The Heart of Yoga. Osho

is the meaning of Jesus’ saying, “Love your enemies.” How can you love your enemies? It has been a problem to be solved – an enigma for Christian theologians. How can you love your enemy? But a man of trust can because a man of trust knows no enemies. A man of trust knows only the friend. It makes no difference in what form he comes. If he comes to steal, he is a friend; if he comes to take, he is a friend; if he comes to give, he is a friend – in whatever form he comes.

      Once it happened that al-Hillaj Mansoor, a great mystic and Sufi, was murdered, killed, crucified. His last words, as he looked at the sky, were: “But you cannot deceive me.” Many people were there; al-Hillaj was smiling and he said in the direction of the sky, “Look, you cannot deceive me.”

      So somebody asked, “What do you mean? Who are you talking to?”

      He replied, “I am talking to my God; in whatever form you come you cannot deceive me. I know you well. Now you have come as death. You cannot deceive me.”

      A man of trust cannot be deceived. In whatever form, whoever comes, it is always the divine coming to him, because trust makes everything holy. Trust is an alchemy. It transforms not only you, it transforms the whole world for you. Wherever you look you find him; in the friend, in the foe; in the night, in the day. Yes, Heraclitus is right: “God is summer and winter, day and night; God is satiety and hunger.” This is trust. Patanjali makes trust the base – the base of all growth.

      You say: “You talked of moving from faith to trust…” Faith is that which is given; trust is that which is found. Faith is given by your parents; trust has to be found by you. Faith is given by the society; to find trust you have to search, seek, inquire. Trust is personal, intimate; faith is like a commodity – you can purchase it in the market.

      You can purchase it in the market – when I say it, I say it with a very considered mind. You can become a Mohammedan, you can become a Hindu. Go into an Arya temple and you can be converted to a Hindu. There’s no problem. Faith can be purchased in the market. From being a Mohammedan you can become a Hindu, from being a Hindu you can become a Jaina. It is so simple that any foolish priest can do it. But trust is not a commodity. You can’t go and find it in the market; you cannot purchase it. You have to pass through many experiences. By and by it arises, by and by it changes you. A new quality, a new flame comes to your being.

      So when you see that doubt is misery, trust comes. When you see that faith is dead, trust comes. Being a Christian, Hindu, Mohammedan, have you ever observed the fact that you are completely dead? What type of Christian are you? If you are really a Christian you will be a Christ – nothing less than that. Trust will make you a Christ; faith will make you a Christian – a very poor substitute. You go to church, you read the Bible – so what type of Christian are you? – your faith is not a knowing, it is an ignorance.

      It happened…

      A great economist came to talk at a Rotary Club. He talked in the jargon of economists. The local priest was also present to listen to him. After the talk, he approached the economist and said, “You gave a beautiful talk, but to be frank, I couldn’t follow a single word.”

      The economist replied, “In that case, I would say to you what you say to your listeners: ‘Have faith!’”

      When you cannot understand, when you are ignorant, the whole society says, “Have faith.” I 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. 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 are carrying corpses. You are Christians, Hindus, Mohammedans, and you miss the whole point. And 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 truly suffer, one day or other you will understand that it is doubt that is making you suffer. Transformation then becomes possible.

      You ask me, “How can we use the mind that swings from doubt to belief to go beyond these two polarities?” You cannot use it because you have never been an honest doubter. Your faith is false, with doubt hidden deep down. Just on the surface there is a whitewash of faith. Deep down you are doubtful, but you are afraid to know that you are doubtful, so you go on clinging to faith, you go on making gestures of faith. You can make gestures, but through gestures you cannot attain reality. You can bow down at a shrine; you are making the gesture of a man who trusts, but you will not grow because deep down there is no trust, only doubt. Faith is just superimposed.

      It is just like kissing a person you don’t love. From the outside everything is the same; you are making the gesture of kissing. No scientist can find any difference. If you kiss a person, the photograph of the kiss, the physiological phenomenon, the transfer of millions of germs from one lip to another, everything is exactly the same whether you love the person or not. If a scientist watches and observes, what will the difference be? – no difference, not a single iota of difference. He will say both are kisses and are exactly the same.

      But you know when you love a person, something of the invisible passes which cannot be detected by any instrument. When you don’t love a person, you can kiss but nothing passes between you – no energy communication, no communion happens. It is exactly the same with faith and trust. Trust is a kiss with love, with a deeply loving heart; faith is a kiss without any love.

      So from where to begin? – the first thing is to inquire into doubt. Throw away the false faith, and become an honest, sincere doubter. Your sincerity will help because if you are honest, how can you miss the point that doubt creates suffering? If you are sincere, you are bound to know. Sooner or later you will come to realize that doubt has been creating more misery – the more you go into doubt, the more misery you feel. One grows only through misery.

      When you come to a point where misery becomes impossible to tolerate, you drop it. Not that you really drop it; the very intolerability becomes the dropping. Once there is no more doubt and you have suffered through it, you start moving toward trust.