.

"Faith is given, trust is a growth.“

"When you cannot understand, when you are ignorant, the whole society says, "Have faith." I will say to you that it is better to doubt than to have a false faith. It is better to doubt, because doubt will create misery. Faith is a consolation; doubt will create misery. And if there is misery, you will have to seek trust.

"This is the problem, the dilemma that has happened in the world. Because of faith, you have forgotten how to seek trust. Because of faith, you have become trustless. Because of faith you carry corpses—you are Christians Hindus, Mohammedans, and you miss the whole point. Because of faith you think you are religious. Then the inquiry stops.

"Honest doubt is better than dishonest faith. All faith is false if you have not grown into it, if it is not your feeling, your being, your experience. All faith is false!

"Be honest. Doubt! Suffer! Only suffering will bring you to understanding. If you suffer truly, one day or another you will understand that it is doubt that is making you suffer. And then the transformation becomes possible.”
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
trust… doubt…. belief… faith… love… conditioning… religion… consciousness… meditation… awareness…

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Type    Compilations
Publisher    St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13    978-1250110466
Dimensions (size)    5.4 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
Number of Pages    240