Truth Liberates
January 20, 2009
Letting go of shock-absorbers
Man has created many psychological shock-absorbers around himself. Unless you drop all shock-absorbers you are never going to be free.
Only truth liberates. In the beginning, truth shocks very much — but that’s how it is, that’s how things are, that’s how nature functions. You have to open yourself, you have to be vulnerable to all the shocks of life. It will hurt, it will wound, you will cry, you will weep, you will be in a rage against life. But slowly slowly you will start seeing that truth is truth, and it is pointless to be in a rage against truth. And once the rage has subsided, the truth has a beauty of its own. Truth liberates.
It frightens, it scares, but that is the only way you can grow. Growth has to be with reality, not against reality. And once you have tasted something of reality as it is, you will never gather any other buffers, shock-absorbers, around you again.
Osho, excerpts from The Book of Wisdom #12
Osho book recommendations
The Zen Manifesto; Freedom from Oneself
No Water No Moon: Talks on Zen Stories
Gold Nuggets: Messages from Existence
