OSHO - You are simply playing a game

“When I use the word ignorance,

I don't use it in any negative sense--

I don't mean absence if knowledge.

I mean something very fundamental;

Very present, very positive.

It is how we are.

It is the very nature of existence to remain mysterious,

and that's why it is so beautiful.”

All knowledge is superfluous.

Knowledge as such is superfluous.

And all knowledge only creates an illusion that we know.

But we don't know.

You can live someone your whole life and

think that you know the person-and you don't know.

You can give birth to a child and

you can think you know the child-and you don't know.

Whatever we think we know is very illusory.

Somebody asks, "What is water?" and you say, "H20."

You are simply playing a game.

It is not known what water is,

or what "H" is or "0."

You are just labeling.

Somebody asks what this "H" is,

this hydrogen, and you go to the molecules,

to the atoms, to the electrons—

but you are again just giving names.

The mystery is not finished-the mystery is only postponed,

and at the end,

there is still tremendous ignorance.

In the beginning we did not know what the water was;

now we don't know what the electron is,

so we have not come to any knowledge.

We have played a game of naming things, categorizing,

but life remains a mystery.

Ignorance is so profound and

so ultimate that it cannot be destroyed.

And once you understand it, you can rest in it.

It is so beautiful, it is so relaxing...

because then there is nowhere to go.

There is nothing to be known,

because nothing can be known.

Ignorance is ultimate.

It is tremendous and vast.

OSHO