THE LANGUAGE OF EXISTENCE CONTAINS TALKS ON ZEN

Zen is a way of seeing reality directly. Entering the world of Zen means to experience what is already inside us, discovering that something beyond the self is both surrounding us and is within us.

The Book “The Language of Existence” maakt deel uit van de serie “Zen All the Colors of the Rainbow”, boxed set of 5 books

In this book Master Daio states: 
DON’T STICK TO THE RUTS IN THE ROAD OF THE ANCIENTS — YOU MUST TRAVEL A LIVING ROAD ON YOUR OWN.

Osho Comment’s on Daio’s statement: 
The fact is, you cannot travel on anybody’s road because that road will never lead you to yourself. It will lead you to somebody else, whose road it is. Never be a follower; always be a path finder. And the path in the unknown reality of your inner world is made by walking into the unknown, without any road prepared by others for you. 
All the religions are doing that: they are preparing roads for millions of people — highways, super highways. There are six hundred million Catholics walking on one road.They are not going to reach anywhere; not a single one of them has reached even to the state of Jesus Christ. 

Don’t stick to the ruts in the road of the ancients.

Osho Comments: 

All the religions emphasize the opposite; all the religions try to prove that they are the most ancient – to be an ancient religion is a great value. The reality is, the more ancient a religion is, the more rotten it is bound to be. The more ancient, the farther away from you. There is no question of following any ancient way. You should not follow even a modern way, because all ways that are created by others may only be suitable for them.

This is a great challenge of existence, that you have to create your own path to your own temple. No help is possible, and it is the grandeur of humanity, a tremendous dignity, that you can follow only your own path.

All religions are leading people wrongly; they are destroying people, making them into sheep. An authentic religion will make a man into a lion who walks alone, who never walks in a crowd. The crowd never suits him, because with the crowd you have always to compromise. With the crowd you have always to listen to others: their criticism, their appraisal, their conceptions of right and wrong, their values of good and bad.