26 Feb Does the truth lie in intellectuality or in science? (OSHO)
That’s why in the East we could not develop science, although the first steps were taken in the East. Mathematics was developed in India. The first steps toward technology were taken in China. But there it stopped for the simple reason that the greatest people in the East became fixated introverts; they lost interest in the objective world, they closed themselves totally to the objective. This is being only half of your total potential.
Now the West is doing just the opposite: it has become utterly extrovert, it does not know how to go in. It does not believe that there is any “in,” it does not believe in any soul. It believes in man’s behavior, not in man’s inner existence. It studies the behavior and it says there is nobody inside it – it is all mechanical.
Man has become a robot. If you don’t know the soul, man becomes a robot. He is understood to be just a beautiful mechanism developed over millions of years – the long, long journey of evolution – but he is only a sophisticated machine.
Science has developed in the West, but religion has disappeared. In the East, religion developed but science disappeared. In both ways man remains poor and only half.
My effort here is to create the whole man who will be able to be scientific and religious together.
A big, mangy dog was threatening a mother cat and her kittens. He had backed them into the corner of a barn, when suddenly the cat reared back on her hind legs and started barking and growling loudly. Startled and confused, the dog turned and ran from the barn, its tail tucked between its legs.
Turning to her kittens, the mother cat lifted a paw and told them, “Now do you see the advantage of being bilingual?”
I want man to be bilingual. He should know science as much, as deeply as he should know meditation. He should know the mind as much as he should know meditation. He should know science, the language of the objective world; and he should also know religion, the language of the subjective world.
Only a man who is able to bridge the objective and the subjective, a man who is able to bridge the East and the West, a man who is able to bridge the materialist and the spiritualist, can be a whole man. The world is waiting for the whole man. If the whole man does not arrive soon, then there is no future for humanity. And the whole man can come only through deep, profound intelligence.
I am not against intellect, I am not against intelligence; I am against intellectuality. Don’t get identified with your mind. Always remain a watcher on the hills; a witness to the body, to the mind, a witness to the outer and to the inner, so that you can transcend both the outer and the inner and you can know that you are neither – you are beyond both.
THE NATURE OF THINGS
OSHO
