02 Jul That is intelligence! (OSHO)
Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed.
Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.
Three men of different origins are talking to a friend who said he had just been given six months to live.
“What would you do,” he asked the first man, “if your doctor gave you six months to live?”
“Ah!” said the man. “I would give all my belongings to the Church, take communion every Sunday, and say my ‘Hail Marys’ regularly.”
“And you?” he asked the second man.
“I would sell up everything and go on a world cruise and have a great time!”
“And you?” he said to the third man.
“Me? I would see another doctor.”
That is intelligence!
Intelligence: The Creative Response to Now
OSHO
*The text is slightly changed from the original one as presented in the book for educational purposes
